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Title: Along the New Line to the Pacific Coast. Opportunities on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: (Chicago
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ision point on The St. Paul Koad east of Miles City, and, iu the writers opinion, to become the county seat of the new countyof Hamilton, and within two years the most important shipping point for grainand live stock between the Dakota line and the Yellowstone. All the roads on the Little Beaver, Box Elder, and in the Little Missourivalley, point naturally toward INIarmarth. The ^Milwaukee Land Companywill hold auction sales of lots at Marmarth in the spring of 1908, and every-thing indicates that this will be one of the red letter sales of the West, bothas to maximnm bid for first choice and for aggregate sales. Turning westward at the Montana line, I made a wide detour to the northof the right-of-way as I drove toward Fallon and the Yellowstone. WHAT ONE MAN DID. On the divide between Fallon and the Little Missouri, I came unexpectedlyupon the homestead of a bachelor friend, whom I had known some years back,at a time when a serious accident had made it imperative that he live, if he
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Potatoes Grown in Unirrigated lived at all, out of doois. Fate at that time drew to his notice these finestretches of bench land and gently rolling, well-turfed, dry creek bottoms.Three years ago, alone, shattered in health, with his * little all invested ina few cows and a team and wagon, this man settled here. Today he has 12head of horses, 22 beeves, fit for market, nearly 100 head of stock cattle, andhis buildings and fences could not be duplicated for a thousand dollars. On the day that we renewed our acquaintance, he had just returned fromthe construction camps of the new line, where his load of potatoes and cabbageshad netted him $40. Three years ago he was 70 miles from a railway market,now one is almost at his door. In sight of this mans claim are thousandsof acres of unoccupied government and grant lands. His crowning achieve-ment, which made possible all the rest, was the successful damming of that drycreek, impounding snow and storm water, which has solved for him the wate

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