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BITTER ROOT VALLEY, MONTANA 



Home of the Mclntosh Red Apple 



Why is this Valley a Rich Land of Opportunity? 



BECAUSE 



its Soil 

 contains 



i. 873^6 Nitrogen 

 2.279^5 Ammonia 

 .186% Potash 



the sun shines 300 days each year. 



Fruits, Grasses and Vegetables have plenty of 

 Sunshine. 



A ^ 



r ,.,. 



fertilizer contains 



to 1. 



Nitrogen 

 \% to 1% 



Amm nia 



the water supply is an absolute 

 certainty. A Rain when the ground and Crops 

 need it. 



Schools and Churches are well 

 established. Missoula is the home of the State 

 University. 



Climate in winter and summer is even and perfect. 

 Lands under irrigation not any higher in price than East- 

 ern farm lands, and will produce three times the income. 



Hamilton, Montana, March 15, 1909. 



Mr. C. W. Mali, G. E. A., N. P. Ry., Si. Paul, Minn. 



Dear Sir: I send you these short statements showing what our 

 farmers are doing in the Bitter Root Valley. A II seem to be doing well. 

 Mr. Thos. Padden, of Darby, had a yield laft season of over $1600 per acre from his 

 Mclntosh Red Apple trees. Mr. Ben Kress, of Hamilton, received this past year, from 

 1 30 nine-year old Red Mclntosh apple trees, $ 1 750. Mr. D. C. Bass, of Stevensville. 

 has netted not less than $1000 and as high as $2100 during the past several years from 200 

 Transcendent crabs. Mr. D. C. Gray, of Hamilton, picked and packed over 1 00 boxes 

 of Red Mclntosh apples from five 16-year old trees; this is at the rate of $3000 gross, per 

 acre, 80 trees to the acre. One 14-year old Mclntosh bore 30 boxes; market price, $1.75 



P" box - Yours truly, S. M. Ward. 



What others have done should be convincing enough to prove 

 what this rich valley will 

 do FOR YOU if you 

 would locate there. You 

 can write to any of the 

 people mentioned. 



You can be Inde- 

 pendent, and have 

 a Home and a Good 

 Income by Locat- 

 ing in this Wonder- 

 ful Valley, which is 

 traversed by the 



NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY 



For information regarding Fares, Train Service, 

 etc., Write to 



A. M. CLELAND, Gen. Pass. Agt., 



N. P. Ry., St. Paul, Minn. 



REMEMBER 



the Seventeenth Nation- 

 al Irrigation Congress 



SPOKANE 

 AUGUST 9 to 14 



For descriptive printed matter, Write to 

 C. W. MOTT, Gen. Emigration Agt., 



N. P. Ry., St. Paul, Minn. 



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