MAKING HOMES 



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There is opportunity for the industriou's homesteader in Alontana, 



although it is but fair to state that the door of this opportunity will not 



long- be open. At the rate public land is now being taken in Montana, it 



will be but a few years until the free homestead will be but a 



memory. The history of the older states is being repeated 



here today. Those who come now are enabled to secure for 



merely the asking the land for which those who come later 



must pay a high price, but this condition cannot long remain. 



It is conservatively estimated that within the next five years 



all of the jmlilic land, available for farming, will have been appropriated. 



Free Lands 

 Are Being 

 Taken 

 Fast. 



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Harvesting Scene on 1,500 Acre Conrad Farm Near Kalispell. 



while it is certiain that the state and privately owned land will have increased 

 greatly in price. 



Of the twenty odd million acres of public land yet remaining to be 

 appropriated, at least 10,000,000 acres are suitable for farming; in addition, 

 the State has between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 acres of choice agricultural 

 land which it will sell or lease on very favorable terms. In many parts of 

 Alontana large ranches are being cut up into farms, and sold either for cash 

 or at a low price and on easy terms extending over a long period of years. 



Montana is no longer of the "wild and wooly west/' 



