28 



THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Irrigated Fruit Lands 



in the 



Bitter Root Valley of Montana 



References as to the Financial Standing and Integrity of the Owners of This Land 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 

 FIRST NATIONAL BANK 



NATIONAL BANK OP THE REPUBLIC 



METROPOLITAN TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK 



CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK 



ROYAL TRUST COMPANY 

 BENJ. NEWHALL. of I. Newhatl & Sons 



IRA M. COBB. Pres. Calumet Electric R. R. 



JOHN W. McKINNON, Pres. Knickerbocker Ice Co., of Baltimore 



HAMILTON, MONTANA 

 RAVALLI COUNTY BANK 



CITIZEN'S STATE BANK 



STEVENSVILLE, MONTANA 



BITTER ROOT VALLEY BANK 



MISSOULA, MONTANA. 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK WEST. MONT. NATIONAL BANK 



MISSOULA TRUST AND SECURITY BANK 



THE BITTER ROOT DISTRICT IRRI- 

 GATION CO. lands are practically 

 the last of the distinctly high-class fruit 

 lands purchasable at a price which will 

 permit a man in moderate circumstances 

 to secure a fruit farm, as the most valu- 

 able lands for fruit culture are fast disap- 

 pearing from the market. Fruit lands are 

 readily selling at $300 and upward per 

 acre for undeveloped irrigated lands, and 

 as Eastern orchards are rapidly deterio- 

 rating, owing principally to intemperate 

 seasons, $500 to $700 and upwards per 

 .acre are prices at which well developed 

 .irrigated orchards find ready sale today. 

 Crop records of the Bitter Root Valley 

 how as high a yield, net, per acre, as any 

 land in the U. S. 



READ WHAT THE U. S. GOVERN. 

 MENT says about the Bitter Root 

 Valley. -Report from the Department of 

 Agriculture. Bulletin No. 172. 



"Throughout the valley diversified farm' 

 ing is practiced. All kinds of cereals do 

 well. Red clover and timothy seem to be 

 preferred in places to alfalfa, . The soil is 

 peculiarly well adapted to vegetables, and 

 both soil and climate are admirably suited 

 to fruit raising. The apple, plum, cherry, 

 and in fact all the hardier varieties of decid- 

 uous fruit trees, appear to have found in the 

 Bitter Root Valley ideal conditions for their 

 growth. Sheltered from the west winds by 

 the Bitter Root Mountains and from the 

 east winds by the main range of the Rockies, 

 the valley possesses a much more moderate 

 climate than many fruit producing regions 

 which lie far to the south of Montana." 



CONVINCING BOOKLET 

 PROFUSELY ILLUSTRA- 

 TED SENT ON REQUEST 



THE APPLE WITHOUT A 

 WORM. YOU CAN EAT IT 

 FEARLESSLY IN THE DARK 



Land Values 



IT is difficult for those not 

 informed to understand 

 why lands in some of the 

 Pacific slope valleys are so 

 'much more valuable than, for 

 example, Illinois farm lands'. 

 The reason is that the valley 

 lands grow a much higher 

 priced product than corn, 

 wheat, or oats. The yield 

 from an acre of high grade 

 Western fruit land will bring 

 in money from ten to twenty 

 times more than an acre of 

 grain. This is the secret of 

 the higher values. Apples 

 grown in the Bitter Root 

 Valley are never sold in bar- 

 rels, but are packed in boxes 

 and sold as fancy fruit. The 

 area of lands capable of pro- 

 ducing fruit of the quality 

 grown' in ; the Bitter Root 

 Valley is limited to a few val- 

 leys in the Northwest. Hence 

 the high price that such land 

 commands. 



OUR LANDS ARE NOW OFFERED 

 AT $100 PER ACRE, one-quarter 

 down and the balance in equal annual 

 installments. Building supplies are cheap 

 and you are entitled, as a land holder, to 

 cut free of expense a yearly total of 10.000 

 feet of lumber from the National Forest 

 Reserve, which immediately adjoins our 

 lands. Ten acres of this land, properly 

 cultivated, will more than amply provide 

 for the everyday needs of a family from the 

 very start, and ap the fruit trees come into 

 bearing large profits are assured. 



We GUARANTEE to refund within 90 

 days of purchase the entire amount paid for 

 lands which, after investigation, do not 

 entirely please the buyer. 



THE MONTANA AGRICULTURAL STATION 



BOZEHAN, MONTANA 



DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE 

 . W. FISHSR. HORTICULTURIST 



BOZEMAN, MOHT. SC*t. 17. 1907. 

 BlTTXft ROOT DISTRICT IRRIGATION COMPANY. 



100 Washington St., Chicago. 

 GBKTLKMEN: 



Ihave Just this morning returned from the Bitter Root Valley. 

 The fruit this fall is an eye opener, even to people who are 

 acquainted with conditions in the valley. I have seen some of the 

 best apples the past week that 1 have ever seen anywhere, not 

 excepting the Hood River. 



In regard to the ten-acre tracts of land which are sold for $1,000. 

 I have fiitured out what I think is a liberal estimate for the 

 expenditures during the first year on this land. Expenditures are 

 as follows: 



First payment $250.00, house $250.00. taxes $5 .00, Interest on 

 first deferred payment 145 00, trees $125.00, water maintenance 

 $12.50, fence $50.00. horse $100.00. cow $30 00, seeds $40.00, plow and 

 cultivator $35.00, strawberry plants $3500, single wagon $75.00, 

 making a total of $1.052 50, which would be accessary to spend to 

 set ten acres on a paying basis. 



The income following for the first year could be made by one 

 who has some knowledge of growing vegetables or by one who it 

 willing and capable of taking advice or profiting by experience 

 of others: 



Two acres of potatoes $200.00, two acres cabbages $400.00, one 

 acre miscellaneous vegetables $200.00, one acre onions $150.00, mak- 

 ing a total income for the first year of $950.00. la addition to this, 

 in the fall of 1909 he could get a profit from one acre of strawberries 

 which would be in the neighborhood of $300.00. 



Starting with $1.000.00 an energetic man will not make a (allure 

 on ten acre* of land in the Bitter Root Valley. Even if he had less 

 than this amount a person could make a living and get a place 

 started by doing work for neighbors or in the lumber camps. I ' 

 could point out a number of farmers in the Bitter Root Valley who 

 have gone in there during the past four or five years without 

 any capital whatever and have made not only a living but have 

 been putting money in the bank. Of course, a great deal depends 

 upon the man, but I believe any one will be perfectly safe in start- 

 ing in with a tea acre tract, even though his capital is limited to 

 $1.000.00. 



Very truly yours, 



(Signed) R. W. FlSHB*. 



Bitter Root District Irrigation Company 



Chicago Title and Trust. Building Room 5O2, 1OO Washington Street, Chicago, 111. 



When writing to advertisers please mention The Irrigation Age. 



