THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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tiie New Coast 

 c. j^r. a STP. 



CATTLE ROPING IN NORTH DAKOTA. 

 Where such grass and big sage brush grow unirrigated, wheat and oats will grow and mature. 



If the people in the Eastern and Central States 

 could fully comprehend the possibilities which are 

 being opened to homeseekers through the development 

 of the new Pacific coast line of the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul railway, thousands would be glad to get in 

 communication with the proper officials of that system 

 and obtain data which would enable them to intelli- 

 gently go about establishing themselves in a new field. 

 There are more acres open and a better chance for 

 settlers on tracts adjacent to this new line than to 

 to be found in perhaps any other section of the United 

 States today. Millions of acres of the finest lands in 

 the west are soon to be added to the areas under cul- 

 tivation between the Missouri river and the Pacific 

 coast. One attractive feature of the possibilities along 

 this new line h that people will now be able to penetrate 

 virgin territory, which was impossible heretofore, 

 owing to lack of transportation facilities which the new 

 line of this road offers. This line is being extended 

 at a rapid rate, and like all other work conducted by 

 this company, is being solidly and well done, so that 

 when completed the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 



system will not rank second to any of the transconti- 

 nental lines. The management of this system has al- 

 ways been of a broad character. From the time of the 

 early history of the road when Alexander Mitchell and 

 S. S. Merrill and other pioneers first pushed westward 

 from Milwaukee up to the present management under 

 Mr. Earling as president, the general desire has always 

 been apparent, to give the patrons residing along its 

 various branches the best service possible and all the 

 inducements compatible with good business for the de- 

 velopment of hamlets, towns and cities, as well as the 

 agricultural districts lying adjacent thereto. Mr. F. A. 

 Miller, general passenger agent of this system, has pre- 

 pared some very attractive literature which fully ex- 

 plains all of the possibilities along this new line and 

 any of our readers who contemplete changing would 

 do well to correspond with him and secure complete 

 information. Literature of this kind may be had by 

 addressing F. H. Miller, G. P. A., Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul Railway Company, Eailway Exchange Build- 

 ing, Chicago, 111. 



A Homesteader's Pool Outfit Going to the Front On the Pacific Coast 

 Line of the C, M. & St. P. Ry. 



The Old "O.X" Cattle Ranch, on Pacific Coast Line, C., M. & St. P. Ry., 

 Marmarth, North Dakota. 



