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A FAMILIAR TYPE: THE OPTIMISTIC PROSPECTOR 



Acres exccpt the Fort Peck. On the Flathead 



Huntley 28,921 project several units have been completed 



Lower Yellowstone 64.622 ^ ■ available for 13,500 



Sun River 276,000 n .^ 1 ^ r 1 



Milk River 248.000 acres, which will be allotted to successtul 



St. Mary 100.000 entrymen on May 7. 



Blackfeet (Indian) 132,000 Q^^ the Sun River and Huntley pro- 



Flathead (Indian). 150.000 • ^, first-class opportunities 



Fort Peck (Indian) 130.000 -' , , , ^', r 



for homeseekers to secure farms for 



Total 1,129,543 which the water is now ready. The Sun 



River project contains 85 unentered 

 The Huntley and Lower Yellowstone farms, and the Huntley project 224. 

 projects are completed, and an important With the present rate of settlement, how- 

 unit of the Sun River project was opened ever, both projects will be fully taken up 

 to settlement in 1908. Actual construe- before the close of the crop season of 

 tion has begun on all the other projects, 1910. 



