File:Along the New Line to the Pacific Coast. Opportunities on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (1908) (14596272207).jpg

Identifier: alongnewlinetopa00chic (find matches)
Title: Along the New Line to the Pacific Coast. Opportunities on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: (Chicago
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
I have no water rights or water rents. Here are timber and coal at hand and
a healthy climate. What more do we want? Making- a detour south along Fallon Creek, across the divide to Little
Beaver, a drive of 50 miles, I counted only five ranches on upper Fallon. Its
tributaries are beautiful. Its remoteness from market and lack of surveys is
all that has kept this country back.

NOT ONE CLAIM IN FIFTY TAKEN.

Can you grow alfalfa without irrigation? This question I put to ranch-
men every day of my journey. In two notable instances the answer was a
prompt affirmative. One of these ranchmen, whose guest I was for a day as
I journeyed down this beautiful valley of the Little Beaver toward Marmarth,
where its waters flow into the Little Missouri, said to me: " Here are five
acres of unirrigated alfalfa that have stood the test for three years, one of
them an extremely dry one. It was just a disked-in crop, never had the benefit
of inter-tillage. It is well rooted; it will stick. What I have accomplished
Text Appearing After Image:


ONE OF THE NUMEROUS CREEKS IN THE LITTLE BEAVER VALLEY

here is most encouraging. It can be repeated in any of the small Creek bot-
toms, wdth just the ordinary care and simple methods I have employed. Ad-
joining this alfalfa are 5¹/₈ acres of oats which yielded me 343 bushels, or 67
bushels to the acre, from the first plowing. From three of these small experi-
mental fields, I have this fall gathered over 1,500 bushels of oats. I hire no
irrigator; I have no money tied up in expensive ditches. I have no works
to be destroyed by floods. If the yield is smaller, especially of our oats and
potatoes, two very important crops, it is far superior in quality to the best
grown by irrigation anywhere. Look at this valley as you drive from here
toward Marmarth. For 15 of the 20 miles it is 6 to 10 miles wide and not
one claim in 50 has been taken."
And so I found it. Miles of prairie across which steam plows must soon
be striking furrows and traction engines hauling grain to the elevators at
Marmarth, which is the first division point on The St. Paul Koad east of Miles

6

Note About Images