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Montana and Its Irrigation Driving Growth and Wealth
Senator Carter outlines Montana as a land of vast irrigation potential and mineral wealth. He highlights copper and gold output, livestock, and timber, with government projects in Milk River and Yellowstone valleys to reclaim 60 000 acres each. Alfalfa yields promise high profits, and irrigation promises mass settlement under the reclamation act enabling 160 acre farms with water rights after ten years of payments.
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G. E. Vandercook
Northwest
Milwaukee Sentinel
Montana
Thomas H. Carter
Helena
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Milk River
Great Northern Railway
Yelowatone
Northern Pacific Railway
Billings
United States
Yellowstone River
Billinga
Forsyth
Rosebud County
Yellowstone Valley
Glendive
Bort Buford
Missouri River
Nest
Orllinois
Gallatin Valley
Berlin
Germany
Stockholm
Liverpool
Duluth
Gallatin
Fergus County
Judith Gap
Livingston