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ICommercial Club Literature for Free Distribution(Continued from page 4) * ' ®Vthe boose or farm cost about 26 per cent more than In localities east of the Mississippi river.Eleven mountain streams emerge from the Mission range and cross the ralley and there are trout in ail of them.Mountain trout are caught from the Spring creek bridge within the limits of Ronan.An hour’s walk from Ronan brings one to mountain canyons, waterfalls and trout poels.The Mission range, bounding the val-10 ley on the east, is high, nigged, beauti-1 ful. McDonald glacier can bi sees ' from Ronan during the whole year.Missoula Is the county sent town. Later on a reservation county will have I to be created and we think we know j f where the county scat will be.It costs 61.60 to get a horse's shoes! v sharpened and reset; 62.00 for new, shoes all around.Calico sells 12 yards for a dollar. j, Carpenters are paid 60 cents per* hour, IFreighters are paid S3 cents p.-r him- ; dred for hauling good* from Ravalli, on the Northern Pacific railroad, to Ronan, a distance of 20 miles.Fall wheat brings the largest crop; spring wheat the highest price. j -One store in Ronan paid over $2i0;» last year for apples grown on half an j I sere four miles northwest of town.A good farm team eoets from 6260 to $100.Nothing much baa been stated yet about I he town of Ronan. As the country gicws and prosper*, Rum.o will grow and prosper. Ronan is not fed upon real estate or town lot booms.! The people of Renan do not live oif!! each other. The lawn Is being bu(|t tpj handle the business of the surrounding country. !4Ronan has two public schools, one for white children and tha other a government school for children of Indian or mixed parentage.Ronan has two churches, Methodist. ‘ Episcopal and Roman Catholic.Ronan is one year old and during th-t; time S260,0W h..ve been expended in | buildings and business stocks.Ronan heat I |Six general stores. I *.One national bank. j 1Ono etcte bank.Four lumber yards. 'One flouting mill. j*One saw mill.Three blacksmith shops.Two butcher abufttt,Three hotvle. iThtec restaurants.One harness (hop. 1sOne barber shop,One tailor shop.Two amusement halls, fpup insurance agencies. ! jQn'g dairy. iOne newspaper, and a good eni., |One millinery store.One well drilling establishment.A number of contractors and build-: j ets.Private boarding houses.Two lively stables.One soda water factory.One hospital.Two phi’sisimpj;Three attorneys-at-law,No aaloona, and doesn't want any, Business Lots witbin two blocks i f the center of town can be purchased for 6800,Residence lots within four blocks of the center of town can bs purchased for from $60 to $200.The town is not incorporated but the people have graded the atreeta and built'sidev/Slke ajHjef tfe lead of the commercial ciuW *’ ’Everybody works for the upbuilding of the town.Get busy.Get a home.Cat a farm.Get an orchard.Get a business.Get a job, jGet something. ; Get it now, fief it HEftp.
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The Ronan Pioneer
Ronan, Montana, US
Fri, Apr 07, 1911
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