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Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company
100 Washington Street, Chicago
Hamilton, Montana
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lightens labor. Irriga-
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half a century.
It is famed as the Garden
Spot of the Worthwest, and is the largest and farthest
east of the great valleys in the greatest fruit region
in the world today. .
A valley where the soil has produced a net
profit of over $1,800 on a single acre in one year,
and where $500 annual net profit from one acre is
very common. . 4.
Where crops have never failed and markets are
always good. .
Where there are absolutely no injurious fruit
pests, and never will be, and where fatal diseases
among stock, hogs and poultry are unknown.
Where the sun shines three hundred days in the
year, where there is beautiful mountain scenery,
abundant, pure water, healthful mountain air, un-
rivaled climate, good transportation, convenience
to markets, good schools and a modern state uni-
versity, cheap lumber, cheap feul and high markets.
All these uniting to make an ideal place in which
to live.
Where the water used in irrigation brings in
solution the vital elements required by plant life,
sºHE BITTER O - - . . and thus solves the prob-
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A PACIFIC SLOPE LAND FAMED FOR
IT S P E R F E CT FRU IT AN D G R EAT
PROFITS – THE WALLEY OF OPPORTUNITY
tion, merely as a means
of fertilization, much
more than pays.
Where the inexhausti-
ble soil is richer and
deeper than is to be found in the very best regions
of the Middle West. -
Where the apples are better in color, flavor and
keeping qualities than are any other apples in the
world. “The on/y apple that can be eaten fearless/y
in the daré.” Where small fruits are without a rival,
and all northern vegetables, grains and grasses grow
in a luxuriance unknown to the Mississippi valley.
Where the remarkable developments and in-
numerable advantages, advanced as they are, have
made only a fair beginning.
Striking as these facts may seem, they under-
state the actual conditions, more than overstate
them, and the most complete investigation you can
make will more than demonstrate the truth of
every statement. The best proof would be to
“come and see for yourself.” .
The Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company is
now offering for sale its holdings consisting of
40,000 acres of choice fruit lands in this favored
valley. Its canal, dam, pipe lines and other ap-
pliances are now completed and water is ready to
be turned on the land. We invite correspondence.



Lake Como, the Company’s natural reservoir.


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At work on the “Big Ditch.”


Pipe line across Spooner Creek in course of construction. (Now completed.)

Another view of pipe line across Spooner Creek.

Hauling steel pipe for the inverted syphon across the Bitter Root River. Pipe is 72 inches in diameter.

Company's flume across McKinney Gulch. Dimensions 18 ft. wide—7 ft. high.

Another view of the flume across McKinney Gulch.

Steam Shovel at work.

View of the Bitter Root Valley/est from the Company's
land.

Onions.

View of the Company's land, looking North.

Sheep on the Bitter Root Stock Farm.

Hereford Cattle.

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Five tons to the acre.
Timothy and clover on the Bitter Root Stock Farm.

An oat field in the Bitter Root Valley.

Yielded 65 bushels per acre.
Wheat grown by J. L. Humble.

Rose garden on the ranch of Mrs. Rennick near Hamilton.

Home of Mrs. Marcus Daly on the Bitter Root Stock Farm.
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A Home in the Bitter Root Valley.

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Potato grown in the Bitter Root Valley.

Potatoes on the ranch of Mr. Skelton, near Hamilton, yielded over 700 bushels per acre.


This field of cabbage netted $300 per acre.

Three hundred bushels of potatoes to the acre, grown between the rows of yearling apple trees.

Celery grown by Mr. Lanphier, two miles from Hamilton. Netted over $800 per acre.

Scene along the Bitter Root River.

Cherry tree.

Hauling apples from the orchard to the packing house.

Wolf River apple tree.

One hundred thirty McIntosh Red apple trees in the orchard of Mr. Ben Kress yielded him $1,750.

A branch of apples.

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A young tree in heavy bearing.

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Five-year old McIntosh red apple orchard.

South Fork of Rock Creek, one of the creeks supplying water to Lake Como.

Packing apples.


Branch of a Winesap apple tree.

Picking Duchess apples on the Bass Ranch, near Stevensville.

Display of fruits grown in the Bitter Root Valley.

A tree of Jonathan apples.

Wolf River apples.

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A Bitter Root orchard, showing an irrigation furrow.

Harvesting the crop.

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