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Courtesy of Western Heritage Center by Carroll Van West
Thanks to Don for retyping the text for us As the homesteading Boone gain speed, railroad and promotional efforts reached a fevered pitch. We are in the same boat as you. The Great Northern's Jim Hill reminded the 1909 dry farming Congressat at Billings we have got to prosper with you or we have got to be a poor with you. Hilt railroad network dominated transportation at Billings, whether it was the and unloadingof your homesteaders in wonderment as of eager homesteaders in the winter months. The loading of ice and from the Yellowstone to ship to both Eastern and Western markets. The joint railroad yards for Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Burlington route railroads stood at nearby Laurel and Billings and benefited indirectly and directly from the rail traffic and passengers these three major Western lines brought to the city. Billings roll as a homesteading Center in the early 20th had much to do with it's role as a leading North Western trail center encouraged by the railroads promotions and the passage of new Liberal federal homesteadylaws in 1909 and 1912 almost 10,000 homesteaders claimed land at the Billings land office from 1909 two 19the 14 almost as many of property from Northern Pacific at their roll road reduced its acreage in Montana from to 13.4 million acres in 1900 to 2.7 million acres in 1917.

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