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Facts: Montana Firsts: Natural Resources and Agriculture (redirected from Montana Facts: Montana Firsts: Natural Resources and Agriculture)

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Natural Resources and Agriculture

 

Agriculture

 

  • The first crop of wheat was grown in Gallatin county in 1864 on the farm owned by John J. Thomas. The farm was located on the East Gallatin river about three miles northeast of Belgrade (Bozeman Daily Chronicle, June 16, 1915)

 

  • The first threshing machine was run for the first time in Gallatin valley during the summer of 1865 by Ben F. Bisel . (Bozeman Chronicle, February 15, 1920)

 

Homestead

  • David D. Carpenter of Helena, first person in Montana to file for a homestead after the passage of the homestead law on August 1, 1868. The homestead file was on a tract on the outskirts of Helena, part of which later became the property and grounds of the old Lewis and Clark County Hospital. (David Hilger papers, 1867-1935, Small Collection 854)

 

  • Margaret Maceumber, first women to file for a homestead after the passage of the homestead law on September 8, 1870. The homestead file was for half of the southeast quarter and the east half of the Northeast quarter of section 24, two south, range 5 east. (Kalispell Times, September 19, 1918)

 

Oil

  • Montana's first oil discovery was made August 10, 1864, twelve and half miles northwest of where the Bozeman trail crosses the Big Horn river in what is now Big Horn County. According to David B. Weaver "a search for water by thirsty members of an emigrant party led to a stagnant pool covered over with petroleum." (Firsts, vertical file)

 

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