Image 7 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), August 13, 1926
rjp IkT _ itw The Modest Beginning of the Press in Montana 1 11 lx eWSUaPer Territorial Press Association Organized in 1885 11111 WWW num i By DAN R CONWAY THE location of the town was in the upper valley of the Madison river at the head of Alder Gulch elevated on a sloping hillside and with a background that was rocky and sparsely wooded It had one lone street which was lined on either side by falsefronted and for the most part crudely constructed business houses It had many houses that were builded after as many dif ferent fashions the more substantial of these being of logs or adobe In its day with a popu lation of a few thousand souls it was perhaps as lively and wicked a place as this cun try ever knew It was the metropolis ft Ww Daa R Conway of Montana Territorythe seething center of the New EldoradoVirgin ia City If we compare this simple picture of the frontier with the present Mon tana its railroads its agriculture its industry and commerce its educa tional and recreational facilities its many cities of business palaces and beautiful homes we may realize what energy and