Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — A Montana Live Stock Company. [ARTICLE]

A Montana Live Stock Company.

Out in Montana there is a co-opera-tive company called the Montana CoOperative Emch Company of Great Falls, Montana. Its business is to take care of cattle, sheep and hogs belonging to its shareholders. Anyone can become a shareholder by buying one or more shares in the company, which sell at only $lO each. It now has something over seventy shareholders scattered all over the United States, eleven of whom are ladies. Each shareholder has the right to put as many cattle, sheep and hogs on the ranch as they may desire and the company guarantees to take good care of them for one-half the increase. The Company’s annual report for 1900 shows that the shareholders received from 25 to 35 per cent interest on their investments in sheep while the Company earned a 10 per cent dividend on its shares. A true actor never overacts his part.