The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.124-125

From the standpoint of the local benefit derived, I find that in addition to the pleasure of traveling a good road, that land along such a highway increases in value. It permits transportation from points at considerable distance to the towns. It permits showing lands along this road to those interested, and the fact that land lies along such a highway, gives an added value. Glacier County at this time is most fortunate in having been in a position to get this highway construction, and I believe all the counties in this part of the state appreciate it.”

 Congress allowed the Great Northern Railroad to construct hotels on the stolen reservation land and take Blackfeet lands for town sites on the reservation, granted rights-of-way and waived fees and charges for Blackfeet timber and gravel and coal deposits, and leased the entire St. Mary Valley in the western lands of the reservation near the eastern entrance to Glacier Park to the railroad for ten cents an acre; thereby preventing any Blackfeet businesses from establishing their own businesses near the Glacier Park entrance at St. Mary Village.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.124-125