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Montana's Scenic Beauties Attract Thousands of Visitors Every Year. 



In the matter of secondary education, Montana has made great progress within 

 recent years. For a long time there have been good high scliools in most of the 

 larger towns, as Butte, Helena, Great Falls, Missoula, Billings and Anaconda. In the 

 smaller towns, however, the people were determined not to be behind and several 

 years ago a law was enacted by the legislature enabling a high school to be established 

 in each county, at the expense of the whole county and free to all the children of 

 that county. Already seventeen counties have taken advantage of this opportunity, have 

 erected fine modern buildings, and are carrying on courses of four years which are 

 fully accredited for university entrance. The average salary paid to principals of 

 these schools is over $2,000 per year, and some receive as high as $3,000. Besides 

 these county high schools there are district high schools of equivalent character in 

 many of the larger towns — indeed there are only three counties in the state which 

 have no school accredited to the State Board of Education, and even in these coun- 

 ties there are schools doing some good high school work, but not yet equipped to be 

 quite able to meet the requirements for standardization. 



In organizing the work of higher education, Montana has been peculiarly for- 

 tunate. The Act of Congress which admitted the state to the Union, supplemented by 

 other laws, set apart vast areas of public domain. For all the higher institutions, this 

 aggregates nearly seven hundred square miles. Already the endowment yields a much 

 larger annual revenue than the total income of many private colleges of renown, 

 and the legislature supplements this by liberal appropriations from the general 

 funds of the state. The University of Montana is located at Missoula, the State 

 College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Bozeman, the State School of Mines at 

 Butte, and the State Normal School at Dillon. Recently the state arranged for the 

 unification of all of its institutions of higher earning, thus consolidating the four 

 institutions listed above under the general designation of the University of Hon- 



