The State and its People 



Energetic Americans, Inspired by the Enthusiasm of Assured 



Success, and With a Wealth of Natural Resources at Their 



Disposal, Carve Out a New Empire of Opportunity 



ONTANA, THIRD LARGEST of the States of the 

 Union, and greatest in natural wealth, is the 

 newest empire of opportunity. Fastest growing 

 of all the States, it is but even now merely glimp- 

 sing the dawn of its greater destiny; it is just 

 beginning to realize the vast extent of the great 

 resources which Nature placed at the disposal of 

 its people and to utilize these resources in the 

 service of Mankind. 



To the ambitious and energetic, Montana ex- 

 tends a cordial and a sincere invitation. It asks 

 them to come here and share in its prosperity by 

 assisting in its development. It offers a larger 

 measure of assured success than can be found 

 anywhere else upon the American continent, and 

 to sujastantiate this claim it modestly presents the 

 record of merely a few brief years of actual 

 achievement. 



Montana is the keystone state of the great American Northwest. It lies between 

 the 104th and 116th meridians of longitude west of Greenwich and between the 45th 

 and 49th parallels of north latitude. The western boundary follows the Coeur d'Alene 

 and Bitter Root mountains and is irregular; in the southwest corner the line dips 

 below the 45th parallel and follows the main range of the Rocky Mountains; the 

 northern boundary is along the 49th parallel and the eastern boundary the 104th 

 degree of latitude. It is bounded on , the north by the Canadian provinces of 

 Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia; on the south by Wyoming and Idaho; 

 on the west by Idaho and on the east by North Dakota and South Dakota. The 

 average length from east to west is about 535 miles and the average width from 

 north to south about 275 miles. Montana thus embraces an area of 147,182 square 

 miles. 



It should always be remembered that Montana is big. The vast area of the 

 state must be borne in mind in any consideration of its climate, its resources and 

 its opportunities. It is the third state in size in the Union, only Texas and Cali- 

 fornia being larger; France and Germany are each only about one third larger. Eng- 

 land, Scotland, Wales and Ireland combined, with their thirty millions of people, 

 have fewer miles of territory; Montana embraces a greater area than all the New 

 England states. New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland added together. 

 These states have a combined population of 19,701,130; Montana, with greater natural 

 resources, has an estimated population of 750,000. There are counties in Montana 

 larger than some of the populous states of the East. 



Montana is the last of the great public land states. When the broad acres of this 

 state, now lying idle and unclaimed, shall have been seized upon by the homesteader 



