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near Avalance creek is an excellent orchard that has been in bearing for twenty 

 years; and it is said that four thousand dollars were received from the sale of 

 fruit gathered one year from fifteen acres. 



The main line of the Northern Pacific follows the Missouri valley from Lombard 

 to Townsend, and the Butte branch is separated by the Jefferson river from the 

 southern boundary. The Milwaukee enters the county near Lombard and passes 

 through the southern end. 



The chief towns are Townsend, Winston, Radersburg and Toston. Toston is 

 the shipping point for the growing mining camp of Radersburg, eleven miles west, 

 and for an extensive country including much of the fertile Crow creek valley. 

 Winston, 21 miles from Helena, is the supply point for a rich mining district and 

 of a farming and stock region. 



Townsend, the county seat and principal town, is located where the Northern 

 Pacific railroad crosses the Missouri river, is a financial, educational and social 

 center. The population in 1910 was 759, and is now estimated to be 1,200. The city 

 has an electric lighting plant, a volunteer fire department, five miles of side- 

 walks, graded streets, fine street lights, excellent schools. Catholic, Episcopal, 

 Methodist and Methodist South churches, good school buildings, large business 

 houses, good residences, two elevators, a flour mill, a creamery, a brewery, a cigar 

 factory and a newspaper.. It offers an opening for an alfalfa mill, a cement plant 

 and pottery manufacturing. 



The population of Broadwater county is estimated at 5,310, and the assessed 

 valuation is $4,260,871. 



LAND AREA — Broadwater county, which is in the Helena land district, embraces 

 an area of 1,248 square miles, including 141,516 acres of unreserved and unappropri- 

 ated public land available for entry under the homestead law, 20,971 acres of state 

 land, and 221,653 acres of national forests. Of the total area of the county, 309,117 

 acres are privately owned. 



CROP PRODUCTION — The following gives the estimated crop production for 

 1915: Wheat, 300,000 bushels; hay, 43,000 tons; apples, 15,000 bushels; currants, 

 2,000 quarts; barley, 15,000 bushels; corn, 5,000 bushels; oats, 425,000 bushels; pota- 

 toes, 125,000 bushels. 



In 1915, the assessor's rolls showed the following livestock: Horses, 5,480 

 head; milch cows, 939 head; other cattle, 10,319 head; sheep, 57,211 head; swine, 

 1,796 head. 



For further information regarding Broadwater county, address the Townsend 

 commercial club. 



CARBON COUNTY. 



Carbon county, which adjoins Wyoming and takes its name from the extensive 

 coal deposits that exist within its boundaries, was created from parts of Park 

 and Yellowstone counties by an act approved March 4, 1895. 



The southern part is a mountainous region of great scenic beauty in which rise 

 numerous streams whose waters flowing north through valleys of varying width 

 finally discharge into the Yellowstone. The largest stream is Clark's Fork of the 

 Yellowstone. Rock Creek is a large stream that flows through the central part. 

 Many thousand acres in the valleys are irrigated from canals that bring water 

 from these streams and their rapid fall make them available as sources of hydro- 

 electric power. 



In the mountains are forests, gold, silver, lead and copper mineral claims, 

 excellent hunting and fishing, and much remarkably beautiful scenery. In the 



