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of the farm products are raised on non-irrigated land. Large crops are grown 

 without irrigation by cutivation by the dry land system of farming. In the northern 

 and eastern sections dry farming is very successful. 



Common yields are from 20 to 60 bushels of wheat, 40 to 100 bushels of oats, 

 20 to 60 bushels of barley and of other crops in similar proportions on irrigated 

 farms. More uniform and usually greater are the yields on irrigated lands. Hay and 

 timothy and alfalfa is a large crop and sugar beets have been grown as an experi- 

 ment. Vegetables make surprising yields. Apples and other fruits do well. 



The principal cities are Great Palls, Belt, Stockett, and Cascade. Cascade 

 is a trading point for a rich farming and stock growing district, has city water, 

 good schools, churches, a flour mill, two elevators, a creamery, a bank, business 

 houses, and two weekly newspapers. Stockett has great coal mines and is sur- 

 rounded by a good farming country. Belt is in a fertile valley, has a population of 

 nearly 1,500, lias electric lights and water works, schools, elevators, hospital, churches, 

 a bank, business houses, a weekly paper, and coal mines that have employed 

 400 men. 



Great Falls, the principal city in Northern Montana, and the second city in 

 size in the state, takes its name from the wonderful asset with which it is 

 endowed. In seven and one-half miles the great Missouri river, with a mean low 

 water flow of 3,500 second feet, drops 535 feet over a series of falls and rapids. 

 At the head of these falls, at a place where the Missouri, Sun and Belt river valleys 

 come together, where there is a down hill haul from all directions, where all 

 railroad lines meet, the logical location for a great city, is Great Falls, which had 

 a population of 13,948 in 1910. The population, according to local estimate, has 

 almost trebled since the census was taken. The site was chosen for its natural 

 advantages, the city was planned on generous lines, and it is the natural trading 

 point for a great, fertile and rapidly developing section. Already 150,000 horsepower 

 of electrical energy is developed at Great Falls and distributed by high tension power 

 lines to practically all points in the state, where there yet remains for development 

 200,000 horse power. 



Extensive copper and zinc smelters employ a great number of men whose 

 earnings contribute materially to the business of the town. 



A Great Falls smelter has the largest smokestack in the world. The Royal 

 Milling company has a large flouring mill; here is located the largest meat- 

 packing plant between St. Paul and the coast, and there are more than fifty other 

 manufacturing establishments. 



Great Falls has all the improvements and conveniences of a progressive, 

 growing, western city, and a system of large and beautiful parks that is peculiar 

 to itself. It has seven banks with total deposits of .$8,772,910; two $400,000 hotels, 

 fine public, business and residence buildings; street cars, electric lights, sewer, paved 

 streets, parked avenues, a people confident of its future greatness, and two daily 

 newspapers. It is a pleasant place of residence and a prosperous commercial 

 city. The United States Land office for this district and the office of the Collector 

 of Customs for Montana are located here. Openings for manufacturing establish- 

 ments and for wholesale houses are numerous. 



The population for Cascade county is estimated at 46,075, and the assessed 

 valuation of the county is $31,649,303. 



LAND AREA— Cascade county, which is in the Great Falls land district, 

 embraces an area of 3,411 square miles including 157,749 acres of unreserved and 

 unappropriated public land available for entry under the homestead law, 100,807 



