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The populaion of Dawson county is estimated at 23,600 and the assessed valuation 

 is $10,854,401. 



LAND AREA — Dawson County, which is in the Miles City, Lewistown, and 

 Glasgow land districts, embraces an area of 9,280 square miles, including 2,077,21.") 

 acres of unreserved and unappropriated public land available for entry under the 

 homestead law, and 242,010 acres of state land. Of the total area of the county, 

 1,733,228 acres are privately owned. 



CROP PRODUCTION — The following gives the estimated crop production for 

 1915: Wheat, 850,000 bushels; oats, 1,200,000 bushels; barley, 125,000 bushels; corn, 

 85,000 bushels; flax, 50,000 bushels; potatoes, 95,000 bushels; hay, 22,000 tons. 



In 1915, the assessor's rolls showed the following livestock: Horses, 20,409 

 head; milch cows, 3,240 head; other cattle, 15,734 head; sheep, 118,195 head; swine, 

 3,678 head. 



DEER LODGE COUNTY. 



Deer Lodge county, which is in western Montana and is drained by Deer Lodge 

 river, embracing a part of the valley of that stream, is one of the original counties 

 of the territory. By the formation of new counties it has lost the greater part of 

 its original area and is now a very small county, and yet is one of the richest in 

 the state. 



The chief industry is copper smelting. At Anaconda is located the Washoe 

 Smelter, of the Anaconda Copper Company, which employs many thousand men and 

 has a monthly pay-roll of hundreds of thousands of dollars. This great smelter is 

 the largest and most modern ore reducing plant in the world and smelts about one- 

 fourth of the copper produced in the United States. The ores are brought from the 

 mines at Butte, 28 miles distant, directly to the smelter by the Butte, Anaconda & 

 Pacific Railroad, which was built for this traffic, and which is operated exclusively 

 by electrical power. Even after an inspection of the smelter one can scarcely 

 comprehend the immensity of its operations. In connection with the smelter is an 

 extensive sulphuric plant. 



Constant progress is made in reducing the cost of production of copper by 

 lessening the cost of getting out ore at the mines and in treating it at the smelters. 

 Large savings have recently been affected by the increased use of electrical power; 

 and the mines of Butte and the smelters of Anaconda and Great Falls are models of 

 efficient operation, while the wage scale is the highest in America. 



Anaconda, the county seat, owes its existence to Marcus Daly, founder of the 

 copper industry in Montana, who was attracted to it by the presence, so near Butte, 

 of an abundant supply of water. It has grown into a city of about 17,000 inhabitants, 

 is an attractive place of residence, has one of the most costly hotel edifices in the 

 state, many large business blocks, handsome dwellings, a daily newspaper, and manu- 

 factories of fire and building brick. Tlie county court house, the Hearst library, 

 and the Margaret Theatre would be notable buildings in a much larger city. The 

 Montana State Fish Hatchery is located in beautiful Washoe Park. 



Population and business of Deer Lodge county are chiefly centered in the city 

 of Anaconda, which is situated at the base of the mountains. In the mountain 

 regions are placer and quartz gold mines, extensive forests and many places of much 

 scenic beauty. The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railroad has recently been extended 

 into the mineral region near Georgetown which is expected to develop into a very 

 productive mining district. 



At Warm Springs is located the State Hospital for the Insane, which cost more 

 than $500,000, and at which is maintained the finest pure bred Holstein dairy herd 

 in the state. 



