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States land office is located there, the county high school and a business college; 

 the city has a water system, a sewer system, electric light and power, telephones, 

 paid fire department, over ten miles of cement sidewalks and paved and ma- 

 cadamized streets. The two principal streets have recently had modern pavements 

 laid on them. There are five elevators, a cold storage plant, a large lumber mill, 

 a flour mill, a nursery, many large merchantile establishments, four banks, three 

 weekly newspapers including one daily, a public library, good schools, many churches, 

 handsome dwelling- houses, good hotels and many large business blocka. 



The population of Flathead county is estimated at 25,860 and the assessed 

 valution is $12,174,107. 



LAND AREA — Flathead County, which is in the Kalispell and Missoula land 

 districts, embraces an area of 6,380 square miles, including 66,475 acres of unre- 

 served and unappropriated public land available for entry under the homestead law, 

 115,140 acres of state land, and 2,202,120 acres of national forests. Of the total 

 area of the county, 867,350 acres are privately owned. 



CROP PRODUCTION — The following gives the estimated crop production for 

 1915: Wheat, 850,000 bushels; oats, 1,700,000 bushels; barley, 125,000 bushels; corn, 

 4,000 bushels; potatoes, 265,000 bushels; hay, 35,000 tons; apples, 75,000 bushels; 

 cherries, 5,000 bushels; strawberries, 60,000 quarts; raspberries, 80,000 quarts: cur- 

 rants, 12,000 quarts. 



In 1915, the assessor's rolls showed the following livestock: Horses, 6,277 head; 

 milch cows, 3,137 head; other cattle, 6,404 head; sheep, 4,146 head; swine, 2,084 head. 



GALLATIN COUNTY. 



Gallatin county was one of the original counties created in 1865 by act of the 

 legislature of the newly created territory of Montana. It was named for the Gallatin 

 river, which was discovered by Lewis and Clark in 1805 and named after Albert 

 Gallatin, who was secretary of the treasury in President Jefferson's administration. 

 It has given freely of its territory to form other counties and is now a relatively small 

 county. The southern part of the county extends to the Yellowstone National Park 

 and is a mountainous region pierced by the West Gallatin river into which flow 

 numerous streams. The mountains are covered by forests, interspersed with parks, 

 and there are several large basins of open country where the native grasses are 

 abundant and afford a splendid summer range for livestock. Excellent coal has been 

 found in this section and there are deposits of copper and asbestos. This part of 

 the country is a favorite resort for the camper, the fisherman and the hunter, and 

 is entered by a good road, which extends from the Yellowstone National Park, fol- 

 lows one of the most beautiful streams in America, passes through picturesque can- 

 yons, through forests and parks and basins and the bases of mighty mountain peaks. 



The cultivated area is in the foothills, which descend from the mountains sur- 

 rounding the valley, and in the Gallatin valley, an extensive region of wonderful 

 fertility. The valley lands are irrigated from the waters of the West Gallatin river 

 or tributary streams while on the benches and foothills farming is usually carried 

 on without irrigation. The irrigated and unirrigated lands under cultivation are about 

 of equal extent, but every year there is an increase in the number of acres of 

 land farmed without irrigation due to the breaking and cultivation of tracts on 

 the foothills that have been used heretofore for grazing. While there is no chance 

 to file on public land in the valley or the adjacent foothills, there are splendid op- 

 portunities to buy land of remarkable fertility at low prices considering its pro- 

 ductiveness. 



The Gallatin valley has been called "The Egypt of America" and Gallatin 

 county was the pioneer county to make farming the main industry of its inhabitants. 



