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The annual products of its farms are probably of greater value than those of any 

 other county in the state. 



The average production of grain per acre is believed to be unequalled in any 

 county in the United States. Reports collected from 192 irrigated grain fields, em- 

 bracing 14,000 acres, gave an average crop of 58.2 bushels of wheat per acre and 

 $38.28 as the average returns per acre. The average yield of oats was 76.4 bushels, 

 barley 58.7 bushels, and potatoes 291.5 bushels. From 76 non-irrigated 

 grain fields, embracing 7,090 acres, the average yield per acre was 42 bushels and 

 the average value of the crop $35.39 per acre. Both irrigated and non-irrigated 

 lands show a money return per acre that supports the claim that no county in the 

 United States is known where farming is so profitable as in Gallatin County, 

 Montana. 



The quality of the grains have caused them to be in demand for seed and for 

 shipment to flouring, cereal and malt mills. Barley has been shipped to Europe, 

 Japan and Australia. 



A new industry, which promises to be remarkably successful and profitable, is 

 the growing of seed peas under contract with seed houses. The soil and climate 

 are ideal for the production of peas of the highest grade, and the pea crop should 

 net the grower not less than $40 per acre. 



Strawberries and raspberries make great yields and are in demand in the 

 towns of the county and in Butte and other Montana cities. All hardy vegetables 

 yield amazingly, the celery being of exceptional quality. Hardy apple trees make 

 large yields of excellent fruit. Dairying is an important and increasing industry, 

 and from the sale of eggs and chickens large sums are derived. Hogs thrive on 

 alfalfa and cow peas and sell at profitable prices. There are many horses of ex- 

 cellent grade and beef and dairy cattle of the best types. No farming district in the 

 northwest has greater advantages and no farming community is more prosperous. 



The county is served by the Northern Pacific and Chicago Milwaukee and Puget 

 Sound railways, and by the Gallatin Valley railroad, a subsidiary of the latter. The 

 main line of the Northern Pacific crosses the county from Bozeman tunnel to Logan 

 and thence to Lombard; the Butte branch starts from Logan and passes west through 

 the Jefferson valley; and from Manhattan a branch line has been built to Anceney 

 in the Camp creek country; at Mountainside, a railroad comes in from the Trail 

 Creek coal fields. 



The chief towns are Bozeman, Three Forks, Belgrade and Manhattan. Less than 

 six years old, Three Forks, with two railroads, a population of 2,000, large 

 business houses, many civic improvements and a growing, busy little city, is an 

 example of how towns grow in developing Montana. Manhattan is a milling and 

 shipping point for a productive section. Salesville, in the southern, and Maudlow, 

 in the northern part of the county are important grain shipping points. Belgrade 

 is a thriving town in the center of the valley, has large flour mills and elevators 

 and ships great quantities of grain. Logan is a trading place for the lower Madison 

 valley and is a junction point on the Northern Pacific railroad. At Trident is a 

 large cement factory. 



The county seat is Bozeman, "the beautiful", a city modern in every respect, 

 with fine residences, surrounded by beautiful lawns and shade trees, churches, schools, 

 business blocks, mills, and elevators. The population in 1910 was 5,107. The city 

 owns the water works; there are sewers, a paid fire department, paved streets, 

 many miles of cement sidewalks, parks, street car lines, and the grounds of the 

 Inter-State Fair Association. The Montana Agricultural College, the largest educa- 

 tional institution in the state, having more than 500 students; the Montana Agricultural 

 Experiment Station; the United States local land office and the United States 



