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TOOLE COUNTY. 



Toole county, which is located along the northern border of the state, is a 

 farming and stockraising county which is in the initial stages of its development. 

 Toole county was created out of parts of Teton and Hill counties in 1914, and 

 is one of the smaller counties of the state. 



All farming in Toole county is carried on by non-irrigated methods, but 

 some exceptionally high yields have been secured. In the season of 1915, a ten acre 

 field of flax yielded 350 bushels, said to have been the highest per acre yield 

 of flax ever produced from non-irrigated land. Flax is one of the principal crops of 

 this county and the growing of this crop has enabled many homesteaders to 

 secure sufficient money to enable them to develop their holdings. 



Recently, there has been considerable work done in an effort to develop the 

 large oil deposits which are believed to lie beneath the Sweetgrass hills in the 

 northern part of Toole county. Strong flows of gas have been encountered, but thus 

 far the oil development has not reached a commercial scale. 



Shelby, the county seat and principal town, is a railroad junction point and is 



the trading center for a large and productive territory. Sweetgrass, in the 



northern part of the county, is a port of entry from the Dominion of Canada. 



Galata and Devon, in the eastern part of the county, are good farming towns, 

 Doth growing rapidly. 



The population of Toole county is estimated at 7,880 and the assessed valuation, 

 in 1915, was $4,380,412. 



LAND AREA — Toole county, which is in the Great Falls and Havre land 

 districts, embraces an area of 1,949 square miles, including 123,442 acres of un- 

 reserved and unappropriated public land available for entry under the home- 

 stead law and 112,143 acres of state land. Of the total area of the county, 310,066 

 acres are privately owned. 



CROP PRODUCTION— The following gives the estimated crop production for 

 1915: wheat, 350,000 bushels; oats, 575,000 bushels; barley, 20,000 bushels; flax, 

 100,000 bushels; potatoes, 24,000 bushels; hay, 7,000 tons. 



In 1915, the assessor's rolls showed the following livestock: horses, 5,967 head; 

 milch cows, 1,441 head; other cattle, 4,471 head; sheep, 36,038 head; swine, 

 545 head. 



VALLEY COUNTY. 



Although Valley county has been greatly reduced in size within the past few 

 years in order to create and help to create two new counties in that section of 

 the state, it is still one of the largest counties in the state, and is being rapidly 

 developed. 



Like all the rest of eastern Montana, Valley county was, until recently, 

 merely grazing ground for sheep and cattle; but like the remainder of that section 

 of Montana it has been transformed and today it is one of the substantial farming 

 sections of the commonwealth. 



Excellent crops of wheat, flax, oats and barley are produced all over the county 

 on land which has been under the plow not to exceed two seasons and, in many 

 cases, crops sown on spring breaking returned large yields. 



Glasgow, the county seat, is the metrapolis of northeastern Montana and is 

 a distributing point for a great farming empire extending in every direction. 

 Glasgow is a modern city of about 2,000 population and is growing rapidly. 



The estimated population of Valley county is 16,660 and the assessed valuation, 

 in 1915, was $5,442,026. 



