One of the Many Mines in the Mountains. 



he may do so in easern Montana. If he desires to engage in producing apples and 

 other fruits on a commercial scale, western and northwestern Montana have proved 

 within the past fifteen years that fruit growing, especially the production of apples 

 and the finest cherries offered on eastern markets, is a profitable business. 



Should he desire to engage in the production of beef animals rather than in 

 growing cereals or fruits, he can secure land producing hay crops adjacent to 

 lands suitable only for grazing. On these latter he can run his cattle nine months 

 in the year and in the other three feed them on the alfalfa and other nutritious 

 hays grown on the home ranch. 



Should he have a desire to engage in dairying he can secure a farm within a 

 reasonable distance of a co-operative creamery in a section where the snowfall is 

 comparatively light, and where experience has demonstrated that the business can 

 be carried on successfully. 



Mining Is Leading Industry. 



While the agricultural development of Montana has been phenomenal, it has 

 not been at the expense of mining, along which line Montana first attracted the 

 attention of the world. Mining is still producing more wealth than any other 

 industry in the state. From its mines the state has added $2,062,833,163 in the past 

 fifty years to the wealth of the world, and it is still doing so by over a hundred 

 million annually. No mining district in all the world is richer than that of Butte, 

 and no city, which has been built upon that industry, is more prosperous. 



But Silver Bow county, in which the Butte district is situated, is not the 

 only one which helps give Montana pre-eminence as a mining state. It is difficult 

 for those who are unacquainted with the state to realize that within its borders 



