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Typical Wheat Field in Sheridan County. 



the eastern and middle states. There were cut in the state in 1917, 349,771,000 

 feet of lumber. 



Hydro-Electric Power. 



In the development of its water power, Montana is far ahead of any other 

 state. Many millions of dollars have been expended in the work. There are 15 big 

 hydro-electric plants, developing 247,660 horse power. This power is used in the 

 mines at Butte, in the smelters at Great Falls, Anaconda and East Helena, to light 

 more than 50 towns and cities of the state, to furnish power to many manufacturing 

 concerns, and to run trains for 440 miles on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 

 railway and for 90 miles on the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific railway. The first 

 railroad in the United States to be operated by electric power was the Butte. 

 Anaconda and Pacific, running from Butte to Anaconda. The electrification of that 

 road, which does a large freight and passenger business, demonstrated its feasi- 

 bility and economy. 



The development of hydro-electric power in Montana is but in its infancy, 

 and the numerous streams arising in the mountains in all sections of the state 

 offer opportunities for capital which are peculiarly attractive. The pioneering in 

 this field has been done, and the market for the power demonstrated. 



Manufacturing Has Begun. 



The manufacturing in the state is largely in the primitive stage, with wonderful 

 possibilities for the future, due to the cheap power to be obtained from the great 

 electric power plants. The manufacturing consists of smelters at Great Falls, 

 Anaconda and East Helena, sugar beet factories at Billings and Missoula, flax 

 fibre mills at Conrad and Havre, canning factories for fruit and vegetables at 

 Bozeman and Stevensville, a cement factory at Trident, a number of large lumber 

 mills in different parts of the state, seventy-one flour and cereal mills, sixty-four 



