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organizations of mercy and helpfulness have amounted to $1,500,000. In each case 

 the state went over the top, nearly doubling its quota. Some districts subscribed 

 three or four times the amount apportioned to the district. 



Following is the amount given to the different organizations: 



Great Supplies of War Materials. 



Montana is a state whose products are the materials most needed for the prose- 

 cution of war. Wheat, meat, copper, manganese, zinc, chromite and spruce are 

 the materials most sought after today to supply our own army and those of our 

 allies. In these products Montana specializes. The chief industries of the state 

 are the raising of wheat and livestock and the mining of copper and zinc. Man- 

 ganese, chromite and molybdenite are important war minerals, now produced in 

 large quantities in the state, and spruce is needed in aeroplane production and 

 other lumber in the different cantonments. Montana's greatest products supply the 

 nations' greatest needs. The amount of the production of these different materials 

 in 1917 was as follows: 



Wheat 20,000,000 bushels 



Beef-cattle 334,000 head 



Sheep 3,000.000 head 



Hogs 200,000 head 



Lumber 



Copper 274,462,574 pounds 



Zinc 186,259,331 pounds 



Manganese 65,000 t'ns ore 



Wool 25,000,000 pourds 



349,771,000 feet 



Efficient War Workers. 



Montana has likewise contributed a number of big men to aid the administration 

 In carrying on the war program. Among others, the following may be mentioned 

 John D. Ryan, head of the Aircraft Production Board and Assistant Secretary of War; 

 John B. Densmore, Director General of the United States Employment Service; 

 Lewis Penwell, head of the Wool Division of the War Industries Board; W. B. 

 Thompson, member of the Commission to Russia, a native son of Montana, but now 

 of New York City, and Kenneth Ross, of the Spruce Division of the Aircraft 

 Production Board. 



Councils of Defense. 



To cooperate with the national government in its many departments and to 

 look after the needs of the state in war time, Montana is efficiently organized under 

 the Montana Council of Defense. This body helps to solve the great number of 

 problems arising from war conditions. Under the State Council are County Coun- 

 cils of Defense in each county and under these, to look after local problems, are 

 the Community Councils of Defense. These organizations are efficient and thorough 

 and are rendering the state and nation a groat service. 



