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MONTANA: INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES 



Hides from packing plants at Butte. Great Falls and Billings and from many 



independent slaughterers. Sulpliurir acid from smelters. Arsenic found in Silver 



Bow and Park counties. Chromite. derivatives of which are 



Tanning used in making chrome leather, found in Stillwater, Sweet 



Grass and Carbon counties. Bark of spruce, larch and pine, 



among other harks used in tanning, available in western Montana counties. 



Barite found in Missoula, ^Madison, Carter and Wibaux counties. 



There are 1.200 manufacturing establishments in Montana, according to the 



Bureau of the Census. In 1910 these plants employed 17.160 wage-earners and 



turned out products valued at $166,665,000, of which $44,513,000 



was the value added by manufacture. Incidentally, the second 



largest industrial corporation in the United States, the Anaconda 



Copper Mining Company, exceeded in size only by the United 



States Steel Company, has its home office in this state. Its holdings in Montana 



are larger than in any other state or country in which it operates. 



Smelting and refining of copper, zinc and lead is the principal industry, but 

 figures on its operation are not a\ailab]e, being grouped by the census report in 

 "all other industries." Milling of flour, in value of products, comes next, and then 

 lumlier and timber products. The following table shows the manufacturing plants 

 in Montana by industries, the average number of wage-earners and the value of 

 the products as reported by the Bureau of Census : 



Census of 

 Manufacture 



Number of 

 Name of Industry — Establishments 



Flour mills 60 



Lumber and timber 15o 



Car and shop construction and repairs 30 



Slaughtering and meat packing 12 



Butter 47 



Printing and publishing, newspapers 



and periodicals 225 



Bread and other bakery products 110 



Automobile repairing 255 



Foundry and machine-shop products.. 22 

 Lumlier. planing-mill products, not 

 including planing mills connected 



with sawmills 30 



Printing and publishing, book and job 22 



Confectionery and ice cream 37 



Copper, tin. and sheet-iron work 34 



Brick 14 



Gas. illuminating and heating 6 



Mineral and carbonated waters 31 



Liquors, cereal beverages 7 



Saddlery and harness 11 



All other industries 166 



Numlier of 

 Wage-Earners 



Value of 

 Products 



