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MONTANA : INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES 



drugs, 311; restaurants and bakeries, 813; garages, autos and accessories, 1,000; 

 lumber, 411; hardware and implements, 378; furniture and undertaking, 199; shoe 

 repairing, 268; blacksmith and machinery, 390; confectionery and cigars, 647; 

 men's furnishings, shoes and tailors, 429 ; dry goods, milinery and women's wear, 

 338; billiards, 494; miscellaneous, 2,217. Total assessed valuation 1922 merchan- 

 dise, $49,100,717. Number grain elevators. 605; total capacity, 17,872,000 bushels. 

 Number creameries, 53. Number flour mills. 66 Number of lawyers, 968. Num- 

 ber of physicians, 538. Developed hydro-electric plant capacity, 296,4;^) horse 

 power. 



AGRICULTURE (1920 census )— Number of farms, 567,677; farm acreage, 

 35,070.656; improved farm acreage, ll.tK)7,278; irrigable acreage under existing 

 works, 2,753,498; average value all prop(>rty, per farm, $17,095. Livestock 

 assessed 1922 — Number cattle, 1.08-1.220; number sheep, 1,867,094; number horses, 

 507,783; number swine (census, 1920), 107,000. 



The "Home" Ranch 



