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MONTANA: INDI'STKIAL RESOURCES 



McCONE COUNTY — Ranks thirty-ninth in population (4,747); twenty-first in area 

 (l,6i>2,800 acres); tliirtieth in comliined 1922 crop and livestoclc value; thlrty-tliird in 

 1920 mineral production; forty-seventli in bank deposits, 1922; forty-first in assessed 

 valuation, 1922. Acres public land. 119,945; acres state land, 85,440. 



WEALTH PRODUCTION — Estimated 1922 crop value, $1,409,500; estimated live- 

 stock value, Jaiuiaiy. 1H2.3. .$1,650,000; coal production, 1920, $1,800; total bank deposits, 



Scptciiiljor 15, 1922, $355,763. 



TAXATION 1922 — Total assessed valuation, $16,194,937; total taxable value, 

 $4,870,423. Total outstanding county bond indebtedness, $124,900; total outstanding 

 county warrant indebtedness, $43,962; total outstanding school bond indebtedness, 

 $76,818; other school debts, $20,008. Total general and special county ta.xes, $119,508; 

 total general and district school taxes, $94,972; total municipal taxes, $721; total state 

 taxes, $23,621; total tax (inclusive municipal), per capita, $50.31. 



EDUCATIONAL — Number graded schools, 67; enrollment, 906. Number high schools, 

 2; enrollment, 69. 



BUSINESS STATISTICS — Number of manufactures. 5; average number wage earn- 

 ers, 3; value of products. $61,305. Number of banks, 4. Number general stores, 15; 

 confectionery, etc., 1; groceries and meats, 1; total number merchants, 38. Total as- 

 sessed valuation 1922 merchandise, $69,416. Number grain elevators. 1; total capacity, 

 35.000 bushels. Number creameries, 2. Number flour mills, 1. Number of lawyers, 6. 

 Number of physicians, 1. 



AGRICULTURE — (1920 census) — Number farms. 1,284; farm acreage, 668,686; im- 

 proved farnx acreage. 229.566; irrigated acreage, 400 (estimated); average value all 

 property, per farm, $9,143. Livestock assessed 1922 — number cattle, 16.475; number 

 sheep. 27,132; number horses (estimated), 17,297; number swine (census), 1,676. 



CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA — At Springbrook (near Circle). Elevation. 2.800 (esti- 

 mated) feet. Average date last killing frost in spring. May 28; average date first kill- 

 ing frost in fall, September 16. 



An- 

 .Taii. Feb. Mar. .April May .lune .July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. nual 

 Ave. Prec. .98 .93 1.50 1.20 2.36 4.49 1.83 1.66 1.27 1.07 .75 1.02 19.06 

 Ave. Temp. 14.1 15.3 27.7 43.7 52.8 62.9 68.6 67.4 57.6 45.6 31.9 19.3 42.2 



County Seat, Circle. Population County Seat, 452. 

 County Agricultural Agent — No. 



GARFIELD COUNTY 



ICH in potential resources, but handicapped 

 by laclc of rail facilities, Garfield county, 

 in oast central Montana, is confident that 

 when this handicap is overcome, it will 

 take the rank to which its area and possi- 

 l)ilities entitle it. Livestock growing is the 

 most important industry and will continue 

 to be until marketins facilities are pro- 

 vided that place the county on an 

 equality with other regions. Oil has been 

 discovered in the west end. It has large 

 beds of coal, and the existence of large de- 

 posits of iron is reported. There are 

 more than half a million acres of public 

 land in the county. 



Garfield county is approximately 80 miles 

 long, east and west, and Go miles wide, north 

 and south. It is bounded on the west by 

 the ^Iiissclshell River and on the north by 

 the Missouri River. Big Dry Creek runs northerly along the eastern boundary, 

 emptyin.g into the Mi.ssouri. Artesian flows of water have been developed in 

 soiiio districts at dcjitlis of l.")0 to 175 £eot. The soil types in the Missouri and 

 Musscl.><hell valleys and the brakes back of them, ranire from clay to heavy clay 

 that retiuire timely and careful handling. More sandy loams are found on the 

 uplands which, for the most part, are fertile and yield good returns. 



