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MONTANA: INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES 



Plentywood, the county seat, is the largest town. Medicine Lake, Antelope | 

 and Redstone are smaller communities on the Great Northern. Westby, near the 

 eastern border, and Outlook, in the northwestern part, are the chief towns on the 

 Soo line. 



The region is of geological inti-rest. geologists holding to the opinion that 

 before the ice invasion the Missouri River flowed northwai'd into Hudson Bay. 



marked by a ln-oad deiiression from Medicine Lake northeast 



its former channel 

 to Westby. 



SHERIDAN COUNTY — Ranks eighteenth in population (9,376); thirty-seventh in 

 area (1,125,120 acres); fifth in combined 1922 crop and livestock value; fifth in 1920 

 mineral production; eighteenth in bank deposits, 1922; thirty-sec< nd in assessed valua- 

 tion, 1922. Acres public land, 1,666; acres state land, 40,408; acres Indian reservations 

 (most of it allotted), 115.200. 



WEALTH PRODUCTION — Estimated 1922 crop value. $4,004,500; estimated live- 

 stock value, January, 1923, $1,635,500; coal production, 1920, $1,551,000; total bank 

 deposits, September 15, 1922. $2,024,804. 



TAXATION 1922 — Total asses-'sed valuation, $19,574,763; total taxable value. 

 $6,077,473. Total outstanding county bond indebtedness. $810,000; total outstanding 

 countv warrant indebtedness, $426,508; total outstanding school bond indebtedness, 

 $228,641: other school debts, $39,722. Total general and special county taxes. $213,167; 

 total general and district school taxes, $248,133: total municipal taxes. $18,196; total 

 state taxes. .?29.162; total tax (inclusive municipal), per capita, $54.25. 



EDUCATIONAL — Number graded schools, 87; enrollment, 2,174. Number high 

 schonls. 7: enrollment. 207. 



BUSINESS STATISTICS — ^Number of railroads, 2; railway mileage, exclusive spurs 

 and sidetracks, 104.96. Number of manufactures. 30*; average number wage earners, 

 182*; value of products. $542,809*. Number of banks. 16. Number general stores, 23; 

 confectionery, etc., 6; groceries and meats, 13: lumber yards, 15: total numlser mer- 

 chants. 213. Total Assessed valuation 1922 mercliandise. $545,116. Number grain 

 elevators, 37: total capacity, 921,000 bushels. Number creameries, 1. Number flour 

 mills. 3. Number of lawvers. 17. Number of physicians. 7. 



AGRICULTURE (1920 census)** — Number farms, 2.408; farm acreage. 1,155,859; 

 improved farm acreage. 570,955; irrigated acieage, 3.879; average value all property, 

 per farm, $12,826. Livestock assessed 1922 — number cattle, 16,738; number sheep, 5,049; 

 numbei- liorses, 13,782: number swine (census). 4,360. 



CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA — At Medicine Lake. Elevation, 1,969 feet. Average date 



average date first killing frost in fall, September 15. 



An- 

 >Iav June Julv Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. nual 

 1.72 2.92 2.11 1.53 1.54 .88 .29 .30 13.85 

 52.1 63.4 66.3 65.3 54.0 41.4 25.0 13.8 38.0 

 Seat. Plentywood. Population County Seat, 888. 

 Agricultural Agent — Yes. 



last killing frost in spring, May 23; 



Ave. Prec. 



Ave. Temp. 

 County 

 Countv 



Jan. 

 .47 

 5.6 



Feb. Mar. 

 .44 .49 

 7.7 19.9 



April 

 1.16 

 41.6 



*Includes Daniels. 



♦♦These figures Include the territory now in Daniels county. 



DANIELS COUNTY 







1 NE of the smaller, more recently created coun- 

 ties, Daniels, in northwestern Montana, has 

 not been slow in gathering laurels. Scobey, 

 its county seat, in 1922 laid claim to the 

 I title of being the greatest primary wheat 

 j shipping point in the United States. Two 

 million bushels, or l.So.j car.s of the 1922 

 ^^heat crop moved from Scobey. In such 

 (luantities has it sometimes poured in from 

 the farms that in a sin.sle day 30 cars have 

 l)oon loaded from farmers' wagons, without 

 taking a pound from the elevators. Except 

 for about 1.200 acres, non-irrigated farming 

 is followed exclusively. 



The northern boundary of Daniels ad- 

 .ioins Canada and it lie.-^ one county west of 

 North Dakota. It is approximately 30 miles 

 wide north and south and 40 miles lon.n east 

 and west. For years the region, which is 

 mostly rolling prairie, was devoted exclusively to stock raising, but between 



