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WEALTH PRODUCTION — Estimated 1922 crop value, $2,656,400; estimated live- 

 stock value. .Taiuiarv. i:iJ3, $2,893,300; total bank deposits, September 15, 1922 

 $1,954.5;»!'. 



TAXATION 1922 — Total assessed valuation, $26,767,434; total taxable value, 

 $8,425,702. Total outstanding county bond indebtedness, $63 7,000; total outstanding 

 county warrant indebtedness, $76,806; total outstanding school bond indebtedness, 

 $221,979: other school debts, $13,566. Total general and special county taxes, $237,770; 

 total general and district school taxes, $223,845; total municipal taxes, $3,408; total 

 state ta-\e.<. $40.S2H: total tax (inclusive municipal), per capita, $48.02. 



EDUCATIONAL — Number graded schools, 94; enioUment, 2,212. Number high 

 school-"^. 3; tnriillnii'nt. 222. 



BUSINESS STATISTICS — Number of railroads, 1; railway mileage, exclusive spurs 

 and sidetracks, 76.45. Number of manufactures, 19; average number wage earners, 35; 

 value of products, $412,614. Number of banks, 15. Number general stores, 31; con- 

 fectionery, etc., 5; groceries and meats, 16; lumber yards, 12; total number merchants, 

 205. Total assessed valuation 1922 merchandise, $681,992. Number grain elevators, 17; 

 total capacity, 407.000 bushels. Number creameries, 1. Number flour mills, 2. Number of 

 lawvers. 18. Number nf phy.sicians. 9. 



AGRICULTURE (1920 census)* — Number farms. 2.169; farm acreage, 1,126,872; im- 

 proved farm acreage, 344,335; irrigated acreage, 20,800; average value all property, per 

 farm, $10,386. Livestock assessed 1922 — number cattle, 24,680; number sheep, 59,983; 

 number horses. 2.5,921: number swine (census), 2.680. 



CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA — At Glasgow. Elevation. 2,092 feet. Average date last 

 killing frost in spring. May 21; average date first killing frost in fall, September 17. 



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Jan. Feb. ^lar. April May June Julv Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. nual 



Ave. Prec. .61 .48 .98 .96 2.29 2.57 1.4 1.11 1.05 .67 .50 .55 13.17 



Ave. Temp. 8 10.8 24.4 44.0 55.2 63.6 70.0 67.9 56.2 43.6 26.8 15.0 40.5 



County Seat. Glasgow. Population County Seat, 2,059. 



Countv Agricultural Agent — Yes. 



*These figures include the territory now in Daniels County. 



PHILLIPS COUNTY 



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N ASPIRANT to the di.stinction of having 

 the largest acreage in 192.3 devoted to corn 

 of any county in the state, the Phillips 

 county claim i.s undisputed in the region 

 lying north of the Missouri River, but the 

 official figures will be required to deter- 

 mine the titleholder. A new coimty agri- 

 culturally. Phillips in the last year or two 

 has made progress and when its tillable 

 and irrigated lands are all settled and 

 farmed it seems destined to be one of the 

 leading agricultural districts of the state. 

 It lies in north central Montana, extend- 

 ing from the Canadian boundary on the 

 north to the Missouri River on the south, 

 approximately l(X) miles in length by 50 

 miles east and west. In the southwestern 

 corner the Little Rocky Mountains, an 

 isolated mountain range, ari.se. Soil types 

 are quite uniform, varying from clay loams along the valley of the :Milk River 

 which occupies the middle of the county, east and west, to sandy loams on the up- 

 lands and undulating prairie which stretch northward into (^'anada. Much of the 

 land in the south half of the county is rolling and broken, especially adapted to 

 grazing purposes. 



Wheat has been the principal ca.sh crop on the non-irrigated, and blue 



joint hay on the irrigated lands, but there are many evidences of change in the 



crop program. On the non-irrigated lands the increase of acreage 



Diversification devoted to corn has been phenomenal. While wheat will prob- 



Is Growing ably continue to be the chief cash crop, corn is bringing in hogs 



and chickens and turkeys and winter feeding of .she<>p and cattle. 



Idaho colonists who recently settled on the irrigated lands in the Milk River valley 



