FUEL AND ENERGY RESOT'KCES 151 



MISSOLRI AND i^LlDISON 

 Name Undeveloped H. P. 



IMiidison 14,0(M> 



Madison 20.(X)0 



Madison 12,000 



Madison 4.000 



Madison 30,000 



Cascade 17,000 



Missouri 21,000 



Sheep Creelv 22,000 



Total 140,000 



YELLOWSTONE 



Yankee Jim Canyon 5,000 



Mystic Lalie 8,000 



Billinss 1,560 



Bis Horn Canyon 100.000 



Buffalo Rapids 5.000 



Total 124,560 



CLARK'S FORK 



North Fork Flathead 30.000 



Coram 12,000 



Swan River , 5,500 



Poison 205,000 



Lower Flathead 82.000 



Thompscm Falls 20,000 



Donlan : 48,000 



Rock Island 60,000 



Cabinet 92.000 



Fish Creek 24,000 



Total 578,500 



KOOTExNAI 



Kootenai Falls 20.000 



Leonis 11.000 



Total 31,000 



Grand Total 874,060 



NATURAL GAS 



LTses — An ideal domestic fuel and used especially as an industrial fuel in 

 glass works, cement plants. l)rickyards. factories and metalhu-.iiic plants. Also used 

 in makin.ij carbon black, a constituent of rubber tires, paints and inks. From 

 some natural .ijas the gas helium, used as a non-inflammable substitute for 

 hydrogen in balloons, is extracted. 



Occurrence — On the Cedar Creek anticline in Fallon, Prairie and Dawson 

 counties; in Elk Basin, Carbon county: near Havre. Hill county; in the Sweet 

 Grass hills in northern Liberty county ; near Shelby. Toole comity ; 35 miles 

 southeast of Big Sandy, Choteau coiiniy: at Antelope I'iont. Stillwater county; 

 in northern Liberty county. Reported by V. S. G. S. in Cone Butte Dome, 

 Fergus county. But little attention has thus far been given this resource 

 Billings, Bridger, Fromberg and Laurel use the gas from Elk Basin for light and 



