THE STATE 



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tunities which this State offers. It has been significient that on the home- 

 steads filed upon this year more new land has been broken and prepared for 

 crops than in any preceding- year. 



An average of 2,000 new homesteads per month means that almost a 

 half million acres of public land passes from the unoccupied domain into the 

 hands of virile American citizens who are prepared to utilize to their advant- 

 age, and indirectl}' to the advantage of mankind, the resources which nature 

 has put before them. A continuation of the present rate of immigration into 

 this State (and there is no indication of a lessening of the tide of home- 

 seekers) means that within six or seven years Montana's public domain of 

 approximately 30,000,000 acres of land that is suitable for agricultural 



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Montana coal mines produced $5,600,970 in 1913. 



purposes will have become the property of the great American farmer. The 

 settlers who are coming to Montana at the present time are the kind of 

 men who, within a comparatively few yeaxs, will bring under cultivation and 

 to its maximum stage of production the land which they are now securing 

 from the government. When this is accomplished, Montana, instead of 

 having 800,000 odd acres of wheat, \yill have 20,000,000 acres that will pro- 

 duce over 400,000,000 bushels per year, which is greater than the entire 

 production! in the United Stales for the year 1912 ; instead of having 400,000 

 acres of oats, this State will have 4,000,000 and will produce 160,000,000 

 bushels; instead of having 460,000 acres of flax, it will have over 5,000,000 



■The state will sell you land and give you twenty years to pay for it. 



