MONTANA 19U 



boom, but exemplifying the sturdy determination and resistless energy which 

 characterizes the vigorous Anglo-Saxon, Montana is giving ample evidence 

 of the dawn of la new era which bids fair to make the successes of its past 

 pale into insignificance. 



Right now an average of over 18,000 families per year are finding homes 

 upon Montana's soil and almost a million acres of new sod is being turned 

 under every spring. The significance of this new phase of development can 

 be appreciated when it is known that ten years ago there were less than 

 750,000 acres of land in cultivation in this State; it becomes staggering when 

 we recall that three years ago when the last federal census was taken but 

 3,640.309 acres were returned as "improved lands." Remembering that there 

 are in Montana over 40,000,000 acres of high grade farming land, the room 

 for agricultural; expansion in this State becomes obvious. 



"A Million acres ofnetv sod is being turned under every spring" 



Montana has had an unique conimercial and industrial histor)^ and the 

 present stage of development warrants the belief that our pioneers 

 approach the truth from many unsuspected angles when 

 they gave to this territory the designation of "The Treasure 

 State." Montana owes its entity to its great deposits of placer 

 gold. It was Alder gulch and Last Chance gulch and Con- 

 federate gulch which, in the early sixties, first attracted to this 

 region the hardy pioneers who gave it a territorial status which 

 later brought about the birth of statehood. During the twenty years which 

 followed the discovery of gold, over $200,000,000 of the yello'W metal was 

 washed from the creeks and bars of this State, and since that time more 



The Golden 

 Stream 

 from the 

 Gulches. 



-Montana has broad-guaged people. 



