The State 



Opportunities Which Montana Offers 

 to Homesteaders and Investors — 

 Unrivalled Resources Which Await 

 Only Development. 



By HON S. V. STEWART, 

 Governor of Montana. 



(Reprinted from the September, 1913, Num- 

 ber of The Westerner, Seattle.) 



The Story of l^Iontana's development in the past ten years is a (h-eam 

 of empire come true ; and yet so comparatively little has been accomplished 

 that the results of the past can no more <?ive slight indication of the 



mighty place the iVTontana of the future will inevitably hold. 

 The Awaken- 'Montana is today undergoing a transformation the like of 



ing of a w^hich has seldom been Avitnessed in the onv/ard march ot civi- 



Great State, lization. Of imperial proportion and endowed by nature with 



apparently illimitable resources, which wait only an opportun- 

 ity to be utilized, ^lontana offers to the world an almost unprecedented 

 spectacle of wealth in the making. Ignored during- the great western immi- 

 gration tides which resulted in the settlement of the Pacific coast states, it 

 looked for a while as if :\lontana"s claim to greatness must always rest on 

 its remarkable mineral resources and the vast herds of cattle and sheep 

 which trod its plains. But the awakening came, and for the past three or 

 four years Montana has lieen the scene of settlement and development upon 

 a m'ammoth scale. Without the noise or the excitement sug-gfcstive of a 



-A farm in Montana means happiness and prosperity. 



