THE COUNTIES 2h5 



Carbon County 



fvocation — Southern. 



Area — 1.814 square miles. 



Elevation at Red Lodge — 5,557 feet. 



Population (estimated, December 1, 1913)^17,331. 



Assessed valuation — $7,715,140.00. 



Principal industries — Coal mining, agriculture and stock raising. 



Principal crops — Fruits, wheat, oats and sugar beets. 



Amount of land in private ownership — 253,350 acres. 



Amount of State land — 4G,5G2 acres. 



Amount of unappropriated and unreserved public land — 43,G94 acres in Bozeman land 

 district; 350,233 acres in Billings land district; total, 393,927 acres. 



Amount of land in national forests — 359,159 acres. 



Railroads — Northern Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and Montana, Wyoming 

 & Southern. 



County Seat — Red Lodge: Estimated population, 1913, 5,500; assessed valuation, 

 $1,000,000.00; bank deposits, $1,000,000.00; number and grade of schaols, 5 graded 

 and county high school; number of newspapers. 2 weeklies. Red Lodge is the 

 location of the famous Rocky Fork coal mines, w^hich maintain a monthly pay- 

 roll of approximately $100,000.00. 



Other Towns: 



Bear Creek — Coal mining. 



Bridger — Coal mining and farming. 



Fromberg — Fruit raising and farming. 



Joliet — Intensified farming. 



General Remarks: A company has been recently organized and financed locally 



to build an electric line to connect Red Lodge with the Bear Creek coal fields and 



the Stillwater Valley. 



For information regarding opportunities in Carbon County write to the Secre- 

 taries of the Commercial Clubs at Red Lodge, Belfry and Fromberg, Montana. 



Cascade County 



Location — West Central. 



^rea — 3,384 square miles. 



Elevation at Great Falls— 3,313 feet. 



Population (estimated, December 1, 1913) — 37,319. 



Assessed valuation— $27,810,234.00. 



Principal industries — Smelting, mining, farming and commerce. 



Principal crops — Wheat, oats and barley. 



Amount of land in private ownership — 1,213,601 acres. 



Amount of State land — 105,981 acres. 



Amount of unappropriated and unreserved public land — 120,274 acres in Great Falls 



land district; 20,915 acres in Helena land district; total, 141,189 acres. 

 A.mount of land in national forests — 421,242 acres. 

 Railroads — Great Northern and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. 

 County Seat — Great Falls: Estimated population, 1913, 24,000; assessed valuation, 



$12,750,000.00; bank deposits, $7,002,121.00; municipal improvements, 1913, $350.- 



000.00; number and grade of schools, 10 graded, 1 high and 1 Catholic academy; 



number of newspapers, 2 daily, 2 weekly and 1 trade monthly. 

 Other Towns: 



Cascade — Important farming and shipping center. 



Stockett — Large coal mining camp. 



Belt — Surrounded by good farming community. 



Geyser — Important grain shipping point. 



General Remarks: Owing to the large amount of electrical power available at 

 Great Falls, the city is destined to be the seat of many manufacturing establishments, 

 and it already has a commerce which extends for hundreds of miles in every direc- 

 tion. Great Falls is now the second largest city in the State and is rapidly becoming 

 a railroad center. It now has four branches of the Great Northern, over one of 

 which Burlington through trains are run, and one branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul, which, with the completion of the Great Falls-Missoula branch of this 

 road, is expected to become the main line. 



For information regarding opportunities in Cascade County write to the Secre- 

 tary of the Commercial Club, Great Falls, Montana. 



— The railroads bring the people; likewise the people bring the railroads. 



