252 MONTANA 19U 



Dawson County 



Location — Eastern. 



Area- '^,231 SQuare miles. 



Elevation at Glendive— 2,091 feet. 



Population (estimated, December 1, 1913) — 32,592. 



Assessed valuation— $13, .522,813.00. 



Principal industries — Farming and stock raising. 



Principal crops — Wheat, flax, oats, potatoes and alfalfa. 



Amount of land in private ownership — 2,2.53,GG0. 



Amount of State land — 388,357 acres. 



Amount of unappropriated and unreserved public land — SG4,-471 acre..^ in Glasgow 



lord district; 1,333,685 acres in '^Nliles City land district; 414,344 acres in Lewis- 

 town land district; total, 2,612,490 acres. 

 Railropls — Northern Pacific and Great Northern. 

 County Seat — Glendive: Estimated population, 1913, 5,000; assessed valuation, $1,250,- 



000.00; bank deposits, $1,800,000.00; number and grade of schools, graded and 



1 high school; number of newspapers, 3 weeklies. 

 Other Towns: 



Srlney — Population. 1,000. Center of important and rapidly growing farming 

 section. Efforts are now being made to create the new county of Richland 

 with Sidney as the county seat. 



Jordan — Au interior point which will be reached by the Great Northern ex- 

 tension; is growing rapidly, being surrounded by rich farming country. 



Pfxton — A rapidly growing interior town. 



Wibaux — An important and rapidly growing city, being trading point for a large 

 fertile farming region. 



General Remarks: D^-A'son County is growing very rapidly, and with the building 

 of thp Glendve-Helena cut-off of the Northern Pacific and the completion of the 

 (Jreat Xorthern"s New Rockford-Lewistown extension a veritable agricultural empire 

 now rtmote from markets will be opened up. 



For information regarding opportunities in Dawson County write to the Secretary 

 of tb'> Dawson County Development League at Glendive, and the Secretaries of the 

 Commercial Clubs at Sidney, Savage and Wibaux. 



Deer Lodge County 



Location — South western. 



Area— 749 square miles. 



Elevat'on at Anaconda — 5,293 feet. 



Population (estimated. December 1, 1913) — 14,530. 



Assessed valuation— $9,012,817.00. 



Princi;ial industries— Smelting, mining, agriculture and stock raising. 



Princii>aJ crops — Grains, hay and vegetables. 



Amount of land in private ownership — 147,002 acres. 



Amoui.t of State land — 12,548 acres. 



Amour.t of unappropriated and unreserved public land — 52,009 acres in Helena land 

 district. 



.A.mouiit of land in national forests — 307,793 acres. 



Railroads- -Butte, Anaconda & Pacific; Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 St. Paul. 



County Peat — Anaconda: Estimated population, 1913, 14,000; assessed valuation, 

 $3,145,019.00; bank deposits, $2,400,000.00; number and grade of schools, 2 paroch- 

 ial. 4 graded, 1 high school with domestic science and manual training depart- 

 ment ; number of newspapers, 1 daily. Location of Washoe smelter, largest 

 reduction plant in the world, with capacity of 12,000 tons of ore a day, giving 

 employment to over 3,000 men, with monthly payroll of over $300,000. Anaconda 

 is in every way a modern, up-to-date city. 



Other Towns: 



G( orgetown — Mining. 



W ami Springs — Seat of State Insane Asylum. 



General Remarks: The Deer Lodge Valley, the head of which is in Deer Lodge 



County, is one of the best developed and best known farming and stock raising 



sections of the State. 



For information regarding opportunities in Deer Lodge County write to the 



Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Anaconda. 



— One scarcely ever hears of a business failure in Mantana. 



