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Sheridan County 



Location — North Eastern. 



Area — 5,019 square miles. 



Elevation at Plentywood — 2,044 feet. 



Population (estimated, December 1, 1913) — 15,513. 



Assessed valuation — $6,418,83G.OO. 



Principal industries — Farming and dairying. 



Principal crops — A\Tieat, flax and oats. 



Amount of land in private ownership — 235,663 acres. 



Amount of State land — 61,759 acres. 



*Amount of unappropriated and unreserved public land. 



Railroads — Great Northern and Sault Ste. Marie. 



County Seat — Plentywood: Estimated population, 1913, 1,000; assessed valuation, 

 $254,000.00; bank deposits, $341,000.00; municipal improvements, 1913, $100,000.00; 

 number and grade of schools, 1 graded and 1 high school; number of newspapers, 

 2 weeklies. 



Other Towns: 



Culbertson — Population, 500. Farming and shipping point. Growing rapidly. 



Medicine Lake — Population, 450. Farming and trading point. 



Poplar— Population, 600. Trading point for recently opened Fort Peck Indian 

 Reservation. 



Froid— Population, 250. Farming; $850,000 worth of grain marketed here in 1913. 



General Remarks: Sheridan County is one of the newest counties in the State, 

 having been created in March, 1913, out of the eastern portion of Valley County. Its 

 development since the building of the Plentywood branch of the Great Northern has 

 been very rapid. The greater portion of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, for the 

 opening of which drawing was held in September, 1913, and upon which filings can 

 be made in April, 1914, is located in this county. The Great Northern has just 

 completed an extension of its Plentywood branch to Scobey, and the Soo Line in 1913 

 entered the northeastern corner of this county and is rapidly extending its road to 

 Opheim, Valley County, paralleling the Canadian boundary. 



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

 taries of the Commercial Clubs at Plentywood, Culbertson, Froid, Medicine Lake 

 and Poplar. 



Silver Bow County 



Location — Southwest Central. 



Area — 698 square miles. 



Elevation at Butte— 5,490 feet. 



Population (estimated, December 1, 1913)— 64,824. 



Assessed valuation— $44,829,493.00. 



Principal industries — Mining, manufacturing and commercial pursuits. 



Amount of land in private ownership — 111,944 acres. 



Amount of State land — 16,114 acres. 



Amount of unappropriated and unreserved public land — 76,928 acres in Helena land 



district. 

 Amount of land in national forests — 188,144 acres. 

 Railroads — Northern Pacific; Great Northern; Oregon Short Line; Chicago, Milwaukee 



6 St. Paul, and Butte, Anaconda & Pacific. 



County Seat — Butte: Estimated population, 1913, 60,000; assessed valuation, 



$25,000,000.00; bank deposits, $16,000,000.00; municipal improvements, 1913, 



$200,000.00; number and grade of schools, 14 graded and 1 high school, 



7 Catholic parochial and 1 Catholic high school; number of newspapers, 2 dailies, 

 1 semi-weekly, 4 weeklies, 1 semi-monthly and 1 monthly. Butte is the seat of 

 the School of Mines. 



General Remarks: Silver Bow, though the smallest county in the State, is by 

 reason of the great mining operations at Butte by far the richest. The payroll of 

 the mines of Butte average very close to $1,000,000 per month, and instead of lessen- 

 ing the mining industry of this great district has gone rapidly forward during the 

 past twelve months. One-fifth of the total copper production of the world comes 

 from the Butte mines. 



For information regarding opportunities in Silver Bow County write the Secretary 

 of the Chamber of Commerce at Butte. 



*The unappropriated public land of Sheridan County is in that shown for Valley. 



