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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 490. 



wf sheep, its three quarters of a million of 

 cattle, its one fifth of a million of horses; 

 the state whose annual production of gold 

 is five millions of dollars, of silver twenty 

 millions, lead sixteen millions of pounds, 

 copper a quarter of a billion of pounds, two 

 million tons of coal, a half million dollars 

 in stone, a half million dollars in brick and 

 clay products; the state with its two mill- 

 ions of fruit trees, already producing a 

 quarter of a million boxes of apples, its 

 one and a quarter million tons of hay and 

 nearly ten million bushels of grain; the 

 state with its three thousand miles of rail- 

 roads, its 42,000 square miles of forests, 

 with a saw-mill product of nearly two 

 millions of dollars annually; and yet the 

 state is in its infancy. Its resources are 

 barely known, and many are practically 

 untouched. 



The state has within its borders approxi- 

 mately ninety-four million acres of land. 

 Of this amount twenty-six millions of acres 

 are classed as mountain lauds, thirty mil- 

 lions as farming lands, and thirty-eight 

 millions as grazing lands. This is approxi- 

 mately 40,000 square miles of mountains, 

 50,000 square miles of farming' lands and 

 56,000 square miles of grazing country. 

 To put it in another way, the mountain 

 area of the state is about equal to the en- 

 tire area of either Indiana, Kentucky, 

 Virginia, Ohio or Tennessee. Its grazing 

 land is more than the total area of either 

 Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Mississippi, New 

 York or North Carolina. Its farming land 

 is as much as in the entire state of Wiscon- 

 sin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan or Georgia. 



We have a state with a mountain area 

 of that of all Tennessee, a grazing area 

 equal to all the area of Pennsylvania or 

 New York, and farms left to cover the 

 states of Illinois or Iowa. The mineral 

 wealth of this state of mountains is as yet 

 unknown, and new prospects open daily. 

 The grazing possibilities are being greatly 



increased in the grazing section, and even 

 much of the mountainous country has 

 abundant and rich feed in summer. The 

 agricultural region has yet to develop, but 

 sufficient has already been done to predict 

 a great future for the industry. 



With a state equal in size to Indiana 

 to supply gold, silver, copper and lead, 

 as well as building stone and coal, another 

 state equal in size to Pennsylvania to sup- 

 ply the beef, mutton, horses and goats for 

 the mining population, and a state equal 

 to that of Illinois to supply the grain, 

 vegetables, fruits and hay, Montana is an 

 empire in herself, capable of supplying all 

 her wants. Clothing from wool, wealth 

 from mines, grain and fruit from the fields 

 and orchards, houses from the clay, rock or 

 lumber, paper from the forests, coal from 

 the hills, implements from the metals, 

 gems from the mines, art in the peaceful 

 valleys and rock-ribbed hills, fiction in In- 

 dian lore and trapper's tale of privation 

 and suffering, poetry in nature, health in 

 the air so pure and dry, sport in the hills 

 or along the streams, all these make it pos- 

 sible for the citizens of this great empire 

 to find at home, in their own state, all the 

 essentials for modern civilized life, from 

 the wants of nature to the esthetic realm. 



Montana is a synonym for opportunity. 

 This great state has less than two inhabit- 

 ants per square mile. It presents to the 

 man of health, energy and industry, an 

 opportunity for successful business enter- 

 prise or professional advancement. Every- 

 where, on every side, there is opportunity. 

 The great upheavals during the past geo- 

 logical ages have made mountain chains of 

 great length and height, in whose depths 

 man has already found untold wealth, and 

 the hidden mineral yet unknown must be 

 the heritage of the children of the future. 



On the agricultural side what are the 

 prospects for the future, based on the re- 

 sults of the experiments up to the present 



