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the amount of copper produced annually, it still is first in the total 
amount produced. The total for the three leading States up to the 
close of 1913 is as follows: Montana, 3,214,775 tons; Michigan, 
2,759,721 tons; Arizona, 2,324,719 tons. 
At first agriculture flourished only in the mountain valleys, where ~ 
there was protection from the frost and the wind, and the plains 
portion of the State was devoted to the grazing of stock. Immense 
herds of cattle roamed the plains, and for a number of years Montana 
held first place in the number of sheep and the value of the wool 
shipped out of the State. Irrigation was finally undertaken in many 
of the valleys, and large crops of wheat, oats, alfalfa, and sugar beets 
are now being raised. The most recent change has been the influx 
of the dry-land farmer and the taking up and fencing of most of the 
land in the eastern and central parts of the State. This has mate- 
rially decreased the number of live stock, and in the sheep industry 
Montana has dropped to second place, Wyoming taking the lead. 
Dry farming has not been universally successful, but sufficient has 
been accomplished to demonstrate that it is feasible when rightly 
carried on and with sufficient capital to enable the farmer to tide 
over years of drought and crop failure. The most important crop 
in the State is forage, amounting in 1909 to-over $12,000,000. 
Probably few persons realize that the value of manufactured articles 
in Montana exceeds that of the output of the mines, but such is the 
case. The smelting and refining of copper are the leading industries, 
but the value of the manufactured product is not given in the census 
reports. It is, however, roughly the same as the output of the mines. 
Aside from the manufacture of copper, the leading manufacturing 
industry is that of lumber and timber, which in 1909 amounted to 
over $6,000,000. The values of the products of the State, exclusive 
of the copper smelted and refined, are about as follows: Manufactur- 
ing (1909), $73,000,000; mining (1913), $69,000,000; agriculture, 
(1909), $63,000,000. 
The country continues to be rolling to the valley of Beaver Creek, 
a tributary of Little Missouri River, on which is situated the town of 
Wibaux (we’bo), in the midst of an excellent farming 
Wibaux, Mont. district. Four miles west of Wibaux the railway 
sence Si feet. crosses the summit between the drainage basin 0 
: Little Missouri River on the east and that of Yellow- 
stone River on the west, and then begins a long de- 
scent down Glendive Creek to the Yellowstone. This valley was a 
famous hunting ground in early days, and the name Glendive was 
applied to it by Sir George Gore, an Irish nobleman, who hunted 
buffalo here in the winter of 1855-56. 
