The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-02-16
MoNTANA's PRoDUCTIvENEss.

II kSOHie ElSufeSlN fSeEefEHce 70 IhS ase sun
i Derived Annually From Her Grain Field
and Stock Ranges.
| Montana is destined to become on,
OF the greatest agricultural states O
America. It's climate, soil and native
products of grass are alone sufficient
to assure this. ffia st st4lff
The growing season is short and
generally SO cool that our people never
suffer with heat, either day or night
yet nature has SO wonderfully provided
that crops grow much more rapidlythan
| in the southern latitudes, and are lis Il,
ally ready for the harvest before frost.
and yields as small a per cent. of in
Jured grain as any portion Of the grain
growing region of the northwest. Its
average yield per acre ecllpsss any
portion Of the continent, and the quail
itys OF its product also stands high.
The harvest of 1883 Welded 745, 500
bushels of wheat, an average. Of about
thirty bushelsrperr acre; and 1.614,000
bushels Of oats, an average of forty.
five bushels, to say nothing of minor
crops, such as barley, potatoes, ETC.,
which run up into the hundreds of
thousands of bushels, but it is very
small portion of our agricultural
wealth, and in fact our tillable lands
constitute but a very small portion Of
our available area. II Z iigli Ias l9g =
Our pastoral area outnumbers our
tillable lands at least ten-to one. and
ourlive stock products, constitute the
bulk of our agricultural wealth. There
is. in our tertiary to-day 500 head
of horses, worth at a low estimate
$2.237 900; E5s254 mules, worth IS l57.-i
32Qa 2l.0OO mulch cows, worth $780,
600; and 1913 head of stock Cattle.
readily worth $ll 1851, $3.50, making a
total cattle valuation of $l2,691 800,
There are also in Montana 527,-
440 head of sheep. the cash value
of which is fully $I.5S2. 800; yielding
an annual prophet 2.637 900 pounds of
wool, which last year brought the
growers an average of 20 cents per
pound, making total of 1897 400.
But this is not the only product of ur
sheep industry. as about 10000 NUT
ton sheep. which have brought lis an
an annual Income of $4,000 have
gone forward. Our beef herds have
also yielded handsomely. Thlrty-iiye
thousand beeves have been sent to
the eastern cities, and all of $4,000
have been sold to Indian agencies and
railroad construction. making the
round number Of $4,000 head, which5
brought, on our range. from $40 to
$48 per head. thus giving the country
a revenue of between two and tive
and a half million dollars.
1t will be seen that. aside from real9
estate, the husbandnlan of Montanaj
a cash valuation Of S14,-
3II3,0l2, and hence 1t will appear that |
our live stock Interests are bringing1
tile territory the handsome income of |
nearly three million Year. This
loes not include what is consumed at
nome. and consequently does not any
hing like reach the value of our pro-
luct. lii addition to what is sent
abroad, alarge number of beeves and
mutton sheep are consumed within
,ur borders. Therefore, if we were
o osestimate the total value of our real
state and live stock, it would be inn
nense. The summary of our grain.
'egetable and dairy product, together
With the beef and mutton. used in the
'erfitory, would show an annual pro-
uctlon that would indeed be fatter-
ng-n n tfsss Afs
But the simple showing Of amount
rought into the country through the
eofnanry Is creditable, yet we are notf5
pause here's -Our stock industries
ERE never on better footing than
ow- Our ranges continue 10 hold out
ell westilL enioy favorable winters, !
nd onr herds and flocks will multiply
.ch year, thereby increasing tire !
ool and beef axportsIflsa corresponds 4
g ratio. Husbandniail.
The Northern Pacific Land Grant
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Il J
euld be drawing very hard lines in j