The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-10
ALL ABOUT THIS STATE
Summary of Facts Contained in
the Great Northern Bulletin.
A VALUABLE COMPENDIUM
Montana's Growth, Resources. Advan-
tages. Wealth and Many Other Items
Observation-Disclosures Glass OF
Men and Rich Minerals.

The Great Northern Railway com
pany has just issued an interesting
number OF its Bulletin. which IL devot-
ed exclusively to the state OF Montana.
In a summary OF facts about the state
the Bulletin has the following:
Montana produces wheat, corn. oats.
barley. fax. rye. buckwheat. rice. to-
bacco. hops. millet, sorghum, clover
and many varieties OF grasses: also po-
tatoes. turnips. beets, carrots. p%arsnips,
cabbage. pie plant. ~caulinower. lettuce.
celery. radishes. peas. beans, asparagus.
egg plant, squash. pumpkins. cucum-
bers and other vegetables, besides APP
piles. pears. peaches, plums, tomatoes,
melons. grapes. strawberries. raspber-
rles. g~ooseberries. blueberries. currants.
buffalo berries and other fruits.
She also produces horses, mules, cat
tie. sheep. hogs, poultry and bees with
their products. beef, pork, lard. NUT
ton, wool. butter, cheese, Eggs. milk
and honey.
Her natural resources include pre-
cious stones. gold. silver. copper, iron,
lead, tin, coal, petroleum, lime. mar
BILE. fire and brick clays. mineral paints.
building stone glass sand and large
forests Of m~erchantable timber.
S0e HAS TIldhN NdiAtAits VI ohN
small game-beasts and birds; many
kinds of food fishes and a long list OF
~fur-bearlng animals: has hundreds OF
different kinds of plants.
Her native grasses sun-cure into
standing hay. making II an ideal
country for stock-raising.
she has a climate where the mere
physical fact OF living is a pleasure;
has good water. and more OF IL in riv-
ers and lakes than all the other states
combined south to the Gulf; has pay
ing markets: fine school system; low
axes: has institutions for the care ~
the insane, deaf and dumb, the blind
and the feeble-minded: has a state uni
versity and private and denomination
al colleges: an agricultural college and
a state experiment station.
she has a superior class OF daily AMI
weekly papers: has a smaller per cent
OF miterates h any state east of the
Mississippi river. and more wealth per
capita than any other state In tn
union; she has unfailinC and unlimited
water power: Great Falls alone having
power for manufacturing limited only
by the wants OF the continent.
she has hot springs n health re-
sorts: and an intelligent, industrious
and peaceful people, who extend a
hearty welcome to newcomer
IL so vast and new and
has such varied riches-everything that
represents money-and yields them 50
readily to the willing worker that all
We ask is that o go n investigate.
She offers Inducements to the ener-
getic capitalist. manufacturer, miner,
stockraiser. farmer, cha and Ia
borer not excelled In any other part OF
the republic.
Montan has millions OF acres OF
agricultural, grazing, timber and min
eral lands open to free un
der the various forms Of federal law
The Bulletin tells in detail all about
the state, Its growth, resources, ad-
vantages. etc. in an alphabetical ar
rangement. a few of the principal Items
treated being the following:
There is an impression in the east
that the people of the Western states
are disposed to be lawless. The West
is the child OF the East. There Is
scarcely a community in the East that
has not sent to the West some of Its
intelligent. progressive and ambitious
sons and daughters, who are making
homes and taking advantage of the
opportunities of life so abundant in the
West. Hon Lee Mantle, of Montana,
i'm a speech in the United States SEN
ate. April 9. 1896, said in defense or
people OF the West:
I'm point OF intelligence and moral
worth. in their home lives, in their love
of order, in their social status. in their
civil and political organizations and
above all, In their answering loyalty
and devotion to everything that Is truly
American, they are the peers of the cit
liens of any other section OF our COM
mon country"
In further defense of the high stand
ing Of the people of his state the SEN
ator quoted statistics from the last fed
eral census. comparing Montana in
several particulars noted with five
Eastern states. as follows:
Percentage OF illiterates TO whole pop
ulati0n.