The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-12-11
Euery Section Of Montana, Euery County, Offers Wonderful
Opportunities To Everyone In Almost Every Line Of Endeauor

the state. Gas in large quantities
has been found in half a dozen dis
triets, but the only commercial oil
field up to the present 1929 is
the Kevin-Sunburst in Toole county.
The elevation of the tillable areas
ranges from 1900 to 5000 feet. The
highest attitudes are upward OF To-
600 feet in the Glacier National Park.
The growing season is more than four
months in the eastern part and about
three months and a half in the west
ern part.
Northeastern Section.
Northwestern Montana is nearey
to exclusively agricultural in charac-
ter than any other district In the
state. Daniels, Sheridan and ROose-
welt counties, which occupy the east
ern part, aside from coal mining, are
devoted almost wholly to farming.
Most of the land south of the Milk
which occupy the western part, is de-
voted to stock raising.
Non-irrigated farming predomin-
ates, there being practically no irri-
gated lands outside of the Milk River
valley and the old Fort Peck Indian
reservation. Both of these are gov
eminent projects. Reclamation has
proceeded faster than settlement and
development in the Milk River val
ley, the lands of which have been
devoted chiefly to native hay and OPP
Grated in units so large as to preclude
diversified farming, though well
adapted to 1t. In the past year or
two a movement has developed to re-
duce the size of the units and bring
in farmers.
Production on non-irrigated land
in the three eastern counties makes
this the banner wheat producing dis
trict. 1t is the first in oats. Scobey,
in Daniels county, lays claim to being
the largest primary wheat market in
the world. The one-crop system has
prevailed since farming began, Is
years ago, but recently there has
been an increase in the corn acreage; |
dairying is developing, and other ev-
licences exist of a movement toward
Investigation.
The northwestern part of the dis
trict is handicapped by lack Of rail
facilities
Elevations, 1900 to 2,400 feet.
The growing season is three and a
half to four months.
Northwestern Section.
Lying on the Pacific slope side of
the Rock mountains, and enjoying
a climate that is tempered by its To-
cation, the northwestern district is a
of possibilities in tourist at
fractions, diversified farming and ell
ectrical energy. In it are included
Lincoln. Lake and Sanders
counties, and also the western half of
the Glacier National Park. Though
mountainous, many broad and fertile
valleys are found, and in Lincoln
county is found the lowest elevation
above sea level in the state.
numbering is the principal indus
try, more than half of the annual
cut of the state being produced here
Considerable fruit is raised. DiYersi-
lied farming is advancing with dairy
ng as n of the major activities
Both non-irrigated and irrigated
are followed. The largest
BODY of irrigated land is in Flathead
Lake counties. In every county,
however, irrigated lands are await
ng development. In Flathead, Lin
,oln and Sanders counties there are
llso large tracts of cut-over lands,
which, when cleared, are adapted to
agricultural purposes.
Some mining is done in the western
'art, and large deposits of good coal