The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-06-05
Continued from page one)
Villages Become Cities


Villages of yesterday are thriving
cities in 1924. Millions of dollar
worth of business are transacted
daily where a score of years ago
the voume of trade was measured
by a few dollars. Huge factories
have sprung up from the sage brush
Vast mining operations are tearing
fortunes of iron, copper, zinc ane
other metals from the mountain
sides. Forests are being turned in.
to lumber for new homes, industrial
plants for the steadily growing pop
ulation of the Northwest and other
sections of the United States. Mil
lions of tons of freight, raw ma
terials from the Northwest and
manufactured products from the
East, fill the thousands of cars
which dot the tracks of the great
railroad systems every hour of the
day and night.
The growth of the Northwest in
a half century has been remarkable
but still it has only begun. Ample
acres of fertile soil still are unde-
veloped. Mine and forest still hold
riches to be developed for future
generations. Progress has been
written in an epic of productive
achievement yet the story of the
growth of the Northwest Empire
still is in it's early chapters.
Indicative of the development of
the territory between Mississippi
valley and Puget sound and m
provement in economic conditions
during the last few years, when re-
verses produced by the emergencies
of the World wal have had to be
overcome, are recent official re-
ports of the Ninth Federal Reserve
District bank.
Trade Totals z Billions
The volume of trade in the North
west in 1923, as measured by bank
debts in nine principal cities, total
ed s7,495, 900, 900 which compares
favorable with $7,910, 100000 in
1919 and shows excellent gains over
the $685. 900, 900 total for 1919.
Wholesale sales increased 10 per
cent and manufacturing output, l02
per cent. Mining production more
than doubled and building expanded
by SO per cent.
Even a casual study of the vast
natural of the Northwest
IL 1u-.o+1oo that 1tG nT0-
ductivity has but been tapped. 1t
is a region of production RECORDS,
among which the most important are
made by the farmers. More spring
wheat, flax, rye, barley, potatoes,
ron ore and manganese are produc-
ID than in any other Federal he
serve district. The district ranks
-ourth in live stock production. 1t
6 second in the volume of all wheat,
,ats, flour, copper and silver pro-
luced and in the number of mllcn
.ows owned. 1t is fourth IN ra" !
WOOL production. {
Conditions of the past few years =,
not present the great economic ,
trength of the Northwest but IN :
Mite of the difficulties encountered /,
" the agriculture industry, the !
ecord shows that notable gains .
yere made in the Northwest farming !
ituation during the reconstruction
eriod after the cash of 1870. I
Without doubt the farmers position \
as steadily improved. +
Steady Increase in Income +
The income from the nine most !,
nportant crops in the Northwest y
as increased each year from 1921 =
!, 1928 in every state, except North j
.akota, in which state there was
severe setback in wheat in 1923, :,
Ut even in North Dakota the 1928 ;,
.op income was larger than IN I
321. Below are figures comparing :.
Ie crop returns at December lst .,
.rm prices for the years 1921 to =,
in the four states. Figures ~
lblished by the United States De- II
artment of Agriculture. COOS 81
or
1928 1922 1921 ~
inn. s265,212 $247,942 $182,57 ! !
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