Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of Agriculture Labor and Industry of the State of Montana

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Excerpt from Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of Agriculture Labor and Industry of the State of Montana: For the Years 1911 and 1912 Montana lies between the lo4th and il6th meridians of longitude west of Greenwich and between the 4sth and 4oth parallels of north latitude. The western boundary follows the Coeur d' Alene and Bitter R'oot mountains and is irregular, in the southwest corner the line dips below the 4sth parallel and follows the main range of the Rocky Mountains, the northern boundary is along the 49th. Parallel and the eastern boundary the 104th degree of longi tude. It is bounded on the north by the Canadian provinces of Saskatche wan, Alberta and British Columbia: on the east by North Dakota and South Dakota, on the south by Wyoming and Idaho, and on the west by Idaho. Lts average length from east to west is about 535 miles, and its average width from north to south is about 275 miles. It is the third state in size, only california and Texas being larger, France and Germany is each only about one third larger. England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland combined have fewer square miles of territory, it. Embraces a greater area than all the New England states, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland added to gethe'r, and there are counties in Montana larger than some of the populous states of the Union. In this great extent of territory there dwelt when the census of 1910 was taken only persons, and the population may have increased to 500, 000 in 1912. Why does so. Small a population inhabit a'country that has more and better agricultural lands-than the state of Iowa and which com pares favorably in natural resources, save only convenience to ocean trans portation, to Great Britain and Ireland, to France and to Germany? At some time in the remote future Montana may support a population as great as is that of the United Kingdom at present, and even the thought of this possibility forces inquiry into the natural resources of the state and a com parison of them with those of other states and other countries. Speculations as to what Montana will be in the distant future will not here be indulged in, but the question may be asked why in this age of land hunger and rapid movement of population into new lands Montana had in 1910 only inhabitants when with inferior resources Oklahoma had and Iowa Agricultural production sustains the population of these two great states, yet Montana has more and better farm lands than either. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.