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656,500 acres is within a Federal irrigation scheme and projects more or less completed are to provide irrigation for 1,394,000 acres in the State.
The chief crop is wheat, amounting in 1911 to 12,299,000 bushels, and worth 9,740,000 dollars; oats, 21,165,000 bushels, value 8,446,000 dollars ; barley, 1,070,000 bushels, value 728,000 dollars ; flax seed, 3,272,000 bushels, value 5,890,000 dollars ; potatoes, 4,050,000 bushels, value 2,997,000 dollars; hay, 1,224,000 tons, value 12,240,000 dollars. Fruit is now very widely cultivated in the State, there were 1,500,000 Iruit-bearing trees in 1911. The raising of sheep, cattle, &c. , is a very important industry. Montana has more sheep and produces more wool than any other State in the Union. On January 1, 1912, there were 5,011,000 sheep, producing 39,830,000 pounds of wool, valued at 6,771,100 dollars. In 1911 the number of horses was 347,000 ; milk cows, 91,000 ; other cattle, 732,000; swine, 143,000.
The lumber industries of the State are important.
Montana has great mineral resources. Jn 1911 the ])roduction of coal amounted to 2,976,358 short tons, valued at 5,342.168 dollars; of copper, 271,814,491 pounds (33,976,811 dollars) ; of lead, 2,499 short tons ; of gold, 176,554 fine ozs., valued at 3,649,700 dollars ; of silver, 12,163,900 line ozs., of the value of 6,568,500 dollars. Other products are iron ore, zinc, tungsten, grindstones, corundum, mineral waters, and sapphires. In 1911, the total value of mineral output was 53,454,926 dollars.
The manufacturing industries of the State are prosperous. In 1909 there were 677 manufacturing establishments. The salaried ofiicials numbered 1,380. Their wage-earners, 11,655. The wages paid amounted to 10,901,000 dollars ; the salaries paid, to 2,054,000 dollars ; the cost of materials used, to 49,180,000 dollars; the value of output, to 73,272,000 dollars; value added by manutacture, to 24,092,000 dollars. By far the most important of the industries is the smelting and refining of copper, but details of copper and some other works are necessarily withheld. Of other industries the more important are : —
Industrie.s
Capital 1 ^^°^- ' ' earners .
Material used j
Output
Lumber and timber . . . ^ Car making and repairing .
Brewing
Flour and Grist ....
Dollars Number ' 8.544,000 3,106 2,912,000 1,913 3,040,000 246 2,559.000 105
Dollars
1,865,000
1,086,000
602,000
1,693,000
Dollars
6,334,000 2,811,000 2,440,000 2,175,000
In 1910 there were 4,702 miles of railway in the State, besides 81 miles of electric street or elevated railway. The telegraph lines had a length of 9,556 miles, and the telephone lines 5,384 miles.
Books of Reference.
Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labour, and Industry of the State of Montana. Helena, 1911.
Reports of the various Executive D«partjuents of the State.
" Montana." Issued by Publicity Departn.ent of Bureau of Agriculture, 1912.
