Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tenth Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Industry of the State of Montana: For the Year Ending November 30, 1906
Even a cursory' study of present conditions and future prospects in Montana is sufficient to convince the most skeptical that the measure of suc cessful achievement coincident with intelligent industry is not excelled and but rarely approached by any other community on earth. The record of pres ent development, great as it now appears, will be looked upon in future years as crude and elemental. The production of precious metals is only begun. Agriculture and irrigation have barely passed the preliminary stages. The livestock industry is even now undergoing changes which will make the pres ent output appear ridiculous. Development of water power in almost un limited degree will work a revolution iii manufacturing industries, a field now sadly neglected. The building of new railroads and the extension of old ones will enable hundreds Of' prospects to become paying mines, develop agri cultural districts now idle for want of access to market, and create busy towns and cities in what is now a wilderness. Electric roads will supply transporta tion to thousands of prosperous'farms which in that time will be watered from the government irrigation projects, and the products of this pleasant toil will enrich the State and its people. Nature created Montana upon a broad plan, and there is enough and to spare, for a population ten times as great as that which now occupies its vast domain; nor does it require the gift of prophecy to proclaim the coming of this greater population. Preparations have been made for its advent, and it is even now on the way. New towns are being established, industries that have been mentioned, but scarcely hoped for, are being created and put into active and successful operation; land values are being steadily advanced as experience proves the soil capable of earning a large dividend upon the increased valuation; Government and State land known to be agricultural is becoming more difficult to obtain, and the various land offices report a volume of business hitherto unprecedented.
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