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Population
132,159. Surface generally mountainous, especially in the west.
Along the three forks of the Missouri River, as well as
elsewhere through the State, there is much undulating prairie,
with a fertile soil. The Missouri River is navigable to Fort
Benton; the Yellowstone is also navigable. Perhaps nowhere else
are such advantages offered to the capitalist, mining operator,
stock-raiser and wool-grower as are here found. Very little hay
or winter foddering is needed, the stock feeding on the rich
grasses, and ranging all winter in the sheltered valleys. Of
agricultural staples, spring wheat, potatoes, butter, barley,
oats, and vegetables are the most prominent. The chief minerals
are gold and silver, of which large quantities are obtained.
Leading manufacturing interests are mining, lumber sawing,
quartz milling and stamping, flour, etc. A superior quality of
bituminous coal, in what is said to be one of the largest and
most compact coal fields in the country, is being developed
about fifty miles from Billings.
Since the issuance of our preceding
edition there has been the usual number of newspaper changes in
this and other States mentioned in this work. The several
industries throughout the State have largely increased, and in
every branch and direction show unusual prosperity.
We give a brief description in the
following pages of the several counties, with a tabulated list
of the newspapers published in each.
By County
Pacific
States Newspaper Index
Source: Pacific States Newspaper
Directory, Sixth Edition, Palmer & Rey Type Foundry, San
Francisco, 1894
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