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 CHAPTER IV.

Eastern and Southern Montana.

After remaining in Butte a short time, I went on to Billings, Montana. Arriving there I found the thermometer 28 below zero, which seemed a little chilly to me, as I had been on the Pacific coast for the last two winters. Billings is the largest and most prosperous city in Eastern Montana. The main industries are cattle and sheep raising. I will take this place up again.

At Red Lodge are situated the great Rocky Fork coal mines, owned and operated by the Northern Pacific Railway Company.

The town of Big Timber, which has not a tree within its limits (as one would imagine there would be by its