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Rh The city is beautifully situated on both sides of the Missoula river. This has been truly called the Garden of the State, with fruits and flowers, fish and fowls, streams and rivers, tracts of timber and mountains. What more does a man want? And this section offers as fine opportunities, for mixed farming, as any place in my knowledge.

The long sunny days, together with the rich soil, produce very fine wheat, oats and other cereal products. Here are large flour mills, and the most extensive lumbering industries in the state. Also the best educational facilities, having the Montana State University, an up-to-date business college, and superior public schools.

It is an important railroad division headquarters, and the Sanitarium of the Northern Pacific Railway Company is located here. It is the junction of the