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UNITED STATES : — MONTANA

output was valued at 574,111,000 dollars. The chief industries, with their capital, their wage-earners, and their output in 1910 were : —

Industries

Capital

Wage- earners

Output

Dollars

Number

Dollars

Slaughtering & meat packing

18,787,000

4,674

79,581,000

Flour and grist milling

■ 17,066,000

2,198

44,508,000

Foundries ....

20,870,000

7,443

19,975,000

Boot and shoe-making.

15,838,000

17,396

48,751,000

Lumberwork & planing mills

18,930,000

13,522

23.261,000

Bakeries ....

17,043,000

4,743

10,829,000

St, Louis and Kansas City are important centres of the traffic in grain and live stock.

In the State there were in 1910, 8, 082 miles of railway, besides 1,088 miles of electric railway track. The northern portion of the State is better supplied with railways than the southern. The principal lines in the State are the Missouri Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ; the St. Louis and San Francisco ; and the St. Louis Sovith Western. St. Louis is the terminal for the larger river steamers, and there is a heavy traffic between it and the Gulf of Mexico. The market for the grain and animal produce of the Western States is largely reached via Missouri.

There is a British Vice- Consul at Kansas City and another at St. Louis.

Books of Reference

The Reports of the various Executive Departments of the State.

Carr (Lucien), Missouri. In 'American Commonwealths' Series. Boston, Mass.

MONTANA.

Govermneilt' — The legislative power is vested in a Senate and a House of Representatives. There are 31 Senators, elected for 4 years in such a manner that the Senate is renewed to the extent of one half at each biennial election. The members of the House of Rej)resentatives, 85 in number, are elected for two years.

Governor. — Samuel Y. Stewart, 1913-17 (5,000 dollars).

Secretary of State. — A. M. Alderson.

The State is represented in the Federal Legislature by 2 Senators and 2 Representatives. For local administrative purposes the State is divided into 31 counties, and into 13 judicial districts. The State Capital is Helena.

Area, Population, Instruction.— The State has a total area of 146,572

square miles, including a water surface of 770 square miles, and a population in 1910 of 376,053. The Federal census results give the population as follows : —

Years

Population

Per sq. mile

Years

1900 1910

Population

Per sq. mile

1880 1890

39,159 132,159

0-3 1-0

243,329 376,053

1-7

2-6