Resources of Montana . s upon a royalty of 5 per cent of the value of the production and the annual pav-Iment in advance of a rental of $1 an acre, the rental paid for any one year to beicredited against the royalties as they accrue for that year. The permittee is to belentitled to a preference right to a lease for the remainder of the land in his pros- |*pecting permit at a royalty of not less than 12% per cent of the value of the , oil shale and sodium are to be taken from the public domain in thesame general terms that apply to coal, oil and gas. Each lease is to be fo
Resources of Montana . s upon a royalty of 5 per cent of the value of the production and the annual pav-Iment in advance of a rental of $1 an acre, the rental paid for any one year to beicredited against the royalties as they accrue for that year. The permittee is to belentitled to a preference right to a lease for the remainder of the land in his pros- |*pecting permit at a royalty of not less than 12% per cent of the value of the , oil shale and sodium are to be taken from the public domain in thesame general terms that apply to coal, oil and gas. Each lease is to be for nor 2,560 acres and is to run for 20 years. The person who takes a phosphate[lease will pay not less than 25 cents an acre for the first year. 50 cents an acre forthe second, third, fourth and fifth years, and $1 an acre for each year thereafter. The Montana Climate Temperature and Precipitation Widely Vary in Dif-ferent Parts of the State — Three DistrictsRecognized—Many Advantages Herefor Crop HAT is the Montana climate? No correct answer can be given tosuch a question because the state is 535 miles long and 275 mileswide and altitudes vary from under 2,000 feet to above 12,000 feetand in this vast region there are mountain districts and plains dis-tricts where climatic conditions are radically different. One partof Montana is adapted to the growing of fruit, another to corn;others are well adapted to a wide variation of farm crops and stillother districts are fitted only for the grazing of divide Montana into three districts, the mountaindistrict west of the main range, the central district about the main range of theRockies, and the plains district. Even within these districts there are wide the general features of the climate of Montana are perhaps best summarized inBulletin Q of the U. S. Weather Bureau, from which the following quotation is taken: General Climatic Features. Temperature.—The temperature va
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