Resources of Montana . f Irish descent, and the second composed of sympathizers with the Con-federacy. Old time residents of the state assert this second tide of immigration waslargely composed of the left wing of Prices army. Disappointed gold seekersturned to agriculture in the valleys that were adjacent to the mining camps, but notuntil 40 years later did the real agricultural growth of the state begin. Virtually allof eastern and northern Montana were left to the Indian and the buffalo until theseventies. Southern cattlemen by then had discovered that the luxuriant wild grassesof the prair
Resources of Montana . f Irish descent, and the second composed of sympathizers with the Con-federacy. Old time residents of the state assert this second tide of immigration waslargely composed of the left wing of Prices army. Disappointed gold seekersturned to agriculture in the valleys that were adjacent to the mining camps, but notuntil 40 years later did the real agricultural growth of the state begin. Virtually allof eastern and northern Montana were left to the Indian and the buffalo until theseventies. Southern cattlemen by then had discovered that the luxuriant wild grassesof the prairie region of Montana not only made excellent beef, but that the northernclimate made Texas steers that had reached their maturity in the southern countrystart growing anew. So the trail herds started and founded the cattle range indus-try in Montana. In the late eighties sheep husbandry obtained a foothold. Outside ofmining, live stock raising grew and continued to be the chief industry of the state LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. Western Montana Poultry House until after 1900. That year settlers began coming in to take up homesteads on thecattle and sheep ranges. Their success attracted others and the tide of immigrationgrew each ensuing year until it reached its crest a decade later. Agriculture in thepast decade completed the transformation of the state that was begun by the golddiscoveries of the sixties. IVew Epoch Beginning. Now virtually all the good raw land has either passed into private ownership orhas been filed upon. Montana is now entering upon a new epoch, the developmentand upbuilding of these new farms on the one hand, and the development and utili-zation in industry and manufacture of its farm products, its live stock husbandry, itsminerals and oils and forests, upon the other. That portion of Montana lying east of the crest of the main range of the RockyMountains was part of the Louisiana Purchase; that portion lying west of the crestof the main range was in the Oregon a
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