Items related to Irrigation development in Montana
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Yellowstone Park and the Shields River branches. Red Lodge, the county seat of Carbon County, population 4,860, is an important coal mining town with considerable tributary. agricultural and stock interests. Big Timber and Columbus are the county seats of Sweet Grass and Stillwater counties, respectively. CLIMATE Table 21 gives the climatic data for the principal V/eather Bureau stations. The altitude varies from that of Mt. Wood, 12,430 feet, the highest peak in Bontana, to 2,700 feet in the Yellowstone Valley, giving a wide range of climatic conditions. The general season between damaging frosts varies from 80 to 135 days. Considering all stations, only 20 per cent of the years have an annual precipitation of less than 80 per cent of the mean. Only at Crow Agency has the annual rainfall been less than 10 inches for any year, three years out of twenty-seven having shown this result. As would be expected the range between the different stations is large. The average of all stations, exclusive of Yellowstone Park which is not in an agricultural section, shows 8.32 inches, equal to 54 per cent of the total precipitation, falling from April to July inclusive, and 2.35 inches. equal to 15 per cent additional, in August and September, a total of 10.67 inches during the crop season. The extremes in this respect are shown by Huntley with 7.25 inches and Red Lodge with 1.1.43 inches of rainfall from April to July inclusive. This seasonal distribution of rainfall is very favorable to agriculture. The average total annual precipitation is 15-.5 inches. STREAMS In relation to its irrigable area, both present and future, this section is among the best watered in Montana. The Yellowstone_ River rises in the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and reaches the Montana li...
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