From Introduction: "This report covers the essential features of the asbestos industry, including occurrence, production, mining, milling, utilization, international trade, and marketing."

From abstract: This report describes a rectangular area of about 2,600 square miles in Chouteau, Hill, and Liberty Counties, Mont., adjacent to the international boundary. The area is a portion of the Missouri Plateau, a section of the Great Plains province, and lies between the Highwood Mountains, Bearpaw Mountains, and Sweetgrass Hills, of north-central Montana. The southern part of the area is drained by the Missouri River and its tributary Marias River, but the northern part is drained by the Milk River. These streams are trenched in narrow valleys several hundred feet deep. The land surface between them is a rolling plain interrupted by very broad, shallow valleys that probably were eroded during the Pleistocene epoch by large streams whose courses were doubtless diverted from time to time by the continental glaciers. These valleys are now occupied only by very small creeks.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 2532, 2-8-2, Butte, MT.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 5067, 2-10-2, Butte, MT.

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific (MILW) 1149, 0-6-0T, Miles City, MT.

A newsprint photograph showing the Northern Pacific (NP) 5107, 4-6-6-4 (Alco, class Z-6), Butte, MT.