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Moore

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A view from 1939:

MOORE, (4,165 alt., 288 pop.), proclaims its name on a water tank. Moore has a neat, prosperous appearance; its grain elevators handle the generally abundant wheat crops of the Rock Creek bench, which extends southward to the Snowy Mountains. The decline that came with the drought of the 1930's affected Moore less than many other towns.

Summer-fallowed fields in this vicinity often lose their topsoil during high winds in summer. From the northwest appears a great black cloud a hundred feet or more high that stretches across the entire basin. There is a scurrying of tumbleweeds, then a stinging blizzard blots out the sun, buries miles of fences and roads, stalls cars, and obliterates small ponds.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.