June 12, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 98 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Page S3359]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                  100TH ANNIVERSARY OF GARFIELD COUNTY

 Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I rise today to honor a ranching 
community, a community that knows the meaning and value of hard work 
and that truly embodies the spirit of the great state of Montana.
  Garfield County is 100 years old this year. After splitting from 
neighboring Dawson County in 1919, this group of homesteading pioneers 
voted to make Jordan its county seat and get to work doing what 
Montanans do best: making a living off the land.
  Ranching is a way of life out here, one that has sustained families, 
built communities, and contributed to Montana's rural heritage.
  While ranching and agriculture remain Garfield's top industries, the 
county is perhaps most well known for another export: bones.
  Garfield County sits atop the Hell's Creek Formation. Millions of 
years before European settlers built their homesteads and long before 
the Assiniboine and Crow tribes occupied the land, Garfield County was 
home to some of the most fearsome creatures ever to roam the Earth. Its 
Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops fossils are some of the best 
preserved, and most renowned, specimens ever discovered.
  Rexy, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex who now roams the halls of the 
Natural History Museum in New York City, was discovered just north of 
Jordan, and is just one example of the paleontological contribution 
Garfield County has made, a reminder of an ancient history long 
forgotten and discovered anew.
  The good people of Garfield County have much to be proud of. I rise 
today to honor them and to congratulate them on 100 great years.
  I know the next 100 will be even better.

                          ____________________