State gambling taxes - which is 15 percent of all gambling revenues - shot up almost 38 percent in Eastern Montana's Carter County, near newly-developed oil fields along the Montana-North Dakota border, according to state information.
It's the same story all along the border, said Gene Huntington, administrator of the Gambling Control Division in the state Department of Justice. Some oil producing counties along the Hi-Line are also seeing surges in gambling reve-nues.
Statewide, gambling revenues were slightly ahead of last year, but dipped briefly in the three months of January, February and March.
Huntington said some have theorized the drop-off was due to higher gas prices, not necessarily a looming recession.
Gaming revenues recovered in the spring and summer, Huntington said, fed, perhaps, by national economic stimulus checks that began been showing up in mail boxes.
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