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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1900
Page
11
The article notes a frost like August day in Butte with persistent chilly wind and scarce sun. Citizens report heavy coats, coal fires, and bleak hopes for summer warmth as businesses anticipate cold and ice. Weather Clerk Wharton doubts sun return. campers plan for winter. merchants display heavy goods while wood haulers prepare for mountain trips.
A leading Montana stockman predicts the era of open range has ended as drought tightens grazing. Cattlemen must corral stock in summer and secure feed and pasture in winter to survive.
A compilation from Great Falls lists visitors from Butte Helena Cascade Belt and Big Timber and others, including Julius Stull becoming a citizen, licenses granted for marriage to William Garrett and May Hopkins, and arrangements for wool sales and telephone office moves. Several parties plan trips to Two Medicine Lake with cedar boats shipped for fishing.
The Northern Montana Office of the Standard is located in the Bach Cory Block in Great Falls opposite the Park Hotel. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
The Spirit of St. Peter, John Snoddy, arrives at the Standard office and pitches a new religion claiming it could end China's war in 30 minutes. He demands a broadcast speech, a bodyguard, and mentions a cipher telegram from the Prince of Wales. The scene ends with the spirit departing toward Riverside Park, promising further publication.
Shortstop Schmeer of the Butte team is hospitalized with suspected typhoid fever after a month of illness and poor play. Dunleavy also faces fever risk, while Hurlburt of Great Falls rests at home under doctor care. Menefee remains injured, reducing the Indians' outfield strength and effectiveness.
The Great Falls wool exchange season ends soon with buyers remaining an extra day to bale and ship purchases. Prices ranged from 2 cents to a top sale of 50 pounds to Judd & Repole v Hartford, averaging around forty cents, with total sales near 7.4 million pounds and consignments pushing ledgers to about 9 million at Great Falls.
Montana wool buyers report the season’s clip as the poorest in years due to open winter dust and water shortages. Despite heavy weights, prices are lower with some high quality bales fetching strong bids while many clips fail to attract bids. About 150,000 pounds traded with care on shipments to Boston and Hartford firms as markets tighten and baling wire runs short.
Wool prices stay fully sustained as buyers restrict purchases to necessary lots and demand immediate delivery. Dealers gain the upper hand with the market firmer after the closure of speculative laws, clearing the atmosphere and prompting a tougher stance from dealers.
In Billings on August 10 wool sales were smaller than yesterday as buyers plan to close next Wednesday. H W Child consigned 125000 pounds to Fiske and Co. D F Slayton sold 30000 pounds at 14 percent to J Koshanid and D Hagerty. Other lots included 10000 pounds at 8 cents to R Watkins and 16000 pounds at ½ cent to Hecht Liebman Co.
Regional wool prices and licensing entries show spring wools from Nevada and Eastern Oregon and fall wools for mountain lambs around Humboldt and Mendocino. Listings include western regions with licenses and price ranges in Aug sales notes.
The Havre Eagle reports that Great Northern railroad employees in Choteau county hold poor tax receipts from Valley county, implying possible lapses by Chateau county officials. It notes 1277 Great Northern employees taxed in Chateau county this year and questions if more workers exist in Valley or Teton counties.
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