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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1920
Page
13
Notice to contractors from Brown's Quarry district inviting sealed bids for painting Blue Eyed Net School and outbuildings. Specifications from Maudley, clerk. Bids due by 6 p.m. on a stated date. The trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids.
Beaverhead county commissioners on July 13 purchased from FB Connolly of Billings the first automatic travel loader of the caterpillar type for state use. The machine will load trucks and gravel for road work in Dillon area and later in the Big Hole basin on the park to park highway. It can load yards of gravel daily and move on its own power, placing road materials at new points for county highways.
July 18 Dillon report announces the first shale plant operated successfully in Smallhorn canyon, 13 miles south of Dillon. Two shales and a fine gasoline grade are produced, with high phosphate residue for fertilizer. A 100 ton retort may be built this summer, plant running year round, capacity about 200 gallons daily, and oil suitable for flotation and lubricants.
Hay hands are being sought in Dillon Valley and surrounding ranches as first-cutting hay nears. Wages range from 39 to 4 per day with ample work. fishing parties report large catches along Beaverhead tributaries. County officials warn ranchers to flood-control rules and threatened arrests for tax noncompliance. Wool shipments continue while most growers hold for higher prices. Also notes a Montana road meeting with Idaho officials and local commission actions.
In the Third Judicial District of Montana Dear Lodge County the court orders sale of all real and personal property of Charles M Johnson estate upon petition by Harrington the administrator. A hearing is set for July 0th 1920 at 9:20 to determine approval of sale with publication in a daily newspaper. Also notices on probate of Martin Forkan will foreign will probate in Oregon and bids for school district additions in Anaconda. Employment ads and assorted real estate and rental notices appear throughout the document.
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