Expansion plans for Cooke City Montana mining district
Plans to develop Cooke City mining properties hinge on a new Gardiner to Cooke City road through Yellowstone National Park. W D Marlow and associates spearhead the project with 12 engineers, paving a crushed rock route 57 miles long to connect Gardiner railheads to Cooke City mines. Trucks and fuel supply lines will support mining, with five ton trucks and trailers to haul ore. Multiple companies including Republic Mines and Transit, Mohawk, Western Power and Smelting, Glengarry, Yellowstone, and Wyoming Utah interests are expanding, awaiting next season’s production.
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Cooke City
Mont
Gardiner
Yellowstone National Park
W. D. Marlow and Associates
Tower Falls Station
Yellowstone Park
Republic Mines and Transit Company
Mohawk Mining Company
Western Power and Smelting Company
Glengarry Mining Company
Yellowstone Company
Wyoming
Utah
Marlow
Western Power and Smelter Company
Clarke’s Fork
Yellowstone River
Glengarry Company
Republic Company
Republic
Mohawk
Miller Mountain
Henderson Mountain
Butte News Notes Highlights Local Activity and Marriages
Rent planes from Orton Bros. and visits by agents mark daily commerce in Butte. A noted singer Dr. White Elk is to perform at Shortridge Memorial church. Detective Powell returns from the Big Hole Madison rivers trip. Union Pacific agents plan Salt Lake trip. Several marriage licenses issued in Butte. Roscoe Hall and Viola Fowler wed in Bozeman. Albert Vink’s death sentence fingerprints received by Butte police. Finger print work handled by Dillon’s Dr. Irvin and Butte officer Kimball.
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Orton Bros
Blossom
Pullman Company
Butte
White Elk
Shortridge Memorial Christian Church
Joe Powell
Big Hole
Madison Rivers
J. A. Reeves
Union Pacific
Henry Coulam
Salt Lake
P. O
W. T. Inch
Dillon
John E. Byers
Floral Boulevard
S$. Jacobson
Deer Lodge
Imma Caspas
Race Track
Gerald H. Parmenter
Alma Walker
Sheridan
Roscoe H. Hall
Viola Fowler
Bozeman
HK. H. Lingenfelter
Shortridge Memorial Church
Albert Vink
Beaverhead County
Wyman
Irvin
Hiram Kimball
Breen Recognized as Early Montana Labor Founder
Peter Breen who died Oct. 2 is cited by longtime labor members as a founder of Montana's union labor movement. In early Butte, two main forces emerged the Butte Miners' union and the Knights of Labor, with the miners' union founded by Witter.
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Peter Breen
Butte
M. J. Geiger
Woodmen of the World
Clerks’ Union
Peter Lgbreen
Brotherhood of Man
Union Labor Movement
Montana
Organized Labor
Butte Miners’ Union
Knights of Labor
Miners’ Union
Witter
Knights of
Memorial Day Orator for Woodmen of the World in 1909
The text notes a person served as orator for the Woodmen of the World on Memorial Day in 1909, reflecting active roles in fraternal organizations of the era. It mentions membership in both the Wiks and the Woodmen and identifies the W.O.W. event as Memorial Day.
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Wiks
Woodmen of the World
Skeeter on Nose Improves His Aim
In Woodsfield Ohio Charles Yockey a plumber warns about mosquitoes during hunting season. While hunting he swats a skeeter on his nose and accidentally fires his gun, causing a squirrel to fall. He returns home with both the squirrel and a swollen nose.
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Woodsfield
Ohio
League of Nations
Charles Yockeoy
Monroe County
Yockey
Jury finds no blame in Keppeler death in coroner inquest
The coroner inquest heard that Adolph Keppeler's car skidded and struck a street car on October 8. The jury found no one responsible, noting a fractured skull and other injuries as the cause of death. Witnesses described a lack of warning and erratic driving before the collision.
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Adolph Keppeler
Keppeler
Antone Lang
Albert Burley
W. J. Carter
M. L. Ballard
Man, 74, takes own life in hog pen in Reynolds Neb
Than Moore, a Nebraska resident for 45 years, chose a hog pen as his final resting place. He severed the jugular vein with a pocket knife after unsuccessfully attempting to cut an artery in his wrist.
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Reynolds
Moore
Nebraska
Forest Fire Loss in Deer Lodge Forest in 1920
In 1920 only 75 acres burned in the Deer Lodge National Forest with $50 damage and $600 fighting costs. Last year damage reached $28,940 with $19,841 in firefighting costs. Over 3,842 acres of timber damaged. frequent rains and better public fire prevention helped keep fires under control.
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Deer Lodge National Forest
Butte Forestry Service
Sengite Proposed as Safer Nitroglycerin Substitute
South American researchers announce sengite a new explosive material designed to replace nitroglycerin in mining. Early tests claim strong performance with improved safety, and the name derives from substitute explosive no glycerin.
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South America
Polish Salt Industry Faces Vast Unlimited Prospects
The salt industry of Poland has unlimited possibilities because supply is nearly inexhaustible. An authoritative article in Brzemysl i Handel estimates the salt supply at 10,000,000,000 tons, suggesting enormous future output.
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Poland
Brzemysl i Handel
Industry and Commerce
Minister of Industry and Ecommerce
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Gooke City
Women's Protective
Thomas Kilgallen
Daniel Brown
Pat Boland
James King
Butte News
Lawlor & Rowe, Rialto Bldg
Main
BR Uvau
Gibson
Oechusll's
Vick
Breen
LABOR
North Main
Skeeter
KF. W. Bacorn
Toiark
Edna Sidley-Brown
Eva Barrington
West Broadway
East Park
J. W. Duncan Foot
Department of Pedestry
University of Massachusetts
Phoenix Block
Miners Savings Bank
West Park St
Butte, Montana
Ennen
Everett
Ddell
W. Park St
Northwest
Russell-Chubb
Monroe St
Spokane
Wash
Yegen Block
Aer Tery
S. Montana St
L. L. Breitmayer
London
ED Rose
Jeweler
North Main Street
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