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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1934
Page
6
Federal program relieves stock owners by purchasing and shipping cattle from Sheridan County. Six cars from Grenora and eight from Dooley, with five or six carloads from Plentywood. Weekly quotas set at 2,000 then 1,500 and four appraisers expedite work.
Frantic bison and other wildlife escaped overnight as a forest and grass fire swept across the government reserve east of Dixon. The blaze threatened the Clark's Fork highway and the range fence, with flames seen along the Dixon Ravalli road for about two miles. Several thousand acres of range land and timber were burned.
Recent discoveries reveal that Lima predates Curzo in pre Inca days, establishing Lima as the older settlement according to archaeologists and historians.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics warns the sheep industry faces its worst drought era as relief plans to buy 5,000,000 sheep amid a potential 7 to 10 million dollar benefit are stalled by Comptroller General McCarl. Officials expect possible removals of flocks under federal relief, with postdrought implications for western sheep states and food distribution.
Montana Association of Future Farmers of America sent a delegation to Chicago to broadcast on NBC from the national farm and home hour. Participants included Bob Stewart of Miles City, Don Valton of Deer Lodge, and Ray Hall of Stanford. Duke Wellington and Henry Robinson led the group with H. Bennett as the guest speaker on soil erosion.
The second cutting of alfalfa is underway in the lower Flathead valley with a large crop. Ideal weather supports haying and the ongoing big harvest of wheat and oats. Several carloads of fine wheat are shipped weekly from Lake county to eastern and western markets. An excellent beet crop awaits harvest. acreage mirrors last year.
Ralph Wright aged 89 Civil War veteran and longtime International Typographical Union member died recently at Billings after a long illness. He joined the Michigan cavalry in 1864 and served in the south and against tribesmen until 1866 in Utah. He joined the typographical union in 1869 and remained in good standing.
B F Moore of Sheridan Wyoming arrived in Corvallis to study feed and possible winter relocation of his cattle and sheep. He notes drought burned his ranch and pasture and hay are scarce statewide. The bureau projects 1934 lamb sales up but 1935 wool output down and sheep numbers down. The muskmelon paragraph appears as a botanical aside.
Whistle geyser began eruptions at 8 a.m. August 4 marking the first since July 18 1931. Whistle’s noise was heard nearly a mile away as steam and water blasted the formation removing algae crust.
In northern Montana the Bearpaw mountains suffer drought as trout in streams die. Deputy game warden Leonard Clark notes Beav er creek and other upper streams run dry, with only middle sections still flowing. Rescue efforts are deemed too costly, so fingerlings may be raised instead. Relief crews have cleared springs to boost flow along main mountain streams.
Researchers from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography report seaweed reaching heights comparable to redwood trees and sea plants attaining about 300 feet, among the remarkable features found in the deep seas.
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