Spirit of Friendly Montana Reaches High at Dudes Ranches
The Dude Ranchers association highlights Montana and Wyoming ranches as bastions of Old West hospitality. About 12,000 guests yearly spend 3 million on outings with 200,000 spent at local businesses. Members, largely livestock, cooperate on wildlife and grazing issues while welcoming international visitors and promoting western traditions.
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Montana
Dude Ranches
Montanans, Inc
State Chamber of Commerce
W. C. Nye
Dude Ranchers Association
Wyoming
Nye
Canada
France
Australia
Hawaii
China
Fish and Game
Forest Service
National Parks
Biological Survey
Larom
A. B. Smith
Northern Pacific Railroad
I. H. Larom
Valley Ranch
Valley
Wyo
C. C. Moore
Dubois
Paul van Cleve Jr
Big Timber
Kirby Kittee
Omaha Daily Journal Stockman
Kittoe
Eaton Boys
North Dakota
Wolf
South Dakota
Fog Horn Clancy
Helena Mining Fraud Promoters Attract Montana Crowd
Two men posing as ore experts visited Helena Montana claiming a method to extract gold from low grade ore and revealed a mill scandal built on carted sand. They capitalized a million dollars then vanished. Investigators found flour gold used in their chemical process exposing the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmons
United States Mint
Professor Emmons
Helena
Montana
Last Chance Gulch
Colorado
Jena
Montana Lets Spring Load Rules Cut Road Repair Costs
State Highway Engineer D A McKinnon says early load limit enforcement this spring reduced damage from thaw and runoff, cutting repair costs and keeping traffic moving. A mobile weighing crew will patrol Montana roads under a new year round law aligning with 11 western states to prevent overloading and protect highways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Highway Department
D. A. McKinnon
Highway Department
McKinnon
Bing
Western States. Check Commercial Carriers the Highway Department
Montana
Highway Patrol
Highway Division
Helena
Montana Exhibit At San Francisco Fair Praised
Montana'sTreasure Island display in San Francisco drew positive attention in a Chronicle feature. The interior recreates a Montana ranch, with log furnishings dioramas of Glacier National Park and alpine scenery, plus artwork by Irving Shope. The piece highlights Montana hospitality and outdoor wonder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
San Francisco
Treasure Island
San Francisco Chronicle
Great Mountain State
Charles Russell
Paxon
de Camp
Russell
Glacier National Park
Lake
Josephine
Irving Shope
Ashes Scatter Over Mount Powell for Montanan Couple
Pilot Hank Hollenbeck flew a Western Air Express plane over Mount Powell to scatter the ashes of Helen and Hilda Conley, wife and husband Frank and Helen Conley, long known in Deer Lodge country. Their daughters accompanied the pilot on the flight.
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Western Air Express
Mount Powell
Helen
Hilda Conley
Hollenbeck
Location Selected for Bridge at Warland
A forest service engineer an assistant Great Northern division engineer the forest supervisor county commissioners and surveyor met at Libby and chose a 650 foot steel bridge site over the Kootenai river at Warland The structure will replace the long running ferry and connect Highway No 37 Work will start after high waters recede and be finished within the year
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
Great Northern Division
Libby
Kootenai River
Warland
Who Built First Smelters Facts Veiled in Mystery
Edward B Reynolds outlines Montana copper smelting history from crude arastras to the rise of Anaconda Great Falls and Butte. Early ores were shipped to Swansea then Colorado and Meaderville before Montana smelters advanced, shaping the state’s mining prominence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward B. Reynolds
Montana
Anaconda
Swansea
Wales
Colorado
Butte
New York Copper Co
Meaderville
Boston & Montana
Bell
Warm Springs Creek
Marcus Daly
W. A. Clark
Clark
Colusa
Boston & Montana Co
Montana Central Railroad
Missouri River
Black Eagle Falls
Great Falls
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West
Argentina
Julia Bennett
Association
Diamond
Tom Whited
Hereford
Ore
Metolius Lodge
Dude Ranch
Bill Haney
Camp Sherman
H. P. Ranch
Frank Ewen
Shell
Lazy E. L. Ranch Corp
William R. Mackay
Roscoe
A. J. Hogan
Fred J. Topping
Elk
Old Raintuck
Walter G. Aller
McLeod
Rising Wolf Ranch
Albert Trenkle
Glacier Park
S Bar S Ranch
Mitchell Brothers
Cameron
7 L
June Roe
Monida
Trapper Lodge
D. Goodwin
J. W. White
Deep Canyon Ranch
Chateau
Walter C. Nye
United States
Stéphen E. Emmons
War Department
Lew T
Rana
Rocky Mountain
State Nursery and Seed Co
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