Montana News Digest 1924 Local Highlights
State convention picks Butte-Boston for the Independent Order of Good Templars biennial session. Burglars steal 29 tires and five chains from Monarch Mercantile. Henry Salsburn fined 50 dollars for campfire in Idaho. Dr Frank B Wynn dies in Mount Siyeh climb. Six Rutledge logging camps burned with 10000 dollars of wooden flame lost. Railroad strike risks crop movement to markets. John J Kinney electrocuted at Anaconda smelter. A O Nelson jailed for assault on two 16 year olds. Montana could rely on 1500 trucks for grain if strike worsens.
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Butte
Boston
Independent Order of Good Templars
Grand Lodge
Great Falls
Bob Gordon
Monarch Mercantile Company
Monarch
Missoula
Henry Salsburn
Sand Point
Ida
Glacier Park
Frank B. Wynn
Indianapolis
United States
Mount Siyeh
Rutledge Lumber Company
Helena
Northwest
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Anaconda
Billings
A. O. Nelson
James Holmes
Everett Patterson
Nelson
Holmes
Montana
Chester C. Davis
West Cat Creek field deep tests eyed by oil men
C E R Palmer of the Winnett Times notes two deep tests planned in the west portion of Cat Creek field. L B Devereaux will drill a 27006 foot hole near the Big Six and the Oiltana test two miles west of the current gusher area. Palmer says successful results could open independent lands and spur Montana exploration.
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C. ER. Palmer
Winnett Times
Cat Creek
Palmer
L. B. Devereaux
Devereaux
Winnett
Montana
Nature
Bonded Montana Adjusters and Local Classifieds
A Montana advertisement section lists Helena Adjustment Co offering bonded services with National Surety Co of New York and $15,000,000 resources. It also includes a scammy personal ad seeking marriage with promises of confidentiality and wealth, urging readers to respond to box numbers in Oakland and San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
National Surety Co
New York
Helena Adjustment CO
Helena, Mont
Resources of Montana Highlight Vast Wealth and Growth
Harry R. Cunningham portrays Montana as the treasure state with vast mineral wealth copper output and oil fields. He cites record crop yields and electric power leadership while urging agricultural development and self sufficiency for future prosperity.
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Montana
United States
Kansas
Montana Power Company
Ringling structure to host one of world’s highest oil wells
The Mid-Northern plans to drill a Ringling structure well at about 7000 feet elevation, ranking among the highest oil wells worldwide. It will contrast with the California offshore well, starting in Montana’s Kootenai Formation and beneath the Cat Creek field source.
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Ringling
California
Montana
Kootenai
Cat Creek
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West
Cat Creek Field
FWO
Montana Newspaper Association
Doash & Greenfield CO
Butth, Mont
Good Poultry Co
Mut
Golden Melon Farms
Greenacres
Bartlhett
Crawford and
Elberta
Crawfords
Elbertas
First National Bank
Wenatchee
Wash
Frank Westerfield
Chelan Falls
LHARN
Morse
Wireless
Butte College
Albery Teachers Agency
Peyton Bidg
Spokane
Poe
K-23
Real Falls
Mont
Assaxers
HTO
Lewis & Waleker, Assayers
Wyoming
Butte, Mont
Boz
Oakland
Calif
Budd
San Francisco
C. D. Birch
Chadhbourn
Edwards & Bradford Lumber CO
Elk
Washington
Fergus Co
Poland
China
Wm. Huck
Karinen
S. D
Donald Livestock Co
Melville, Mont
Silver Black Foxes
H. A. W. Jacobi
Fort Benton
NINH
Inquire of Co
Gandlitz
Joliet St. Helena
Jordan Lawler Co
Dept. M
Conrad Banking Company
Altman-Taylor
Jestrab Broa
Havre
Afont
NASH
Neverslip
Big Timber
BON Ton Puy. Co
Rookery
Economy
M.N. A—Wk
S. C. Huseth
Optician Optometrist and
Optician
Harry R. Cunningham
National Editorial Association
Montana Life Insurance Company
Cunningham
Union
British Isles
New England
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Chicago
Richmond
Kevin
Middleton
Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Vancouver
Victoria
North Pacific Coast
Alaska
Glagier National Park
L. B. Woods
A. G. BF
P. A. Helena, Mont
Chas. Doherty
Booh
Great Falls, Montana
Great Northern Railway
Greenfield
Ford Building
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