Wage boosts for Butte district miners and workers
In a Tuesday agreement after conferences led by Con Kelley of Anaconda Copper, wages rise to 5.75 a day for miners and mill workers, 6.50 for journeymen, and 5.75 for engineers and laborers. The contract runs to July 1, 1920, contingent on ratification. sliding scale abolished. jurisdiction disputes to be settled by the American Federation of Labor and involved unions.
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Butte
Tuly
Con F. Kelley
Anaconda
Montana
Swhith
Onyone
Carpenters
Don F. Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Kelly
Great ‘Falls
American Federation of Labor
Wilson Raises Wheat Price Guarantee in 1919 Order
President Wilson signed an executive order lifting the guaranteed wheat price to 2.30 per bushel to boost shipments from Galveston and New Orleans. A concurrent proclamation barred wheat and flour imports or exports after July 1 except under restrictions set by Wheat Administrator Julius I. Barnes to curb liability growth.
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Washington
Wilson
Galveston
New Orleans
Atlantic
United States
Julius I. Barnes
Valuation Update for Teton County 1919 Assessor Report
Assessor Otto Wagnildpublicizes 1919 assessed valuation growth in Teton county despite territorial losses. New full cash value rules apply to real estate, livestock, railroads, utilities, and various property classes with different percentage factors. Estimated county total may reach or exceed 26 million dollars with livestock and property figures showing shifts from 1918.
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Teton County
Pondera
Glacier
pHe
Otto Wagnilds
Supreme Court
Death of Mrs Harris in Choteau area
Mrs. Pamelia Harris, wife of J. K. Harris, died at her ranch west of Choteau on July 14 after a sudden decline. She was about 63 years old and buried July 16 in Choteau cemetery with services by Rev. W. D. Luther at Conner undertaking. She had breast cancer and recently broke her leg, cast applied days before death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pamelia Harris
J. K. Harris
Choteau
Conner Undertaking Establishment
W. D. Luther
County
Assessor Lundgren Visits On County Valuation Gap
Pondera County Assessor John L. Lundgren visited this week and told the Montanan that the assessed valuation of Pondera will be about three million dollars less than the current valuation of Teton County.
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John L. Lundgren
Pondera County
Teton
Willow Creek Oil Structure west of Choteau eyed for exploration
A visiting representative for a major oil firm examined the Willow Creek anticline twelve miles west of Choteau. Government and local geologists report a highly favorable oil or gas prospect with a five mile by one and a half mile area, requiring access to land and wells from one thousand to thirty-five hundred feet deep, at costs between twenty five thousand and fifty thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choteau
Willow Creek
Chateau
Southwest
Peebles Ranch
Teton River
Gray Ranch
Wyoming
Musselshell
Montana
Farmers meet on Burton Beach Irrigation ditches consolidation
Notice calls all farmers to attend a meeting at Farmington school house at 8:00 p.m. Thursday the 24th regarding the consolidation of the Burton Beach irrigation ditches.
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Burton Beach
Farmington School House
Resolutions Adopted By Chevalier Lodge No 12 Knights of Pythias
The Chevalier Lodge no 12 honors George Andrew Boutilier with resolutions noting his excellencies and value as a Pythian Knight. The lodge extends fraternal sympathy, to the family, and requests a copy of the resolutions. the lodge charter will be draped in mourning for thirty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chevalier Lodge No. 12
Knights of Pythias
George Andrew Boutilier
Dutton Excluded From Sun River Project Despite Petition
Residents of Dutton sought reconsideration of the Interior Department decision to exclude the Dutton unit from the Sun River irrigation project. The department replies no extension is possible due to prior eliminations, land entries, and limited funds. Funds are directed to the Greenfields Beach unit with potential future expansion, while the Sun River slope unit remains the planned next step.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dutton
Secretary of the Interior
Sun River
Secretary of the ‘Interior
Greenfields Beach
Sun River Slope
Financial Quake Felt in Allied Exchange
Heavy offerings of bills precipitated a violent break in English French and Italian exchange. Sterling quoted at 4.35 3 4 for demand and 4.36 1 2 for cables, down 3 1 2 to 4 1 2 cents from yesterday. Paris checks fell to 7.08 demand and 7.06 cables, with lives at 8.62 demand and 8.60 cables. The Montanan $2.00 per year.
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New York
Paris
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Harris
Allied. Exchange
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