Banker's Humble Beginning Sparks Montana Bank Empire
C. W. Greening arrived in Melstone with $4,000 in bank funds and a plan to open a bank. He slept in a lumber shed during a cowboy siege, built a tiny 10 by 12 banking room, and guarded cash until a safe arrived. By 1908 Melstone’s bank started with $3,430 and $2,257 in deposits, growing into a regional chain including Melstone Sumatra Vananda Ingomar and Jordan with Greening serving as founder and local leader.
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Melstone
Mus- Belshell
C. W. Greening
Tenderfoot
Midland Lumber Company
Grand Meadows
Minnesota
Ing
Morpheus
Express
Staccatto Collings
Greening
Bank
Red
Miles City
Sumatra
Vananda
Ingomar
Jordan
Muselshell
Melstone Bank
Frontier mining and Clark’s rise from Jeff Davis gulch
The old Jeff Davis gulch cabin marks the start of W A Clark’s fortune. Clark mined the placer diggings as a youth, helped organize the district, and became a recorder for the area. His later wealth came from United Verde in Jerome Arizona and multiple ventures.
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Clark Fortune
Clark
Judge Lott
Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis Gulch
Beaverhead County
America
W. A. Clark
United Verde
Jerome
Arizona
Jeff Davis Guich
Graham
States
Territory
Montana
W. Harvey
W. B. Perkins
Graeter
Guy Graeter
W. X. Clark
Pershing sawed off shotguns on Germans in early days
In Fort Assiniboine era Pershing as a youth encountered stagecoach threats from highwaymen who relied on a sawed off shotgun to guard gold dust shipments. The narrative also recounts Jeff Davis Gulch placer mining, local syndicates, water rights, and Judge M. H. Lott’s role in Vigilante lore within Montana’s early mining history.
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Pershing
Fort Assiniboine
Montana
Clark
Jeff Davis Gulch
Henry Lovewell
Beaverhead County
W. R. Vandruff
Judge Lott
M. H. Lott
Twin Bridges
Dorsett
Vigilantes
California
Highwaymen
Miners Court Divorce Leads to Impromptu Wedding Tale
Charles Beerher recounts an early Virginia City divorce in a miners court where a separation decree was followed by a hastily improvised marriage ceremony. A young lawyer argued for the wife amid poverty while the judge used a brief new law to permit the couple to wed.
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Charles Beerher
Virginia City
Aldergulch
British Consul Reports Wood Pulp Fiber Cellulon as Jute Substitute
The British consul general in Zurich notes the appearance of cellulon in Germany as an efficient substitute for jute and cotton. Swiss spinners monitor the development as cellulon, made from wood pulp, yields a very strong cloth sample.
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London
Zurich
Germany
German Crop Report Signals Early Growth and Labor Shortages
London reports from western and north western Germany indicate crops in the districts are three to four weeks ahead of 1917. Rye growth is described as luxurious and summer grain condition as satisfactory. Cattle are difficult to procure, and fodder is in poor condition. Farm labor shortages hinder proper tilling of the soil.
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London
Germany
Sawed off shotguns to be used by American forces in front trenches
Story describes a plan to equip U S troops with sawed off shotguns as an emergency weapon learned from Montana in Pershing's era. It claims Pershing has 10,000 such guns in American trenches and envisions close range effectiveness against advancing German shock troops.
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Montana
Pershing
Montana Livestock Producers Report Higher Yield This Year
A report to the Federal Land Bank of Minneapolis by H. F. Wessel notes Montana livestock producers face better conditions. One rancher reports a 95 percent increase in cattle quality this winter, contrasting with losses over 50 percent last year.
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Montana
Federal Land Bank of Minneapolis
H. F. Wessel
Ee Bide
Sel
Sulphur shortage threatens U S munition plants
At a senate hearing on mines and mining, evidence showed a sulfur shortage endangering munition industries. Unless action is taken, nearing completion plants will lack material and vital industries may suspend operations.
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Montana
Washington
Senate Committee On Mines and Mining
Submarine Destroyed by Depth Bombs in Mid Ocean
New York American sailors report eight destroyers convoying transports. depth bombs destroyed a submarine of the latest sapper type carrying six deck guns, some eight or nine-inch caliber, in mid ocean.
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New York
Port Said
Soaking Rain in the North Raises Hope for Harvest
Shelby county saw 1.5 inches of rain last week fueling optimism among farmers who have faced drought and risked their grain yields. If followed by more rain soon, a bumper crop seems likely.
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Shelby
Way for Sale Hay Scarce Lets You Save Money
Local ad marks hay scarcity and invites readers to contact B Nelson at 105 Central Avenue in Great Falls for requests and savings on purchases.
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B. Nelson
Central, Avenue, Great Falls
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Greening ‘and the Cowboys
Colorado
Senator Clark
Society of Pioneers of
W. B. Dance
Price
Hepwits
G. W. Stapleton
Ale ‘ Ae
Virginia
Great Falls
Tie Ce
Visite Als Crimmins & Peirce CO
Matai
Bostba
Mase
First National Building
Mont
C. E. Martin
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