Dividend Days in Cat Creek Field
Hover Syndicate declares a 24 percent dividend and promises April payments. five thousand dollars per acre paid for Cat Creek land. The 56 Petroleum, founded by Joe Baker, paid a 75 percent second dividend after a 25 percent first, signaling paid money back and two wells producing. The Cat Creek oil land fetched about five thousand dollars per acre for twenty acres, with local investors retaining several valuable acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hover
Cat Creek
56 Petroleum Syndicate
56 Petroleum
Joe Baker
Miles City
Montana
Northwest
Judith Gap
Hover-Schwartz Company
Colgrove
Cape
Manufacturer waits for better transport to move goods
Mr. Hover likens the delay to a manufacturer with full warehouses and eager buyers, while railroad facilities lag in distribution. He notes shipments continue to keep wheels turning while awaiting improved transport.
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Hover
Baby Born Aboard Olympian Train Near Harlowton
A baby boy born on the westbound Olympian train near Harlowton Montana to Mr and Mrs Dennis Tully of Taylor Washington. Dr Henry S Houghton and nurse J A Clason assisted. Passengers contributed 52 dollars as a christening gift. Baby named Harlow Monte Tully after the town.
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Harlow Monte Tully
Harlowton
Dennis Tully
Taylor
Wash
Henry S. Houghton
J. A. Clason
Fond du Lac
Wis
Harlow
New York
H. A. Allen
Montana
Montana Legislature Slices Through Tax and Governance Reforms
Review of the seventeenth legislative assembly shows consolidation of city and county governments to voters in 1922, new departments and licenses, and major revisions to irrigation, game, and school laws. Notable measures create a state purchasing department, a three man highway commission, and a state game commission while consolidating livestock bodies. towns affected include Boulder Deer Lodge Eureka Townsend Big Timber Chateau Fort Benton Wibaux Philipsburg and Ekalaka.
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Seventeenth Legislative Assembly
Cavanaugh
Silver Bow
State Purchasing Department
State Board of Examiners
Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry
Montana
State Highway Commission Organization
State Senate
House
Senate
Booth
Choate
State Game Commission
State Livestock Commission
Boulder
Deer Lodge
Eureka
Townsend
Big Timber
Chateau
Fort Benton
Wibaux
Philipsburg
Ekalaka
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Fifty-Six Petroleum
Highway Commission
Assembly
House Committee On Education
Livestock Sanitary Board
Veterans’ Welfare Commission
Ting
Powers of Trade Commission
Me Postum Cereal Company
Bete
Susa
Postum
Hasselquist & Borgert
Lewistown
P. J. Anderson
Winnett
Guy M. Ogie
T. E. Hegna
First Nationat
UANK
Mont
Elquist & Borgert
de Cenatn Fass
Eewistown
Crereesnes
Montana Syndicate
MCKEE
Granite
Butte
Gallatin Valley
Rockies
Northern Pacific Railroad
Montana Flour Mills Co
Great Falls
Bozeman
Eretay
Cat Creek Center
H. C. Blegen
Macdonald
C. C. C. Syndicate
H. J. Kelly
Register U. S
E. G. Ivins
Lewistown Democrat-News
Egend Orig
Par Creek Center Syndicate
Barton & Co
Bank Electric
Lewistown, Mont
Ana
Blank Barton & Company
CAT Creek Center Syndicate
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