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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1916
Page
7
The author celebrates classified advertising as a timeless tool for matching buyers and sellers. It notes how today’s columns serve the same purpose once fulfilled by the peddlers of a hundred years ago, urging readers to read for hidden opportunities.
Advertisement notices listing multiple Montana land parcels for sale with prices per acre and ranch options. Includes 320 acres near Conrad with cultivation and irrigation, 1500 acres near Great Falls for subdivision, 2300 acres stock ranch, and various ranch holdings near forest reserves. References to Great Falls firms Fagan & McCutcheon and EBEOCIvy Co operative Association.
Wenatchee hotel trades value $200 monthly to Wilf trade port, listing Alberta property and city or ranch holdings in Wenatchee Washington.
Uncertain contact notes indicate Unksberg Er Givens Co of Great Falls Montana offers loans or financing for farms stock ranches and city property inquiries.
Estimates claim over 225 votes will be cast in the upcoming election with primary registration at 214000 and about 125000 not voting. F J H Engelden, director of the United States Mint, forecasts $400000000 more in foreign gold flowing to the United States.
The article recalls the early days of Montana sheep raising, detailing pioneers Poindexter and Orr driving stock into the state in 1865 1866 and facing wolves coyotes and hostile Indians. It notes range conflicts with cattlemen and dangers from trails to Musselshell valley aided by the Smith brothers and John Martin Smith.
Breeding or dairy heifers and other range cattle offered for sale by King Cattle Co. at Union Stock Yards St. Paul Minnesota. Prices available on request. Cattle tested free of charge. Purchases limited to responsible parties with satisfactory statements. Write or wire for information.
Charles Vaughn, a Montana homesteader near Highwood, built a 1160 acre farming empire by planting 400 acres to wheat over two seasons. After all expenses, his two-crop net totals $37,000 and his holdings include a new elevator and recent land acquisitions. He owns the land free and clear, with rising wealth from bumper crops and high prices.
Percy Rockefeller at the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Rail directors meeting forecast a friendless United States after the European war and massive financial disturbances as nations chase wartime gold. He urged conservation and foresaw widespread railroad electrification, noting Milwaukee already has 441 miles of electrified track.
The Three Forks Port Land Cement company, owners of the Hanover gypsum mine ten miles north of Lewistown, has awarded contracts to Rude & Searles of Great Falls for forty thousand dollars in buildings. Officials project one million dollars in improvements at the mines this year.
The Billings sugar beet factory has begun sugar manufacture. Harvesting started around October 1 with over 1 million dollars to be paid to local beet growers this season. First payments on November 15 cover 75 000 to 90 000 tons of beets at 6 to 6.50 dollars per ton depending on saccharine tests.
In non irrigated Gallatin valley fields Whitfield W Spain threshing yields show 15 000 bushels of Turkey Red on 400 acres about 40 bushels per acre and 3 300 bushels of Marquis on 100 acres about 33 bushels per acre. He also cleaned 18 300 bushels of Turkey Red and Marquis wheat.
Red Lodge reports that the Ohio Oil and Gas company has acquired Mid-Summer Oil and Gas, expanding holdings in the Elk Basin near Red Lodge. The combined value exceeds 3 million dollars and the Pittsburg closing occurred weeks ago, though the deal was not publicized.
John W. Dawson, deputy state examiner from Helena, traveled to Great Falls and failed to find lodging. After trying multiple rooming houses and hotels, he ended up in the city jail overnight with a dozen others seeking beds, illustrating how busy the town was that night.
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