Seer Claims Spot Where Mrs La Casse Is Buried
Professor August Olund of Butte says he has visions locating Mrs. Ernest La Casse’s body buried in a shallow trunk nine miles west of Anaconda. He offers rewards to recover the remains and plans to travel after snow melts to verify the site. He previously hinted at locating other buried bodies in Montana.
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Ernest la Casse
Anaconda
August Olund
Butte
Seer
Delver
Silverlake Road
Puckett
Irrigation Prospects Along the Great Northern in Montana
A Great Northern Railway folder details irrigated land along its Montana line. It lists 300,000 acres tributary to Montana projects including Milk River 97,000 acres, Lower Yellowstone 42,000, Sun River 40,000, Fort Peck and Blackfeet Indian lands, plus 85,000 acres in the Walier Carey project and other smaller ventures. The note adds 1921 crop data and explains crops, markets, transport, schools and towns served, with copies available from E. C. Leedy.
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Montana
Agricultural Development Department
Great Northern Railway Company
Great Northern Railway
Great Northern
United States Reclamation
Milk River
Nashua
Valley County
Havre
Hill County
Yellowstone
Dawson
Richland
Sun River
Cascade
Chateau
Teton
Fort Peck
Blackfeet
Walier
Pondera County
E. C. Leedy
Agricultural Development Ag
Northern Railway
Montana Students Offered Firestone Scholarship For Essays
Montana high school students may win a Harvey S. Firestone university scholarship covering four years of tuition and expenses for an essay on How Good Roads Are Developing My Community. Entries must be under 700 words and submitted by May 1, 1922 to high school principals. winners are chosen from the best three essays per school and reviewed by the University English department.
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Montana
Highway and Highway Transport Education Committee
George W. Lanstrum
Harvey S. Firestone
English Department
University
America
Washington, D. C
United States Commissioner of Education
Akron
Ohio
Katherine F. Butterfield
Weiser
Idaho
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
Garland Johnson
Bridgeport
W. Va
Season's Timber Cut Reaches 45 Million Feet as Log Drives Loom
Winter's heavy snow has boosted the season for loggers with 45 million feet of timber cut and vast log rafts along Stillwater Flathead and Big Fork lakes awaiting spring thaw to reach Somers Lumber mill. Camps on Stillwater and Big Fork close as Gardner camp near Tallys lake stays open until drive starts. Suppliers report 24.5 million feet cut at ten Henry Goods camps and Twin Bridges, eight million on Big Fork, and six and a half million on Flathead Lake railways waiting on ice for transport. Somers mill expected mid April with rumors of April 15 start.
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Stillwater
Flathead
Big Fork
Somers Lumber Company
Somers
Flathead Valley
Connor
McCrea
Bigfork
John Laux
Gardner
Tally’s Lake
Swan River
Ten Henry
Twin Bridges
Mike Meall
Flathead Lake
Spectacular Climb By Fireman For Fox Film Corp
George B. Schutty, a Anaconda fireman, climbed the 585 foot Anaconda stack for a Fox film, while two cameras filmed. Winds ranged from 25 to 40 miles per hour with gusts to 50 as spectators watched from the smelter. He unfurled an American flag at the top and described superb mountain views, noting the laddered ascent is perilous and requires rest breaks.
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Anaconda
George B. Schutty
Fox Film Corporation
Schutty
Shutty
Scutty
Minut
Surprise strike reshapes Kevin oil field power balance
The oil field around Kevin faces a wait and see period as independents hold large acreage while Standard subsidiaries were unprepared. Key players L C Stevenson, Gordon Campbell Syndicate, J B Rhoades, A Beardsley, Troy Sweetgrass, and Kalispell Kevin syndicate control blocks. Litigation between Campbell and Stevenson clouds further deals, delaying extensive drilling and development plans in the Sweetgrass arch.
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Standard
Campbell-Stevenson’ ‘Education
Kevin
Gordon Campbell
Great Falls
Tha
L. C. Stevenson
Lewistown
Sketches on Western History for School Rooms
These sketches highlight outstanding incidents in western history. They are valuable for classroom framing and will boost boys' and girls' interest in American history.
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Montana High School
Flathead County
Fox Corporation
CONDE
Barler & Company
Michigan Ave
Chicago
Russell
Charles M. Russell
Rocky Mountains
LA Verendryes
Captain Fetterman
Captain Gray
Columbia River
John Jacob Astor
Lisa
Buffalo
Missouri River
Jim Bridger
Great Salt Lake
Pony Express
Board of A
Cheely-Raban Syndicate
Fetterman
Missouri
Colum
Lisa’s Fort
Bridger
Salt Lake
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