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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1931
Page
4
Montana farmers expect to plant 1931 crops on about the same total land as 1930 with shifts among crops. They forecast increases in oats barley corn and tame hay while spring wheat and flaxseed acreage drop. durum wheat rises 15 percent and overall wheat may total about 3.7 million acres versus 3.913 million harvested in 1930.
Grace Stone Coates profiles Major Martin Maginnis, Civil War veteran and Montana promoter after whom Martinsdale is named. Born 1841 in New York, he served from Bull Run to Gettysburg, edited newspapers, built a political career as territorial delegate, aided fort and postal services, and helped establish Helena institutions.
I D O Donnell a noted Montana irrigation pioneer and farmer, born in Canada and long based near Billings, traced a lifetime of farming, railroad land ventures, and frontier justice. He introduced alfalfa to Montana and built the Hesper farm into a model irrigated operation while aiding settlement and development along the Northern Pacific route.
Activities will center in a district near Red Lodge Montana where fragments of dinosaur eggs, first found on the North American continent, were discovered last year. Groups from several colleges are expected to join the egg hunt led by Dr Glen L Jepsen of Princeton and aided by Dr J F Siegfriedt of Red Lodge. Dr W T Thom Jr of Princeton will also conduct research near the Wyoming Montana boundary.
The body of George Galahan, 60, of Twin Bridges, was found on a sandbar in the Beaverhead River four miles north of Twin Bridges. Authorities say illness led to suicide by drowning. No inquest will be held. Survived by his widow employed at the State Orphans' Home in Twin Bridges, a brother in Twin Bridges, and another brother with unknown residence.
Mr. O'Donnell, busy with garden produce and pumpkin displays at the fair, neglected the last Indian scare. At the Hesper ranch fall tasks engrossed workers as guards kept watch for Crow uprisings in 1887, leaving trouble to pass unnoticed.
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