Efforts to Push Flathead Irrigation Project Expanded
Flathead Irrigation association plans a fresh push for 2.5 million dollars to complete the Flathead irrigation project. James Herbert says about 4.5 million will be spent by year end with total to reach about 7 million if funds are approved for 1920. Officials and congressmen back the effort and a Washington visit will be organized.
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Flathead
Flathead Irrigation Association
James Herbert
Crowe
Myers
Evans
Herbert
A. P. Davis
Reclamation Service
Davis
Camas
Little Bitter Root
Irrigation Association
Stanley Scearce
George Beckwith
Joe Allard
Dennis Dellno
Malcolm McLeod
Harbert
Congress
Washington
Big Horn beet seed empire grows in Montana fields
Great Western Sugar company expands sugar beet seed production near Hardin Montana. The Alberta ranch, 1280 acres, and 520 acre Blair holdings plus 320 more acres support 100 Mexican workers harvesting seed yielding about 1500 pounds per acre. Two years to grow seed, about 500 dollars per acre, with 900 plus workers and 1000 acres seeded in Carbon and Yellowstone counties.
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Germany
Montana
Hardin
Great Western Sugar Company
Billings
Charles M. Blair
Alberta
Blair
W. B. McComb
W. Fe.warren
Loveland
Colorado
Ralph B. Mellice
Big Horn Valley
United States
Great Western
M. B. Wilson
Mellice
Carbon
Yellowstone
Alberta Ranch
Shave With Cuticura Soap Ad Promotes Skin Health
An advertising blurb touts Cuticura Soap as doubling razor efficiency while promoting skin purity, comfort, and health. It claims no mug, no slime, no germs, no waste, and no irritation even with twice daily shaving and notes the soap can be used for shaving bathing and shampooing.
Dozen Varieties Claimed From One Thoroughbred Hen
Audie Price a Ferguson county rancher claims to have perfected a process to produce a dozen distinct chicken varieties from a single purebred strain. He guards the method, with neighbors puzzled over whether eggs or birds are altered. Price returned from France last April and has produced 24 chicks from fewer than seven sitting. He asserts color variety includes white, black, yellow, brown, plymouth, mottled and more, even a dirt-colored strain hawk-proof. Equity elevators report 1919 profits and strong meeting turnout for next year plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audie Price
Fergus County
Burbank
Mr. Price
Price
America
France
Ferry Creek
Equity
W. M. Burlingame
Montana
American Society of Equity
Fargo
N. D
H. O. Folkestad
E. A. Tyler
Equity Co-operative Exchange
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Farmers thwart profiteers by buying standing hay in Minnesota
Cascade county farmers in Great Falls plan to pay one dollar per ton down and send 15 hay crews to Minnesota to cut and haul hay sold at actual cost. They have $4,060 to start and orders for 4,000 tons, financing via a local bank.
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Minnesota
Cascade’ County
Great Falls
F. E. MacSpadden
Montana
Farm Bureau
Chester C. Davis
M. J. Brander
State College
Bozeman
Urge Federal Control Of All Grazing Lands
Stockmen from thirteen north western states pressed Congress to place public grazing lands under the federal agricultural department. A Salt Lake conference yielded a near unanimous resolution to administer these lands similar to the forest service. Montana delegates and Prof. C E Arnett backed the move amid shifts in western stock industry. A Yellowstone reclamation plan for beach lands and river areas near Livingston to Billings was revived due to drought.
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Congress
Federal Agricultural Department
West
C. N. Arnett
Department of
Animal Industry
Montana State College and Experiment Station
Arnett
Salt Lake
Agricultural Department
Forest Service
Montana
Wallace Huidekoper
Wallace, Mont
Montana Stockgrowers’ Association
Dan Raymond
Sheridan
Dr. Donovan
Utte
C. E. Arnett
The
State College
Yellowstone
Thea
Livingston
Billings
Reed Point
United States Reclamation Service
Plentywood Man Victim Of Slick Real Estate Swindle
Gilbert Olson of Plentywood traveled to Minneapolis to start a real estate venture and fell prey to a pair of swindlers. After drinking with strangers who took $20 under false pretenses, Olson was jailed for intoxication and fined by a so called judge. The two con men were prisoners including Nate Davis. Olson served fifteen days in the workhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Olson
Minneapolis
Plentywood
Olson
Nate Davis
Davis
Convict Kenneth Dean Escapes In Ford Car
Kenneth Dean, a Deer Lodge penitentiary inmate treated as a trustee, fled in a Ford. He headed up the Deer Lodge valley but was pursued as authorities investigated the escape and its consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Dean
Deer Lodge Penitentiary
Deer Lodge Valley
Escape Ends With Return At Warm Springs
Officials learned of the escape and restrained the trouble subject at Warm Springs until guards arrived to escort him back.
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Warm Springs
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Wrixon & Agnew P. O. Box
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Big Horn County
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Spokane Union Stockyards
Spokano, Wash
Hampshires
RDS Shrops
Lincolns Cotswolds
Rambouillets
P. O
A. J. Knollin
First National Bank
Pocatello, Idaho
Berkshire
F. S. Cooley
Japan
South Sea Islands
Ethiopia
Timbuctoo
Great Falls Dairy Products Co
EX Xpress
Harold Somers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Blackfoot Land Development CO
Missoula, Mont
ELK Run Herefords
Elk Run Ranch
W. L. Welie
Moline
Beau Brummel
Don Carlos
Don Perfect
Lamplighter
Dale
Perfection
Beau Picture
March On
Beau Donald
Highwood
Frank Ledingham
Chicago
C. O. Robinson
Miles Dodd
Billy” Tormoehlen
Omaha
Albert Noe
Jim” Bush
J.E. Bush
Invincible
Leo C. Robinson
Chris Hansen
Sioux City
Lester L. Gravelle
Horace Hempstead
St. Paul
Gene” McAdams
Jim” Hunt
Kansas City
Jim” Reid
Charles F. Schriver
Steve Gainey
Homer White
James L. Wilfley
St. Joseph
Tom” McKee
H. C. Baker
Frank Jackson
Denver
Clyde Stevens
James Miller
Clay, Robinson & CO
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