Remains of Old Village Found Near Glendive
Archeologists uncovered the site near Glendive in eastern Montana showing a circular earth lodge with 12 posts and a hard packed entrance area. The dig, conducted by the Montana archeological survey from 1937 to 1939, revealed multiple cache pits and bones suggesting a substantial village once occupied along the Yellowstone river bluff.
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Montana
Mandan
N. D
Glendive
Yellowstone River
Oscar Lewis
Billings
Thomas J. Hagan
Lewis
Montana Archeological Survey
Melville Sayre
Wahle Phelan
Archeological
Missoula
Pioneer publisher Sutherlin shaped Montana agriculture journalism
Robert L. Sutherlin an early Montana advocate of agricultural development and founder of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman died at 81 in Great Falls in 1926. Born October 23, 1844 in Booneville Missouri he moved to Diamond City in 1875 where he published the paper, later moving to White Sulphur Springs and then Great Falls. He guided irrigation advocacy and agricultural coverage as Montana’s oldest continuous publication, from placer mining days to modern farming.
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Robert L. Sutherlin
Sutherlin
The
Rocky Mountain Husbandman
Great Falls
Missouri
Booneville
Harriet Hall
Chicago
White Sulphur Springs
Hal
Montana
Rocky Mountain
Diamond City
M. T
Northwest
Montana Territory
Husbandman
Meagher County
Diamond
Montana Bar
Confederate Gulch
R. N. Sutherlin
Yam Hill
Uldia
Timberland
Butte
Trapper
Hismark
Hoover City
Kan Kan
Diamond City and Confederate Gulch Riches in Montana History
The article recalls Confederate Gulch as a premier Montana placer district discovered in 1864, fueling Diamond City’s rise as a boom town by 1865 1868. Montana Bar yielded extraordinary pan values up to 1000 dollars, with shipments of gold valued in the hundreds of thousands. Diamond City and surrounding gulches prospered briefly before a rapid decline around the 1880s.
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Helena
Virginia City
Bannack
Butte
Montana
Confederate Gulch
Montana State
Diamond City
Idaho
California
Montana Territory
J. X. Beidler
Beidler
Fort Benton
Benton
Montana Bar
Nome
Alaska
Sutherlin
P. P. Thomas
Montana Post
J. Despeck
John & Metcalf
Smith & Burchett
Oro Fine
Montana Placer
Mr. Sutherlin
New York Gulch
Brooklyn
White’s Gulch
Cave Gulch
Diamond
Last Chance Gulch
Bell New Secretary of State Livestock Credit Association
W A Bell of Spokane former Helena assistant secretary treasurer has been elected secretary treasurer of the Montana Livestock Production Credit association to succeed the late J E Murphy John Arnold of Birney president announced. Bell with 21 years in agricultural financing and banking previously ranched in Wibaux county before World War I.
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W. A. Bell
Spokane
Helena
Montana Livestock Production Credit Association
J. E
Ed) Murphy
John Arnold
Birney
Montana
Bell
Production Credit Corp
Production Credit Association
Northwest
Montana Association
Wibaux County
Cooking tips and a brine shrimp survival note
The text explains searing liver on high heat to seal in juices then lowering the heat. It also records a brine shrimp in the embryo stage surviving six months inside a sealed glass tube without air.
What To Do If You See A Plane Crash
An eyewitness guide from Lieutenant Donald M Wilson at Fort Benton covers immediate actions after a crash. Notify civil and military authorities, form a rescue party, note details like time, weather, serials, and avoid photos while coordinating with Great Falls base and local responders.
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Montana
Donald M Wilson
Great Falls Army Air Base
Fort Benton
Wilson
Great Falls
Cut Bank
Glasgow
Lewistown
Army Air Base
Care of Farm Machines Vital During War Era
O W Monson of Montana State College urges farmers to protect their equipment as 1943 farm machinery output falls to 20 percent of 1940. He recommends winter covers, storage away from buildings, oiling exposed parts, painting surfaces, supporting platforms, clearing dirt, loosening springs, and dry storage of canvases to prevent damage from snow and rain.
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War Production Board
O. W. Monson
Rural Engineering Department
Montana State College
Monson
Sugar Production Outlook From Department of Agriculture
Increased production expected for both sugar beets and sugar cane compared with last year. Beet crops projected at 12,784,000 tons and sugar cane 1,073,000 tons for sugar and seeds, with beets up 24 percent from 1941 and 4 percent above the 1940 record. Acre yield forecast 12.0 tons, compared with 13.7 last year. State forecasts list beet yields and production for Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and California.
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Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Michigan
Nebraska
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
California
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Sittin Bull
Charles M
United States
Montana Newspaper Association
Great Falls, Montana
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