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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1919
Page
8
Tom Everett received 18400 from 200 acres of alfalfa and James Rannell earned 21200 from the same size block. Irrigated Milk River valley land is valued at 900 to 1000 per acre based on a 10 percent return, figures disclosed in annual reclamation service farm reports.
The Harlem Development association leads irrigation push to cover Chinook unit of the Milk River project. With St Marys water supply, Milk River valley yields rose as farmers report high alfalfa profits and plan expansion. Dredge work enlarges canals, new stock raises capital to 160000, aiming to water 3000 acres more next year. Farmers eye centrifugal pumps to flood high ground.
The Living Spring ranch near Billings, 240 acres, sold for 42 000 dollars at 175 dollars an acre. Judge James K. Goss recalled predicting land near Billings would reach 50 dollars an acre, a statement once ridiculed, as irrigation farms boosted value since 1900. The ranch, homesteaded in 1882 and bought by Goss in 1902, yielded 14 tons of sugar beets per acre in 1913 on 93 acres.
The annual report by Sidney Miller shows 159540.38 acres of state land sold in 1919 for 2501633.78 dollars. The average price was 15.58 per acre with Sheridan county at 19.18 and Blaine county’s largest sale of 31030.29 acres averaging 16.53. Big Horn had the lowest average at 10.83. Grazing land dominated sales, boosting overall value.
Thomas Campbell leads the Montana Farming Corporation and says 1920 will be Montana’s biggest farm year. The group leased 200,000 acres on Crow and Fort Peck reservations, planted flax and wheat, and plans 50,000 acres in grain with 10,000 flax next spring. Campbell notes 76 large tractors and high gas usage, aiming 1,200 acre plowing days and strong manning.
The advertisement touts Cuticura Talcum as an antiseptic and fragrant powder for face skin baby and dusting uses. It claims it perfumes and revives skin while rendering other perfumes superfluous as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio.
Ira Cole aged 90, a longtime employee of the government printing office in Washington since 1876, is believed to be the oldest active pressman in the United States.
Delco Light has moved beyond experiments through three and a half years of production and usage by 75,000 customers. Plants are in many homes, and neighbors can attest to its benefits. It pays for itself by the labor it saves and the tasks it eases.
Trade unionists in Chicago now number more than 5,000,000, a rise from 2,500,000 in 1914 as organized labor expands its footprint across the city and nation.
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