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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1928
Page
7
A joint meeting of three sheepmen organizations at the Montana Woolgrowers Association office endorsed a bill to allocate a larger grazing fund from national forests to the road and school funds of states instead of the agriculture department general fund.
The Montana Pure Bred Sheep association and Rambouillet Woolgrowers met with officers and members to discuss grazing stock in national forests and the Smoot bill. The measure would return grazing funds to states for schools and roads and set up a five member arbitration board to resolve disputes between patrons and the government. Attendees included Peter Paully Deer Lodge Earl Sime Bozeman C Hi Arnett Dillon and others.
Stevensville, Feb. 17. Mario Feronato on the George Brooks ranch sold three carloads of grain fed beef to Ed Reed for 12 cents a pound live weight. Each steer weighs about 1260 pounds and the sale totals roughly 150 dollars per animal destined for the Wallace Idaho market. Reed recently bought four carloads from the Flathead reservation for shipment to the Armour packing plant in Spokane.
Helena Feb 21 Montana highway service totals 2824 miles with 78 permits in effect. Companies operate 137 cars for both freight and passengers. 29 freight only 24 passenger only and 26 combined. Freight lines use 50 cars over 957 miles passenger lines 42 cars over 142 miles and mixed routes 45 cars over 1763 miles.
The district expects about 100000 for beetle eradication this year with forest office cooperation from the Bitter Root forest district. The Big road via Dillon and Divide remains open only after mid May to June 1, and the highway project includes maintenance by the forest service through Bitter Root and Beaverhead forests.
Mary Mahelich wife of George Mahelich of Lima died Sunday night at the home of her cousin George Naysich in Dillon after returning from an operation in Butte and contracting pneumonia on the way. Funeral services were held at St Rose Catholic Church and interment was at Mountain View Cemetery. She was born January 26 1892 in Austria and came to Dillon in 1921 with her husband. She leaves a spouse two stepchildren four brothers three sisters in Austria two sisters in Kansas City and cousin George Naysich of Dillon.
Three cent gasoline tax receipts in Montana rose in the first 16 days of February. State board of equalization chairman James Hi Stewart reported $37,992.69 collected in the period, bringing January to mid February total to $110,810.48. The funds go to the state Highway Fund to be matched with federal aid for Montana construction and maintenance projects.
Helena reports Byron E. Cooney of Butte will seek the Democratic nomination for Montana’s 1st district seat held by John Evans. He cites advocacy for restricting aggressive armament expanding aerial defense and boosting farm relief in his campaign.
William Shufelt, Bond rancher, announces a public auction March 6 at Spur Ranch eight miles north of Dillon. The sale includes live stock, farm implements, hay tools and harness with 50 head of work horses among the livestock. The event starts at 1 oclock with a free lunch served at noon.
A farm sale offers eight McCormick binders and 48 percent wagons with grain tanks, four Superior grain drills, eight three bottom Oliver plows, gang plows and a sulky plow, harrows, harrow cars, a tandem disc, a lister ditcher, two gas engines, a grain elevator and a new McCormick riding cultivator. Hay tools include mowers, side delivery and sulky rakes, boats with nets, wagons with hay rakes, forks and shovels. Col. Luther Smith acts as auctioneer.
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