Wool Dealers Seek Contracts Across Pacific Northwest
Wool dealers press for contracts as spring clip sales lag across the Pacific Northwest. Prices rise over last year with Nevada noting 27 cents for Taylor and Jenkins clips. Utah and Montana growers resist bids, while Portland sees much activity. Breeders rush fall sheep to market due to high wool values.
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Pacific Northwest
West
Nevada
Taylor & Jenkins
Utah
Boston
Montana
Portland
Julius Kahn
Kahn Bros
Oregon
Montana Laws Delay New Statutes to Allow Printing
Helena December report from Secretary of State Alderson argues new laws should take effect 60 or 90 days after adjournment to avoid confusion. The auto registrar fund netted $82,640.67 in two years, with total receipts $88,768 and administration costs $6,127.33. He recommends creating a dedicated registrar of automobiles to separate this work from the secretary of state's office.
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Helena
Eqbamnm Phoaroon
AM. Alderson
Secretary of State
Montana Faces 1918 Deficit of 39 Thousand Dollars
State Auditor William Keating submits a budget showing Montana will end 1918 with a deficit of 39 676.38. Estimated expenditures over the next two years total 4 679 676.38 with income at 4 640 000. Legislatively the year 1917 costs 480 500 and 1918 480 800. judiciary 180 000 and 179 150. state institutions 1 552 827.50 then 1 485 000. building programs at the university and college total 255 000 yearly. miscellaneous expenses 67 000. legislature 160 000. Revenue comes from licenses 279 000 and insurance fees 190 000 annually. Keating recommends strict appropriations for several funds including banking, highway, game and fish, and land office.
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Montana
William Keating
S. W. Stewart
Executive Department
Judiciary
State University and Agricultural College
Normal College
Orphans’ Home
Retiring Officers Move To New Duties In Montana Office
The Attorney General Poindexter’s office closes today as staff take new posts. W. H. Poorman becomes judge next Monday with John J. Maguiness as court stenographer. Charles Wagner returns to Hamilton for practice then Scranton for eight months. J. H. Alvord heads to California with plans to return next year.
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Poindexter
Dan Kelly
8. W. Stewart
Beaverhead County
Dillon
W. H. Poorman
Judge Poorman
Lewis and Clark County
John J. Maguiness
Attorney General's Office
Maguiness
Galen, Kelly and Poindexter
Charles Wagner
Hamilton
Wagner & Taylor
Scranton
Wagner Firebrick Company
J. H. Alvord
California
Montana
Helena
Monthly Pay For Trappers
Government trapping program described by E. W. Nelson shows trapper salary of 116 dollars monthly and a system of territory inspectors. In the year ending Oct 31 1916 trappers captured nearly 30000 predatory animals including 576 wolves 21789 coyotes 2717 bobcats and 43 mountain lions with vast poison campaigns also reducing numbers.
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E. W. Nelson
Biological“Survey
Federal Department, of Agriculture
Montana
Nelson
State Engineer Pushes Irrigation Area Estimates for Montana
The seventh biannual report by State Engineer A. J. Mahon urges a statewide effort to estimate land under irrigation and water actually used on Montana streams. He calls for hydrographic reconnaissance by drainage basins and a 1917 1918 budget of 12500 and 13600 dollars, aligning with U. S. Geological Survey data to support water rights adjudication and development.
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Montana
A. J. Mahon
S. V. Stewart
United States Geological Survey
W. A. Lamb
Water Resources Branch
C.S. Heidel
State
Educators Plan Legislation for Coming Session
Prominent Montana educators met in Helena to outline bills for the next session. They discussed county unit reform placing third class rural schools under a single educational and administrative board to improve supervision, a plan previously proposed but not enacted.
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Montana
Helena
State Legislative Assembly
State Teachers’ Association
Utah
H. A. Davee
J. M. Hamilton
Montana State College
Frederick Scheuche
The
State University
G. A. Ketcham
Missoula
John Deltrich
Teach
Population of Montana Tops Six Hundred Thousand in 1916
Montana's 1916 school census shows a state population of 648 446 based on 143 874 school age persons, an increase of 11 509 children and a 73 percent rise since 1910. The list names the ten leading counties and provides detailed counts for every county, highlighting Silver Bow as the largest with 66 262 residents.
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Helena
Montana
H. A. Davee
Silver Bow
Cascade
Fergus
Yellowstone
Missoula
Flathead
Carbon
Sheridan
Hill
Lewis and Clark
Notice to Creditors in Estate of Mike Penaluna
Notice is given by Quitman Owen, administrator of the estate of Mike Penaluna, deceased, to creditors and all persons with claims to exhibit them with vouchers within four months after first publication at his Dillon Montana residence. First publication December 27 1916.
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Mike
Penaluna
Dillon
Montana
Quitman Owen
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Lima, Montana
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