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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1903
Page
3
The column lists pricing for local notices with 20 cents per line for first insertions and 15 cents for subsequent insertions. Business notices show 10 cents per line with 8 cents for later insertions. Advertisements have rates on application, with 5 cents per line for cards of thanks and obituary notices.
Fragmentary rail timetable note shows a No. 10 southbound departure at 4:40 a.m. with another entry at 4:03 p.m. and unclear train identifiers, missing full context and destinations.
Dillon residents and visitors list includes H D Summers from Wisdom, C M Eddy dentist, W B Briggs from Bedrock, and more. Mentions of homestead filings, wool shipments, horse shipping, cedar poles for Graeter Electric, and the Metlen hotel improvements. Shut down of Anaconda smelter affects local railcrew and coal traffic from Lima to Pocatello and Boise.
A prominent wool buyer, in an interview, says growers should not expect big prices. He notes that the market may be only as strong as last year, with Montana fine wool cited around 14 to 18 cents after transport and commissions. Coarser grades would sell for less.
John J. Jahnke files a contest in the Missoula land office against Mattie T. Reade's desert land claim for 320 acres in the Big Hole basin. He argues noncompliance and speculative entry. Hearing set before United States commissioner B. R. Stevenson at Wisdom on August 18.
James Kirkpatrick visiting from the Rattlesnake reports dwindling water in the creek as farmers clash over ditch heads. He measured snow near the head of the Rattlesnake and found it about a third below prior years, due to deeper snow in high lands and earlier melting on low lands before irrigation began.
The partnership of James and William Montgomery under Montgomery Brothers is dissolved by mutual consent. Each will conduct business in his own name and bear debts and liabilities he incurs. Wisdom Montana July 2 1903. James Montgomery William Montgomery. 2t. July 8th
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