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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1913
Page
2
Reading notices list prices for local column ads at 20 cents per line for first insertions and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Business locals are 10 cents per line for first insertions and 8 cents per line thereafter. Standing ads rates available on application.
Local items include business visits from Gilman L. Camp of Billings and Dr. F. H. Bimrose in Dillon, a Yeamans book store event, and a mid summer shoe sale at City Shoe Store. The column also notes farm sales, straw and wood ads, stray horses, and community notices from residents and officials.
State Engineer A W Mahon compiled Montana county creation dates to map water right records. The list shows nine counties born February 2 1865 including Beaverhead Chouteau Big Horn now Custer Madison Missoula, with many others created through 1913 and name changes such as Edgerton to Lewis and Clark in 1872.
Readable fragments list road directions and times with numbered routes. No. 1 West Bound and No. 3 North Bound appear with a 2:12 p.m. time, while No. 2 East Bound and No. 4 South Bound show 8:30 p.m. and 2303a respectively.
Big Hole officers request help locating John Frederick McKenzie sought by his mother in Reserve Mines Cape Breton and James Graham last heard about Wisdom a year ago with a companion named Charley Ball 5 ft 8 in 145 lbs black curly hair. Fred W. Dickey dies at Ralston's noon buried at Divide owner of Basin ranch survived by sister in Providence and brother in California.
Butte Miner quotes Bill Chapman describing the lure of gold from Butte to Nome. The speaker neglects ordinary life to chase a distant strike. He yearns for wild landscapes, prospecting color in the pan, and the thrill of a new strike race.
The Anaconda Standard reports surveying for a proposed Butte Wisdom and Pacific railway beginning at Divide. Engineers W R Allen Charles E Miller and Chief Engineer Ober will lay out a 27 mile easy water grade to Ralston with a possible dam side route and future branches to Wise River and Elkhorn mining district.
Six counties file applications with the state highway commission for prison crews to work on state highways. Powell and Lewis and Clark counties receive first call to rebuild the old state road over the main range via Priest's Pass, with Gallatin, Ravalli, Beaverhead and Lincoln counties in order. A 60 to 75 man crew has since December built about eight miles on the east and west highways in Sanders county. a second 30 to 60 prisoner crew may be available this summer for the main range road.
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