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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1924
Page
3
Classified style listing buyers sellers and notices across Montana Idaho Washington and Nebraska. Contains livestock markets meat buyers farms land for sale and rent opportunities plus equipment repairs and tax notice prompts. Names include Montana-based firms and national mail order style solicitations with contact box numbers and cities.
Montana's hydro power amounts to 2,749,000 horsepower with 14 private companies delivering 308,000 horsepower in state. The Montana Power company dominates development but 84 percent of capacity remains untapped for others. Electric power drives mining, railroads, urban industry and irrigation across 70 towns, employing over 20,000 and generating $160 million in products annually.
The World reports Theodore Morse, composer of Hail Hail the Gang's All Here, has died. Across the nation incidents include a deadly Seaboard Air Line collision near Cary, North Carolina killing seven. a Georgetown fire in Idaho that burned a mother and three sons. a duo in Sacramento who died by their own hand after poisoning. Beulah Annan acquitted in Chicago. a $200,000 damages suit in Los Angeles involving Jack Kearns. Supreme Court rulings on liquor in Indian country and butter moisture. a 15 year old confession in Maine. mob violence in Fort Myers, Florida. and Henry Ford's large Florida land purchase linked to a rubber industry push.
Collins denounces Garrett stories by making a hurried trip through dry land sections and skipping districts where prosperity prevails. The remarks attack press coverage and highlight regional contrasts in development.
A writer’s broad critique of Montana from a limited northern “triangle” view is challenged by a Dillon visit. Dillon’s livestock district shows recovery from 1919 20 drought, with no bank failures, strong commerce, and ongoing prosperity in hay markets and cattle, sheep, and wheat production.
The piece imagines how a writer like Mr. Garrett might have viewed Montana using a broader route through Beaverhead Big Hole valleys and the Judith Basin. It argues irrigation drives agriculture and notes 1923 Montana produced over 170 million dollars in new agricultural wealth, challenging his limited trip narrative.
Western Missoula reports 78 fires scorching nearly 22000 acres of forest. A new spectacle promises 40 ostrich races with jockeys, mostly Italians, in Berlin. Independent Kan Harley Etter pleads guilty to murder of his wife and baby in a barn fire and gets life. Tornado hits Johnson Station near Brookhaven killing eight and injuring 12. Chicago reports a bobbed haired bandit with two male accomplices robs a taxi, prompting surrender of $27.
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