Billings Men to Build Refinery in Montana
Montana Refining company plans a Billings refinery with 1000 barrel daily capacity to process oils from Cat Creek Soap Creek Osage Devil's Basin and other Montana fields. The first unit, 40 acre site south of the NP tracks on the Yellowstone, should be operating by August 15 with trainloads of crude moving in daily.
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Cat Creek
Soap Creek
Osage
Devil's Basin
Montana
Montana Refining Company
Billings
Devil’s Basin
Hailstone Basin
Northern Pacific
Yellowstone
Economy Refineries, Inc
Northwest
Gillows
E. J. Meeke
Wyoming
J. Bland Catlett
Rudolph Molt
Rockwood Brown
G. H. Gillows
Los Angeles
California
Molt
Hailstone
E. K. Winne
Hoosier Oil Company
Joliet
Winnett
Weed Destruction Law Expands Roles For Officials In 1921 Act
The 1921 amendment to the weed law sets county and city weed commissioners to enforce destruction of Canada thistle and quack grass. They must notify landowners six days prior, may bill owners for enforcement costs, and penalties range from 25 to 300 dollars or up to three months in jail. The act also ties road-adjacent land to owners for penalties.
Montana Receives Over One Million Seed Loan for Drought Areas
W C Warburton reports Montana received 1 068 000 of a 2 000 000 seed loan fund aimed at drought stricken regions including North Dakota Montana Idaho and Washington. Hill County led borrowing with 168 000 while Greenfield notes wheat acreage near 1916 levels and favorable crop conditions though some damage from pale cutworm and grasshopper warnings in eastern areas.
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Congress
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington
W. C. Warburton
Federal Seed Loan Office
Charles. D. Greenfield
Great Northern Railway
Greenfield
Hill County
Valley County
Custer Survivor Maurice Connell Dies in San Diego
Maurice Connell, one of the last three Greely Arctic Expedition survivors and a veteran of Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Little Big Horn, died in San Diego at 69. He had been a federal weather observer since 1905 and was known to Montana visitors during winters.
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Maurice Connell
Arctic
Winfield Scott Schley
Custer
Seventh Cavalry
Little Big Horn
San Diego
Montana
Greely
Greenland
Grinnell Land
Great Polar Sea
Proteus
Cape Sabine
Schley
Connell
Texas
Arizona
Nebraska
Cook
Would Divide Montana to Make a New State
North Idaho Chamber of Commerce in Coeur d Alene votes unanimously to back establishing a new state in Northern Idaho. A commission, to be appointed by the legislature, would study feasibility and possibly include parts of Washington or Montana. A five member citizen slate will be recommended to serve on the commission. Washington The secretary of the navy commends Edgar Kneebone and Edwin Elting for life saving actions in rescuing Benjamin Foulke at sea.
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North Idaho Chamber of Commerce
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Herman H. Taylor
Sand Point
Washington
Montana
Secretary,of the Navy
Edgar ‘ Arthur Kneebone
Edwin Ray Elting
Secretary of the Treasury
Benjamin &. Foulke
Millionaire Cub Reporter Drives Westward Trek with Family
Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr a wealthy youth and his wife formerly Miss Rachel Littleton travel from New York to Washington then Vancouver in a car to spend summer at a lodge. Joined by Miss Minnie Littleton and John Brodix, Vanderbilt’s friend and former Columbia track captain, he travels as official pathfinder of the National Parks highway guiding a route east to the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vancouver
United States
Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr
Montana
Washington State
B.C
Rachel Littleton
Minnie, Littleton
John Brodix
Young Vanderbilt
Columbia
Vanderbilt
Pathf inder Vanderbilt heir photographs on street roof garden
The Pathfinder, son of General J Cornelius Vanderbilt, stands on a hotel roof garden for a photograph. He is a private in France and has written about the New York state legislature for the New York Times. He plans financial writing during his western sojourn.
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Minneapolis
Wile
Pathfinder
J. Cornelius. Vanderbilt
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
America
France
New York
New York Times
Sane
Wes
Fewer U.S. Cattle to Go to Canada Tariff Change
Fewer American cattle will graze on Canadian plains this summer, says A. J. King, U S customs collector, after a May 28 tariff on imports from Canada. The duty on cattle is 30 percent of assessed value, sheep tax 2 dollars for over one year and 1 dollar for younger, flax tax up to 80 cents a bushel, and wheat tax 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. King
United States
Dominion
Grain trade shifts as Canada-United States tariff rules loom
The article notes stockmen may return herds to Canada while Canadian farmers face tariff barriers. Bolder plans include moving grain to closer American markets and shipping back under supervision to avoid import duties.
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Canada
World War Veterans Urged to Claim Victory Medals
Major H. B. Keen of the United States army urges World War veterans to apply for the victory medal now distributed by the War Department. Many honorably discharged soldiers in the state have not received it, wrongly thinking discharge papers must be surrendered. Ex-soldiers only need to show papers and sign an application. keeps papers. Applications accepted at the adjutant general’s office in the capitol. Keen mails blanks to veterans outside Helena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Keen
United States Army
Keen
Adjutant General
Capitol
Helena
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U. S
Postum Cereal Co.Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
Bowes Structure Oil Company
George M. Day
Casper
Day
New York Oil Company
Curtis Bros
Standard Oil
Ohio Oil Company
Cashoma Oil
Big Muddy
Salt Creek
Leo Margules
San Francisco
H. B. Durham
J. W. Speer
Great Falls
North Bowes
Chinook
Blaine County
South Bowes
Bowes
Stewart & Wright
Lewistown
Stapleton Building
Wild Cat Territory
Fowler-Burkburnett
Burkburnett
HOG Creek Oil & Gas
Hog Town
Burk- Wagner
Wild Cat
Treasury Stock Offering
Metzner, Brown & Company
Stapleton Block
Treasury
Denver
Stapleton
Mont
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