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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1925
Page
4
State Agricultural College at Bozeman leads a series of leading articles on Montana tillage methods funded by state and federal governments. The articles describe experimental findings and urge readers to preserve the material for future reference and study.
The U S land office in Kalispell will close on April 30 and transfer to Great Falls. It is one of ten offices nationwide affected by a smaller interior department appropriation, with further consolidations expected.
L. T. Kiinke of the Pioneer Mercantile Company was chosen president of the Whitefish Chamber of Commerce for the coming year. Henry Good remains vice president. Edgar L. Beard, former secretary, resigned and Charles C. Baldwin was selected as secretary.
Montana State College reports 2700 grain and forage seed samples tested at Bozeman seed lab. Purity averaged 93.3 percent and germination 79.1 percent, with wide variation across crops. Lab urges farmers to test seed before planting to avoid losses and guide hog, dairy and crop planning.
William Maxwell, state mining inspector, told the Butte University Club at the New Finlen hotel that Montana harbors vast Bessemer quality iron ore deposits. He cited Meagher and Cascade counties spanning 50 miles and extending toward Elk Mountain with potential for a major steel industry alongside copper and gold.
State Commissioner Chester C. Davis announced the 1925 Montana State Fair executive board: James Griffin Chinook Pat Carney Waterloo C N Arnett Bozeman James F B Keown Livingston Augustus Vaux Sidney W T Kuehn Helena and Fred A Parker Hamilton. Carney joins as 1926 addition and with Griffin forms the Sunshine committee guiding the show’s growth and standards.
The passage discusses post fall flock moves by G M Miles to a Tongue river range and credits John F Bishop with introducing sheep to the Beaverhead valley in 1869 or 1870. It notes sheep existing in 1868 in the territorial auditor's report, suggesting earlier presence elsewhere in Beaverhead county and nine sheep and goats listed in that report.
A mother cougar and two kittens were killed on the Nez Perce trail in West Fork country near Hamilton by Curtis Mattison, a hunter for the biological survey, with details from Lloyd Thompson. Mattison used dogs to treed and shoot the big cats after a two week hunt.
The report lauds the absorber of the board for his supervision of transport operations. Under his guidance horsemen, livestock and agricultural exhibitors have received attentive service and nearly flawless transportation arrangements.
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