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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1906
Page
2
A government report shows 18 718 578 horses in the United States on Jan 1 1906 up from 17 057 702 in 1905. The past year added 1 660 876 horses with a valuation rise of 310 579 886, while total horse valuation exceeds cattle by 181 929 505.
R F Young of the Montana weather bureau issued the February snowfall bulletin. General snow in western and southern MT. none in the northeast. Feb ended with heavy falls in some western and southern areas and light or below average in others. Drifts at 5000 feet and above range ten to thirty feet, generally compact. Outlook for water in streams improves over last year.
Union Pacific orders division officials to raise freight train speed from 50 to 35 mph. Western wood growers push for a 20 mph minimum while Casper and Denver associations send resolutions to railways. Sheepmen withdraw a thirty six hour bill clause, woolgrowers plan talks with railroads for safe livestock runs.
Miss Elinor Meehan completes an oil portrait of the Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull. She has painted life-size heads of noted warriors and is at work on watercolor studies, aiming to paint living Indians perhaps at a reservation during the summer.
Transactions recorded from Pearl I Smith title books include deeds from Joshua Bennet to Maggie Courtney for a Thompson Avenue lot in Dillon. a quit claim from Gerhard Albera to the United States for 40 acres of beach land near Dillon. and multiple adjoining mining and placer interests near Bannack and Dillon.
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