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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1909
Page
6
News snippets report hospital and public health events, rail and road work, and business formations across Montana. Highlights include the Montana Western Railway construction, Bitter Root area land projects, Dunkard colony settlement near Big Timber, and plans for a Dry Farming Irrigation congress auditor ium in Billings.
Seattle May 19. Traffic officials estimate that at least 1,000,000 people will pass through Minneapolis or St. Paul during the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition period. They assign 400,000 to the Northern Pacific and 400,000 to the Great Northern, with 200,000 to the Milwaukee. The influx is blamed on the Northwest’s growth and the expo’s publicity, drawing colonists of a high grade from Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Montana.
From the Knollite Sheep Commission company of Kansas City a Montana sheep growers note discusses weekly ewe and lamb counts at gale and heavy Buffalo receipts, predicting market lows and eventual rebound. It notes a drop in prices for heavily clipped lambs and expects a market recovery in a week or two.
Clipped sheep sold today with prices down 10 from recent highs. Trade notes strong earlier in the week but demand weakened as hay fed Montana wool supply appeared thin. Feed lots emptying fast and a looming shortage if Colorado lambs do not arrive.
The Oregon Short Line announces daily special excursions from Dillon to Portland from June 10 to September 30. Round trip tickets cost 30.30 with a 60 day final limit and 30 days to go and return. Stopovers are allowed in either direction.
In Beaverhead County Montana the court orders all interested parties to appear June 5 1909 at 10 am in Dillon to show cause why the administratrix Carrie L Wetmore should not be granted an order to sell all real estate of Lavonia R Moore deceased. A copy of the order is to be published four consecutive weeks in The Dillon Examiner. Judge Lew L Callaway dated May 5 1909 First Publication May 1 1909
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