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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1924
Page
5
John B. McLane of the Richie community in southeastern Montana has sold about 12 000 head of sheep after ten years in the business. He plans a year off and a trip to Australia to learn new methods. Nineteen carloads were shipped to the Crow reservation at his quoted price.
Classified page lists farms for sale with 200 acres near Spokane, 40 acres near Bitter Root Valley, and 2 acres lakeshore in Idaho. Also livestock for sale, poultry, hogs, sheep, dairy cattle, and a barber college ad. Several reader wants and apprenticeships noted along with mixed merchandise and irrigation land offers.
Drilling started Thursday near Wayne, a few miles southeast of Great Falls, opening a new Montana oil prospect hailed as the most promising in the northern formations. Crowds gathered at the McAnelly farm as operations began, with signs of complex folding and potential petroleum-bearing horizons across Riceville, Armington, Belt, Stockett, Sand Coulee, and Eden.
The Wayne structure in Montana near Wayne is projected as a high potential oil and gas trap. The Hager Stevenson Oil Company controls 20 000 acres with Twenty Dollar Bill Syndicate drilling a well at the Emma McAnelly farm location, expected 1000 feet to reach producing sands and a December 1 completion.
In Scribner’s magazine William Lyon Phelps cites Rev. F. Kurtz an Indian missionary who notes oxen in India still plow in teams of 18 in line. He argues Bible scenes gain clarity when seen in oriental farming practice and that Elisha’s twelve yokes were understood in the field.
Fort Apache Arizona, long a frontline site in frontier wars, has been converted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs into a model Indian boarding school for children of the Southwest. About 450 students attend the first term as war department abandonment occurred just over a year ago and a trained government staff leads the school.
M. Van Doren reports the Clark Fork valley beet harvest progressing well with no weather losses and strong yields. Bean crops show good care with larger acreage and favorable results. the best beet yield reported reaches 19 tons per acre.
Montana school children may win prizes of 60 dollars in two groups for essays on World Peace. The contest is led by Mrs. B K Bowman in Helena for the Montana League of Women Voters and the Montana Federation of Women's Clubs. Local clubs add prizes. information through school superintendents and ministers.
Cascade county poultry demonstrations won first second and fourth places in September state ratings. J. P. Canavan of Portage won first, Mrs. T. West of Great Falls second, and Mrs. George Oliver of Vaughn fourth. Canavan’s 115 White Leghorns laid 1,394 eggs averaging 12.1 per hen.
The Winston Brothers of St. Paul Minnesota completed the Forsyth to Colstrip branch line. The engineering department turned the line over to the operating department.
Alaska poultrymen use electricity to extend laying in the long winter night. A heated, air tight basement coop with electric lighting keeps hens laying during the dark months. Winter egg market runs about 58 000 cases with prices 75 cents to $1 per dozen, boosting profits along the railway belt.
A vintage ad urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup to soothe bilious constipated children. It claims a teaspoonful may prevent illness and warns to buy the genuine product with clear bottle directions for babies and all ages.
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