Elk Winter Range Problem Faces Officials
Montana game officials and sportsmen face a growing elk and wild game problem due to increasing herds and insufficient winter range. Forest service data show elk up 50 percent in 20 years with deer up and other species varying. lack of winter forage risks starvation and overbrowsing, prompting calls for herd reduction and range management.
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Montana
Treasure State
Hunting and Scenic Paradise
Forest Service
National Forest Lands
National Forest
Sun River
Flathead
Gallatin
Absaroka
Park County
Aures
Big Prairie
Flathead Country
Early Day Range Manager Eph H. Cowles Dies at 95
Eph H. Cowles, 95, died recently at his daughter’s home in Woodburn Oregon. A former Miles City region rancher and Concord Cattle Co manager in the 1880s, he ranged stock on Mizpah Lower Powder Yak region and Cottonwood Creek, Yellow Stone river, and the Tongue river Ash creek districts. A Civil War veteran and longtime member of the Montana Stockgrowers association, he helped shape early eastern Montana stockmen circles and remained in contact with old-timers after retirement.
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Eph H. Cowles
Chester Cox
Woodburn
Ore
Miles City
Montana
Cowles
Concord Cattle Co
Mizpah
Powder River
Cottonwood Creek
Yellowstone River
Com
Tongue River
Ash Creek
Park
Sweetgrass
Montana Stockgrowers Association
Eastern Montana
Old
Montana Stock Growers Association
Helena
Col. T. J. Bryan
Granville Stuart
W. C. “Craig” McDowell
Brandenburg, Mont
Oregon
Sidney Marks 50th Birthday Celebrated in Richland County
The article chronicles Sidney as Richland county seat in Montana after its 1888 post office founding. It notes its origins as a log store post office named through Sidney Otis’s boy, and outlines growth via irrigation canal 1910, sugar beet industry, a 1925 factory, and population rise to about 3,300. It highlights fattening lambs, two banks, theaters, a hospital, schools, churches, and the Bi-State exposition famed as the world’s greatest county fair with about 40,000 attendees.
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Sidney
Richland County
Maggie Crossen
Montana
Eureka
Hileman W. Otis
Otis
Walters
Buford
Glendive
Yellowstone River
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Record Wheat Car Loadings Set in Montana August
Montana railroads report 7,032 wheat cars loaded in August 1938, the highest on record since 1916 and well above 1937's 1,671 cars. The August total exceeds the 1929 record of 6,333 by 11 percent, reflecting the large 1938 wheat crop. Government estimates placed winter wheat at 22,050,000 bushels and spring wheat at 48,866,000 bushels at harvest.
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Montana
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Soren Jay Diamond
Injunction Continued Over Bridge Insurance Deal
A restraining order remains in effect barring the state from entering a $1 billion bridge insurance contract. The court extension keeps the injunction in place as disputes over tendering and terms continue unresolved.
Hobo tale links hijacking to young Ingalls death on Milwaukee line
Hoboes claim a Milwaukee freight train incident west of Miles City involved hijackers, a nickel plated gun, and a forced frisking of victims. They say Ingalls may have been an unwilling participant and was shoved from the car to his death. Authorities review the strange car and suspicious riders seen near Miles City as they probe the case.
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Keith Tapetie
Els
Milwaukee
Thebes
Sou Tana
Miles City
Brobb
Milwaukee Railway
Young Ingalls
Montana
Ingalls
Trans-Missouri
Milwaukee Road
Bone Ingalls
Athol
S. D
Forsyth
Melstone
Shanile
Harlowton
Ingalls Sivee
Northern Pacific
Billings
Bereta
Sanores
Miles C
Ingalls W
Milwaukee Road Division
Federal Surplus Commodities Corp to Buy Wheat at Full Loan Rates
The FSCC will purchase wheat meeting loan program eligibility at full loan rates. A state AAA official notes the provision assists producers eligible for loan but lacking storage. Wheat stored under loan is off the market while FSCC buys No. 3 or better grade wheat in carload lots from Montana elevators. Producers must obtain a price bet on full loan value from the elevator.
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Federal Surplus Commodities Corp
AAA
Borton
Triple-A
FSCC
Montana
Wildlife Seen From Luxury Trains on Uganda Rail Line
Passengers along the Uganda railway in East Africa glimpse herds of giraffes elephants zebras and antelope from the windows of luxurious trains.
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Uganda
East Africa
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Deaconess School
Lions
Bobby
Charley McCarthy
Willy Welch
Falls
Willy
Helen Piper
Edgar Bergen
Bergen
Marie Louise
Anson Weeks
Treasure Island
San Francisco Bay
Daughter
E. H
Eph) Cowles
Good Housekeeping Bureau
Montana Hardware Co
Butte
Great Falls
Mont
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