Bitter Root crop returns over a million to growers
MISSOULA Bitter Root valley is upbeat as over 1000 jars of sugar beets and hundreds of potato jars head to market with more than 0 cars of apples. The beet sugar crop is the largest yet, aided by late rains. Northern Pacific runs two extra trains to move produce. Apple prices are modest but valley fruit brings good value and optimism among orchardists. Over $1,000,000 is due to Bitter Root farmers from their crops.
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Missoula
Bitter Root Valley
Dreath
Northern Pacific
Two Old Phosphate Plants To Reopen At Andaconda
Anaconda Copper Mining company will resume normal phosphate operations at its Cowla Idaho plant and restart the Anaconda facility mid month. Workers recalled as demand from western states rises after stock reductions and a July 1 shutdown at the Conda property. Production to continue through winter into summer if orders stay strong.
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Conda
Anaconda
Itinerant Travelers Obliterate Stock on Rail Lines
Northern railroads report hefty losses from transient workers riding freights looting stockyards and stealing cattle sheep and veal during the summer season. Shortages appeared in bills of lading as wanderers moved toward warmer coast regions, with Pacific and Southern lines likely to see further losses.
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Northwest
Northern
Streamlined Cars to Replace Present Highways
Within a decade streamline design will create faster travel as highways give way to super highways. Joseph Ledwinka, an automobile designer, predicts touring speeds of 70 miles per hour and says streamlining reduces wind resistance so future cars glide along roads with less drag.
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Joseph Ledwinka
Ledwinka
Notable Visitors and Residents in Dillon This Week
A stream of visitors and locals appear in Dillon from diverse areas including Polaris, Point of Rocks, Lima, Dell, Melrose, Big Hole basin, and Bannack. Attendees report cattle sales, auctions, and business matters while families travel to Pasadena for winter. A wedding and a hospital admission highlight the week.
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Jack Brown
Dilon
C. E. Blinn
John Beat
Manchester
Iowa
Frank Baldwin
Dell
William Gleed
George Joe
Lew Ford
Paul Martinell
Bells
Dillon
W. M. Stewart
Oscar Grave
Honday
Joe Metlew
Uke Davis
Horse Prairie
Henry Tallent
P. Wilson
E. D. White
Fiettnoon
Santa Ana
Calif
Claya Wampler
Big Hole Basin
Smith McKnight
Florence Dunham
The
Normal College
Kalispell
Eddie Hoerning
Beaverhead
Hickman and
Horton
Elk Park Road
Sheep Creek Basin
Percy Willey
Frank Tate
Melrose
Bayers
Lyman Bennett
Virginia City
G. Fassler
Ralph Streb
Carl Becher
Sam Ditty
Big Springs
Idaho
Emmett Carroll
J. W. Finsley
QO. A. Spannuth
Wisdom
Sam Robison
Butte
G. L. Sewell
Clyde Edwards
Madison
Inez Burley
Lebanon
Roy Herndon
Frank Little
Oregon
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George Pyle
Polaris
Frank Sawyer
Lorenzo Cushing
Sarah McConnell
Pasadena
Andy Forsyth
Centennial Valley
John Peterson
James Mansfield
Charles Brenner
C. E. Miller
Ralph Huntley
Jake Neidt
William Harray
Marlin Jackson
Emil Schindler
W. Sehes
Jorgen Jorgenson
Matt Christensen
John Nelson
Arthur Anderson
Frank Pendleton
Jules Wenger
Big Hole
J. H. Bray
Ome
Hugh McCaleb
Salmon City
Estel M. Heidener
Vivian Ruth Carroll
James W. Nankervis
Church of the Four
Jackson
Guy Trenary
Warren Stone
A. L. Allsup
Arthur Atkinson
Woodcraft Ptnochle Club
J. A. Meeks
Methodist Church
Alice Edwards
Samuel Shore
A. W. Wilson
Alex Peyre
Frank Paul
Corvallis
Frank Poole
Swan Johnson
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Trumpeter
Flieln
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