Casper Center of Oil Development Sparks Wyoming Boom
Casper grows from a 2000 quiet town to 8000 and rises as the oil boom center with Standard Oil and Midwest refineries. Wyoming production doubles from 3 million barrels in 1915 to 12 million in 1917, while state royalties reach 240000 last year. Montana investors Thomas Arthur, W D Outman, Edwin Booth, and Col. L J Price spread across Big Muddy and Salt Creek fields as major companies push development.
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Wyoming
Casper
Wyomings
Elk Basin
Grass Creek
Greybull
Midwest
Byron
Northwest Refining Company
Cowley
Thermopo
United States
Standard
Midwest Company
Colorado
West
Ohio Company
Texas and Producers’ Company
Canadian Draft Tale Sparks Wrath in Great Falls Street
An irate Canadian citizen in Great Falls recounts his draft exam experience with Dr Longeway. He complains his one good eye and light weight should have barred service yet the doctor claims proximity to Germans and bean rations will fix his status. The piece uses humor to critique wartime conscription and includes local reminiscences from I B Hopkins in Butte about high costs in earlier days.
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Great Falls
Longeway
Army Commissary
France
Bron
Canada
United Empire Loyalists
I. B. Hopkins
Alaska
Virginia City
Butte
Mr. Hopkins
Denver
State wide notes from Montana news items
Multiple brief notices report local appointments, openings, and events across Montana towns. Highlights include school principals named in Conrad Malta and Plymouth, a bank building contract in Wolf Point, crimes and legal actions in Whitefish Helena and Billings, gas well in Dengel ranch near Lewistown, and civic projects in Havre Missoula Roundup Butte and Billings.
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Conrad
A. R. Boone
Lewistown
New Rockford
Wolf Point
Citizens National Bank
Fortune Post Office
Helena
Malta
O. Ke, McDowell
Plymouth
Ind
Brockton
Havre
William Williams
T. J. Walsh
Montana
Billings
Waco Dry Land District
Plentywood
Anderson
Fort Peck Reservation
Lin Dal Fiber Company
William Leroy McKim
France
Harold Kirby
West Point Military Academy
Meyers
Missoula
Ravalli Cereal and Flour Mill Company
Cascade
Flathead
Wibaux
Custer
Madison
Dawson
Billings Livestock Exchange
Chicago
Shriver
Carbon County
Hendrik Hansen
Butte
Gow Lee
Charles Russell
First National Bank
Trades and Labor Assembly
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Senator Clark Ends Butte Street Car Strike
Former Montana senator, William A. Clark, famed mining magnate, spent summer in the state and settled a Butte street car strike by meeting with workers. He emphasized familiarity with his employees, saying he knows them by first names. His interests center on the United Verde copper mine in Jerome, Arizona, with an estimated five hundred million dollars in ore in sight.
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United Verde
William A. Clark
Montana
America
Bannack
Central City
Colorado
Srike
Senator Clark
Butte Street Railway Company
Butte
Suikers
Glacier Park
Jerome
Arizona
Clark
Iron Pills Promise Youthful Strength At Any Age
An advertisement claims Nuxated Iron restores vitality in people near fifty and older. It describes a man approaching sixty with renewed vigor after two weeks on five-grain tablets three times daily, touting iron as the key to strength and stamina and promising money-back guarantees.
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New York
N. Y
E. Sauer
M. D. Noth
FE. Sauer
Wyoming Oil Development Expands With New Investment
The Wyoming oil boom grows from a small well concern to a 20 million dollar company with two refineries and multiple fields. New York financiers and other centers show interest as government geologists study land for oil potential. A Walsh bill in Congress could open vast oil lands and spur further growth north toward Montana. The Williston Basin district near the Montana border already hosts numerous wells, with production split across both sides of the boundary.
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Colorado
New York
Wyoming
Walsh
Congress
Montana
Wk Basin
French official blocks ore sale funds to support property purchase
A French engineer states that France would not permit large funds to leave the country for foreign investment. He says even paying the ore's value in sight could amount to about half a billion dollars, preventing purchase with money raised in France.
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France
Rise in silver to above 90 boosts Montana prospects
The article notes a rising silver price above 90 and emphasizes its impact on Montana which leads the nation in silver output. It details Montana’s silver as a by product of copper, upcoming mine reopenings, and a brief history of silver prices from 1878 to 1893, including the Sherman act and treasury purchases.
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Montana
Union
Treasury
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Casper Center OF Oil Development
Lis
Lander
Stock Exchange
Goldfield
Cripple Creek
Cheyenne
DR. Longeway
Broadway, Butte
Agent
Shipentaare
H. Bush
Detcotco Ignition
Ste
Bush Motor Company
Bush Temple
Ilnois
White Sulphur Springs
Minera!) Water CO
Photos
Gibson Studio
Front Falla
Yindiu
Ave
Éth i Great Falls
Harry H. McCole
Montara
S. C. Huseth
Boulder
Boulder Hot Springs
J. M. Reynolds
Anager
Houston
Spokane
Washington
Herman Page
D. C
Jas Henderson
Butte Business College
Rice & May
Owsley Block
Montana Motor CO
Haynes Automobiles
Ninth St. N
Haynes
Great Falls Meat CO
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