Death and Legacy of Meriwether Lewis Explored in 1809 Records
Articles recount Meriwether Lewis death at Grinder's Stand on the Natchez Trace and Jefferson's role, noting neurotic illness and a 1809 journey to Washington. Also featured: Carter county Montana profile on Ekalaka, its banks, farms, and local economy with brief biographical sketches.
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St. Louis
Washington
Chickasaw Bluffs
Jefferson
Neely
United States
England
Ekalaka
Sipes
Montana
Ikalaka
Powder River
David Harrison Russell
Milwaukee
Baker
Great Lakes Way to Aid Montana
Senator A W Miles argues in a Tidewater association piece that Montana's cheap export outlet lies east via the Great Lakes St Lawrence waterway. He contends mountains block the Pacific route, while lakes offer cheaper transpor tation and closer access for world markets and investment. He urges Congress to act to complete this eastward waterway with western states.
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Montana
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
A. W. Miles
Livingston
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Port
Five Great Lakes
Great Lakes
Middle Western
Congress
Benefits of a Creamery to a Farming Community
The Ekalaka creamery in Carter county began in 1918. From manager records, farmers received growing totals from cream sales each year, with 1923 11,473 dollars, 1919 13,251, 1920 10,951, 1921 32,217, 1924 98,784, and 1925 five months 47,201. It serves 228 patrons, 125 year round, and by by products shipped 168 cars of hogs were sent last year.
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Ekalaka
Carter County
Farmers Turn To Poultry Potatoes And Alfalfa In County
A 1924 county report notes widespread poultry farming with 200 to 300 chickens per farmer and profits from wage- scaled chicken raising. It highlights alfalfa seed production with seven bushels per acre by Louis Julius and William Mowbray of Ekalaka expanding into hogs, wheat, corn and dairy. Mowbray farms 600 acres plus 280 more, milks eight cows, and sells 50 to 75 dozen eggs weekly at 20 to 22 cents.
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Fred Martens
Ekalaka
Nebraska
A. L. McKay
William Simm
Louis Julius
William Mowbray
Sheep Feeding Project In Yellow Stone Valley
John Clay & Co. have placed 15,000 head of sheep in the lower Yellow Stone valley near Sidney for fall and winter feeding. Lambs are split into bands and assigned to 22 farmers who will feed alfalfa beet tops beet pulp syrup pea and bean straw with a grain rota tion of corn barley and screenings to fatten the lambs.
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John Clay & Co
Yellowstone Valley
Sidney
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Lewis
Northwest
Hohenwald, Tennessee
States
Napoleon
Uclittl
Hohenwald
Tenn
Meriwéther Lewis
Grinder
J. A. Gilluly
Big Horn
Thomas H. Carter
Belle Fourche
Carter
First National Bank
Helena
Marmarth
South Dakota
Black Hills
Deadwood
Carter County High School
Florence Whitney
Russell
Miles OF
Treasure State
Cowboy
Ekalaia
Henry O. Weare
Chester Reporter
Montana Editorial Association
Weare
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