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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1916
Page
8
The old peddlers served as the best mediums to locate buyers and sellers, and today classified columns perform that service on a larger scale. Read them to uncover opportunities you may be seeking without realizing it.
Montana ads show farm lands for sale including 820 acres near Conrad at 12.50 per acre and 600 acre stock ranch with cattle and horses at 16 000. 525 acres irrigated near a railroad town at 25 per acre. a 6,000 cattle ranch in the Big Hole country at 12.50 per acre. 80 acres near Flathead Street and 1500 acres seven miles from Great Falls. 1400 acres tillable at 26 per acre. co operative association and general stores for sale in Great Falls and Belt with prices and contact names.
Pasadena leader George Wharton James forms a new emig society aimed at aiding a local community in San Francisco. The group intends to recruit members and organize support for the cause, signaling a wider effort by reformers of the era.
Farmers are advised that average dates for killing frost arrive around mid September in many regions. The advisory stresses preparedness and highlights potential crop impacts across sections of the state.
Government meteorologist in Helena reports first killing frost values on September 14 western and central Montana and September 15 in the east. Damage varied. gardens and late grain suffered in places, while much harvests were complete. Frost and hail caused localized losses but overall yields remained largely intact.
The Sun River irrigation project will water 25000 acres in Teton county Montana with five thousand acres opened for homesteading within eight months. Fairfield emerges as a new rail town on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line attracting bankers and farmers eager for Federal Farm Loan Act benefits.
The Sun River unit includes 25 000 acres at Fairfield beach with clay loam soil and gravel subsoil. Water rights cost 50 dollars per acre with twenty years to pay. Most of the 20 000 acres are not for sale, owner can keep eighty acre tracts. Farms are well improved with community buildings and planned sugar beet district potential.
The Montana grain crop is now considered absolutely assured after weeks of ideal harvest weather. Winter wheat marketing proceeds with strong grades while Marquis spring wheat is high quality. late sown spring wheat risks frost near foothills. Minnesota and the Dakotas report poor yields due to black rust and heat, boosting Montana’s advantage for farmers.
The Montana State Poultry Association announces its Kalispell show from January 15 to 22, 1917. President W. P. McCauley says it will be the largest display yet with nine silver cups and $1,000 in cash prizes. More birds and higher grade stock are expected.
The Montana Utah Sugar company will build a beet sugar factory at Hamilton. Work starts immediately and the plant is expected to be in commission for next year's sugar beet crop. C H Smith, the company field expert, oversees plowing and preparation of 5000 acres for the first year’s beet supply.
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