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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1932
Page
4
A farmer guidance column discusses crops suitable for spring planting including wheat oats barley peas potatoes and hay. It notes barley as a strong livestock feed and corn substitute for hogs, shares yields like 20 to 30 tons per acre for mangles, and suggests a diversified arable approach with alfalfa timothy and native hay.
Montana's state Fish and Game Department announces a 25 dollar bounty on every mountain lion and wolf killed in the state after April 1 1932 and before further order. Warden Robert H Hill outlines payment regulations including skin submission within 30 days and required sworn affidavit detailing kind sex date county and locality of kill. The warden will mark hides upon receipt to prevent duplicate claims.
Ruth Muskrat Bronson of the United States Indian Service studied Indian students at the Montana State Normal College. Accreditation lists the college on the American Association of Teachers Colleges roster, noting strong entrance standards and a well equipped library. Assembly week features include reports from Washington and school meetings. A farmer jokes about steering his son toward banking after a bank president suggests farming.
Historical notes describe Mrs. Carrie Keith of Butte recounting the Hidden Treasure lode. Her brother J A Bieber mined there, profiting about $50,000 over ten years before leases to Al Woodside. Work spans 350 by 200 feet, with McCarthy Mountain Gold Group extending ore body claims and surveys showing free gold in decomposed pyrite and quartz veins.
A long report recalls Bannack as Montana's liveliest mining camp with a blaze from a passing locomotive destroying 15,000 in warehouse property belonging to Thompson and Reynolds. It notes plans for race horse stables, a training season starting May, and mentions local historical items from 1902 including Danes settling in Montana and early vehicles in Helena and Dillon.
The notice says the hide is returned to the owner with a state claim blank so the killer can claim a $25 bounty from the Fish and Game Department. It cites authorization by the State Fish and Game Commission at its regular meeting on March 28, 1932.
The Tribune notes serious consideration of a new gymnasium at the county high school. A Helena dispatch reports Camille F. Remy, convicted slayer of Watson Oliver, is to be released from state prison soon.
The passage describes three ore-deposit types by depth and temperature. Deep high temperature deposits yield garnet tourmaline magnetite pyrrhotite with gold copper tin. Moderate depth hot solutions yield quartz calcite pyrite arsenopyrite galena sphalerite with gold silver copper lead zinc. Shallow warm solution deposits involve quartz chalcedony calcite barite with gold silver and mercury. Nevada gold-silver veins are cited as prominent examples. Mr Gilbert notes low costs favor developing marked gold veins now.
Week ending April 2 1932 lists transfers to Mae Simpkins Mason Simpkins Rose Sinclair and others including Pierce estate and Cullen property near Divide Executrix Lavell estate to Cullen Certificates Location Malcolm Judah Eureka lode claim A spring concert by the training school orchestra directed by L A Gregory will be held May 3 in the school auditorium Approximately fifty young musicians aged nine to fourteen will perform in orchestral selections solos duets quartets and a Betty Hall novelty number.
In the Fifth Judicial District Beaverhead County Montana administratrix Rebecca Connelley announces claims against the estate of D. D. Dickson deceased must be filed within four months with vouchers at the law office of J. E. Kelly in Dillon Montana. The notice is dated March 18 1932.
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