Dillon Becomes City as Utah & Northern Reaches Montana
The Beaverhead history recounts the Utah & Northern extension reaching Beaver canyon in 1880 and Dillon's 1880-81 rise, with Dillon named for Union Pacific president Sidney Dillon and key figures Blickensderfer and Mercill directing construction. Telegraph first arrived in 1864 and telephone in 1884. early Dillon included doctors Clutter and Leason, lawyer Shannon, and Eliel leadership. notable events cover hotels, saloons, and the 1882 fire, with the Metlen hotel built in 1897 and Dillon incorporated in 1865. The piece continues next week.
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Gould
Utah & Northern
Butte
Silver Camp
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Beaver Canyon
Montana
Ogden
Utah
G. W. Gatcher
Logan Utah
Washington Duncan
Jacob Blickensderfer
Union Pacific
Omaha
Robert
Martin W. Mercill
Franklin
Idaho
Mormon Church
Dokin and
Rinklina
Pleasant Valley
Dillon
Union Pacific Railway
Sidney Dillon
Bozeman
Virgintfia City
All Territory
Folmer and Salisbury Stage Co
West
Deer Lodge
Helena
Missoula
Country
Alice
Walkerville
Walker Brothers
Salt Lake City
George W. Irwin
Montana Territory
Prices’ Canyon
Bannack
Virginia City
Clutter and Leason
W. A. Shannon
Biddle
Salvation Army
Hanson
Bannack Street
Center
Beaverhead County
Metlen
Oil Shale Company Plans Dillon Office and Canyon Work
W. S. Pyle of a Vancouver oil shale firm says a head office team will visit Dillon around April 15 to set up a local office and begin operations in Smallhorn canyon. All work will be directed from Dillon.
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W. S. Pyle
Vancouver, B. C
Smallhorn Canyon
Dillon
Record Flight by New Ryan Monoplane Reaches Dillon
Frank Wiley piloted a Ryan monoplane from Los Angeles to Dillon via Salt Lake City in nine hours twenty minutes, averaging about 180 miles per hour. Wiley, from Missoula and trained by Pilot Stephenson, stopped to visit in Dillon and planned to fly to Helena. Tom Moran accompanied Wiley, with Moran returning toward Butte and Missoula tonight in the Waco plane Miss Dillon.
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Frank Wiley
Los Angeles
Scoby
Wiley
Salt Lake City
Dillon
Missoula
Pilot Stephenson
Montana Auto Supply Co
Stephenson
Mr. Stephenson
Helena
Tom Moran
Mr. Moran
Butte
Waco
Miss Dillon
Back to Bannack Revival Hopes Raised by Archies Visit
Mr and Mrs Archie Gibson who spent the winter in Dillon have gone to Bannack for the summer. Gibson, a Bannack old-timer, is elated over a prospective revival of the old camp and says he believed it would return but did not expect to live to see it. He now has hopes.
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Archie Gibson
Dillon
Bannack
Mr. Gibson
U.S. Dominates World Crop Output by Commodity Shares
The United States leads global crop production with corn at 66.6 percent, cotton at 57.9 percent, and oats at 88 percent. Wheat accounts for 17.2 percent, tobacco 38.3 percent, potatoes 6.1 percent, and rye 4.8 percent.
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United States
Foley's Honey and Tar Relieves Bronchitis Distress
Mrs. L. M. of Charleston West Virginia reports Foley's Honey and Tar compounds relieves a bad bronchitis attack. The ad touts it as safe and effective for coughs and colds in children and adults and notes druggists recommend it.
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Foley
Potts
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