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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
10
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Washington reports war costs for the coming year around 10.7 billion dollars with 7 billion in new revenues needed. If allies continue receiving loans, total spending could surpass 15 billion, with bond issues and taxes as financing.
Minneapolis market report for July 31 shows Wheat futures at 2.94 for July and September, cash prices for No 1 hard at 3.00 and No 1 northern at 2.95, and various other grain prices including corn at 2.25 to 2.33, oats 0.77 to 0.78, flax 3.30 to 3.36, flour items up, shipments at 19,966 barrels, barley 1.15 to 1.55, and rye 2.04 to 2.05.
Hogs receipts 11 700 market steady with heavy hogs 14 50 to 15 50 mixed 14 50 to 14 80 light 14 30 to 16 10 pigs 12 50 to 14 25 bulk 14 50 to 14 80. Cattle receipts 200 market steady native steers 9 75 to 14 00 cows and heifers 7 25 to 10 25 western steers 8 25 to 11 75 Texas steers 6 00 to 9 50 cows and heifers 7 00 to 9 00 canners 5 00 to 7 00 stockers and feeders 6 00 to 9 50 calves 8 00 to 13 00 bulls and stags 6 00 to 9 50. Sheep receipts 7 500 market steady yearlings 9 59 to 10 75 wethers 9 00 to 9 25 ewes 8 25 to 9 25 lambs 14 60.
Chicago July 31 hogs receipts 9 000 market firm bulk 15.00 16.00 high 14.75 16.05 mixed 14.50 16.20 heavy 14.40 16.25 rough 14.40 14.65 pigs 41.25 14.40 cattle receipts 3 090 market weak native beef 7.60 14.40 western steers 8.25 11.60 stockers and feeders 5.75 9.09 cows and heifers 4.40 11.65 calves 8.75 13.00 sheep receipts 7 000 market unsettled wethers 7.50 10.75 ewes 7.00 9.00 lambs 9.50 10.25
Wheat July opened 2.64 high 2.74 low 2.64 close 2.74 September high 2.24 low 2.17 close 2.17 Corn September opened 1.63 high 1.64 low 1.68 close 1.64 Tember opened 1.18 high 1.19 low 1.174 close 1.17 Oats July opened 0.90 high 0.90 low 0.78 close 0.85 September opened 0.60 high 0.61 low 0.59 close 0.60
Hogs receipts 3200, market steady with range 14.25 to 15.40 and bulk around 15.00. Cattle receipts 2209 with killers 15 to 25 cents lower, steers 12.50, cows and heifers 6.00 to 9.00, calves 5.00 to 12.25, stockers and feeders mixed. Sheep receipts 200, market 50 cents lower, lambs 7.14 to 14.50, wethers 7.00 to 9.50, ewes 5.00 to 8.50.
Deputy sheriffs are sworn in at Helena to replace troops guarding bridges and tunnels across the county. Troops mobilize and will be stationed in all counties.
One in five Montana applicants may win a slot at the Second Officers Reserve training camp opening August 27 at the Presidio. Of 7,050 applicants statewide, 143 places are allocated to Montana, with 1,075 total admissions to the camp.
The National Efficiency Demonstration by Franklin dealers reports an average of 40.3 miles per gallon across 179 telegrams from Syracuse and other cities. New Haven driver Cowles Tolman set a new stock car record of 82.8 miles per gallon, with Detroit 71.6 and Akron 69.4 mile marks.
Dillon real estate man C L Worth challenges George Dixon of the Union Electric on beaverhead county dry land farming. Worth maintains potato crops will be light without rain and predicts mixed yields but more wheat acreage and higher prices in 1917. He urges packing ground for winter wheat and says the overall dry land farmer should persist toward a 1917 crop alongside a better season.
Government needs farmers as well as fighters as two million three hundred thousand acres of Oregon and California railroad grant lands revest title to United States and open for homesteads and sale. Includes map with soil, climate, rainfall, elevations, temperature by counties. Postpaid, Grant Lands Locating Co. Box 610 Portland, Oregon.
Special Representative T Magnus of Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York states his office is now in the Phillips block room 3, previously occupied by Judge Poin Dexter.
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