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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1890
Page
5
Messrs Fyhrie & Co invite attention to their large stock of foreign and domestic goods. A new shipment of road carts arrives with prices from 26 to 50 dollars. Other ads promote dress patterns, men's clothing, groceries, and farm supplies from Morse, Eisen Bros, and O E Morse, urging early purchasing and best prices.
The issue reports high winds and drifting snow delaying about 10 trains through Teaver Canyon. Local notes mention stock branding issues on the range and a public notice about revealing brands, while many town events and church services are announced for the coming days. Temperatures drop to 23 below zero as community sales and stock trades continue.
The event at the Dillon church featured dining tables with hams and fowls, fancy work, and auctions of valuables from Father Doll’s sale. A popularity vote among men raised funds, and proceeds exceeded twelve hundred dollars to reduce church debt.
Plans are complete for a large dam by the Great Falls Water Power and Townsite company to span the Missouri near Black Eagle Falls. The structure will be 1,100 feet long with 12 head gates and crib masonry. Materials include 1,000,000 feet of lumber and 60,000 feet of plank. The project aims to develop local water power and supply the Boston and Montana copper smelter by September. J T Fanning, consulting engineer, will receive tenders for the work.
A special meeting of the stockholders of the P. J. Kelly Placer and Quartz Mining and Reduction Company will be held February 15 at 2 p.m. in Dillon Montana to consider selling all real and personal property to pay debts and dissolve the corporation. Attest by A J Burtenon and A Allen. Dillon January 2. Advertise in the Tripene county paper.
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