Sugar Beets Transform Colorado Farmers Over Ten Years
An article in the Denver News-Times outlines a decade of sugar beet industry growth in Colorado. It notes $100,000,000 in cash value, $75,000,000 in sugar, and $38,468,265 paid to farmers, with land values rising 300 to 400 percent in factory districts. It highlights stable farmer returns per ton, averaging about $70 gross per acre from fourteen tons, with roughly $35 net, and credits sugar beets with lasting economic impact across the state.
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Denver News-Times
Colorado
Beaverhead Valley
Grand Junction
Beaverhead County Fair Stockholders Meet for New Officers
Beaverhead County Fair association president George R. Featherly says a stockholders meeting will elect new officers and refine plans for next fall's fair. He notes the first fair proved Beaverhead can host a strong event and urges farmers and stockmen to prepare exhibits. Delinquent stock subscribers totaling 1525 will be pursued for collection by an attorney.
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George R. Featherly
Beaverhead County
the Tribune
Carruthers
Association
Normal College Senior Play Delights Dillon
The Normal College senior class presented The Professor's Malady at the college hall last Friday. The Dillon audience filled the hall for the Chinook fundraiser with the college orchestra directed by W. W. Wilson. Mr Clapp played Professor Goodwillie with convincing charm as he falls for his secretary Lucy White, Miss Storey, amid witty stage changes and polished production.
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Normal College
Dillon
W. W. Wilson
Mr. Clapp
Professor Goodwillie
Lucy White
Miss Storey
Dixon not after cabinet post says Senator Dixon
In Washington on January 28 Senator Joseph M. Dixon denied reports of an interior secretary bid. He stated he has not been nor will be a candidate and the discussion was without his knowledge or consent. He added he expects to remain a Montana senator until March 4 1913 and stay active in state welfare and development.
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Washington
Taft
Joseph M. Dixon
Montana
Bids Sought for Armstead Gilmore Railroad Work
Advertisement calls for bids on Armstead Gilmore railroad construction including a 750 foot tunnel at the range summit. Contractors must be ready to begin work before March first.
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Armstead-Gilmore
Gamble Concert Company To Perform At Normal College Hall
The Gamble Concert company will perform tomorrow evening at Normal college hall to a likely large Dillon audience. Ernest Gamble, a strong advocate for music in public schools, leads the group with bass voice training from Pennsylvania. Miss Verna Page, famed violinist, joins as a featured performer. Tickets are on sale at the Post Office Store for reserved seats.
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Gamble
College Hall
Dillon
Ernest Gamble
Pennsylvania
Ing
Verna Page
District Court Opens February Term in Dillon With Civil Dockets
The February term begins in Dillon under Judge Lew L. Callaway with no jury and a focus on civil cases. The calendar lists water rights suits, damages, divorces, land and mortgage actions, and various foreclosures and executions, highlighting two divorce cases and multiple water right disputes.
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Dillon
Lew L. Callaway
W. A. Armitage
Highland Water Company
Water Right
David Evans
Isaac F. Martin
Mary E. Stanchfield
Virgil Jennings
A. C. Reid
H. B. Selway
A. F. Selway
Charles Mikus
F. B. Felt
Rocsoe C. Johnson
Fred L. Stone
Wm. Lovell
Birchdale Stock Farm
Jaeter Grocery Company
W. C. Melogue
Josephine Black
Benj. F. Butler
B. Gallick
Ethel Rhodes
Jno
F. O’leary
Sarah L. Bammer
Executrix
M. Quirk
Dell Telephone Co
E.W. Kirk
Frank Carroll
Barbour
Frederick Schuler
M. Gilman
Dart Hardware Co
Julia E. Tong
L. J. Price
Thomas J. Black
Matt Rebich
Hannah Rebich
State Bank of Dilton
C. B. Shelley
W. W. Shelley
J. P. Lossi Co
Oscar Findling
Chris Snyder
L. C. Ford, Sr
Bart Hungate
Schuler Live Stock Co’s
Julius Hartwig
J. W. Hails
G. W
A. H. French
Monroe Mann
Mary Mann
Dillon Implement Co
John Scott
Thomas Flynn
Wm. Ellis
Wood
Live Stock Co
Peterson Hill
Henry Therson
Om Gee Gy Hee Theos
Martin
Barrett
Patrick Conners
F. Waldorf
Wee Nips
Sam Arndts
Big Hole Rinch Co
Dope Cure Debate At County Jail And Penitentiary
A Tribune report outlines a harsh jail based approach to curing dope addiction. County Attorney Milton and others discuss a warden’s method of dosing addicts with morphine pills then gradually reducing them. Some advocate tougher jail life to deter relapse.
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Gosman
Justice Hirschman
Court House
Tribune
Iilton
Tom McTague
Melton
Burns
Arthur Phillips
Joe LeClair
McTague
Railroad yards planned as Gilmore & Pittsburg acquire Armstead land
Attorney John H. Padgham reports Scott and Decker sold an 80 foot railroad front strip in Armstead Montana and a 40 acre tract for freight and storage yards for the Gilmore and Pittsburg Railroad. Papers transfer 60 acres of Pierce land and rights across several ranches with a station planned at Jaggers ranch and the Blair store to move.
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John H. Padgham
Gilmore & Pittsburg Railroad Company
Armstead
Montana
John R. Wheeler
Pittsburg
Idaho
Herald
G. & P. Company
Scott & Decker
Alvin Dewitt
Horse Prairie Creek
Pierce
Selway
Metlen
Nelson, Ballinger
Jaggers
Padgham
Grazing on Beaverhead Forest Reserve for 1909
A notice to stockmen from C K Wyman forest supervisor details grazing authorizations for Beaverhead national forest in 1909. It lists counts for cattle horses and sheep and outlines seasonal grazing periods and per head fees ranging from 6 to 50 cents, with an additional 2 cent charge.
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C. K. Wyman
Secretary of Agriculture
Beaverhead National Forest
House seeks refund of Attorney General salary
Helena January 28 Rep Harry Hall introduces a joint resolution to authorize the state treasurer to hire counsel to sue to recover 12000 dollars paid to Attorney General Galen as his salary. The claim alleges unlawful and unconstitutional payment while Galen was under the required age. The measure was tabled without argument.
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Helena
Harry Hall
Lewis and Clark County
House
Galen
Alen
Galen ER
Montana House Busy With Bills Amid No Primary Action
Helena reports a bustling week in the Montana House with 58 new bills and a total of 139 introduced this session. Committees sent 39 bills forward while seven were killed, and debate on the Democratic primary law pointed to likely no legislation this session.
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Helena
House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee
House
Eleventh Assembly
Clayberg
Oregon
Committee On Judiciary
Senate
Donlan
Committee On Public Morals
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DOPE
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Beaverhead Forest
Ernest Gamble Concerto Company
Murray
Bill
Meyer
Carbon
Meyers
Burke
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