Representative to Meet Parties at Gray Gables House
For a few days the representative will be at Gray Gables House in Ismay and available to meet all parties with interest.
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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1908
Page
10
For a few days the representative will be at Gray Gables House in Ismay and available to meet all parties with interest.
Charles Hanson receives farm machinery and plans to start dry farming at the Finch ranch while Maurice Barrett buys wagon gear for round-up. Walter Market of Michigan visits. J. D. Johnson dance draws Fallonites. residents push for N. P. lands sale and a stronger community with water, soil, and industry.
Articles of agreement for the sale of 109000 acres between Harris and wife and C B Towers and George W Burt were filed May 19 1908. The land straddles Powder River east of the river with a sale price of 299750 dollars payable in instalments. The sale occurred September 13 1907. Burt heads the State Bank of Terry and Towers is a leading Miles City real estate dealer. Harris sold western Powder River holdings to M Hatch.
Clare Braley son of Lester Braley suffered a severe hand injury when a dynamite cap exploded while he tried to open it with a pin. The left hand required amputation of multiple fingers. a right finger was also injured. Dr. Melvin treated him. Terry Tribune.
A late Tuesday fire at a frame barn near the N P right of way at Cato burned the structure to the ground, killing seven work horses owned by Leon Braley, E C Killips, and Carl Jennrich. Losses include harnesses and a wagon. pumpman Cunningham reported the blaze after arriving at the scene.
Knowlton postmaster and ranchman Heywood Daly visits Terry to discuss freight savings after the St Paul road arrival. He notes two day shipping to Ismay and Fallon’s reduced stock losses, praising the region as a premier stock country with rising Ismay prospects and growing local commerce.
Lock Master Oliver Van reports Soo Line advance agents visited his ranch last Saturday to assess the country for a potential railroad through the North Side. They surveyed soil, agriculture, stock, and water needs, hinting at a favorable future. Van notes irrigation works, a 30 foot high dam, a wide 100 foot bottom, and improved fencing as he expands his desert claim. Sheep producers report high lamb percentages making this a strong season for flocks.
Megan has been working on the road project in the southern end of Little Sheep mountain section. The fixings near the area aim to reduce the haul distance for water supply and ease potential trouble for the sheep omen.
Unwashed wool standards listed as fine three fourths and full blood, coarse low quarters, fine medium half-blood, medium quarter three eights blood, and averages without fine. Price ranges show 14 to 16 and 116 to .19, with decimals indicating bid figures.
Thomas Cooper writes to arrange with Director Linfield to set up a dry land experiment farm near Terry Minnesota. Linfield and Benson visited Terry to pick lands for the station and hinted a farm would be established this season on half of section 13 and half of section 17, comprising one section in all.
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