Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-06-01
WAREHOUSE
NOW READY
one-Half Of the Big Structure is Com
pleted So That Wool Can be
Stored With Safety.
BIG FORCE OF MEN AT WORK
Manager Lane Has T~hirty-Five Car
penters On His Pay Roll-Will
be Completed Next Week.

By tomorrow night the Lewistown
wool warehouse will be ready to store
wool. BY that time one-half OF the
big structure will be enclosed and
wool stored there will be entirely safe
from any damage from the elements.
The work has been rushed at a rapid
rate during the last week and the
immense building has gone up almost
like magic. Manager j. L. Lane, of
the Montana Lumber company, who
has had charge of the construction
work, is a hustler and only two or
three days of unfavorable weather
prevented him from making good his
agreement to have a portion OF the
warehouse ready for the storing of
wool by June LIST. There are now 80
carpenters at work on the building
and every man that can be found is
being added to the already large force
at work. George Wells is foreman
of the building crew and he has vast
ed no time in pushing the building
to a rapid completion. All OF the
material is now on the ground and
within one week IL Is expected that
the entire warehouse will be under
roof and a large part on the siding in
place.
IL has been suggested by some VI
the business men interested in the
wool market that a good man be sent
ant Er tha n~.arnhpnpn aggnaiafinn IN
all of the woolgrOwers in the county
who are undecided as to where they
will send their wool to market, for
the purpose of setting forth to them
the advantages of the Lewistown
market. Lewistown has done her
share. She has built the warehouse
and as good a n as there is In the
state. The railroad company has add
ed hundreds of yards of extra track
age in order that the wool can be
easily handled after Ii Is sold and
baled. The yards have been gray
eled so that there is no danger of the
wagons bringing the wool to the
warehouse being mired. The balinl
machinery will be on nand before !
Is needed. IL is now up to the wool
growers to bring their wool to Thu
place.
Some of the woolgrowers have
expressed a doubt as to their beint
able to purchase their supplies to a!
good advantage in Lewistown as the!
can in Billings or Great Falls. Th'
Argus reporter personally interviewed
a number of the business men %
the city on the matter of the price o
supplies and everyone OF them stated
that they will duplicate any price
which the merchants of the two biz
wool selling centers car make. There
are several general merchandise finn;
in Lewistown which carry as com
plete stocks OF everything which TIT
w~oOlgrower desires as can be foun'
in either Billings or Great Falls. Oth
tr stores which deal exclusively II
mems furnishings and dry goods car
~ as good stock as such establish
ments i'm the rival wool market towns
Our three hardware stores can suppl!
goods in that line at prices whlcl
will compare fayOrably with TN
prices of other Montana hardware
concerns. The freight on goods int
Lewistown Is somewhat higher thar
il is to Billings and Great Falls, bu
that small difference is more thar
counterbalanced by the extra cost Il
the woolgrowers OF this ounty ii
freighting their goods from the mor'
distant points. Looking at 1t iron
all sides. It appears that the Fer
gus county woolgrower who brings
his clip to this city will have man!
advantages over those who make thu
long hauls to the older markets.