The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-09
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Hinsdale Homestead: The whir OF
machinery III the harvest fields Is be-
ginning to be heard on all sides.
Grain has ripened quite rapidly dur.
ing tho past week aud farmers are
anxious to get their grain harvested
before it gets too ripe or lodges under
the strain Of q possible storm.
Chouteau Acautha: A considerable
revival of activity In Chouteau real
estate has been evident the pact week.
j. E. Webb, the real estate and in.
surance man. has disposed OF q con.
siderable block OF town property.
Among the buyers we're A. L. Halliday
jesse Taylor, A. j. Cowell and B. j.
Boorman, the Kalispell lumber deal.
err. Mr.. Cowell contemplates the erec.
ton of . business block on hts lots.
and Mr.. Halliday will erect a build.
ing for q feed mill.
Culbertson Republican: The Fret
National bank of this city will change
into q state bank on the fifteenth of
this month. The directors have been
contemplating this change for some
little time and have finally decided to
make the change on the above date.
The First National IL one OF the
strongest banks In the county and will
remain as such under the new head.
Practically the same officers and
directors will be at the head of the
new bank as are now at the head of
The First National.
Culbertson Republican: A number
of the local nimrods have drawn up a
petition and sent it to State Game
Warden Henry Aware, requesting him
to open the hunting season for
chickens and grouse in eastern Valley
county on September 1st instead OF
October LIST, as has been the law here.
~tofore. Under the new law Warden
Aware can name the date OF opening
any time after September 1st. The
petition was sent in yesterday and We
will no doubt be able to announce Mr..
Avare's action on the matter mex,
week.
Hinsdale Homestead: W. L. Bal.
lard brought to town the other day
some samples of broom corn, millet
and oats, grown this year IN his farm
two miles north of Hinsdale, which
, beats anything we have yet seen. The
millet stands sixty inches in height
while the oats are seventy inches,
Both are heavily headed and while
not yet harvested shows that the yield
per acre will be heavy. 1t is q pleas
, ing sight to see these fields of waving
grain and demonstrates the fact thit
is an agricultural country. The sol
growing this grain is a sandy loan
10 the Milk river bottom and produced
this crop without irrigation.
i. Conrad Observer: Actual work wal
+ begun on the Waller irrigation pro
ject last Monday when q crew and 3
teams we're put to work on the dyke a
e the head of Lake Francis. On Tues
8 day a drag line was steamed up an(
. began moving dirt on the big project
d Additional crews are arriving dali!
0 and men are being sent to the work
q by Bowen S. Conrad, who has estab
lished an employment agency for tn
cOmnanv at thia Dlaca. The c0mnan
expects to be working q full force O
men and teams BY the 18th of the pres
ent month and the work of rushing th
ditch to completion will be in evidence
Local creditors OF the company vii
be paid this week.