The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-14
AMONG OUR NEICHBORS.

SVVuSsNS
A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Glasgow Independent: AT the meet
ing of the board Of county commits
sioners during the fore part OF the
week it was decided to locate the Milk
river bridge just west of town on the
south side of the railroad bridge, but
that the bridge will not be built until
those interested quit fighting and pre-
sent a right-of.way for the road to
the county.
Choteau Acantha: County Clerk
Garrett IL in receipt Of q request from
parties at Shelby for q list of all tax
able lands and other property north
OF the Marias river. The purpose, as
stated by the parties making the re.
quest, is to gain Information looking
toward q division of Teton county.
The Acsnths is not reliably informed
a. to the details OF the plan, but the
reasonable superstition is that the new
county would contain parts OF Teton
and of Chouteau counties.
Dodson Idea: The famous blue.
joint hay, hundreds of car loads OF
which are baled and shipped to out.
side points each year, has been tested
by the Agricultural Department.
w Washington, D. c., and pronounced
superior to timothy or the tame
grasses grown ia the meadows and
pastures OF the eastern states. The
Milk river valley has earned world
wide fame for it's native blue joint,
some of it ha wing been clipped as far
as the Philippine Islands.
Conrad Observer: J. G. Price OF
the Conrad Mercantile company, be-
came q trife skeptical about the weigh,
of Conrad raised oats and the pact
week has taken the trouble to weigh a
few samples. Some was found to make
Al pounds to the measured bushel;
another lot A pounds and another Al
pounds. According to weights and
measures 80 pounds of oats is consid.
cred one bushel, but Conrad oats was
found to beat weights and measures IL
pounds is one of these tests.
Conrad Independent: AS a climax
to the fax lifting operations last week
west of town, Fred Sayer vas this
week arrested on q charge of burglary
by Deputy Sheriff Moran, and pleaded
guilty to taking AZ bushels of aaz
from the granary of DR.. Brown. The
grain was hauled to this city and sold
to the Montana Central elevator
Sayer was taken to Chouteau where
he will be sentenced in the near future
1t is rumored that there will be at leas'
one more arrest 10 connection with THU
same offense.
Conrad Observer: w. D. Jones aut
John Wellenstein, two of the bes
known men in Teton county, were il
Saturday consulting machinery mel
with q view of purchasing a power
pillow outfit to farm their vast tracts
This is another instance of where
farming has driven the sheepmen GU
of the business. Both of these gentle
men have been in the sheep raising
industry when the vast range in Tetol
county was as free as air. They hav|
watched the change from a barrel
prairie to waving fields OF grain ant
being of an enterprising spirit nov
propose to make mother earth produc
the wealth for them.
Conrad Observer: In the spring O
1911, Archie Roule, q prosperous far
mer southwest of town, whose c~ultivat
ed land was q part of the area irriga
ted by water from the ditch, sowed
number of acres of land to oats and II
the due time reaped an excellent cro]
weighing 48 pounds to the bushel
After the fret crop was harvested,
copious rain fell and soon the felt
was green with q thrifty secon'
growth. The second crop grow rap
idly and Mr.. Houle n day was sur
prised to find the oats "heading out
Later he cut the crop for feed and de
cided to thresh q part of it, realizing