The Glasgow courier., 1917-11-09
State teT0pics

Big development work started in
Colusa-Leonard mines.
C. M. & St. Paul Ry. has large force
ballasting new Winnett line.
Lewistown - Cattlemen rushing
stock to market on account of feed
shortage.
Basin-Chrystal Copper Co., big sill
yer producer, sold for a million to a
Boston company.
Hosting tonnage Of Anaconda Cop
per Co. reaches 10000 tons daily.
Great Falls-Employes of B. & M.
smelter took $62,0 900 Liberty bonds.
Plevna - Oil company strikes big
flow of gas near here.
Gage-Emory Griggs ranch Of 49,
900 acres sold for $250,000.
Big Timber-Prospectors report ex-
tensive and higly paying ledge Of
silver, gold and lead in heart of the
Crazy Mountain range, rs miles north
west of here.
Stevensville- let for big
6OO-ft. concrete dam for irrigation
purposes to be constructed on Bitter
Root river, 10 miles south of here.
Billings-$4O0,OOO bank building te
be built here.
Plentywood-Operations will be re-
sumed in spring at wells of Sheridan
County Oil and Gas company, neal
here. Equipment valued at $4,000.
Dillon-Fox ranch to be started II
miles south of here.
Union Pacific system subscribe
$5,000,000 to Liberty Loan of whicl
it apportions 100000 to Montana.
Sheridan county raises largest an
best flax crop in state, value runs int
millions.
Billings-Eastern seed houses afte
Montana beans.
Dillon-Contract for new dormitor
of state normal college let for $3,47t
Livingston-Rapid progress bein
made in digging mains for city's ne,
water plant.
Havre-Beaver creek stocked wit
another lot of trout fly.
Whitehall is to have a sugar fac
tory.
Dodson-Work started on recor
structing Dodson dam.
! Ronan-Two new bridges at Pabl
Crossing completed.
Geraldine-Flour mill in course G
construction here, $4,000 scho<
I house now being erected and four ele
vators.
wn-Warr-Beebe ranch o
96O acres, miles west of here sol
for $10O an acre.
Williams-New bank opens here.
Laredo-New hotel here opens.
I Winifred-New depot under con
struction here to replace one destroy
= ed by fire.
Great Falls-1,76O acres in Sprinl
Valley sold for $4,000.
Billings-New school to be built 2
miles southeast of here.
Geraldine-$31 500 bonds voted t
be utilized in the purchase and i'm
provement of the present water sys
tenn.
Lewistown-Oil prospects good i
5 Fergus county. Kansas and Oklahom
capital interested-leases filed cover
ing $4,000 acres.
] Great Falls-$1, 100000 Tractor Ce
starts here.
Ingomar-Porcupine oil field draw
ing prospectors. David Nelson lease
81 sections northeast of here to Wy
oming oil man.
Harlem-9O hogs bring grower 3
j $3.50 in the east.
Red Lodge-20OOacre ranch an
s 5000 sheep in Carbon county sold fo
$25O,OO0.
! Wolf Pontiac acres of land sol
for $10,280.
Hardin may get sugar factory.
Malta National bank opens wit
$4,000 capital-third bank here.
Roundup-Baptist church to be com
pleted soon.
Roman opera house completed at a
expenditure of $4,000.
Poplar-Canning and produce com
| pany to be organized.
Bainville Northern putin
in new roundhouse here.
Ingomar's new mill now grindin
:. wheat.
Dillon to have new $40, 900 busines
block.
: Livingston-Machinery unloaded fo
oil we'll here.
Havre-Many building permits is
sued here.
Bozeman-Cheese-making industr