The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-12
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schools next year.
Canadian Pacific buys 10000 pounds
of hardy Montana alfalfa seed.
Great Falls-Fourth unit of Ana
conda company's zinc refinery here to
operate soon. Fifth and sixth Sec
ton to start soon after, while at
Rainbow Falls, Montana Power COM
pany is rushing completion of $4,000
additional horsepower, making a total
of $4,000. "
N. p. plans to double track between
Havre and Pacific Junction..
Helena-Three more mines neal
here to ship ore.
Sidney Herald moves into new up
to date cement building. With new
equipment added the Herald now
claims one of the best equipped print
ing offices in Montana.
Butte-Miners in this district re-
ceive highest wages paid anywhere in
the world. The Anaconda and other
lIlIlllIlS COMPANIES iidNc NOluItltI llS III
creased wages three times during past
II months from 81 to S4.74 a day as
price Of copper advanced. Of the
10000 in this district the Anaconda
company employees 1880.
Conrad-Surveyors out on perma-
nent survey of railroad east from
Co, - o,,o ,,;4l L,,,, C,a-%
Falls line.
Observation-Disclosures plan $4,000
building here.
Billings-Big Horn county steer
brings record price in Omaha market,
$12 a hundred pounds, highest price
ever paid for range animals.
Plentywood-Movement inaugural
ed by business men here for fax
straw mill.
Denton-18O cars of wheat shipped
from here in two months.
Malta to have a national bank.
New directories give Great Falls
$4,000.
Harlem has a new lumber industry
established there.
Red Lodge produced half of coal in
state this year. ;,
Fort Benton, the oldest settlement
in Montana that ever became any
thing more than a trading post,
claims to be the richest town per
capita in the world.
Great Falls-All office buildings
crowded, new buildings in prospect.
Wilsall-2,560-acre Shields Valley
ranch sells for 100000.
Butte-Simmons company, bed-mak-
ing manufacturers, to erect $38,OtO
warehouse here.
Helena Scratch Gravel mines open
large body of gold ore.
Saltese-St. Lawrence mine near
here to be developed.
Great Falls-Chouteau branch of
Great Northern to Penroy gets daily
train.
Lawyers demand increased number
Of judges on Supreme and Circuit
bench.
Havre to have $4,000 hotel built
in spring.
Conrad-Manager Pearson of local
flax fibre company, has invented ma
chine to produce perfect fibre in one
process.
M~issoula, Bozeman and Dillon may
have to go without higher education
building up to keep taxes from jump
ing skywards.
Roundup-$80,O 900 to be spent in
purchase and improvement of Palace
Hote! here.
Missoula-S55,00O to be spent on
addition to county high school here.
Wolf Point, Sheridan county, is to
have new hotel in spring.
Hay inspectors, spud inspector,
squirrel inspector, are some proposed
new officers.
Dillon-Drilling for oil to start on
Little Sheep creek.
butte-Employes of Mountain State
Telephone company here get $4,000
of amount distributed by Bell system
in U. S.
Butte-Over $4,000, 900 expended on
buildings here past year.
Great Falls-Great Northern to ex-
pend 5000, 900 on freight yard here.
Montana leads in homesteads. One
fourth of land filed on in U. S. in four
years located here.
Neutrality-suspicious. of piping gas
from Sweet Grass fields to Great
Falls, Helena, Butte and Anaconda
well under way. 500, 900, 900 will be
required.
Big Fork-Large paper mill pro-
posed here by Minneapolis and St.
Paul financiers.
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