The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-09-05
GALlAT|N LEADS !.
IN LAND VALUES
STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
SAYS MOST VALUABLE LAND
Is LOCATED THERE
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY
Montana Game Law Allows DUCK
Shooting on September IS, but
Uncle Sam Says to Wait One
More Day Before Starting

Uncle Sam Says to Wait One
More Day Before Starting
Helena.-The most valuable land IN
Montana is situated in Gallatin cOun-
ty, according to the decision OF the
state board of equalization, which has
completed the work Of making Mnd
values uniform in all the counties OF
the state. There the average value OF
all land, irrigated, dry. grazing and
timber lands, is $20.41 per acre. This
was the figure turned in by the asses
sor, and 1t was not changed by the
board.
Other counties where the average
value Of land is more than $40 per
acre are: Carbon. $2O.96; Cascade.
$24.64; Fergus, $22.96; Flathead,
$22.O7; Pondera, $2665; Ravani,
$22.14; Teton, $22.91; Yellowstone.
$24.16. All these are the original fig
ures of the assessors, with the excep.
ton of Yellowstone, where the board
made an increase Of 20 per cent.
Increase of 100 per cent on the as
SCISSORS valuation of stock cattle in
jefferson county and on three-year.
old cattle in Mineral, Silver Bow and
Valley counties were features Of the
boards work in finding uniform values
Of livestock in all counties Of the
state.
Upward changes were made in the
livestock returns Of % counties, de.
creases We're made in two. and 25 were
the assessors.
The decreases were in Garfield and
TOole counties. In the first the value
of two-year-Old cattle was. cut 20 per
cent, and in the second II 80 per cent
reduction was made in the same class
Duck Season Soon Open.
Montana nimrods who start hunt.
ing ducks on September Is, instead OF
waiting till the sixteenth, will be
within the provisions Of the state law,
but will be violating the federal law
relative to migratory birds. Under
the state statute the season on ducks
opens on September Is. but under the
United States law it is one day later
If the sportsman knows it is not
a migratory duck he is taking shot
ut he is perfectly safe from liability
NJ. D. Chatfield, Il Helena druggist
and a we'll known sportsman, has re-
ceived q letter from f. w. Nelson
chief of the bureau of the biological
survey, dealing particularly with
hunting ducks in motor boat, which
Is prohibited by the federal regula'
lions. A boat that has Il removable
motor is not motor boat after the
motor is removed. and when the hunt
err merely used the motor to carry
him to his hunting ground and then
removes it he is not violating the law
provided he does not take undue adj
vantage Of the motor by discOnnectine
it just before he is ready to shoot, az
cOrtling to the letter.
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Road Districts Provided.
Division Of the state into four dis
tricts for the purpose Of better han
ding the problem Of highway con
structiOn was one of the accomplish
mcnts Of the executive committee 81
the commission in it's recent meeting
held at the state capitol. Billings
Glasgow. Great Falls and Helena vii
be the division points.
The committee announced the ap
pointment Of Frank Il. Phillips 81
Portland, Ore, as bridge engineer
The bridge department and the design
ing department of the engineerin,
staff will he consolidated and Mr.. Phil
lips will be in charge. l.. c. Beatti>
formerly was bridge engineer and c. A
Kyle construction engineer. Both re
signed to enter other positions.
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Hogs immunixed Against Cholera.
DR.. Rudolph Snyder. in charge o
the federal bureau Of animal industr,
in Montana. has returned from Mile.
City and Forsyth. where he assisted
ia NbGC NuuSINbSN w Noulaot luC oul
break of hog cholera which killed liz
hogs In one week. About 700 hogs IL
the neighbOrhOOd of the infected ami
mails We're immunized by use of serum
and quarantine has been established
DR.. Snyder believes the situation |.
under control.
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State Sells Land.
Sixteen hundred acres Of state lant
were sold recently for $2l $40 ut auc
lions conducted ut Forsyth and Mile,
City by Sidney Miller. register Of stat,
lands, and his assistant, George II
Hopkins.
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Food Licenses Due.
Fifteen thousand Montana firms ana