The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-07-29
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TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSElY TOLD

nar,n factory al Hall. that is 10 be
quilt Ia take care Of SOM. Of tn. local
r,,a:o crop. John Robbins is to be
uanaser al the factory. Work will
ptustess rapidly. ii il expected. and
thr factory is To he in operation at the
earliest possible time. according 10 the
CLANS Of the proprietor Of the enter.
prise.
State headquarters of the Montana
Wheat Growers association will be
located in Lewistown within a very
Few days.
Samples OF silver ore have been re-
ceived in Miles City from the Mohawk
miue ut Coke City. The ore was
brought by IL. W. and +. H. knu,so
and Louis Erazee. who were at the
nrine several days. The ore assay
The Mohawk is five miles from the
Girnga!y mine cn Woody mountain,
right in cooke City.
G
SMALLPOX with 20 eases. and tuber.
tuta>i>. with H. led in The state re-
ports on disease made Ia Or. John ].
Sirry. eri'i%n,inloyi>t for the state
Il Hr,i 81 health. Other cases were !:
Typhoid. /: ,',hiheria. o. >carle, fe-
yer, :. measles. | {; who"pin. cough. > !;
! /; muinp>. :. spotted fe.
Yer, > venereal diseases. Ii.
Surveys for the proposed SNallaho
road which will connect Anaconda
with the upper Bitter Root valley,
have been completed and the next step
is for the state 10 cali for bids for the
of The highway through
some 60 miles of ,nouutain country.
Miners field day in Butte this year
will he the most preleniious since
safety first" became n slogan at the
Butte mines. and field day the annual
rrcreationnl event VI the men who
work in and about the mines. The
third since The Inauguration Of Field
day. July %. 1921. promises to out
strip all previous records. Both in
scope and in magnitude. An elaborate
entertainment program has been pre-
pared under the direction OF the Min
er> >atel! first day committee. OF
which John l.. Boarl,nan is chairman.
Or. W. A. Andrus OF Miles City, a
pioneer physician ut Montana, WAS
elected president Of the Montana Medi.
cal association at the close Of its
conventions Billings. Great Falls
was uan,ed he 1872. convention place,
James B. Ki1Cl, who succeeds Major
f. d, Mossman as superintendent of
the Fort Peck agency has arrived in
Poplar ana is IN full charge as di.
rector of the work on this reservation
Virginia City citizens have under
taken the task of marking appropriate
~ the spo, where the first discovery OF
gold was made in the famous Alder
gulch diggingS. The spot is marked
now by rough monumental pile 0!
west aud south Of the Ed
Har, cabin Funds have been raised
for a fine monumen, to be erected
soon.
A barhed wire ENHANCEMENT which
will keep beaver from destroying prop.
erty by constructing dams. has been
tried out hy the state fish and game
authorities at the 4. NJ kischir ranch
in the Shields valley near Wilsall with
So much success that il is believed i,
will no longer be necessary to grant
any considerable number OF permits ia
Kill beaver in Montana
What is believed to he the highest
price paid a. Miles City this season
for wool is that of 20 cents. for the
$1,000 pound clip delivered from the
Hectic: Mclean ranch The Malcolm
Mcleod ciir is reported to have sold
for i. cents.
A. l.. Sirahnrn Of the United States
bureau Of soils audi. f. Gieseker, 40.
sistan. professor Of agronomy at Mon.
tana State college and assistant Ia
agrOnomy for the Montana experiment
station. expect to leave BOz0mau
Tuesday for the northeast corner Of
the state 10 begin soil survey Of the
part OF Montana north of the Missouri,
river.
Farmers east If Rroadview are hav,