The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24
MONTANA SHOWS
BUSINESS pep
GENERAL REVIVAL. IN MANY
OF STATES BIG INDUSTRIES
LIVING is LESS

Helena, Nov 13.-More signs that
some of Montana's basic industries
are on the upgrade, in addition to
those noted for the first time month
ago, are seen in the monthly indust-
rial resume for October of the divis-
ion of labor and publicity of the state
department of agriculture. Increas-
ed activity is noted in mining, lum-
bering, milling and >failroading. The
turn for the better has not been in
operation long enough yet to be re-
fiected in retail lines and as this is
the seasonal turn when unemploy-
ment is greatest, it is not to be ex-
pected that improvement will be re-
fiected generally until next spring.
New enterprises are starting OPP
erations and others already estab-
lished are expanding. This broaden
ing out at the beginning of winter is
considered healthy indication of
basic Improvement
Consumers in some Montana cities
are being benefited by lower costs
of living, according to reports receiv-
ed by the department. No increases
in living costs are reported. Helena
is the only town which reports that
rents continue high. Other towns
report decline in rents, Great Falls
in fuel and several report a decline
in the cost of clothing.
Flour Mills Busy -
After a long period of partial or
complete idleness Montana flour mills
are for the most part again in oper-
alton, many of them running a full I
"a hour shift There is much more
activity in the milling business at
present than there was at this time
a year ago The president of the Mon
tana Flour Mills Company is quoted
as saying that the volume of orders
recently has exceeded the output of
its plants to an extent that seems to
make certain continued operation at
maximum capacity. Small country
mills report the same condition.
While there is no word as to when
the Butte mines will resume, increas-
ed activity is noted in other districts.
The Boston Development Company
has just completed at Elkhorn, Bea-
verhead county, the second largest
stamp mill of its kind in the world,
and it is announced that it will be in
operation this month, meaning work !
for several hundred additional men.
The Philipsburg Mining Company
has awarded contract for the con- /
struction of a new manganese mill of i
the magnetic separator type, which (
it is expected to have in operation G
next February. It's present mangan- c
ese concentrator will be remodeled S
into a silver mill. t
Construction v
Considering general Conditions, i
there has been more building in the
state this year than was anticipated. u
Livingston reports that all previous n
records for construction of residenc- Il
es was broken this year and Havre b
reports that nine new building jobs Y
were started in October. The prin- o
cipal building activity at present is v
on state educational institutions !,
Helena is building two large school
houses. A flour mill of 600 barrel :,
capacity is being built at Sidney to :
iepiaee ii'- ls
by fire. &c
The Trident and Hanover plants ).
of the Three Forks Portland Cement =
Company, which have been idle since :.
last March, will resume operations :,
sometime this winter, it is announced. !:
The surplus stock on hand has been :.
nearly all consumed, and it is stated -
that with the building activity in sight n'
for next season, were the plants to :,
remain closed until spring, it would !.
be impossible to manufacture enough i'
cement to supply the trade. III
The plant near Eureka of the In pi
ternational Chemical Products Com IN
pany for the production of music II -
acid, pulp, tanning extract, oxalic "
acid and other by-products from sp
larch butts is practically completed az
and the company expects to be oper- Ia
ating this month. th
In The Oil Fields
dertaken in Montana this year is the
is being made. The company expects
building of a pipe line from the Elk
Basin gas field to Billings and adj fe
jacent towns. A force of 800 men is
is being employed and fast progress ST
is ebing made. The company expects tn
to complete the job until the first of in,
5he year. av
The Anaconda Copper Mining Com bu
Dany, which has been building a log ia.
ging road into the Nine Mile dis of
5rict, near Bonner, has announced sts
hat mill and logging operations will
oe resumed December 1 This will an
yive employment to 725 men when no
operations reach capacity. flu
More train crews have been put to Bu
WORK during the past month by rail be