Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-24
WALTON RANCH
DEAL KNOWN Of,
s. c. FORD SAYS
State Short of Money
and Conley Negotiated
With Full Authority.
Ex-Attorney General on
Stand Gives Testimony
Much Like Previous.
(Tribune's Helena Bureaul

Helena, June o3.-At the tine ths
purchase of the Walton ranch mean
the state prison was made By F'ranh
Conley the state board Of examiners
and board of prison commissioners
knew all about the deal. knew it was
being bought for the state and expect
ed that the state would produce The
money with which TO reimburse Conley
for the money expended in the pur-
chase and in the erection Of buildings
thereon, testified s. {. Ford. former
attorney general and ex-officio mem
ber of those two bodies III the trial OF
the case of the state against Conley
Friday.
Mr.. Ford said the board knew the
initial payment upon the purchase CON
tract had been made by Conley but that
this payment was made by Conley be-
cause there was no money in the prison
fund available for such a purpose and
he understood, later. that the contract
was taken by Conley in his own name
to protect himself for the money he
had advanced
The testimony of Mr. Ford regard
ing agreements with Conley as to the
furnishing Of feed for the horses, and
for the purchase of milk and pork
followed closely the lines of that previ-
ousiy given by other members of past
prison boards.
Dairymen on Stand
For the purpose Of proving that milk
sold 10 the state at eight cents per
gallon was disposed of to the state at
low figure the defense called to the
stand William Castberg, of the Bitter
hoot DAIRY Products company of Ham.
iiloh, who formerly was engaged in
me DAIRY business at Missoula and
LewistoWn
.astberg testified that the price of
SKINNED milk was 15 cents per gallon
at Missoula from 1911 to 1914 and
at LeWlstown from 1914 to 1917, and
that 1t ranged from Is to 20 cents per
gaIion IN Missoula from September
ioI'. 70 july, 1913, with an average
OF around IS cents from 1911 to 1921
re sad separated milk ranged from
- 10 20 cents. wholesale As to
cream ne testified the price rang ed
from 81 80 to $50 per gallon. whole
safe ana from S1.7J to 50 retail.
hder cross examination he said that
When market could not be found for
SKIM milk II was used in the making
OF cottage cheese or butter milk, the
latter selling as low as one cent per
gallon. lie said he sold whole milk in
Mlssouia at 40 cents per gallon in five
gallon lots, and when bottled for retail
It brought Is cents per quart
The skim milk. he said, was sold to
a considerable extent to restaurants.
hotels and bakeries. He told of the
wholesome character of this milk for
human consumption and that he drunk
a great deal Of it, himself.
Henry l.. Lindley of Butte, formerly
OF the Hansen Packing company, testi-
fled as to the wholesale prices of pork
at Butte from 1914 until 1921 He
read figures from list of prices he
had prepared from the records of the
Hansen Packing company showing the
range OF wholesale prices Of pork in
Butte per month during those years
the 1914 prices ranging from SIh to
Y cents, 1915 from s to II cents.
1916 from Q to 1875 cents. 1917 from
IA to % cents, and 1913 from % to
% cents.
He said meat was shipped from
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