The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-05-11
TREASURE STATE
PARAGRAPHS
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Short Items For Busy Readers
Devoted to the Welfare of
Montana

y Movement to organize company
y. national guards in Wolf Point is we
under way with prospects good for Il
a success of the undertaking.
Four petitions to the Montana fis
= and game commission for the openir
of the Yellowstone river to fishir
have been circulated in Livingsto
by ardent fishermen. Similar petition
: are being circulated througout tn
= state.
n Effort is being made by business me
of Forsyth to secure federal aid TO
the construction of 30 miles of roa
through the Cheyenne Indian reservs
ton from the north gate to the sout
gate, to be known as the 1.-TWO Moon
Trail"
Inquiries about Billings and the sur
rounding farming territory as possibl
future homes are coming to the offic'
of the Billings Commercial club in con
tlnually Increasing numbers. These in
quiries are both from people seeking
farms or homesteads and from those
looking for city homes. Many indicate
their desire to locate here if condi
tons are favorable.
The Milwaukee at Miles City is
| preparing to increase its freight plat
| from on the woolhuose spur five car
lengths, In order to supply sufficient
space to handle the increase in freight.
| Another improvement, is the building
Of large two story office building
on the Milwaukee right-of-way to
house the activities of the Mussel-
shell division officials.
The strike of mill-workers and
woodsmeR of the Brooks-Scanlon Lum-
Der company at Eureka has been
settled on the basis of an eight-hour
day and an increase in wages.
Decision has been reached by the
Shrine club at Miles City to send
large delegation of members on the
annual pilgrimage to the Billings oasis,
May 25, when AL Bedoo observes its
ceremonial.
A tree planting campaign has been
opened in the city by the Billings Lions
club. The effort is being made to
beautify the city In a manner which
will eventually add many thousands of
dollars to the value of the property of
the town. Authorities admit that
shade trees are more than mere things
Of beauty, that they increase the actual
value of the property on which they
are growing.
Seventeen feet of pure coal content !
in single vein underlying the thou
sands of acres In the Red Lodge coal
field and containing millions upon mil
lions of tons of high grade semi-bitu-
minous coal. the best product of Mon
tana fields, is being opened this spring
and summer In Red Lodge and already
he carbon fuel product is being
Jumped into the cars at this thriving
Industrial center.
Having been through the final refin-
ng process, the first batch of CONNER
.ial white arsenic has been drawn from
he kitchens of the new arsenic plant
It Jardine. This was the arsenic
aiken from the kitchens April o. 1t
anne out of the first roasting with a
light grayish tinge. Last week it
rent through the second roasting, and
) now as white IS snow and ready
D barrel for shipping.
Word was received recently by Dean
:. 2. Baird from S. e. Davis. president
the state normal that the regional
ormal summer school for Billings had {
cen authorized by the University of {
[ontana following conferences with t
lie attorney general over the provi-
ons of the law. The school at Bill t
ngs with those at Miles City and t
ewistown will be, during their SEES
ons, a regular branch Of the Univer- L
ty of Montana and under the super f
sion of President Davis. a
Northern railroads are discriminat- /
e against the woolgrowers of Mont c
Ia, witnesses for the state railroad s
mmission charged at the investiga Il
On hearing on wool rates, which was
,ened in the federal court room in S.
Faul of the interstate commerce Z
mmissIon. There is no reason, they 2,
clared, why the rate from the Pacific B
asst to Chicago or Boston should be
IS than the rate between Montana G
d those cities. The principal testi- tc
ony will be heard later at Salt Lake. fc
A group of Trident men connected a.
tn the Three Forks Portland Cement M
mpany have closed up deal al tn
wistown, whereby they will i'm. ne
,diately take up the development OF w
2 Lee Gold Mining company's prop es
" at Gone Butte few miles from m
: famous old camp of Gilt Edge of
is property has been examined by tr
Derts for the Trident men and they in
We themselves carefully sampled ii sc
that they know pretty well what to ca
,ect. The work of building roads an
i opening up the property on di
,tty large scale will begin at once DO
! $4,000 will be expended in this co
liminary work, at the end of which pl,
nill be built. I'm
The Northern Pacific has designated
/ Lodge gateway to the Beartooth on
ion, as tourist summer excursion de-
ut, with special reduced round trip of
% from the first of June until the