Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-03-29
TREASURE STATE
PARAGRAPHS
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Short Items For Busy Readers
Devoted 10 the Welfare OF
Montana

According TO the official list there
wilt be 24s contestants In the inter-
scholastic music meet, held In Big Tim
Der, April 8, @ and 7.
The Flathead reservation furnished
last year 8 100000 feet Of timber with
a value of $4,000, according TO
Charles K. Coe, superintendent Of the
Indian agency at Dixon.
An order has been signed by the
state railroad commission, addressed
to the 10 railroads fraversing Mon
tana. to furnish the information as TO
freight charges on hauls within the
state, asked by Attorney General w. ID.
Rankin.
Burton X. Wheeler, United States
senator from Montana, sailed recently
on the steamship President Roosevelt
for Europe, where he will visit Russia
at the special invitation Of the soviet
government.
Deputy Game Warden McCafferty
of Anaconda, has made the statement
that the rumor circulated In regard 10
the fact that there were hundreds OF
dead fish on the shores Of Georgetown
lake, had no basis and was absolutely
u~nf0unded.
The second annual state convention
of the Disabled Veterans Of the World
war will be held in Mlssoula May %
and 26. Five hundred members OF the
organization are expected to attend
The first convention was held last veal
at Great Falls.
Hearing on the proposed consolida-
ton of railroad lines, the only one to
be held between st. Paul and Seattle,
will be held In the federal building In
Helena before Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Henry c.. Hall and FIX
aminers Healy and Hoy.
The state university nj MIssoula will
have $11,940 less during he coming
year thar II had last year. The state
college at Bozeman will have $9,269
less: the state normal school at Dillon
will have S3s,3S4. and the school OF
mines at Butte S57 ,544 less than 1t had
available for the year ending this
spring.
One of the largest land deals made
in the Shields valley In recent years
was consummated at Wllsall when
Fred c.. Sumner disposed of his home
ranch. The property is located five
miles northeast Of Clyde Park In the
famous Rock creek section and Is In
n high state Of cultivation. II consists
Of 631 acres, and the consideration was
$4,000.
OF Montana's total area OF 94,07S,-
OsO acres there remnin8n the hands OF
the federal government and open 10
homestead 5,659,s0T acres, according
10 data compiled by the bureau Of pub
IIcity of the state agricultural depart
ment. which viii o be issued In
book form. Much Of this acreage Is,
however. In the rbad lands Of eastern
Montana or on mountain peaks where
it Is inaccessible or unfertile.
With three outfit trains Of extra
gangs working on the Rocky mountain
division OF the Northern Pacific at this
time and two more being made up now
and the report that six crews Will he
working by the middle OF April, the
seasons program Of Improvement on
the division, which, II is estimated,
viii cost approximately 100000, is
under way.
Formal application TO the state rail
road commission for n hearing and
order that the Northern Pacific con-
struct a two-mile spur to connect
~Stevensville with the branch line run
nIng up the Bitter Root valley south
from MIssoula. was filed recently with
the state railroad commission at Hell
ena by the Stevensvfiie Industrial as
ISOLATION.
Notices have gone out for the first
annual meeting of the Montana State
Corn Show association to be held In
Miles City, April .. Representatives
from the corr growing counties of the
state will be present to assist In per
fecting the organization. which was
formed at the corn show banquet last
November, and I'm making arrange
ments for the 1923 show.
Expenditures of $685. 900 of national
forest service road funds on construc-
ton OF pieces of highway In and near
National forests which will link up
with state highways was determined
recently by a conference of forest SER
vice officials from Portland, Ore. and
Missoula, Mont, with the state high
commission and win be recon-
mended to the forest service heads In
Washingtons ID. c.
Fifteen companies operating motor
buses and truck lines In Montana have
applied to the state public service com
mission for licenses to operate under
the law passed by the last Legislature.
Under the law the companies must Sc
cure n license and post a bond which
the commission finds adequate. The
law gives the commission, when COM
is made, authority to hold hear
and fix rates for passenger and
freight service.
According to a telegram received in
Butte from Miller Reece Hutchinson,
chairman Of the national campaign for
the elimination of the boil weeyil. there
will be a stendy market for at least