Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-03-08
NEWS NOTES FROM
OVER THE STATE
Short Items For Busy Readers
Devoted to the Welfare of
Montana

"a so
double track to be completed between
Java and Nyack, on the KalispelI di
vision of the Great Northern, has beer
begun.
Filing fee for $30.375 was paid tC
the state by the Anaconda Copper Min
Ing company for recording Its increase
In its capital stock from $1J0,O0O,OO
TO $300.OO0,OO0.
The total value Of the new machines
which are to be on exhibit at the Butte
auto show at Columbia Gardens will
be S141,735. Eighty-five machines have
been listed for the exhibit.
Statesmen of the ]. /. Case company
In Montana held a four-day annual
meeting In the offices of the Billings
branch. There were about 80 sales
men present and all report bright pros
poets for a good business year In their
territory.
A deal was completed recently
whereby the McCall-Webster company
takes over the lumber interests Of the
Monarch company at RapelJe, the deal
being reversed at Broadvlew where the
Monarch acquires the lumber holdings
of McCal-Webster
Searching for water, "a head Of cat
tie belonging TO Alex Kerr of Ulm.
broke through the Ice in the Missouri
river near that place and We're
drowned. The value Of the cattle was
near $1,000. The bodies of all but
five of the cattle were recovered, and
the hides salyaged.
The department OF agriculture. labor
and industry at Helena, over which
Chester c. Davis has been commission
ing for the last two years.
that 1t has just issued n new directory
of federal, state and county officials
in the state Of Montana. and that the
directory Is available for free distribu-
ton to persons having use for such a
publication.
Good returns from two carloads Of
ore from the Huffman mine. In Granite
county. are reported by Barton Nit
chell. general manager Of the mine,
who recently returned from New York
City. The ore was sent TO the Washoe
smelter at Anaconda. The average for
the 100 tons was better than II per
cent copper. with a fair gold and silver
content.
The first week of the triangle tour"
of the dry farm success train, which Is
now touring the north. central Mon
tana triangle under the auspices of the
Montana extension service, has been
an unqualified success. At every stop
the attendance has been large and the
farmers have been generally enthusl-
astlc about the Importance Of the In
formation brought to them by the
train.
Keen interest is being shown at
Conrad In the formation and %organlza-
tion of two dairy bull organizations
called the Pondera Guernsey Bull MS
ISOLATION. To help this matter along
the business men of Waller have raised
about 5000 to be put into the assocla-
lions for the purchase Of bulls In six
communities. These communities are
Burchfield, Bullhead. Winglnaw. Bel
gian. Plalnyiew and Francis Heights.
The Rev. N. NJ. Temple announced
that the Methodists of Montana have
made arrangements to lease % acres
of land at Grinnell park. on pine creek,
near Livingston. for n summer assem-
bly, ground. 1t Is planned to build n
tabernacle and cafeteria this summer.
on d~ormitories and other build
lngs will be erected. The grounds win
be patterned after the assembly
grounds at Estes Park, Colo, and win
be permanent.
The herd of thoroughbred Scotch
cattle purchased by Walter
Hill last fall at AberdeenShire, Scot
land, for his 10.OO0-acre ranch on Goat F.,
mountain, near Wilsall. arrived at Liy- {
recently. The heifers are a t
fine looking lot OF cattle. They are !
sho~rt-legged. with hair about 10 inches ]
.ong, and are beef animals primarily. !
This Is the first shipment Of Scotch !
cattle, brought into this conn !
from Scotland, and II is said they J
are the hardest breed of~cattle In the I
world.
With a strong wind blowing and It's
NiileF SASttW bhulN Crippled ny u Z
broken hydrant. the town of Joliet was
threatened with destruction by an
early morning blaze. when the Meyer 4
building and a small structure adjoin- {
.ng 1t were Quilted by fire. The blaze
and had gained such Roadway I
1t was discovered that heroic I
Efforts by the fire department to save $
he building were unnvailing. The (
Meyer block and the adjoining build
ng destroyed with 1t were owned by c
Ehler Meyer. and housed the Joliet n
,ostoffice. the Kosy Korner pharmacy, 4
pool hall, restaurant, dance hall and v
house. n
A shift OF the wind to a southerly d.
probably saved the town of c
from complete destruction by h
Ire recently. A fire, thought to he OF Il
ncendlary origin, started In that place
,arly I'm the morning and burned the g
,ostoffice building. a meat market and A
pool hall.
Enthusiastic over the success OF n