Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-03

IA eharge OF the new inspection dlvi
sion.
-Four petitions 10 the Montana fish
n game commission for the opening
OF the Yellowstone river TO fishin,
nave been circulated In Livingston
Dy ardent fishermen. Similar petition.
are being circulated througout the
state.
Work on the reconstruction of the
Cove ditch near Billings has again
started and will be pushed as rapidly
as possible until the beginning of the
Irrlgation season, 4laxd
Llpp. secretary of the Cove Irrigation
district.
Contract for construction Of II niles
81 gravel surfaced highway between
cascade and Ulm, In Cascade county,
OF The route between Helena and Great
rams, has been let by the state high
way emomission TO Fitzgerald & Staun-
ton Of Great Falls for SS0,360.
Earl Baker of Ismay shipped 1850
pounds of his Bliss Triumph pure seed
POTATOES TO Miles City this week.
These seed spuds represent one OF the
best 1utSIn the state, where less than
two per cent of all potato diseases
were found In the patch last fall at
digging time.
Montana Wesleyan college closed It's
nome debate schedule recently, IVES
ieyan girls winning In an exciting con-
test with "a fpan oF Vfrfo from. tho
state college at Bozeman by a 80 de-
cision. The debate was on the ques-
tion of parliamentary government for
the United States.
Richard T. Ringing. son of one of
the Ringing Brothers OF circus fame.
who is now a prominent figure In the
livestock industry of Montana, is
manned defendant In two damage suits
flied recently In the district court of
Galiatin county, In which damages
totalling $4,000 are asked.
Dandellons in Lewistown as well
as other cities In the state are becom-
Ing a greater pest every year and are
fast destroying the lawns. Several
years ago the city authorities staged
a campaign against the dandelIon with
apparently good results, but this
method has been discontinued for some
time now.
Bridger folk are just beginning to
realize the activity which will follow
the Introduction of the seed pea in
dustry into the Clark Fork valley.
Word received recently was that four
carloads Of seed peas are en-route to
that point for distribution and that
] 100 acres in Carbon county Will be
planted to peas this spring.
The special election Mt Kallspell TO
vote for the creation of the proposed
county OF Lake out OF parts of Flat
head and Mlssoula will be held ms
originally scheduled, but ms a result
Of District Judge Pomeroy's decision
deciding fight will not come until
May II, when the court will pass on
the legality of procedure leading up
TO the election.
Seventeen feet of pure coal content
N a single vein underlying the thou
sands of acres In the Red Lodge coal
'leld and containing millions upon mll
Ions Of tons of high grade semi-bitu.
ninous coal. the best product of Mon
ana fields. Is being opened this spring
summer In Red Lodge and already
he carbon fuel product, is being
into the cars at this thriving
Industrial center.
Word was received recently by Dean
:. p. Baird from S. Il. Davis. president
T the state normal, that the regional ]
0ormal summer school for Billings had |
cen authorized by the University of {
following conferences with {
be attorney general over the proyi- '
Ions Of the law. The school ut Bill
ngs with those at Miles City and |
ewistown will be. during their SEES v
Ions. a regular branch OF the Univer- n
ty of Montana and under the super I
Ision OF President Davis.
Entrance into Montana Of another
rye independent oil group with heavy
nancial backing is assured by The n
1nouncement In Billings Of Jack I
anclger, vice president OF the Dan a
ger OH & Refining company OF Kan Is
Is City, that his company, through e
e operations OF the Rio Grande Gulf v
II & Gas company. has appropriated e
100000 for the purpose Of prospect p
z for oil In Montana and Wyoming.
he company already has leases on IL
700 acres In the nelghborhood OF oil
lker, Mont. Ell
At no time since the advent Of the
licago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul road
Montana In 1907 has the outlook
r southeastern Montana been more d.
than at present. The new vi
nth and south road being built by IA
e Haskell interests which will con- W
ct Miles City with the oil fields Of IL
will develop one Of the rich co
sections Of Montana and Will make tn
lrkets more accessible to hundreds ca
stockmen and farmers on five great
n~scontInental lines of railway. The
portance of this undertaking can
freely be estimated until 1t Is re- Al
led that II viii link the Milwaukee tn
4 Union Pacific systems making a ge
'ect route to south Pacific coast we