Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-02-01

Oh tne Nehiy-SiAth aiiiuHi niccAHie "a
Missoula.
From the Spokane-Sweet Grass well
near Shelby, comes the report Of strick'
Ing OF a flow of from 100000 81
100000 feet of dry gas az a depth OF
1850 feet I'm a sand 10 feet In thickness
The directors Of the First National
Bank of Three Forks. which closed It's
doris recently, expect to reopen the In
~stitution within 80 days according to a
statement given out by President j. f
Barnes.
Farmers of the Coombs flat country
near Laurel, have pooled 1000 acres
of land for oil development and COM
mencement of the first well Is ex-
peeted early in the spring, according
to reports.
With a paId-up membership of more
than 80, the Musselshell County Sports
mems association was organized at
A. meeting at Roundup, which was
attended by a large number Of enthusi-
astic hunters and fishermen.
A Great Falls oil company, the Black
Magic, Will pay the first dividend on
production from the Kevin-Sun5urst
field, according 10 an announcement
from the office of the company in
Great Falls. The dividend will be 10
per cent.
Golfing in January may be assumed
possible only in Florida and California,
according to the booklets boosting
those states, but Montana slipped n
over on the banana belt recently when
golf was played Mt the Meadowlark
Country club links, Great Falls.
A great deal OF interest has been
aroused in Ennis community by two
boys finding a bag of gold In a ledge
while hunting rabbits. The bag was
old and fell ( o pieces when they picked
II up, so a great portion of the con-
tents WAS lost and the boys, mt renf--
sizihg fire alaeAgE4,Aastna-I lot
before they had It properly tested.
In the new bulletin TO be issued by
the Montana Development assoclafion
is contained n number Of salient fscts
about Montana. one of the articles
deals with the possibilities Of Montana
as n farming country In more Vows
than one and the other concerns the
recent railroad publicity program out
lined in Billings by prominent railway
publicity men.
The year Of 1922 brought the city of
Deer Lodge MANY changes, all of which
have added ia the gradual up5ullding
Of a model western city. Improve
ments during the last year have been
obtained at a low cost. They were
confined TO clvic improvements which
generally added TO the city's natural
and aided municipal work by
The betterment OF its highways.
New developments In the manufac-
turing end OF the Anaconda Copper
company may be expected from
the recent acquisition OF control Of the
Chile Copper company according TO the
Wan Street Journal, which says the
company will probably turn It's cher
yies to rounding out ITS enterprises
With z~inc-oxide works. acid-phosphate
a brass foundry and fine wire
Mill at Great Falls.
Arrangements are now being made
~ the newly elected board Of directors
or the Shelby chamber Of commerce
or n big mass meeting nj Shelby, at
which a number of eminent speakers
viii tell of the possibilities Of the city
md the field. A program OF work for
he chamber will be outlined and n
budget ample for financing their plans
viii be raised. Outside capital is
icing interested In the development of
he city.
The opponents OF the art of breed
ng patrlclan poultry who have folded
heir coops and left Billings. since the
liz poultry show, are convinced that
aislng chickens on the ground and
lot oil out of the ground Is the most
eliable way to get rich and even get
lch quick In Montana. Many stories
circulated around about instances
f comparative opulence resulting In
short time from the raising Of
hickens.
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
fife will construct a branch line to its
oal fields early next spring. The
ranch VIII leave the main line about
TX miles west of Forsyth and follow
route surveyed four years ago. IL
I'LL be "a miles In length and will tap
ne of the largest deposits Of coal in
he northwest. This coal Is located
My 80 feet below the surface OF the
and the vein is practically 30
Get In thickness. Large steam shoveis {,
I'M be used to strip the soil from the /,
elm. ,
The state of Louisiana has been look {,
1g for new sources OF good seed POI I
atoes of the Early Bliss Triumph va
Iety for their growers. Arrangements .
ave been made with the horticultural {
apartment of the state experiment I
tation Mt Baton Rouge, La, whereby I
even Bliss Triumph potato growers of
alley county will cooperate to the ex- Z
mt of furnishing an apple box of their
est seed potatoes for the test and {
emonstration. Those having certified