The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-09-07
MONTANA WHEAT CROP
IS 100000 BUSHELS
Harvest This Year Will Yield Almost
Five Times Average Of
Past Five Years
Treasure State News In
Tabloid Review

LJ-ftNC fIiifIOn 0dohCtS ~
wheat, with a cash value of more
than $4,000, ,0O0-these are the
figures grain men arrive at in esti-
mating the yield and value of Mon
tana's 1928 crop.
Some estimates run as high as
60o00,00o bushels, with value
approxmating $45, 100000, while
the more conservative hold the
maximum to 100000 bushels
and place value on it of $35, ,000,-
600, but the average of all opinions
is a 5000, ,OOo-busheI yield and
cash returns of something more
than $40,oo0,oo0.
Two factors dominate with men
of the grain trade when they make
than on any former year-and an
acre yield virtually equal to any
past performance of Montana's
soil. The few scattered communi-
ties in which the yield has been
brought to lower point by grass
hoppers and adverse weather con-
ditions tend to reduce the grand
average for the state as compared
with the returns which seemed
probable when the growing season
was opening, but grain men famil-
lar with crop conditions estimate
the states acre average at from 20
to 25 bushels, with the mark of
% appearing in the forecasts more
frequently than any other.
The lowest of the local esti-
mates on the 1928 crop place the
states total yield slightly above
the 1922 figure, when Montana
placed 46,25o,000 bushels of wheat
in the bin. This was almost ex-
actIy twice the five-year, average,
which was 23,e46, 900 bushels. In
1915, the yield was 100000 BUSH
els; 1916, $4,000, 900 bcsheIs; 1917,
100000 bushels, 1919, 100000
bushels; 1920, 28,o00,o00.
While playing about the yard of his
ome the 3-year-old son of August
Jttke, of near Fallon, fell into a water
ole and was drowned.
Figures now available on the wool
lip in eastern Fergus county, includ-
lg wood from the Winnett and Flat
Willow country, show total clip of
lose IN 600 000 nOundS
Mrs. Louise Riggs, a resident of the
Ioore section for over 80 years, is
cad at the age of SO years. She had
cen a resident of Montana for over
0 years.
Fire of undetermined origin destroy
d the planning mill, power plant and
lmber yard of the Broows-Scanlon
lumber company at Eureka, doing
amage estimated at $250,000
An estimated loss of more than
( 900 is the result of fire in build
lg on Fourth avenue in Shelby, one
ock from the Great Northern tracks.
he building was owned by NJ. Fiddle
Conrad.
Joseph Boulet, owner of the Boulet
inch, near Butte, is dead. He was
years old and had lived on the
inch for 80 years. He was mem
IF of the Montana Pioneers, having
me to Montana from Salt Lake City
1868.
Chief Shorty Whitegrass, aged 1O3
,ars, one of the oldest full blood
dians in the United States is dead
his reservation home in the Gla-
er park reservation. He was buried
the reservation with elaborate |
ibal ceremony.
Mrs. Martha Walthall Evans died at |
e home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Evans |
Sheridan, Wyoming, after a pro-
nged illness. She was born March |
1S49, in North Salem, Ind. She /
ossed the plains in a prairie schoon-
in 1862.
Potato vines and other tender plants
the Sullivan valley, several miles
nth of Simms, were killed last week
a heavy frost, according to reports
ought to Simms. The Sun River val
: experienced the earliest frost in
ars, but so far as known no damage
is done First frosts in this section
ually appear late in September, and
2 visitation last week was most un-
ual
oliver Phillips of Lambert was a
Ier here fOrenart of wppk