The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-12-25

and expanding. Their output for 1925
promises to be more than 100000
pounds.
THE turkey crop is estimated at
500, 600 pounds. We have no figures
for this years egg and chicken pro-
ductiOn, but it will not fall behind
that of 1924, when more than s.
100000 chickens and 100000
dozen eggs brought more than ST.
100000 dollars to the producers Of
Montana.
LAS to industrial Montana, we
have a coal output of some 10000
tons. Our lumber mills will have an
increased output, approximately $780,
600, 900 board feet, principally Pom
dOsa pine, native fir and larch.
'In the production of metals, fig
ures published by the United States
geological survey show that Montana
produced in 1924, in. round figures,
PAS, 600, 900 pounds of copper, 128,-
coo, 900 pounds Of zinc, $4,000, 600
pounds of lead, 1900 600 ounces of
silver and nearly $500 ounces of
gold.
mo figures are available for 1925,
but unofficial opinion in mining cir
cles is that the 1925 production viii
not fall below this. One interesting
phase of the mining business is e
vealed in the fact that, of a certain
grade of manganese, four times IS
much tOnnOge will be shipped this
year as was marketed last year.
within the past year, the manu-
facture of beet sugar has been great
ly expanded by the erection of a
million dollar factory at Sidney and
another costing the same at Chinook.
Because of this, there has been an
increase in sugar beet culture
amounting to 10000 tons. This is
in addition to the 24O, 900 IONS pro-
duced exclusively for the Older-es-
tablished factory in Billings, where
a million bags of sugar were turned
out in 1924, earning for this plant
the title of the largest beet sugar
factory in the world.
Canning factories at BOzeman
and S%tevensville this year put out
I321,OOO cases of our famous and un-
lexcelled peas. BOzeman also pro-
,duced nearly 10000 cases Of beans.
Falls Plant Extending
, "Of vital significance to Butte and
the mining districts of Salt Lake and
> the Occur d'Alene, is the extension
: program now under way at the Great
I Falls reduction department Of the
! Anaconda Copper Mining company
r ~, j the present additions to plant
acl equipment are completed, the
4 copper refinery capacity will have
bSsn /, by SO per cent, cleo
troiytic Eiuc tlS~t by 93 Is per cent.
p and TIE ROC .oa ire mill by about
e 80 per cG4t.
Power cOnsum aJi,n Is an authen-
n tic business barometer. 1 Az told thai
the Montana Power cOmDany's OctO.
S Der output this year exceeded that Of
u any other month in the long history
of the company, and showed an in.
" crease of p per cent in average load
0 over October, 1924, and an increasC
e of 20 per cent in maximum load. The
J.. cOmpany's total kilOwatt-hOur Outpu'
this year will show a 10 per cent gaiI
D. lover last year, amounting prObabl.
# to a billion and a quarter kilOwatt
hour. During 1925, four additions
# towns and nearly 800 new customer
7Ilhave been added.
N "Under conditions such as these
it is self-evident that MOntanans hav
# every reason to be thankful. Labor
n prOfitably and steadily employed
h. Merchants are plying a brisk an
70 ever increasing trade. Bank clear
20 ings are larger and bank deposit
heavier than usual. Butte, for in
10 stance, with about $4,000 population
IA has deposits of $4,000, 900 eQualin
ne those of Tacoma, a city of $1,000 0
Taxpayers of the state, in additiO
N to paying off huge bank obligation
a incurred during the lean years, hav
Dv in tie past year paid more than SIS
I'd 100000 in overdue taxes, a feat VI
Ill paralleled in the taxation history {
the state. The Montana farmer, chic
in bUlwark of our states prosperity,
ne coming rapidly into his own.
he Some of them even have enOug
It. cash and courage to go into the raj
road business. Witness the 5O-mil
n extension from ScObey to Opheim, !
on Valley and Daniels counties. Thes
a. ~plutOcratic husbandmen cheerful
of dug down in their jeans and bOugl
$500, 600 worth of Great NOrther
ed stock with which to build the roa
ir- and paid for this stock, DESPITE I'll
of fact that it was then selling on tf
IS. market around 81.
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n ~Three-fifths Of those employed