The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-08-27
MONTANA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Too many labor leaders, as too
many policemen, feel that their
jobs. depend on a fight The best
service labor leader can give to his
men, is to steer them sanely and hon
orably through impending difficulties
without a crash; just as the best pc-
lice Will run city with the fewest
arrests, killings and the least graft.
MISUNDERSTANDING and ballasting
Of Milw auke railroads 13-mile
BlackfOott road, under way.
JOplln-COnflicting leasers agree on
plan for testing oil structure here, to
go 5000 feet.
Belt-Wheat yielding from 80 TO
30 bushels per acre.
Havre-survey being made and
pipe will soon be laid, for gas supply
from Bowes structure south of Chi
! nook.
Havre- Hog shipments this year
should double those of 1925.
Havre-Several approved farmers
are growing Canadian Supreme wheat
superior new hybrid variety.
Havre-New route surveyed, for
Roosevelt highway entrance to Havre.
Great Falls-Western Motor COM
pany opens modern $4,000 sales
plant here.
Shelby-Test we'll to be drilled in
new locality, two miles northeast Of
city.
Sunburst-Rice Stannard No. Is
oil well is gusher, 5000 barrels a
day.
Miles City-New buildings being
completed, for Custer county fair.
HamiltOn-LOcal growers ship two
carloads sour cherries to Eastern mar
kets.
Valley County has $21, 947,6 77 as
sessed valuation.
Fergus county grain crop, one of
the best in years. Milwaukee Rail
road has handled more farm machin-
cry this year than for past 7 or 3
years together.
Shelby-Sixteen new oil wells were
spudded in, last week of July; largest
number in any week since Kelvin Sun
burst field was discovered.
Three FOrks-Gallatin entrance to
Yellowstone Park, opened to public.
POplar-FOrt Peck M rcantile
Company store, recently burned, will
be rebuilt.
Four thousand acres in Montana
and Oregon to be opened as 320-acre,
ncn-irrigable hOmesteads.
Great Falls-New unit f Black
Eagle power dam will cost Montana
Power Company S1,O00,000, and add
$4,000 hip.
Great Falls-City building for first
half of 1926 tOtaled S421 1876.
Missoula-During first half of 1926
building permits reached $163, 800.
Misscula - Carload shipments of
late Strawberries being made to East
ern markets. Heavy crop still to be
harvested.
Missoula-Grain shipments begin,
of 1926 crop.
Wocdside and Florence creameries
each ship carload of cheese.
/ Stevensville-Ravalli County can
I merry closes pea canning season with
smaller pack, but better quality and
= higher priced output than last year.
: Shelby-New 56-Gaino well is flow
a ing 300 barrels oil day.
t Great Falls-Location work begins,
d on new 7-mile Kibby CanyOn-OtteI
}. Creek highway.
Glasgow Work being rushed, ia
e complete Great Northern yards for di-
Z vision station.
s Continental Oil Company strikes oil
at 1,076 feet, in Western Garfield
8 county.
n Montana products of all kinds will
be worth $340,0O0,00O this year, says
the Bureau of Agriculture.
Combined net earnings of all Op
Grated utility properties of the Stan
dard Gas and Electric Company
which has holdings in this State, 70,
the IL months ended June 30, 1926
showed an increase of $7,797, 40, o,
1859 percent. as compared to previ
Gus IL months. Gross earnings in
creased S10,621 1852, or 7.95 percent.
No Gold Scarcity
There is nc scarcity of gold in tn,
mountains. There has been no "crol
failure" in gold Gold production i
not affected by weather conditions
The mines have not burned down, bu
many Of them have closed down be
cause gold mining does not pay.
This great historic industry is i
the dOldrums, and the only thing sus
h. tanning its little activity seems to b
- that old lure of the miner, "bette
~ gold just little deeper" Something
should be done, but what can be done
&c is the question on every hand. Tn
u MeFadden bill, with its subsidy, ha
no chance of passage in Congress
10 The idea is repugnant to our people
~ Still, England we understand, is sub
~ sidizing her gold mines, even tn
i mines of South Africa, where the
employ Kafir labor at low wages.
It has been suggested that me-
W. gold produced be exempted from ta7
:" alton, as the market price of gold