The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
MONTANA WEEKLY
! INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Wheat shipments of Moore |
A.e.-r-.mhar We're AZ cars, hay 2 !
-sI -5--Ie III cars, sheep 1 car.
- ,.-s-1Iore than AZ carloads. !
H .~.~r 100000 pounds of alfal-
have been forwarded in last
Is Montana seed dealers.
rsI--Montana Flour Mills
with mills at Great Falls,
Harlowton' and Bozeman
~ KIM. general offices here.
r,ir -0f eight wells completed in
weak four are commercial pro-
81. gassers, and one dry.
,r aNeil-Lashbaugh No. s.
600. .arrels a day at 1000 feet
bring deeper drilling.
lr.-- butter production gaining 100
five years, Montana is 10Th
-s n dairy production. B ter
.-- wear was 14,795,010 pounds.
r.iroel - Beet harvest begins,
II better crop tn n anticipated.
e--r mill opens for years run.
1..ru- Montana oil prospect a t
o-r down 1000 feet, with good
isrl--ars farm population increas-
~ after heavy decline, 1920 to 1925.
uy.bam - Sugar beet harvest be-
with Tyler farm yielding 80
.r t8 the acre.
Nashua - Outgoing live stock ship
-- total 26 cars of horses, cattle
-aaD I'm one daV.
Great Falls has constructed $751;,
e.e worth of buildings, since January
1ri--oula A m eric an Telephone
. telegraph Company building tele-
1...a line. from MissOula to Idaho
@ .iue
vs.fa -45 cars of cattle shipped
trru Phillips County, during 1926
Valentine 49, Community hall to be
greeted. here.
Ha-rewton - Survey being m a d e,
=. ,r.raase identification of Mil
yankee switching yards at Harlowton.
Gibson - Contract let at $1,556,OOO
f.r building Gibson dam, with capac-
- # 10000 acre feet.
shelby ~ Natural gas production
Increases greatly in southern Kelvin
emburst field.
State viii pay $17,465, for building
oda miles Flint Creek road in Gran
fa county.
Wolf Point ~ Lands at State sale
hiring $50. 4O3 for 3108.34 acres.
State sells 1000 acres land at
GLASGOW. for more than S146,OOO.
Dod.on - Great Northern Railway
has crew charging stock yards here.
Wssoula - Large road crews at
work az Crooked fork section of Lew
Is and Clark Highway, on Columbia
FaUs-Glacier Park highway, and on
B'ackfoot road east of Glacier Park.
Columbia Falls ~ Soldiers Home
rstals new pumping plant.
Figures show that some Montana
lands are being irrigated by pump
rr. at 20 cents an acre.
Belt - Belt Valley Sheep Com
pany sells 3,24O-acre ranch and equip
ment for S81 900, for great hOg-rais-
ing farm.
Shelby - New Flickertail Oil Com
uany well, on Schact farm, East Side
Yields 20O-250 barrels a day.
Cascade County improved 455 miles
Of highway during 1925, and now has
1900 miles good roads.
Great Falls building contracts fOl
first nine months Of 1926, aggregate
ed S551,346.
Butte - Butte & Superior cuts II
foo vein of copper, zinc-silver ore II
Rainbow lode, Black Rock claim, a
3400-f0ot level
ArdsIey IL Butte Mines Corporation
in Elk Park, will develop to ,capacit!
of bic power plant.
Butte ~ Montana American" is
sues special magazine edition on Butt
mining district
Montana creameries shipped 322,
6i> pounds butter to San Francisco
and 132O31 pounds to Los Angeles
during September.
Montana's annual lumber cut o
about 35O,000,OOO feet, employs ZOO
men and is worth S14,350,0OO, wit
S2500000O plant investment.
Chinook - Handbook Oil COmpan!
gets heavy gas flow at 900 feet, II
So. 5 BOwes well.
Helena IL Montana Odd Fellow
will rebuild state home for aged.
Billings - u. S. Geological Sur
vey classifying lands for stock home
staad-
Roman ~ Cement walks being Tai,
along Main Street.
Hayre ~ Utah-Idaho Sugar Com
pary guarantees price Of ST per tor
for 1927 sugar beets.
baiuville- Sweetman L a k
ranch. 1000 acres, sold to North Da
k1ta buyer
White sulphur Springs ~ Thirty
.N cars sheep and cattle shipped on
% one iay.
0U)Ne - AO-mne gas line lai
im Cedar Creek anticline, to suppl
c
Montana on pipeline run for Aug
300 600 barrels.
Ht. Crystal Copper's surfac
Goldsmith mine repaired, an'
IUH
FORSYTH -5OOO-gauon water stor
strip
Malta ~ Large shipment Of cattl
~ d cars, left here r'
c.H.
....- Cts - From July I TO %
- 'I Milwaukee Railroad shin
1912 cars of stock, about 200
".a ana Northwestern South Dakot
1reat Falls ~ Building improve
,s constructed here during fir
~. months Of 1926 fofalad S55I. 81