The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03
MONTANA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
Missoula-Pine beetle ravages in
Beaverhead forest seem to be check
ed.
Simms - Smith Hughes mechanics
class builds $1,000 community hall.
Bozeman - Intermountain Fair
builds new stock barns here.
New oil structure will be tested at
F'edland, between Bannatyne and Con
rad Butte areas.
Peerless Development Co. will drill
test oil we'll east of Texas Pacific we'll
in POndera field.
Great Falls building permits for
June exceeds 100000.
Great Milwaukee railroad
will run spur line to new school site.
Bozeman may be put on main line
of Milwaukee railroad.
Lima-New city light plant in OBJ
Grafton.
Townsend-Ellis Co. at Diamond
City making good placer gold clean
ups.
Butte spending $4,000 in leveling
and repairing pavements.
SacO-Great Northern completes
Milk River bridge on Turner line.
Stockett-Last assets of failed
State Bank are sold for $500.
Great Falls lets $4,000 contracts
for school repairs.
Great Falls-ROyal Mills, Kalispell
Mills and Rocky Mountain Elevator
line in Montana join S5O,OOO,OOO Gen
eral Mills, Inc.
Montana Power Co. will paw taxes
on assessment of $50,693,927.
Butte school estimate for 1928-29 is
$1,150,OOO.
Great Falls-County will build Sui
phur Springs road from Goodale.
Glacier Park now has 100 miles of
good roads.
Ravalli County expects 400 carloads
of apples this year.
Heavy rains over most of Montana
insure grain and hay crops.
Whitefish streets are being oiled
with Kelvin crude oil.
Wolf Point has $4,000 airways
corporation and flying school.
Polson-Kalispell-P Poison Oil Co,
Will start new test on 4,OOO-acre
lease.
Plentywood now has emergency air
transport service.
Llvingsotn-Forest Service opening
Boulder River road.
Shelby-Great Northern round-
1 house is well under way.
POplar-3,0 -acleapump irrigation
project is raising fine crops.
Havre-State plants 40,0CC trout
fry in local streams.
Fort Benton -Federal-aid road
promised towards Carter.
Saco-Gas we'll being financed to
supply city with natural gas.
Libby-Local fish hatchery will re-
ceive fish eggs for propagation.
Ronan--Tramper Brothers open
new service station here.
Libby-Local hospital making many
modern improvements.
Libby Grumpy mines being devel
Oped and will soon have power plant
Whitehall ranchers form wool poo
to handle wool sales.
Great Falls-Dutch Shop Bakery
incorporated here for $4,000.
Harlowton-The State Grain Test
ing laboratory is opened here.
Great Falls light meter estimate!
indicate 10000 population.
Havre-Buildings under way or il
sight this year aggregate 100000.
Great Falls-Brown Sheet Iron &
Steel Co. of the Twin Cities plans
branch here.
Lewistown- 100000 renovation
will bring old Montana mills capacit!
, to 600 barrels of flour per day.
' Hobson- Judith Milling Co. mil
here make $50 barrels of flour day
\ Montana carload shipments gainet
: 1854 cars in April and 1101 in Ma,
over same months in 1927.
Shelby-Five thousand dollars i
pledged for new community church.
Whitefish- Coram farmers g
: heavily into raising everbearinj
n strawberries.
e Saltwater county property assess
t ments, including utilities, pass tn
: $16,00C,G00 mark.
Montana utilities are assessed SIS,
100000 above last years figure.
h Kalispell- Arcade Bakery install
q modern machine equipment.
f Glacier-Upper section of Tw
: Medicine park road is. let for $70,07E
: Hardin-Big Horn Oil & Gas Co
r brings III gas flow at 762 feet.
Big Horn county assessment is S1z
; 635,130.
: Dillon city government cost s57
s 443 last year.
i Dillon-Bids opened for 148 foe
n steel bridge at Lavon.
t. Roundup opens new city swimrnin
pool.
Garland Great Northern gray,
plant mas payroll of $4,000 a montl
Forsy lh-Northen Pacific Goa
IS strip n.;Les yield $1,000 tons of CO;
T0ntI.
Glacie1-Logan Pass Park road
y now being surfaced. 1t is not opel
: Great Falls-Bridges are bein
- constructed for lib miles of the Nor
\ arch rail line.
= Montana swineherds have increase
# ed greatly this year over 1927.
q Stevensville-Ravalli Canning G.
le opens cannery for peas and sour chez
i ries.