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Mission Valley News, Jan. 20, 1977

Fort Connah adds $1,000 to restoration treasury

The Fort Connah Restoration Society got a healthy financial boost from the Lake County Bicentennial Committee with the presentation of a $1,000 check for the local restoration project.

Presenting the check was Mrs. Marian Turpin, Ronan, treasurer of the Bicentennial Committee. Walt McDonald accepted for his Fort Connah Committee in brief snowy ceremonies in front of the recently re-erected building at the old fort site.


Dixon student receives award

Bobby King , a senior at Dixon High School, has been selected as one of the top 10 automotive students in the western United States and western Canada by the Pacific Automotive Show whose membership consists of manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers.


Arlee student nominated to West Point

A high honor has been paid to one of Arlee's high school students, Ken Gordon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gordon. He was included by Senator Metcalf as one of three nominees for West Point Academy at West Point, N.Y.


For Free

TO GIVE AWAY -- Border Collie pups:Four males and one female. Would make good farm dogs.

Call 644-2875 and keep trying.


Fattening cattle is new Billings industry

Livestock fattening on a vast scale has been introduced into the city of Billings as one of its best paying industries, with a payroll of at least $50,000 monthly and an expenditure for feed supplies that has become part of the life stream of the city's business.

Located with its hub on the Midland Empire Fairgrounds, where 2,000 to 3,000 head of cattle are being fed, the feeding operations also cluster around the Great Western Sugar Factory, where several thousand sheep are on a diet of sugar beet pulp and alfalfa hay, being prepared like the cattle at the fairgrounds for the market of the coming months.

The feeders’ profits are the difference between the assigning price of three cents per pound and the weighing out price of four and a half cents per pound, plus the increase of possibly 200 pounds a head while on the beet pulp and alfalfa diet.

The Fry Packing Company of Seattle is behind this phase of fattening. The company bought up cattle from all parts of Montana and shipped them to Billings for a distribution among farmers.

As the farmer is not required to make any deposit on the animals, it makes an attractive proposition for him. If he puts 200 pounds on a 900-pound animal, he receives $16.50 from the company per head.

Expenses are reckoned by stockmen to be 12 cents a day per head, which for 100 days would be $12.50 or a net profit of $4 a head.