The Montana Flour Mills Company succeeded in taking first prize at the Montana State Fair for the best flour manufactured in the state. Many of our citizens do not realize what this means to Meagher County and this part of the state. To manufacture the best flour requires the best wheat. So, when they took that prize on flour, it means the best wheat is grown in this part of the state.
The wheat in the Gallatin Valley this year is running very low in gluten, only about 30 per cent. In Meagher county it runs from 43 to 50 per cent. The millers in the Gallatin Valley, realizing this, sent one if their wheat buyers here to purchase this wheat to mix with their low grade.
The Montana Mills at this place have about completed six large concrete tanks capable of containing two hundred thousand bushels. These tanks will be completed about December 1st.
The Mill at present is running night and day and employs three shifts of men. The Milling Company have flour orders on hand to keep the mill running at this rate for three months.
They are paying, three cents over the regular price for wheat.
From The Harlowton News