Word: montana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open season for trout ended, but not before the President had caught one more fat rainbow trout (4½ lbs.) and, by moonlight one evening, a grayling. Fifty grayling-slim, gamey cousins of the trout with a high dorsal fin, plentiful in Montana but almost extinct in Wisconsin-had been turned into the Brule from the Pierce estate's fish nurseries...
...Oklahoma Montana...
...Montana. Voters who have failed to vote must register again with a county clerk, notary public or justice of the peace. Registration closes Sept. 22, but persons who have registered before can be sworn inat the polls on Election...
With Anaconda rose another mighty copperman, John D. Ryan. Copperman Ryan had been store clerk, drummer, oilman. He did business with Marcus Daly, and when Daly died, young Ryan took over his interests. Then Rockefeller-partner Henry H. Rogers invited him to take charge of Amalgamated Copper in Montana, then in the midst of the dispute with Heinze. In 1908, Rogers died and Ryan became president of Amalgamated. In 1910, it merged with Anaconda...
...Chairman of the Board of Anaconda, Copperman Ryan directs the affairs of the largest copper company in the world. Its assets total over $500,000,000, its working capital over $77,000,000. While Montana now yields first place to Arizona as a copper-producing state, the copper camp at Butte has disgorged one-sixth of all the copper mined in the world. And in 1922, Anaconda bought both the "biggest" American Brass Co. and, from the Guggenheim family, controlling interest in the Chile Copper...