Fur Trade
Fort Peck Dam
Vertical Lift Bridge
Dry-Land Farming
Oil Industry
Tribal Enterprises
Sugar Refining
Oil Seed Pressing
Buffalo Commons
Steam Threshing
Irrigated Agriculture
Sugar Beets
Lignite Coal

The SIA's 2003 Fall Tour will be in northeast Montana. This is one of the most out-of-the-way parts of the lower 48, but it has a wonderful array of engineering and industrial sites that will help members understand how our industrial culture conducts itself on the High Plains.

Because of the geography of the area, we will be covering more ground by bus than is usual. To minimize travel time, our entire entourage will stay at a hotel on Friday that is different from that on Thursday and Saturday nights. Therefore, be sure not to make your own hotel reservation for Friday night. Friday night accommodations are built into the cost of the tour. Make your own reservations for Thursday and Saturday nights only.

It is also fitting for SIA to visit the area at the time of the Bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Traveling from Williston to Fort Peck, we’ll be re-tracing the route followed by the Corps of Discovery in 1804.

The fall tour brochures were mailed, via first class mail to U.S. members and airmail to all other SIA members, on Friday July 18, 2003