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The letterhead is from:
"Benepe-Owenhouse Company, 'Incorporated'
Proprietors of the
Benepe Elevator.
Agricultural Implements, Hardware, Dry Goods, Boots & Shoes, Clothing, Groceries, Grain & Produce.
General Agents for
Advance Threshers,
for Montana.
Deering Binders & Mowers.
Sweet's 'Common Sense' Sleighs.
Paid up Capital $100,000.00
Parlin & Orendorf Plows, Mitchell & Studebaker Farm Wagons.
Studebaker Spring Wagons and Buggies. Golden Age Disc Harrows.
F. L. Benepe, President
E.J. Owenhouse, Vice Pres't.
J. W. Kirschner, 2nd Vice Pres't.
B. T. Stanton, Sec'y & Treas.
E. H. Fisher, Asst Treas.
Bozeman, Montana".
The engravings on the letterhead show the "Benepe-Owenhouse Department Store" with horses and wagons and pedestrians, and:
"Frank L. Benepe,
Elevator
Benepe-Owenhouse Co. Prop." with a train going by.
Dated Feb 29 1896. This is an order for "2 Bare [bars] Iron eny [any] Lenght [length] you have from 10 to 14 feet 5/8 tick [thick] & 2 1-½ inh [inch] wide for Sleigh shoe".

1896 order for iron bars and sleigh shoes [Enlarge_+] [Extra_Large]
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