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THE HAVRE HERALD VOL. 3, No. 1. HAVRE, CAIOUTEAU COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JUrNE 8, 1906. $2.00 PER YEAR. HOW THI HERALDS ARE MADE NOW. In commemorating the passing of a birthday old customs allow many excesses and as The HERALD this week enters upon the third year of its existence the management feels licensed to the use of some news space to telling of the 'evolution which has taken place since September 26th last, when the present owner obtain ed the paper by purchase. At that time the plant consisted of a job press, 10x15 inches, a few stands of type and stones and its capacity was was then an eight page four column sheet, printed one page at a time on the job press. Having adopted the county of Chou teau as his home in the spring of 1890, the new purchaser had unlimited faith in the future greatness of this great undeveloped district and in the natural and unassailable position of Havre as the metropolis of this country. Then believing that ther was room for another up-to-date, pro gressive news paper, he started i to build up and equip a plant which thould be second to none and of a capacity to handle any class of work. This has now been accomlplishe and THE HERALD plant, withou reservation is the most complete in the country east of Great Falls t the Dakota line. The first addition to the plant was a newspaper press and for this pur pose we selected a two revolution Potter, two roller job and newspaper cylinder press; with rack, screw and and table distribution, air spring and rear tapless delivery, weighin 12,000 pounds and capable of doin the. finest kind of job work a well as newspaper work at a speed of from 1,400 tol,600 inpressions pe hour. This press is large enough to print a seven column paper or an addition of one column to each page of the present size of THE HERALD. The following picture will give ou readers some idea of the press. For power we have a three-hors power upright International gasolin engine which is used during the day shift, and in addition we have th plant so arranged that it can be run at night by electricity from a motor recently installed by the Havre Elec tric Co. Among other improvements i IRRIGATIONISTS MEET AND RESOLVE The irrigation meeting in Chinook \<as called to order by Chairman New man at 2 P. M., W. B. Sands deliv ered a sohrt address of welcome to th members of the Association in be half of the Commercial Club, t which the chairman replied for th Association, and then addressing th meeting stated that keeping in touch with the feeling along the valley on veh irrigation question he found that a very strong feeling o dissatisfaction existed among the people along the line by reason "of the slow progress bleing made on the construction o the Milk river project, and that the general feeling prevailed that a meet ing should be called at as early a date as possible with a view of taking some action that might insure better progress on the project. While the matter of calliig thi meeting was under consideration, an interview appeared in the Great Falls Leader, of Mr. Babb and Mr. Savage indicating that i would be severa years before the Milk River projec would be co mpleted. This interview had a tendency to develope an un I)leasant frame of mind on the part of the people who have been waiting for years for the completion of this work, and greatly added to the im iatience and disatisfaction of th state of affairs. Mr. Newman at this time announced That a letter from Mr. Babb advised him that it was impossible for him to attend this meeting on account of the rush of work. 'I regret exceeding ly that Mr. Babb has been unable to attend this meeting," said Mr. New man, "for it would give him an oppor tunity to add to our information and defend himself against any criticism I believe that any tendency to criti cise Mr. Babb for this interview shoul be discouraged, because there has bee a rivalry between the Sun River and Milk River projects, and it was pos sible that the interview has been con strued as to show the progress o the Sun River project off to better ad vantage. "Teh opinion prevailed throughou the valley that a strong effort be mad to secure an additional appropriation from the government for the purpose of hastening the beginning of wor a Twentieth Century model Eclipse newspaper folder which will fold, paste and trim a 6 or 7 column quarto and insert four pages into either size, making a twelve page paper complete. We next installed several smaller machines, indespensible in doing the rush of commercial work, viz: stapl ing machine, a perforater and a num bering machine. Also adding type rules, borders and materials of this class to complete the plant. Several months experience in makin THE HERALD by hand composition demonstrated the hopelessness an waste of setting type by hand and we finally placed an order with the Merganthaler Linotype Manufacturing Co., of New York for a Junior Lino type machine and this machine ar rived and was installed the second week of the month just passed. The new machine embodies in its equipment the famous linotype fea tures of composition, justification and distribution by a single operator and assures a" bright, new face forI each issue. It is guaranteed to set 3,000 ems per hour of ready-to-print, non piable matter from metal in the pig and is an absolute guarantee against the exhaustion of type, the only li mit upon the capacity of the shop being the amount of metal on hand. This metal can be bought at about 9 cents, and can be used over and over again, whereas, type for hand composi tion costs about 65 cents and is con stantly wearing and breaking. It en tirely does away with composition as the slugs, once used are thrown back into the pot and remelted. This machine is the outcome of ex periments extending through severa years with machines of various forms, in the endeavor to meet all the requirements of the small office Metal matrices are assembled i lines, with justifying wedges, and presented to amold in which the slug are cast from molten metal. It is ex ceedingly simple, its parts are all ac cessible, and it can be erected, operate and cared for by any person of ordin ary intelligence. The operations are all automatic. One person only is needed to operate it. The operator hat only to finger, with easy touch, the on the Chain Lakes and Dodson dams as well as on other of the diversion canals along the valley. Some hav expressed tehmselves as being in fav or cf having some of the million dol lars already set aside being used for the benefit of these dams, if an ad ditional appropriation can not be se cured, suggestions too numerous t mention have been made, but thi meeting is well represented and i competent of deciding on the best plan of action." Senator Mahom, of Valley county then moved that a committee of two, consisting of Mr. Jbhn Willis of Glas gow and Representative T. M. Ever elt, of Harlem, be delegated by th 'A.-sociation to proceed to Washington and endeavor to secure another ap propriation for the purpose of begin r.ing work as early as possible on the Chain Lakes and Dodson dams, and to take any action advisable in their judgment fcr the benefit of the Milk River valley. W. B. Sands of (Clinook added tha: th, comraittee itiould tEo endeav or t', call the attention of the govern-i meat tu the inconsintency of the Ni-i agiita Fllis intelraticnal commission sett':,g ca. the Mil River controversy, that a speci.l ctcnmLrrk'ion should b aor.cin'ed! for tuil: pu. l:'rE; Brockway of Malta ddtied that the inactivity on the l'art c., the general land of fice by not having a sufficient num ber of land inspectors worked a hard ship on settlers who have taken up desert claims, and proved up on same, but were unable to secure patent for their lands. Considerable debat followed and it finally being decided that these matters should be presen ted to the government in resolutions. The following were appointed as a committee on resolutions: Mahon, Brockway and Sands, and they re ported as follows: Resolved, That it is the sense of this meting that the diversion of the waters that cross the international boundary line, used used for irriga tion purposes, and the diversion of the waters of Niagara river are separate a distinct questions that should receive the consideration of a separate and distinct commission; and further, that (Continued on Page Five) The above is a View of Our New Mergan thaler Junior Linotype. - - Our two Revolution Potter Press. SOME JOYS OF OWNING ONE'S OWN HOME. Boi -Bowers in Chicago Tribune. EAGLES PREPARE FOR HELENA TRIP The Eagles started earnestly al work preparing for the excursion tc Helena at their last meeting Frida3 night 'and the plans were thoroughly gone over after which committees we: appointed to push the preparation: along and never let them lag. Ii is the purpose of the members of the Aerie, in which they will bh backed by the entire business interest of the city, to make a determined ef fort to land the next state Aerib for Havre. With this purpose it sight, a large delegation, made ui not alone of Eagles, but every public spirited citizen who can be induces to go, and all headed by the Citizens band, will go to Helena on the 20th of this month, determined to move every conceivable objection and labor to secure the selection of this little city as the place for holding the state convention in 1907. In this connection the delegatioi from the Havre Aerie at the lasi session of the State Aerie receivec numerous pledges of support, ani while there are some strong can didates in the field, there is every rea son to hope that the promises o 190.5 will be fulfilled in 1906. Let us all hope, but also it is well not to forget to hustle. The following were aplpointed a corn mittee to take full charge of th preparations: J. J. Holland, 11. J Meili, Dr. D. S. McKenzie, George M Purnell and Judge W. B. Pyper. The following were appointed as a commit tee of correspondence: Ed. M. Allen, Prof. T. J, Troy and W. B. Pyper. MONTANA GOLD PRODUCT. Helena, June 2.-During the month of May, the receipts at the United States assay office in this city amount ed to $195,914 in gold and $1,152 in silver. As usual, Fergus county was the banner gold producer, with a total of $96,256. The other contributors in cluded; Chouteau, $9,551, Lewis and Clark, $35, 264; Madison,$39,075. This is a substantial gain over the corres ponding month last year. keys representing the various letters. The justification of the line, the casting, trimming and assembling of the slugs, and the distribution of the matrices all take place mechanically. They do not require any stoppage of composition or any attention on the part of the operator. One line is cast and delivered while the operator is manipulating the keys to compose the next line. The matrices, each representing one letter, and the spacing wedges, are each attached to the lower end of a thin blade or shank having an eye at the top, as in the Rogers Typograph, produced some years since. The matrices and spacers are sus pended from and arranged to travel on inclined stationary endless wires or guides on which they move always in the same direction, singly from the storage points to the place of as sembling or composition, thence as composed lines to the casting mechan ism,and finally rearward and around to the starting points. There are as many guides as there are letters in th keyboard, one for each letter, an all matrices, bearing the same letter are suspended from one and the same guide, on which they remain perpet ually, traveling 'round and 'round as required. For a portion of their length the guides are all arranged in two parallel vertical ranks, in order to guide the composed lines of mat rices between them to the castin point, and thereafter to the rear for distribution. Beginning at the uppe rear ends the guides separate sidewise as they approach the front, so that the composed line in desending from the rear will be broken up and the matrices distributed to their respective guides on which they slide down un til they are arrested and held in groups by escapements connected to finger-keys. From the escapements the guide continue forward and downward i converging tines, so that as the mat rices and spacers are released one at a time, in the order required, they wil slide down to the front and be as sembled in line. The casting mechan ism is located on the right side of the machine, and consists of a swingi mould and a melting pot provided with RAIN STORM TIES UP THE RAILROAD The storm of rain which visite North Montana beginning the firs of this week has been the caase of of tile most serious trouble for the Great Northern railway and the line is in a badly crippled condition today, being practically under water fret Great Falls on down into teh Dako tas. The first trouble was c·aused by a great rush of water from the breaking of Irrigating dams about Buord and Snowden on Thursday, making a soft track. By dint of hard work this was fixed up and passenger trains Nos 1, 2 and 3 were gotten through. Then yesterday morning an immense volumt of water came rushing down Thirt Mile creek at Harlem, putting tha town-or at least teh north side o it--under water. The water came up to the rails of the track and large riv ers flowed both east and west from the high groud on which teh tow is located. endangering miles of th road bed, and, but for thim proLlp action (I the wrecking crew.s' upo r ciot -f cdcers from Superinr.,ient Jenks, in cutting many large holes in the road bed to relieve the pressure, there would be miles of track ou this morning. The water rose 3 feet in thirty min utes in the streets of Htarlem yester day morning, and train No. 4 which left here in the morning is still a Harlem, but will be brought back to night if the track can be gotten in shap. A freight train left Harlem 30 minutes before the arrival of No. and got through to Malta, but No. 4 could not be run beyond Harlem Train No. 2 of yesterday came i by way of Virden and went back a round by way of Great Falls. No. 4, due this morning went east over teh Northern Pacific. The west boun train at Glasgow will return east to day. The track at Pacific Junction, three! miles west of Havre is under water for many rods and some Montana Cen tral trackisgone. A special train of cabooses left at 4:30 this afternoon to meet and trans fer the passengersfrom the Montana Central train which Is stalled ba tween Pacific Junction and 'Fort As plunger, to deliver the moulten type metal into the back of the mould. This pot may be heated by gas or gasoline. After the line is composed, a finger traveling on an endless guide pushes the matrix line around in front of the mold, and the casting of the slug takes place during the composi tion of the next line. As soon as the slug is cast the finger pushes the mat rix line upward to the rear ends of the guides on which the matrices, slid ing down individually, are distributed and returned to the rear ends of the groups, where they remain until a gain called for to perform as mem bers of succeeding lines. The mold containing the slug swings forwarid away from the pot past a knife, knife which trims the base of the slug, so that it is exactly type high; the mold comes to a stop. and an ejector pushes the slug out between two knives into a galley. It will be noticed that the matrices remain constantly on their fixed guides, and that they cannot be mis placed or lost. On one wire special characters not in the keyboard may be introduced by hand and on the same wire thin spaces for specially-justified lines. Each machine is fitted with mat rices for Nompareil and Brevier news paper faces, with a mould tc produce six, eight and ten point slugs of 13 ems pica measure. Either set may be substituted for the other in five min utes. Cnge of face is effected by simply lifting out two bars, carrying the matrices of one face, and substi tuting others carrying the second set of matrices. The new machine is inoperation in the afternoons of each day of the week except Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and we would be pleased to show the machine doing the work of compositors any time you call. PIANO TUNER COMING. Prof. Arthur Wales, the most famous of all the piano tuners, is going to be here on his regular spring trip in a week or ten days, or possibly two weeks, and will call on all who may want tuning clone. Do not be mis lead by ultauthorized persons or stran gers, but wait unti eh comes, and get the right value for your money. sinniboine, and just the other side of Beaver creek. A dam in Beaver creek broke and the water rose 10 feet in 40 minutes. Mr. Pat Herron had to move his family and stock to the hills and suffer considerable loss a damage to his ranch. If the storm has run its course as is indicated this morning, it will on ly be a matter of hours until the track can be gotten in shape so that trains can be moved, as, while the track is all soft, there are no breaks except those made by the crews to let the water through from the north side to the river. With all the troub le and delay, there has been no loss of life. AAY DEVELOPE THE IIAVRE CEMENT DPOSITS. There is a large and valuable, though undeveloped deposit of cem ent in the country about three miles south of the city and the time when it will become a valuable addition to the business wealth of Havre is not very far distant. Mr. L. K. Devlin is the owner of 360 acres of the land on which this deposit is located. The government, in undertaking the building of large dams for irrigation purposos, is greatly in need of cem ent and the reclamation department is investigating all deposits in the neigh borhood where the work is to be done. In pursuance of this policy, Mr. Chas. P. Williams of the reclamation service spent Saturday here and was driven out to the land by Mr. Devlin, where he made a thorough examina tion of .the deposit and took away numerous samples of the rock which will be assayed. Mr. Williams is an authority on cement and was surpris ed at teh extent of the deposit and of teh purity of the stone. K. A. Hinote left Saturday for his old ohme at Miller, Neb., in response to telegraphic advise that his moth er was dangerously ill with typhoid fever. Lester Dixon, day operator in the Western Union offices here left Thurs day for Chicago where he will ac cept a similar position with the same company.