Belt Valley times. [volume], August 13, 1925, Page Page Six, Image 6

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UTTK hill hud the ore«. Warm
Springs volley had the water
for reducing them,
the two lay 32 miles of buttes,
bluffs, gulches and rolling
prairie. To move thousands of
tons of ore each day from the
richest hill on earth to the larg
est non-ferrous smelter In the world was a Job fit
to teat the mettle of the best kind of railroad that
could be built.
Such a railroad Is the Butte. Anaconda A Pa
cific of today, which starts from the Butte hill at
an elevation of S,()0O feet, drops to 6,150 near
Oregaon Springs, 16 miles from Butte, and again
climbs to 5,740 feet In the smelter yards at Ana
roada. where some 850 bottom-dump cars dis
gorge from 10,000 to 15,000 tons of ore per day
Into the gigantic hoppers of the reduction works.
During Its return climb from the Rocker to the
Butte hill, a distance of four miles, the .engines
hack a 2.5 per cent grade, rising 528 feet In the
four miles.
When Marcus Daly built the Anaconda works,
the Montana Union Railroad, had the monopoly
on the hauling of ore from mines to smelter. Dull
times coming on and" the business being unable
to stand the heavy freight charges, Mr. L)aly ap
pealed to the management for a reduction. This
the railroad refused, although It I* saldTfiat a
d iff e re nc e of only 25 cents per ton stood In the
way of an amicable settlement.
With his characteristic determination not to
be balked. Mr. Daly proceeded to build his own
railroad, In order that reduced freight costs
might keep more men employed during the slack
times.
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He shut down the mines on Butte hill, turned
Ms hard rock miners Into graders, track-layers,
culvert and bridge builders, and pushed the rond
to Mrlft completion. By the time the mad wns
built Industrial conditions had improved, the mines
were reopened, the smelter resumed operations
and hundreds of workmen, who otherwise would
have been unemployed, had been maintained at a
gainful occupation.
Unlqua In Character.
The B. A. & P. railway, according to the Gen
eral Electric Bulletin, "Is In many ways the most
remarkable example of steam road electrification
In the country."
The little road, with Its mammoth electric
engines. Its endless strings of ore cars and its
enormous tonnage Is unique In many way«.
Continuing the Bulletin saya:
"Besides being the first 2.400 volt, direct cur
rent road, It I« also credited with being the first
MONTANA StBD EXHIBIT
PROVED VERY POPULAR
The traveling, seed tihow conducted
by the Montana extension «etvlce last
spring visited 82 of the important
fanning communities ln 11 different
counties of the state and carried the
message of better seed to more than
1.400 Montana farmers, A. J. Ogaard.
agronomy specialist for the extension
service, originated the Idea of the trav
eling show and the exhibits were con
ducted under his direction with the
agricultural agents In the different
counties managing the local exhibits.
The seed show Innovation has at
tracted considerable attention through
out the country.
Bach local »how also was made the
occasion for the exhibition of local
need grown and for aale by the Arm
era of the community.
Mr. Ogaard believes thst the travel
ing seed show accomplishes a real pur
pose in that it brings high quality seed
directly to the fanners, many of whom
are unable to attend st*te or district
exhibits. It Is planned to extend the
s e ed show Idea and to take it to other
farm communities next spring
Campbell Baya S2 Wheat
Thomas D. Campbell, head of the
Campbell Farming corporation and
Montana's premier wheat producer,
feels positive that conditions warrant
$2 wheat in Chicago before January 1.
"AH reports indicate one of the
«hortest crops we have «vor bad Is th*
United States and certainly not a
bumper crop In Canada," said Mr.
Campbell He urges that the growers
hold their wheat and market It in a
restricted orderly manner this year.
The Metes crop in Rosebud county
and some of the
earlier have already set, the melons
la soar ta
«bough the
«M» year than last the melon» have
nog mad« a rapid growth and will prob
*Wy ripen lût ta August
«feta Meet Butter
|à. «be month at June the Deer
éissmwT »hipped to CaBforata
ÉLOeo pounds of batter.
Good Crops In Mission Valloy
The Mission valley with Its num
erous fields of golden grain presents a
scene of bustling activity. The grain
harvesting Is now In full swing with
threshing machines and combine« In
operation throughout the valley. The
average yielding of winter wheat Is
from 80 to 45 bushels, according to O.
L. Knight, who has been scouring the
valley for specimens for the Lake
county fair.' Oats six feet high were
brought In from the Hillsdale farming
district. It has been estimated that u
million bushels of grain will he
threshed this year.
Demonstration Work Thrives
The organisation of home demon
stration work In Carbon county Is
moving along rapidly. 'î'he Washoe,
Bear creek. Belfry, Bridger. Luther,
RÄscoe, Joliet and Fromberg communi
ties have voted to adopt clothing pro
jects as one of the lines of work to be
carried on this year. The communities
of Dry Volney, Castagne and Roberts
are also considering the projects to he
undertaken; 4-H clubs have Just been
started it BeercTeek, Brldger, Joliet
and Fromberg. These clubs will de
vote themselves to canning during the
Sommer and early fall.
Boys Grow Clover
Of the 16 contestants In the Flat
heed county boy«' sweet clover grow
ing contest, not one has failed to se
cure a stand, according to H. N. Kauff
man of the high school agricultural
department, who Is supervising the
boys' work. The I« boys are growing
a ratal of 184 acres, and the fields
planted represent many different farm
cgndttkNia, the object of the contest
Mag to demonstrate not what sweet
clover will do under Ideal conditions
hut under varied con it Ion».
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Great Weal Clip
A wool dip of *M»«,000 pounds,
compared with 19,814,000 pounds loot
year Is estimated to have been secured
by Montana sheepmen this spring,
while the number docked Is placed at
1,500.000 for this spring'» crop, com
pared, with 1.445.000 ■ ya*r ago, ac
edr&Bg 4o a report iaimed by the Mon
tana Co-operative Crop Reporting ser
vice.
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steam road, operating electrically both freight
and passenger lines purely for reasons of economy.
"The first electric locomotives were put In ser
vice May 28, 1913, hauling ore ears between the
East Anaconda yards and the smelter. The en
tire freight traffic was gradually taken over and
since November, 1918, all trains have been handled
by electric locomotives.
"During the first year the electric locomotives
made approximately 430,000 miles and htfuled
about 4,500,000 tons of ore. The unusually sue
cessful operation marks au epoch In the annals
of heavy electric traction.
"The first locomotives wer«»— put In service
hauling ore up the smelter hill against u 1.1 per
cent grade and It Is a significant fact that service
, has never been discontinued and no material In
terruptions have occurred from any cause."
Ore trains, hauled by electricity, are much
heavier than those hauled by steam and the
freight movement on the B. A. & P. Is now among
the heaviest In the world.
The lines of the system. Including sidetracks,
»witches and apura, cover 95 miles. The loco
motives are 80 tons weight nnd two of them are
used to haul heavy trains. The local traffic la
approximately 5.000,000 tons u year, handled In
steel curs weighing about 18 tous und having a
capacity of 50 tons each.
At the Rast Anaconda yards the train Is
broken Up Into trains of 1,400 tons und sent up
Smelter hill.
The locomotive equipment consists of 17 80-ton
Of these, 15 ure for freight and two for
passenger service.
Viewed from every angle, the 11 A. and P. is
ns unique ns are the towns which form Its termini.
Operating Methods
Trains of 30 to 40 loaded cars weighing 2.000
to 3.000 tons nre taken up the Butte hill hy the
two-unit locomotive and hauled to Rocker, where
4.000 to 4,500-ton trains are made up for rhe main
line.
milts.
MONTANA SWINE GROWERS
EXPECT TO PROFIT LARGELY
With n spring pig crop fully as large
as the record crop of 1924 and with In
dications of an Increase in the fall, In
the face of a general reduction the
country over, Montana swine growers
Can expect to profit largely this year.
With hogs now approaching the
peak of their prlfe cycle and short
supplies for the next few months
pointing to continued price advances
through the late summer. Montant
farinera have timed their breeding to
profit materially from this situation
as disclosed by the results of the na
tional pig survey which shows for
Montana a spring pig crop fully ns
large as the record crop of 1924 and
an Increase of 49.6 In the number of
sows intended and bred for fall pigs
In 1925 compared with the number of
sows farrowed in the fall of 1924.
Methods used by Lyon county, Kan
sas, farmers In s successful war on
the cinch hug. are being utilised In a
state-wide campaign against the in
sert, which has been doing enormous
damage to crops. Trenches are dug
aroand fields, and poat holes sunk at
regular Intarvals.
army moves against the field, he runs
Into a harrier of coal gs.« tar In the
trench line. Unable to withstand the
war gas, the hugs drop Into the post
holes for refuge and are killed by cal
cium cyanide.
When the cinch
The liv e stock standardisation work
In Phillips county got under way last
month with the shipping la of a car
load of pure bred Holstein dairy cattle.
Fanners have shown a preference for
Holstein cattle in the Irrigated coun
try and milking Shorthorns In the dry
land areas The carload shlpmant In
cluded 10 cows, 18 heifers and three
bulls.
The aaM-soinmar boys and glria
for Hill. Blaine and Ohoufean
const*«« was held at Fort Aaslnlbolne.
record atteodaoce of chib r
and members ef Bmlth-Hughae agri
cultural project classes was reported i
County agents and Smith-Hugh«» In-1
•truetora at the three counties man-1
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As Butte Is the greatest copper camp on earth and
Anaconda the greatest smelting plant on earth, sc.
also Is the B. A and P. the most distinctive rail
way on the map.
But It found It had enough busl
It started out to connect Butte with the Pacific
coast—hence the name, "Butte, Anaconda and Pa
cific railway.
nej*s to attend to at home and thenceforth aban
doned Its ideas of far-flung ferrltorlal conquest.
Nevertheless, old-time railway
'•Pacific'' part of its name caused sleepless nights
for more than one railroad potentate, who argued :
"If Daly can build 26 miles of mountain road
men state the
when the nation Is lying flat on its financial back,
there is nothing to »top him from building 2,000
miles, or more, and eventually cutting Into our
The road's general manager, Harry A. Oallwey,
has had what Is probably the most varied exper
lence of any railway executive in the country. He
hegan his transportation experience In Nevada I
when silver bullion was transported from the j
t'omstock and other famous silver mines by stage
coach at ail hours of the day and night—any hour
when a road agent might least expect a bullion
shipment to be made.
transcontinental business."
In those days bad men were numerous, but
» early all of them were catalogued In the private
Identification bureau of the express comganlee
and ,n mysterious way these transportation
companies ' kept track of every stage robber's
whereabouts. Amid these surroundings Mr. Gall
wey received his first lessons.
"When the railway came In," he turned to the
art of telegraphy and further familiarized him
self with transportation. Incidentally, he Is one
of the few living men who are Intimately ac
quainted with Mackey, Fair, Flood and O'Brien.
f ho * e «abolis of new-gotterf wealth of the
hot
wuter" country, und >vlth Marcus Daly, the good
genius of Butte.
Big In its lonpugc, broad In Its management,
efficient in Its service, always a pioneer—the B.
A. and P. Is worthy of Its task of linking two of
the most important industrial centers In the
Northwest.
Big Yield of Wheat In Rosebud
Little wheat has been threshed In
Kosehuri county to date, hut farmer«
arc optimistic In regard fo the prob
able yield. In many sections as high
30 bushels to Hie acre will not be un
common. It Is believed.
Practically all winter and early
spring wheat has been cut. hut much
••f the late spring grain is Juat being
harvested.
After three months of operation
members of the Sidney cow testing
club are enthusiastic over the success
of their organization. Farmer mem
bers bring milk samples to Sidney at a
stated time each month for testing. A
local creamery does the testing and
the herd records are kept In the coun
ty agents office. Through these tests
farmers are obtaining Information on
their profitable and unprofitable cows
which will enable them to Improve
their herds.
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Southern Growers Coming
County Agent Lauts has Just re
ceived word from F. M. Harrington.
e xt en s io n horticulturist, thst a delega
tion from Louisiana composed of rail
way men. potato experts and a numb
er of large potato growers of the south
expect to be In Phillipe county about
the middle of August on a tour of ob
serva tlon.
Cattle shipments from the Lewis
town section have alrendv started and
regular shipments will be the rule
hereafter. The shipping season start
ed with five cars from Winifred for
Sooth St Paul and two care ware
shipped from Heeth.
The Mile* City Ponltry Show con
ducted by the Custer County Poultry
Improvement Association will be held
December 8-10. The poultry growers
of the county «re p**Bteln* on making
this ««« of the landing poultry shown
of the state,
«o in the tributary territory test year.
The estimated production oa the dlria
ion wUl he 7,506.000 as «gainst 7.006.
The Great Northern railway expects
to handle on the Butte dlrlalea 500,006
more bushels of wheat than was grew
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