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Ole Tv/o-Biir Difference that Built a Railroad S' ISK>n - ■ ; ■ > v mm 'v. ■k ;v y&i ', h " ' Si rLFryne rc PtSJrssGf r. t**iu /*r S"/i.vf* liv ra.vyoM . I ; ■ É&SÉ ^ 2-00 TOXI «OOVOLT -LOCOVtOT T V ST 4T 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. Between B 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». •> 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. 7 :♦ ♦ ♦ ÏÆ * ♦ : ../*v à : : ♦ : I I : ♦ : : *15 ♦ > ft Staffs >!======♦ • ; g m B s V ::: ♦ : Hssev <■ .a 3O0OEMKKM mmmSck m*o 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 agad the eatap I her* V\ Y / v ^. : • j _ A 6Po?WTATA>WCONÔÂ 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. ju 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. 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