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■ystal clear, |the Flathead rwer this week was another mud-colored Missouri as it
highest stage since 1908 and .1913. Onlookers from the old Red bridge looking to
il Rock canyon were T. R. Hargrave, whose property was damaged and sightseers Robert
Rewell, Whitefish. In the distance a span of the Silver bridge. All photos by Mel Ruder.
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Uriahbors in a rubber raft were motive power for a boat that carried Gurn Folder's two about
,Zw red duroc sows in crates to dry land last Sunday. One litter of eight was born a few hours
md ten ne xt day. Helping take the sows over to Emery Vail's were Jake and Walt Christman,
mi Sparks, Gene Shipp and Walt Crider. Flood damage in the Red Bridge section was serums.
erflowing Rivers Wreck Land, Buildings
I Flathead river is complet
E full week at flood as the
E reached its highest stage
1 1908 and 1913.
Ice Fowler, cooperative oh
Er, reported the guage near
Red bridge never went below
[all week, and reached an es
led high of 19.5 early Sun
I (over the top of the guage).
Bing starts at 14 feet,
lough the immediate Kalis
[section suffered considerably
I water damage, near Coluia
iFalls residents and the Hun
[ Horse contractors together
fered an estimated loss of
lout 30 families above Co
da Falls were affected, es
illy near the Red bridge where
river is causing considerable
loss.
a special meeting last Sa
|ay, the district 6 school board
roved opening the dormitory
fise of evacuees. The Red Cross
Mrs. Ferd Greene was in
fee. Bud Darling headed crew
feting in evacuations as the
council and chamber of com
ke were subject to call,
amage at the Hungry Horse
feite
an estimated 40,
I board feet saw timber loss
h and S construction company,
hing contractors; their mill on
! island was saved.
^ork was stopped last Batur
in the diversion tunnel at
damsite, and Guy F. Atkin
eotnpany lost some tools and
'arently two small buildings,
ireat Northern through trains
'e re-routed from Havre to
ena and thence to Sandpoint,
ho. over Northern Pacific
The one mail a day was
•ing in on a makeup train from
>etting cussed was Northwest
lines for their delay in est
n f? service into the valley
having been authorized to
ft flights last November.
" uc h more seriously damaged
flood waters was the Libby to
1 ® ers Ferry district. A report
's miles
were under water, and
through train service will be
ablished i s still not known.
witnesses report much
° re fl°°d damage and human
Ser y than is obtained from
6SS an d radio dispatches.
vre.
ter
of Great Northern
cks
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Eye
i0 % the Top Soil
A survey completed Wednesday
ganger Dick Nelson in Glac
t re a7* 0nal park showed that
® s ' n burned over areas were
flÄjjefi carr y in g' more silt than
L °wing in wooded sections.
u went up the North Fork.
Triplets Provide for
Mother Block Bear
Handouts in Glacier
Glacier national park's Going-to
the-Sun highway hasn't bothered
to leam tricks of getting vacation
to give her handouts.
Stopping virtually all traffic
her three tiny cubs that weigh
ers
are
about 10 pounds each .
infrequent,
in ten years there
Triplet cubs
are
though once
reports of a mother grizzly
black with a family of four.
bear has twin cubs,
of survival of all three
the mother
are
or
Ordinarily a
Chance
triplets is rare since
can only suckle two.
At birth in January and Febru
ary. baby blacks and grizzlies
weigh from 12 to 16 ounces, small
than new-born porcupines. Ma
black bears weigh 300
This
er
ture adult
and grizzlies 500 pounds,
is the greatest known weight dif
ference between birth and malur
of all land animals.
ity
Glacier-Coram High
On Emery Timber
successful bidder at
3,280,000
creek, block
Apparent
the Thursday auction on
board feet of Emery
M, timber was the Glacier
Lumber company, Martl " an '.j
who offered $5.65 a thousani
board feet for larch and
ding; $7.80 for spruce, and $1
for white pine. Of the offering
2,225,000 board feet was lar .
oral bidder at the
national forest opening wi
and seaYed mb ^ds CO a n iL
Flat.-1
was
Other
head
Stoltze Land
any, with two
being received.
The bids represent a consld j
able drop from the Emery creek:
block L sale of March 12
SrS and fir sold at $10-75 a
,r * fions to Close
Vote Registrations
T,.iv or)
Registrations for ««J ^ ^
primary close June " r esi
vote are American ctoe ^
dent of the state fo r °ne >
of the precinct, 30 days.
Fri c Schroeter. former Fw-
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ÏÏS day D for filing for office
June 19.
To Clear Park Sun
Hiway by June 13
Going-to-the-Sun highway that
the continental divide and
crosses
Glacier national park is expected
to be open to traffic by Sunday,
June 13.
The big rotary plows have now
cleared all but a mile of the 50
mile long highway, reports A. C.
Thuring. assistant park engineer,
and are cutting through 30 to 50
foot drifts near Logan pass.
Early visitors to the parie
Avalanche campground.
can
drive to
16 miles from the west entrance,
and within the next few days will
able to drive part way up the
Garden Wall.
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G. N. Vets Invite
Chamber to Picnic
railway eni
club
Great Northern
ployes "Vetville for Vets"
this evening i Friday )
•ill be
of Columbia Falls
V:
to members . .
chamber of commerce at a picnic
in their own park.
a 72
The 70 railroad men
acre parkland tract
side of Columbia Falls purchased
in September, 1946. They plan to
either summer or perman
own
the north
on
p Ianes Help Maintain
Pictures Every Week
build _
ent homes. President of the m
ganization which will have about
40 persons at their annual me ^
hero Saturday is Conductor H
Kreis, Havre.
Last May the
chamber held a picnic for the
and their wives on
Columbia Falls
railroad men
the south fork.
^ took a
intain t he Hungry
tradition 0 f never a w
possible to get news P ict ' jr 5, s
f he Spokane engraver, so F u -
TTiairir's plane flew them in
^ and Cors air P ilot ' S baC
han brought the engt 8
" hursday . Arrangements on tU
e nd were handled h
™ spokane- American Engra
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to
chartered plane
Horse News
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10 cents a copy
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iHungry Horse News
Friday, May 28, 1948
Vol. 2 No. 43
Columbia Falls, Montana
Announce Contractor Building Schedule
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Senate May Increase
Hungry Horse Funds
Flathead valley citizens gencr
ally hoped this week that the Un
ited States senate would be some
what more liberal than the house
of representatives which Friday
approved $8,100,000 for the Hun
gry Horse project.
A changed payment structure
in the building of the dam results
in even the $9,850,000 recommend
ed by President Truman in his
January 12 budget message as
being somewhat less than now
needed.
This does not mean that the cost
of the $100,000,000 dam, which
will be the world's fourth largest
built of concrete, is increasing,
but rather that progress paymen.s
are specified by such firms as Al
lis Chalmers who offered the low
bid on March 31 of $2,285,000 to
build the four 105,000 turbines
and governors, and on April 22
asked $3,854,000 for the four 75,
000 kva generators.
Before the war, these suppliers
were paid when they finished a
contract; post-war conversion and
the tax structure makes it diffi
cult for even large suppliers to
wait several years for payment as
they did formerly.
Hungry Horse is the first big
post-war bureau of reclamation
project.
Change notice No. 1 in the prime
contractors specifications, dated
March 3, 1948, also provides for
a down payment of up to $3,500,
000 to the prime contractor at the
time he sets up his concrete pro
cessing mixing plants.
Additional funds will be re
quired for building housing, fur
ther clearing of the reservoir ar
ea, and relocation of other parts
of the Spotted Bear forest service
road out of the reservoir.
As General-Shea-Morrison fin
ish such phases as excavation at
the damsite, they will be paid as
provided in the contract. Regular
payments are made to all the con
tractors on the basis of work com
pleted.
It all adds up to the fact that
somewhat more than $8,100,000 is
needed to efficiently build Hun
gry Horse dam during the 1948
49 fiscal year.
Where They Live
Eighty-four of the 180 bureau
of reclamation employes on the
Hungry Horse project live in the
government village, according to
report completed this week.
Living in Kalispell are 39 em
Columbia Falls, 27;
12; Martin City. 8;
a
ployes:
Whitefish,
Belton, 5; Somers and Creston, 2
each, and Coram 1.
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wuïfhfwvt south fork rose 25 feet to cover cofferdams at ent
At the Hungry Horse dams îon „" s6 Jeet in diameter di version tunnel. Volume of moun
rances of nearing completion 1, f * du i de increased 60 times from a flow of 700 cubic feet on
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April 18 to
Ida .ho flood waters were holding
Idaho of pipe for Co l
p Trails being rebuilt water
system. Holding the $105,904.07
contract to rebuild part of the
t ^ distribution system is
th e O'Connor Construction comp
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scheduied to oiling streets
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Idaho Floods Stop
Falls Water Pipe
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HUNGRY HORSE
in blossom at Rivcrh
Cherry , apple , pear and a peach tree were
van, one mile from Columbia Falls, as the Flathead went over i
banks. J. D. Fenholt rowed his scow right up to the door of the Ro
ger Ganiere home with passengers Jimmy Ganicre and John McDon
ald. Water started down from a point inch below Ganiere's floor.
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Fishing Season Finds
Streams Running
High; Catches Few
Flood waters interfered with
the Flathead valley's first week
of 1948 fishing.
Sunday, the first day, found
fishing fair to good on a few lakes
At Howe lake up the North Fork
in Glacier, George Albright and
Bob Bryan, Martin City,
among those who caught their
limit of natives. The Willits fam
ily of Apgar also had a fish din
ner from a full catch, and Supt.
Clarence Lee is reported to have
hooked a 3 pound 10 ounce cut
throat in Lake McDonald.
Tim Miller with a bottle of an
gle worms bulging from his pock
et, a rod in one hand and string
of eastern brook in the other was
strolling "all smiles" up Martin
were
City's Main street Thursday noon.
He caught 12 in nearby Abbott
creek.
Actually Sunday had a rising
barometer, and the theory is that
a rising barometer should result
in better fly fishing since "to
be-caughts" rise to the surface.
Weatherman E. S. Mark's com
ment, however is
couldn't see."
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Newest residents of Hungiy
the government
"but the fish
Move to Hungry Horse
Horse village,
Robert Howell, moved
town, are
from Belton; Gerald Hollenback,
from Whitefish; Charles B. Bar
Eon from Auburn. Wash.; Frank
Newell, Kalispell, into the prefab
section, and Gilmore Hanson, f rom
Kalispell to the duplexes.
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Get Wage Boost
cents
A wage increase of 12' 2
and a minimum in the sawmill of
$1.37! 2 an hour and $1.40 min
imum in the woods resulted Wed
nesday from negotiations between
Stoltze Land and Lumber com
pany and Columbia Falls local
2797, sawmill workers, AFL.
Other points of this new con
tract with the second largest mill
in Flathead county is a two weeks
vacation provision for employes
with five years service, and one
week with pay for employes with
than one year. The contract
dates back to April 21.
Effected will be approximately
more
of the Taft-Hartley law, the ques
tion of union shop as the result
of contract expiration will be vo
ted on today (Friday) by the
Half Moon employes, but it
expected to carry by at least 4
to 1.
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Participating in negotiations for
management was J. C. Hendrick
son, while union bargainers were
William Kloetzke, Howard Rol3,
and David Morris. Role is presi
dent of the local, and also assist
ing in negotiations which were
* d - r were Ancil v Conn , i 0 -
cal secretary, and Robert C. Wel
1er, business representative.
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The Half Moon mill raise helps
set a $1.87* an hour pattern
that can be expected to become
more or less a going wage m this
area.
General-Shea Morrison employ
ment on the Hungry Horse proj
ect reached 116 this week as clea
ring of their campsite on land set
aside by the government continued.
Arriving here this weekend will
be Tom Moyer, buildings super
intendent for t lie prime contractor
and scheduled to start in the next
weeks is a 40 by 120-foot office,
80 by 120-foot quonset type ware
house : cook house, water and sew
system and H type dormitor
ies each housing 150 men.
Already built are a 20 by 48-font
warehouse, oil house, carpenter's
shed, electrician's shed, and a
rigger's loft will be built along
the Great Northern in Coram next
week. It will be a small building.
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Idaho Floods Stop Traff ; c
Holding up arrival of equip
ment are the north Idaho floods
The 116 employes include nine
carpenters, two electricians, sev
equipment operators, two mech
supervisors. clerical staff
en
anics,
and laborers. The force will con
tinue to increase gradually to an
expected peak of 600 next Septem
activity will be somewhat
ber;
reduced during the winter, but
next year should pass the 2,000
mark.
Arriving on the job this week
O. W. Luther, Portland, el
were
ectrician's foreman, and K. G.
"Jack" Johnson, rigging superin
tendent from Ross dam, Washing
ton. However in hiring both fore
and crews who alreadv have
men
homes in the area are given pre
ference.
New office assistant is Basil
Everin. Columbia Falls, and field
timekeeper, George Savage, Som
ers.
Negotiations are nearly comple
ted on the union contract between
General-Shea-Morrison, represent
ing the 12 companies .and organi
zed labor as announced in last
Friday's Hungry Horse News.
Wage Minimum Set $1.37 1 /£
The wage scale will start from
$1.37 Va an hour base for labor,
representing a 12 Vs cent raise ov
the prevalent wage; carpenters
and painters will get $1.95, a 20
cent raise over the present $1.75
the increase will
or
range from 10 to 15 cents an hour
prevailing scales in the area.
A prefabricated steel "heavy
duty" bridge will be erected this
summer about 1,000 feet below the
damsite by the prime contractor,
who is presently clearing the
right-of-way in preparation for
rebuilding the lower road to the
dam. Work on the powerline from
the Hungry Horse substation, to
the damsite will start next week.
This power comes from Kerr dam
at the foot of Flathead lake.
over
River Raises 25 Feet
The Flathead river's south fork
reached a peak flow of 42,000 cu
bic feet last Saturday evening re
presenting a raise at the dam
site of 25 feet. Last years peak
33,800 and the record, 46,
was
200 on June 19, 1916.
As the result of high water, R
and S construction company,
clearing contractors, lost about
40,000 board feet of saw logs, and
Guy F. Atkinson company, two
small buildings and some tools.
R and S employment dropped
from 99 to 83 as the result of high
water, and Guy F. Atkinson com
pany who is completing the 1,180
foot tunnel, now flooded, dropped
from 64 to 8 men. The clearing is
a $408,320 contract, and the tun
nel, $643,400.
F and S (C and F) construction
company this weekend hope to oil
and complete the 3.9-mile access
road from highway No. 2 to near
the damsite. This was a $479,494
contract, and presently employs
20 .
To Open Housing Bids
Bids will be opend by the bur
eau of reclamation at Hungry
Horse village June 2 for construc
tion of a 24-room dormitory, a 38
by 128 office annex, 14 five room
and 6 six-room residences, a guard
house, a ten car garage, a repair
garage and fire station.
Awarding is expected shortly on
the April 20 opening in Denver
where H and L Building service,
Missoula, was low at $424,461.12
to build, wire and equip with plum
bing, 24 two-bedroom and 22
three bedroom prefabricated he
mes.
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Expected within the next weeks
is F. R. Hewett, Spokane, who are
to begin actual construction ot
j their $632.448 contract to reloc
j ate 14 miles of the Spotted Bear
j forest service road out of the re
I servoir area.
Returning Thursday from Seat
: tie were C. W. "Smoky" Wood.
I General - Shea - Morrison genera!
j superintendent, and D. H. Hen
derson, office engineer.