Glacier County chief. [volume], March 26, 1937, Magazine Section, Image 10

About Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940

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COPPER MINER’S
HOBBY COOKING
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BUTTE PREFARED OWN
MEALS
FREQUENTLY INVITED
FRIENDS TO DINNER
O. T. Meader, for Whom Meaderville
Wm Named, Learned Mininff in Cali
fornia and Came to Batte in WS
at Request of Hie A—rtafM
C. T. Meader, a California forty
niner, after whom Butte’s suburban
village of Meaderville was named,
developer of the West and the East
Colusa and the Bell mines, three
of Butte’s most notable copper pro
ducing properties, and known as
“the father of copper mining in
the west.” was also—a cook.
Not a short order or a "sour dough”
cook, but a man whose hobby was
cooking; who, when operating one of
the biggest mines in Butte at that time,
and a smelter as well, always pre
pared his own meals in his own kitchen
and who frequently invited several
friends and at times whole families, in
to share them u’ith him.
Meader learned the copper mining
business in California—where he orig
inally went to dig for gold. He followed
it later in Utah, and came to Butte in
1878 at the request of the Lewissohns
of New York, with whom he had been
associated in Utah and whose name
at one time was .among the most prom
inent in the western mining world. In
Butte, Meader looked through the sil
ver blanket which covered the Butte
hill and visualized the rich store of
copper beneath it. He was the first to
do so.
Meader was bom Sept. 17, 1817, on
Nantucket island, on the Atlantic
coast. His family, of course, were sea
farers, so it was not at all strange
th»at Meader at the age of 32, captained
a sailboat carrying himself and 11
others around Cape Horn to Califor
nia in 1849. The voyage took them six
months. The ship was Meader’s.
The other members of his party did
not remain long in California, but re
turned home, leaving Meader in the
west. When he left home he told his
folks he would return with a lot of
money, or he would not return at all.
So he stayed on. But he looked for
something besides placer gold. He
sought ore. He became a miner and
for years even his own folks heard
little of him.
The old sailboat remained tied to
a tree in San Francisco harbor for a
long time. Meader, when he was in that
vicinity lived aboard it, at other times
some of his friends made similar use
of it, but it had not been to sea since
the Nantucket crew brought it in
through the Golden Gate.
One day a couple of Spaniards of
fered to trade him a group of quartz
mines in Calaveras county for the ship.
Meader went with them to inspect the
properties, which proved to be copper,
and Meader received his first lesson
in the process of treating copper ore.
As a result of the trip Meader traded
his boat for the group of claims and
called them the Union mine. He pros
pered from the start, and constructed
and successfully operated a small
smelter and enlarged his operations
until he was working a group of mines.
In 1874 he sold out in California and
went to Utah with a couple of the
Lewissohns who induced him to come
to Montana.
The first night Meader spent in
Butte he was the guest of Judge Kirk
wood of that city.
In the evening of that day he wan
dered about the camp and out to the
dump of a property then known as the
Silverite, which is now the West Colusa.
He examined the rock he found on the
dump and told himself that while it
was nt that time strictly a silver prop
erty, it would develop copper ore
with depth.
The Lewissohns had authorized him
to buy a couple of claims, and he made
a deal for the Silverite, which he
named the West Colusa, and bought
also the property adjoining it, which
he called the East Colusa. They are on
the hill just above Meaderville towards*
Butte. There were at that time no
buildings in the vicinity.
The price paid for the two claims
was 12,500. It was only a short time
until the Colusa properties were turned
by the Lewissohns to the Boston &
Montana company, which in 1880 built
a smelter at Meaderville. Failing in his
efforts to induce the Lewissohns to
invest in other properties in Butte, Mr.
Meader embarked in the mining game
for himself.
The Bell mine was at that time a
sliver producer, but in it Meader saw
signs of copper. He took it over and
developed It and was the first mine
operator in Butte to ship his smelter
matter to Swansea. Wales, tor treat
ment. He constructed the Bell smelter,
long since dismantled, in 1882. He
equipped it with a single blast furnace
now one of the Anaconda group of
and associate roasters. The Bell is
now one of the Anaconda group of
mines and has behind It a long record
of copper production to bear out Mr.
Meader’s prediction as to the future
of the property.
The Bell was producing both silver
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Taking Over Athletic Manager’s Duties at Missoula “U”
When C. O. “lefty" Hoagland had signed the contract making him athletic manager at Montana State
university, he and President George Finlay Simmons, left, and Director of Athletics Douglas A. Fessenden,
right, began to discuss plans for the 1937 summer coaching school organized for Montana coaches. It
was announced that Bernie Bierman, coach of the national champion Minnesota Gophers; Hec Ed
mundson, Washington's basketball coach, and Doc Hohm, Washington State trainer, will teach courses
In the fundamentals of football, basketball and training. The regular staff at the University, composed
of Fessenden, Professor W. E. Schreiber, Harry Adams and A, J. Lewandoswki, wi'l ro-operate In pro
viding a varied 10-day session of training and recreation for Montana coaches and their families.
| AT THE STATEHOUSE~
TO COUNT PARK ELK
Count of the north Yellowstone park elk
herd has been started, and Is being done
jointly by the national park service, the
United States forest service and the state
fish and name department, according to
Jack Carney, chief deputy state game warden.
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NEILL NAMED SECRETARY
R. A. Neill of Helena has been named sec
retary of the state board of equalization,
according to announcement by E. A. Dye.
chairman of the board. Neill succeeded George
Foley, who has been named head of the
board's inheritance tax division.
STATE BANK EARNINGS
Seventy-five state banks in Montana earned
, a total of $580,204 in 1936. compared to
$446,786 in 1934. according to a statement
I by S. L. Kleve, state superintendent of banks.
Twenty-three of the banks paid dividends
, on common stock amounting to $93,100 in
I 1936 compared to $52,350 the previous year,
the report showed.
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TO ENLARGE BIRD HAVEN
Leon Choquette, head of the field division
of the state land department, has recom
mended to the land board the sale of a
section of land to the federal government to
become a part of the migratory bird refuge
created by the bureau of biollglcal survey
at Lake Bowdoln. The price to the govern
ment would be $lO an acre.
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INCOME TAX ORDERS
Income tax auditors of the state board of
equalization are now in the field aiding
taxpayers in making out and filing then
income tax reports, due April 15. Offices
will be maintained in the larger cities of
the state for varying periods between now
and April 15, according to the board.
VETOES INCOME TAX BOOST
Governor Ayers vetoed HB 88 passed by the
last legislature which would have increased
state income taxes. In doing so. he stated
that the measure Increased the tax on per
sonal income in the lower brackets from 100
to 200 percent while the percentage of in
crease was only 50 percent for the upper
brackets. Under the present law the rates
range from 1 to 4 percent on net incomes.
Under the bill vetoed they would have been
from 2 to 8 percent.
and copper ore and Mr. Meader after
much work and close financing had
reached the point where his total in
debtedness was only $67,000. He said
afterwards that when the bank which
was financing him found out the kind
of a property he had made of it, in
stead of giving him a chance to pull
out, they closed him out. “When the
bank found out what kind of ore
I had told it I had when I borrowed
the money, it wouldn’t give me any
more time,” was the way he put it,
"but Jumped on me and closed me
out.”
That happened Just at a time when
the reward for years of labor were
within Mr. Meader’s reach.
The mine was closed and the smelter,
too. The smelter went to ruin. The
building was dismantled little by little
and the machinery was hauled away.
After he had purchased the Colusa
properties for the Lewissohns and
started work upon them, a little camp
sprung up thereabout and was dubbed
"Meaderville” by George B. Johnston,
a newspaper man who went from Hel
ena in 1879 to work in Butte and who
became a close friend of Mr. Meader.
The fact that Johnson himself came
from Massachusetts and knew some of
Meader’s old friends there resulted in
a close attachment forming between
the two men. t
The postoffice department afterwards
named the village Gunderson, but It
always has been and still is Meader
ville to the people of Silver Bow coun
ty. The name Gunderson was not long
retained even by the poetoffice depart
ment.
Meader was called the father of cop
per mining in the west, not only be
cause of his early efforts at copper
mining In California, but because of
the unerring judgment which he mani
fested in appraising the future of Butte
as a copper mining camp.
The engineer at the smelter which
he constructed at the Bell, a Scotch
man named Bigelow, was musically in
clined. He arranged the throttle of his
engine whistle with a lever so that he
could play what served the purpose
for “Annie Laurie" and "The Blue
Bells of Scotland," every morning and
evening.
Meader always Insisted that Butte
should have been built on the flat in
stead of on the hill, and that the
■melters which were erected there in
the early days should have been on
the hill alongside the mines instead of
on the flat, and that had that been
the case, there would never have been
a smoke nuisance to annoy the people
of the city.
After losing the Bell mine and
smelter. Mr. Meader engaged in various
other mining enterprises, but by that
time the value of the Butte mines had
become so well and widely known that
it was no longer possible to find oppor
tunities such as existed at the time
when he had taken the Colusa* and
the Beil, and his effort* during »uc
ceadtne year* were marked with in
different iucom*. ,
He remained in Butte for quite a
number at yean, however, before
KmSm Batte after an
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GLACIER COUKTY CHIES
, MATTHEWS IS APBOINTED
John A. Matthews, former associate jus
tice of the Montana supreme court has been
named special counsel for the state board of
equalization. Attorney General Frcebourn ap
i pointed Judge Matthews as a special as
। sistant attorney general and Governor Roy
IE. Ayers approved the appointment of the
I former justice as special counsel for the board.
LAW HELD CONSTITUTIONAL
The law enacted by the recent legislature
permitting the redemption of real property
from tax sale by payment of the original
tax without penalty or interest before Dec.
1, 1938, is constitutional, according to an
opinion rendered by Harrison J. Freebourn.
attorney general. The opinion was given at
the request of County Attorney I. W. Choate
of Custer county.
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1936 WOOL PRODUCTION
Montana produced 29.351.000 million pounds
of wool in 1936, according to figures just
released at Helena by Jay G. Diamond, fed
eral state agricultural statistician. The 1935
production was 32.712.000 pounds and the
1934 output was 36.472,000 pounds. The report
also points out that fleeces in 1936 were
generally lighter than in the two preceding
years.
PENSION FUNDS SENT OUT
State Treasurer Ray Shannon has mailed
checks totalling $179,000 to the 56 Montana
counties to cover March payments of the
old age pensioners. The money, be said, was
being distributed under emergency legisla
tion enacted by the recent legislature. Under
the law passed, the state was allowed to aid
counties unable to contribute their share of
funds for assisting the aged. Under the old
age pension setup the state and counties con
tribute 50 percent of the funds while the
federal government put up the other 50 per
cent.
PRICE HEADS BOARD
B. L. Price of Laurel has been elected
chairman of the state game and fish com
mission. At the organization meeting of the
group in Helena it was decided to suspend
publication of "Fish and Game Notes." a
monthly magazine which has been issued by
the department for the last 14 months. Be
sides Chairman Price, members of the board
are Harry E. Lay of Lewistown. Nick Don
dinger of Anaconda. A. C. Baumgartner of
Great Palls and P. C. Gutensohn of White
fish.
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NEW COMMISSION CREATED
Governor Ayers has signed the bill passed
by the legislature creating a 15-member ocm
mlssion on intergovernmental affairs, the
members of which are to serve without pay.
It will be composed of five members of the
senate, five from the house, the attorney
general, chief of the staff of the state plan
ning board, state budget director and two
other state administrative officers to be des
ignated by the governor. The duties of the
board will be the interchange of information
with other states and research work designed
to benefit Montana.
NO INSURANCE DEPARTMENT
Governor Ayers vetoed the bill passed by
the last legislature which would have created
a separate state insurance department. In
“MC/M KAMI BGHT MUSS A DAY..,
when the job’s done
EE I RELAX with a MILD whisky”
gillie job’s ■ toujh grind, too. So make
I‘ ve y° u there in smooth enjoyment. RELAX.
And, you ■ help, be sure to
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Iggtera Smooth, pleasant, with never a harsh edge to remind
you rou Uh spots the day brought. And man,
how the In
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Forestry Association
Issues Season Report
The fire season for 1936, which
started with the Kootenai district
blaze April 18 and ended In the Cab
inet district November 13. was the
longest and most severe ever recorded.
A. E. Boorman, secretary and chief
fire warden of the Northern Montana
Forestry association, reported at the
26th annual meeting of the group.
The season was one of varied ad
verse conditions with periods of ex
tremely high temperatures and low
humidity accompanied by high winds
which created a maximum tire hazard.
As a result of numerous electrical
storms, 73, or 62 percent of the total
fires handled, were caused by light
ing.
With the addition of 153 new mem
bers during the season, the total mem
bership is now 392 men. who represent
953.710 acres. Twenty members with
drew mostly because of exchange and
sale of lands.
The co-operative agreement between
the federal government and the as
sociation. for the protection of inter
mingled federal, state and privately
owned forest lands in designated areas
was renewed for a five-year period
which will extend to 1941.
The agreement provides for the pro
tection of all forest lands ,md the
basis of prorating fire costs among
the co-operating agencies.
Yokohama, Japan is in a more south
erly latitude than San Francisco, yet
a steamer sailing there from San Fran
cisco begins by sailing north-westwards,
and describes a curve which rises to
about 48 degrees north,
doing so he stated he could see no necessity
for such a department. The measure would
have set up a separate office to handle in
surance matters now taken care of by the
state auditor's office.
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ELK HERD STILL LARGE
James Weaver, new state game warden,
reported to the board of game commissioners,
that, owing to the failure of the Yellowstone
park herd to leave that region during the
open season in Park county, which closed
March 1, there was no reduction this year
from an estimated 11.000 animals. The board
had hoped to reduce It to about 7,000. The
wa-den said the department has no plans
at present for the reduction in the size of
the herd and will take steps to that end
only at the request of park authorities.
QUARANTINE ON SHEEP
Sheep scab has appeared in flocks in west,
ern South Dakota, according to Dr. W. J
Butler, state veterinarian, and all animals
brought into Montana from that area will
be held in quarantine for 90 days, he stated.
About 30,000 head of Montana sheep were
wintered in South Dakota, and Dr. Butler
said that before these will be allowed to
return for the lambing and shearing season,
they will be inspected and treated to pre
vent the sheep scab from spreading to this
state.
Weird Tale Told
of Corpse, Clock
and Scared Man
How It came up la fortotten. The
time it happened to immaterial. It
still make* a good *tory, or eke
Francis Kelly, deputy In the county
attorney’s office at Butte would
not have told IL
He (Mr. Kelly) had gone to a
house where a corpse lay. At the
time he looked at the body the left
eye of the man was half shut. Mr
Kelly remained there a few minutes
and just before leaving returned to
take another look atihe deceased.
That was a few seconds before 10
o’clock sharp.
As he stood there beside another
who was paying his last respects
the eyelid moved a little. It then
opened up wide and as it did the
cuckoo in the clock jumped out.
and went into Ite timely song.
Although the movement was a
relax action, Mr. Kelly said the
fellow mourner did not stop to do
any reasoning. Before the cuckoo
had returned to its little niche. Mr.
Kelly heard a swoosh followed by
the slamming of the door.
TEACHERS’ RETIREMENT
Governor Avers has signed a bill passed
by the It-slslalure earmarking up to $75 000
ot state operated liquor store profits tor
teachers' retirement tund payments during
the next biennium. The Governor at the same
time vetoed a hill which would have ended
competitive bidding tor Insurance upon all
state owned automobiles snd motor and non
nwlorlsed vehicle equipment end authorised
the state board ot examiners to purchase
all of such Insurance without competitive
bidding. The governor called the bill a “step
backward."
Some paper lamp shades rr.qy be
washed. Quickly scrub the shade with
a stiff brush which Is frequently dipped
in warm, soapy water. Then rinse it
well with clear water and wipe it dry
with a soft cloth. The shade should
not be touched afterwards until it Is
perfectly dry if It is to retain its shape.
A “porcupine" salad makes a new
and appetizing dish. The salad gets
its name from the manner in which
nuts are stuck into fruits, shreds of
celery are placed in tomatoes or carrot
shreds are inserted in small cucum
bers.
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BOOTE’S CHICK PRICES
Order direct from this *d. 100% live arrival rnnr*n«cwut
mim,
Assorted AU Breeds $4.75
Assorted Heavy Pure Breds 5.50
Wh., Bf., B. C. Br. Leghorns and Anconas 8.95 750 7 t in
Bf. and Wh. Minorcas; Wh. Bf. and Bar. Rocks Wh. Wyan-
dottes; Bf. or Wh. Orpingtons; 8. C. or R. C. R. X. Reds;
Austra Whites; R. X. Whites; Lt. Brahmas & White
Langshans 7.45 8.48 ' g.u
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Free Water Rule
h^'hS^re ktciS
15,000 gallons maximum per montho!
Pipe® ^om freezing, will
withdrawn at the next^afc/ff >
water meters, according to . mruu!
passed by the city coisxc“ Pott"
the report of the city engineer
some pipes were thawing out by them
selves and that no others were S'
EhJTS* fre ^ n ». it was decided
withdraw the maximum wateT
measure after the next meter reLlm^
Those who allow the water to rm
the meter to read this month Win b.
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Water strlders are heavier than
other bugs, but can run .about on ^hl
surface of the water with eaae “*
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colds, nervous strain, exposure or siaUar causes.
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Thousands of mea threatened with loss of
hair, whoso hair was falling out at aa alam.
ing rate, stopped excese lose and were re*
warded with a good hood ci hair. They used
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scalp wodicino. Sold and nnwitg li]
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