The Bozeman courier., January 09, 1924, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE PROBLEMS
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( ollc^e Expert Says That Properly Operating Pumping System
Would Reduce Surface Evaporation and Other Losses To a Point
Where It Would He Possible To Irrigate From 15.000 to 20,000
Additional Acres—Livestock Growers Break the Prices.
What to do with the run-off water 1
irrigation projects and how to !
handle the land below the irrigated
area which becomes waterlogged with
seepage water, is one of the big prob
lems of irrigation. Nat all irriga
tion projects are confronted with this
problem because in some cases natural
soil and topographical conditions solve
the probb rn of their own accord,
many cases, however, especially where
irrigation has been practiced for sev
eral years, seepage and run-off wa
ter becomes a serious matter.
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Thus it happens that irrigation and
table in the soil can be lowered onlv
as far as the bottom of the ditch.
drainage naturally go together; two
things which in the popular mind
are often
considered a? being direct
The lack of water makes
necessary and irrigation
makes drainage necessary to take care
of surplus water.
opposites.
irrigation
Murdock, agricultural engi
neer at Montana State college, has,
long recognized the inadequacy of the
ordinary ditch for drainage purposes
because rf the fact that the water
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water too close to the surface and does
not solve the alkali problem which is
often a serious menace to production
on such land.
In view of this condition. Mr. Mur
dock recently made a thorough study
of drainage through the use of wells
and pumping plants and in a recent
reoort on this subject points out that
this may be the solution to the seep
age water problem in many cases.
Tests carried on by Mr. Murdock in
the Gallatin valley in a seepage area
below Belgrade and Central Park
shows that there is sufficient run-off
water there under normal conditions
to irrigate an additional 10.000 acres.
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With a properly operating drainage
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pumping system the indications are
that surface evaporation and other
losses would he reduced to the noint
where it would he possible to irrigate!
from 15,000 to 20,000 additional acres.
In (he area studied there were also!
acres swamp ;
land which would also be reclaimed j
with this system of drainage.
Thus from the studio-« so
it would indicate that on this one
irrigation project from 25,000 to 30,
000 acres of land would be made pro- I
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THREE FORKS MEN
SAY "NOT GUILTY
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Forks, who were recently placed un
dor arrest by federal officers on
charges of misappropriating funds of
the bank and making false entries on
its books, entered pleas of not guilty,
through their attorney, C. E. Carlson,
of Bozeman, in the I nited States dis
P. M. Abbott and Samual J. Crouch,
of the First National hank of Three
trict court, in Helena, last Wednesday
afternoon.
After ordering the entry of their
pleas on the court records, Federal
Judge George M. Bourquin set the
date of their trials for Monday, Janu
ary 14, in the federal district court.
$663 651 31
7,295.86
3,750.00
31.000.00
$874,692.00
THE GALLATIN TRUST 4 SAVINGS BANK
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
at Bozeman, in the State of Montana,
at the close of business Dec. 31, 1923.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts .
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured
Bonds, stocks and warrants
Claims and Judgments.
Stock in the Federal Reserve bank
Banking house, furniture and fixtures
Cash Reservi
Gold coin .
Silver coin .
Currency ..
Due from approved reserve agents
Due from other banks .
Checks and exchanges for clearing house
Other cash items .
Revenue stamps.
5524,429.89
1,305.79
- 137,915.63
31,000.00
470.00
.... 2,585.15
. 11,917.00
..... 150,801.43
165,773.58
252.98
2,704.52
227.93
35.83
Total
$874.692.00
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in
Surplus fund .
Undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid
Due to banks and bankers
Individual deposits subject to check "
fime certificates of deposits due within 30 days
Time certificates of deposit due on
Savings deposits subject to 30 days
.$100,000.06
. 25,000.00
. 48.629.78
462.88
. 379387.27
61.488.64
2,948.78
49,679.55
216,596.10
173,629.78
434,787.57
266374.66
or after 30 days ..
"* notice .
Total .
State of Montana, County of Gallatin—ss.
^4"* ^-E<*sall, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly -wear that
the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief
Subscribed and
... E. S. EDS ALL, Cashier,
sworn to before me this fourth day of January. 1984.
Not«, Public in and for the Sute of Montana, rei.id^^t'S^, -
tana. My commission expires April 22, 1925
Correct Attest:
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W. S. DAVIDSON, C. S. KENYON, Director*.
ductive through the use of water that
is now wasted and through the recla
mation of land that is now made
less because of excessive water,
Murdock believes that there
number of other irrigation projects
or private irrigation areas where the
pumping system of drainage would
apply,
CHESTER FREEMAN FUNERAL
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Mr.
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Funeral services for little Chester
Dee Freeman, the five-year-old son of
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M. Brandenburg.
Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Freeman, who
passed away the day after Christmas
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Bozeman Hot Springs of intestinal j
trouble, was held Sunday afternoon,
Dec. 20, at the H. F. W'est funeral j
near
chapel, the Rev. A. L. Chapman of- j
ficiating. Interment was in the Boze
man cemetery,
were Mrs. A. J. Walrath, Mrs. J. H.
Harris, W. D. Bell and W. T. Brand
The singers at the funeral service !
CHEERFUL MESSAGE
FOR THE FARMERS!
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
SAYS CONDITIONS SHOULD
SHOW IMPROVEMENT
By HENRY C. WALLACE
Secretary of Agriculture
The industry', courage and faith evi
denied by the farmers of the nation
during the past three years are slow
Iv bringing their reward. Improve
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tmues—not as rapidly as desired or
needed, nor as rapidly as deserved,!
hut nevertheless it continues. The
promise of the year has been fui
filled. '
So we come to the end of the third
year post-war depression a I
feeling of greater confidence born of ;
ment in 1924.
good. Some sections in the cotton belt I
and in the wheat belt suffered from |
the ravages of weather and insect j
pests, but the aggregate crop produc- j
tion was equal to the average of the
five preceding years.
Considering money return we find i
better times alreadv realized and with
justified hope of still further improve- !
In general, the crops of 1923 were
that the values of most crops are I
greater than in 1922. The total value J
of all crops is 12 per cent greater.)
The values of the wheat, rye, rice, i
clover seed, cranberry, peach and pear
crops are below 1922; in the case of
wheat 11 per cent below. The values
of a n ot her important crops are great
er .
it j s difficult to measure the pro
ductive value of livestock during the
year, dependent as it is upon crops
marketed in that form. In general, it
has been a prosperous year for sheep
growers, fairly good for dairymen,
less satisfactory for producers of hogs
and discouraging for growers of range
cattle. Cattle feeders, however, have
done very well on the whole.
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i -till to be overcome. There is the
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I b de of debt. There are heavy taxes
,to be met. The cost of production
j and of what the farmers buy remain
I high. Farmers in the «nrine- wheat
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| territory especially are in sore straits
[from conditions largely beyond their
Gen. Charles O. Dawes, of Chicago,
will l»e chairnmu of the U S. Kxjtert
i Commission to investigate German
finances. It was FHoves* budget for
Harding which saved us $300.000.000
last year
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Experience mined darin* these
yc» rs of depression, however, togeth
er with progress already made, war
rant a hopeful attitude for the
ing year. Gradually crop acreage is
being better adjusted. The domestic
market continues strong. The children
keep coming, and that means a stead
com
ily increasing number of mouths to
be fed. Those who stay by the farm
and do good farming can look for
ward to better times as a reward for
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conic of the farmer, tor ne will buy
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his income expands.
The year 1924 comes with the prom
>se of continued improvement in the
material prosperity of the farmer, and
the farrner rontinues to be the ma
: tenal and spm,ual backb one of the
nation.
their years of toil and hardship. Those
whose businesses depend directly up
on farm purchases can find decided en
couragement in the growing gross in-1
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Edward Marshall, of Havre, known
"DADDY" MARSHALL OF HAVRE
TO STAND TRIAL HERE
ON BANK CHARGE
FORMER BARTENDER
CAUGHT IN CANADA
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' im , Smith » awaitin ^ arr^gnment and
tnal ° na ch * r ** of ha y ,n ^ had in his
possession bonds stolen from the
Salesville bank last fal1 *
3 he bonds were confiscated by the
officers, among whom were W. S.
Gordon, of the Burns Detective
a E en( 'y. Sheriff Jim Smith of this
coun fy* an d others, in the arrest, sev
era ^ weeks a K° a * Havre, of eight
P ersons alleged to be connected in
j P ersons alleged to connected in
ono wa;( ' or an °fher with the bank
j bandit gang having headquarters in
Havre, and against whom a total of
more than 25 bank robberies in the
past two and one-half
charged.
According to the Burns' detective
and the Bozeman sheriff, the stories
published in Montana newspapers to
the effect that Marshall had volun
tarily surrendered, or given himself
1are entirel y without foundation
* n ^ act * and were evidently published
at the instigation of interested part
ies for the purpose of creating a
favorable public opinion for Marshall
in the hope that he will be leniently
dealt with in ease he consents to make
a public confession of his connection
with the bank robberies and the mem
bers of the gang.
The facts about Marshall's alleged
surrender" are that upon his promise
to remain in Havre until he
wanted to testify in the trials against
the men who are alleged to have
tually committed the- burglary, he was
released upon his own recognizance.
Instead of staying in Havre where the
officers could reach him and get him
to help piece together the various
links of evidence which were being
collected against the members of the
gang, he '"beat it for pert« unknown."
Alter several weeks of intensive
investigation and clever detective
work on the part of Detective Gordon,
Marshall was finally located several
weeks ago in an si moat inaccessible
hiding place in the Canadian Rocky
mountain*. He was left alone, how
ever, anti) wasted, hat the Canadian
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Mounted police were requested to keep
track of his movements with the idea
of preventing his escape in the event
of his learning that his hiding place
become known.
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So thoroughly had he intended to
hide up his tracks, that he had grown
a full beard to prevent his possible
identification, and had established his
home in a cabin so far up in the
mountains that it took the Canadian
police twenty-four hours to bring him
down to civilization. He was taken
Bavin, of the provincial police of AÎ
berta.
Not only did Marshall not volun
tarily surrender, say the officers, but
at the time of his arrest in Canada)
the United
by Detective Gordon and one of the
Canadian police officials to Havre,
then to Great Falls and finally to
Bozeman, the trio arriving here on
the noon train last Wednesady. The
Canadian officer was Inpector E. M.
he had on his person a railroad ticket
i for a far-away city in
State? that he would no doubt have
used in a few days had the Canadian
officers ;and Detective Gordon not
pounced down upon him in hi? moun
tain fastness.
The Ha%re paper said.
"Marshall, after being away from
the city for some time, came in of
i his own accord, met his attorney here
mvn af . rnrf i for x> n7( ._
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nan. former Jua^e >v. u. nnoaes,
j 0 f (; n . a t Falls, is understood to be his
attorney."
I The Great Falls paper said;
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; His attorney, several da\s ago,
Stated that Marshall would süïrender
i himself if the officers made certain
himself if the officers
I agreements. The officers declared!
they could lay their hands on Mar
shall at any time. What happened
either way is not known, but Mar
, in Great Falls Sunday evening under
j advice of his attorney, and goes to
j Bozeman to make plea as to his con
shall gave himself up to the officers
nection with the bandit band.''
For many years Marshall was a
bartender and saloon keeper in Havre,
He is accused of being a "rilent
fence" for the robber gang and has
been under constant surveillance by
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the detectives for a long time. He has
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ing willing w maw a coni ..sion, D 1
always hints tbat he would exoect of
aiwajs nmus xnat ne wouia expect oi
ficial leniency in return. One of the
statements attributed to him wa< to
the effect that he was willing to con
( fess that it was he, alone, *ho rob
bed the Salesville bank. This was.
merely laughed at by the officers who
j expressed himself several times to
the officers in the county jail as be
know that he had nothing whatever
to do with the actual robbery, al- !
though he is alleged to have arranged :
j to dispose of the stolen bonds after j
the "job" had been pulled off.
I Those most familiar with the entire j
case believe that Marshall knows more i
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j tivities than perhaps any other one
] man and it is now thought more than
j likely that he will make a clean breast !
i of his participation, which would have Î
I the effect of clearing himself to a
great extent and put the court in a
position where it could conscientious
ly exercise clemency.
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LIST GIVES COUNTIES BY
JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
ELDOM has there been f4tund a ref
erence sheet to show what judicial
district each county of Montana is In,
hut Secretary «.f State C. T. Stewart
baa prepared
designates the counties of the two con
gressional districts, as follows:
First Congressional District
Beaverhead, fifth; Broadwater, four
teenth;
such a list, which also
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ele\enth ; Gallatin, ninth;
third; Jefferson, fifth; Lake, fourth;
Lewis and (Mark,
Madison,
Missoula,
Ravalli.
Lincoln,
Mineral,
Powell,
Sanders,
first ;
fifth ;
fourth ;
fourth;
eleventh ;
fourth ;
third ;
fourth ; Silver Bow, second.
Second Congregational District
Big Horn, thirteenth;
Blaine,
eighteenth; Carter, sixteenth; Carbon,
thirteenth ; Cascade, eighth ; Chouteau,
twelfth; Custer, sixteenth;
Daniels,
twentieth ; Dawson, seventh ; Fallon,
sixteenth; Fergus, tenth; Garfield Mx
nineteenth; Golden
Hill, eighteenth ;
Liberty, eigh
Meagher,
fifteenth ;
iceoth ;
Valley,
Judith Basin, tenth;
teentfc ; McCone, seventh ;
fourteenth; Musselshell,
Park, sixth; Phillips, seventeenth;
Pondera, nineteenth; Powder River,
sixteenth; Prairie, sixteenth; Rich
land. seventh; Roosevelt, twentieth;
Rosebud fifteenth; Sheridan, twenti
eth; Stillwater, sixth; Sweet Grass,
sixth; Teton, nineteenth; Teola, alun
teenth ; Treasure, fifteenth ; Vai***
seventeenth; Wheatland, fearteeafh!
Wibaux, seventh ; Tellowttane
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Glacier,
fifteenth ;
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Charter No. 4968. Reserve District No, 9
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK
at Bozeman, in the State of Montana, at the c lose of busines
RESOURCES
an( j discounts, including rediscounts, accep
tances of other banks, and foreign hills of
exchange or drafts sold with indorsement of
this bank (except those shown in b and ct »UI«.*;
0v( . r( , r ^"' „„secured 'Z ""ZVZZZ
g Government securities owned:
Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. bonds par
value) . . .-.-•
All other United States Government securities (in
cluding premiums, if any)..
Total .
Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc.
Banking house ..
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank
Items with Federal Reserve Bank in process of col
lection ..
^' aS h in vault and amount due from national banks
Amount due from state banks, bankers and trust
companies in the U. S., other than included
Checks on other banks in the same city or town
as rep orting bank (other than item 12)
Total of Items 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13...
Miscellaneous cash items .
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due
from U. S. Treasurer .
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Capital stock paid in .
Undivided profits ..
Circulating notes outstanding
Amount due to national banks .
Amount due to State banks, bankers and trust
companies in the United States and foreign
r ^»fri«. 4«t h e' than included in 21 or 22.
Certified checks outsandmg ...
Cashier's checks outstanding .
Total of Items 21, 22,
|Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) sub
ject to reserve (deposits payable within 30
days):
individual deposits subject to check
Certificates of deposit due in 1c
Total
LIABILITIES
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(other than for mony borrowed)
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Total of demand deposits (other than bank
deposits) subject to Reserve, Items 26, 27.
28, 29, 30 and 31 .
Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 30
days, or subject to 30 days or more notice,
and postal savings):
(Certificates of deposit (other than for money
borrowed ) .
Other time deposits ..
Total of time deposits subject to reserve,
Items 32, 33, 34 and 35.
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United States deposits (other than postal savings)
including W ar Loan deposit account and de
posits oi United States Disbursing oîficers ...
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JOHN WALSK, GEORGE COX, CHAS. VANDENHOOK, Him; -
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State? of Montana, County of Gallatin—ss.
I, J. H. Baker, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear
i the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
J. H. BAKER. Cas hie
of January.
JOHN KOUNTZ.
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$2,247.1:
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th
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