The Bozeman courier., January 23, 1924, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

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xures Gif a basis, draws
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g. so far as good 'and
< riling of the past in
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s mprove and expand upon
.<■ *he ]iione«*r steelers.
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\..r. i;!ud actually irrigated
taken, when
i farms in Montana 11,000'
:o lie under ditch, the
•• commission reports
rHioroiimately « million
->nsus was
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act
! in «'un he irrigated hy
• on?'meted or proposed
!,vn! , :,.s built but not In
••?. i.n federal reclamation
nroje. ;« there are 200.000
ortnnlzed under
use.
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•. j arces. When thia
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f land in farms
ad was under irri
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LAND VA UE DETERMINED
«Y MANY FACTORS
<Tolls •») he considered in de-!
ten i» i ii u the value of land and
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the m that has been general |
to tew -■•trier? in Montana are out-
line • pur. ose of guiding pr,»s-
- : i ad buyers who may have .
•y»-«* Min ed on Montana by the ;
f agriculture In its
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*•«§»■" ' s l""'hl be bought reasonably
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M f 1 j -tates the c hapter in the i
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p bool - d to "1 actors in Land Val
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Mi An<l w,ih payment spread overt
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« hr 1 1 all terms combined be
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iy tng > t be met without having
to d<>: *rd upon unusual pood luck.
racmr- .»re involved in what
'reasonable price'—loca
n- erence to markets and I
: * t of soil, value of im- •
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pro? - . ne of cultivation ; on an
Irrig ited farm, character and dependa
billt " r water
watr i- „ ng with consequent drain- I
agek o i a envk ranch, the average J
ura<pn' if forage that can be raised ;
for . mer feed: 'he location of the
ranèb with regard to the summer
»«*■ >n public or national forest i
the Ttount of summer rang«
their rich ran depend on; and water
riixht : likelihood of
lard
W '• ' ordinary nonirrignted farm,
j f fiir to middling Improvements,
1 ( T'lis of moisture-retaining soil, !
from alknli and In recent culti- :
with
good
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watlë i
pres. ■ -
'sonuble prices range under
•>nd irions from $15 to $35.
ordinary irrigated farm i
with otter aiprovoments and a hlgh
or Mice of «-ultivatlon than the
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Ikall trouble? or danger of
asonahle prices range
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fratei
from s
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SURPLUS OF COMMON
labor reported
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1 1 ! >■: larger cities in the state
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a surplus of eommon labor,
v eprlon of Butte, where !•¥)
used within the next 30
€l|«. he Ice harvest and in the
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ttiea
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■ Hr Missoula men are being
•' '•ep'acement of workers quit
r- day, according to the
summary of the dlvisiot
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ting
of
'-nUe department of agrl
<u t is based on informa
"ng employers of labor,
1 r:\ate employment agen
ut'y agents. There Is a
ommon labor aPButte but
rs could probably bo
mmediately by the Anacon
'Fning company.
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labor ■' h.*
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K. Meyer has severed his
Jon with the revenue de
and will leave for Belling
where he will enter the
'ic?> with a brother.
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Mr.
;n the service five
been ehlef clerk In the
Collector C. A. Rasmus
' May. A. P. Enghreston,
1 fleer, will succeed
■'fk.ship.
noon
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JO ACRES IN STATE
UNSURVEVED
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TH! 05
•'.1^» acres of federal land
1 ■ in the state, representing
^ • one year, 1023, and about
acres more of forest
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reserve
surveyed, It is evident that
ßy to bo
Hi
Tnent cadastral engineers
* * Job nheud of them. Vlr
I ' of the relatively l«vol land
f ' remain« to b« surveyed,
thejracta ar« In the western
1R rQ Wed country, wher« th«
''low and expensive.
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^ be "toughest town on the Great
^"1- ». no more. Mondak sta
. T ' !OS<Hi an<1 th< * train j
n>,,î worried over possible j
sudden death now wave a supercilious I
hund »' 'h* ■wrrnl station d.»:s and
"cpieted papula,inn.
Once a ty.al swaggering bully of a
town spraddled across ih.* railway
a clearing house for all the
rliat spread
through the Yellowstone valley in the
"Toughest Town" Station Is Cloaca
by Railroad as Revenues Fall
to N oth i n g
i
tracks,
booz*».
vice and crime
early days, Mondak Is no longer worthy
the railroad's consideration.
Owing to iaek of
revenue the state
railroad
coimniAsiuo
authorized the
closing of the doors of a station that
during its hertic career had housed
hundreds of battling drunken gamblers,
miners. laborers. Twelve to 1R hours
a day switching crew? used to handle
train? of liquor bound for the Yellow
stone valley, now there i? not enough
trade to pay the salary of a station
agent.
Hundreds of gamblers used to make
Mondak their headquarters for it
Dakota as far
wltb i,s recreation
S a,nos of <*hance and "bar Imoy.e.''
The conductors who worked the
trains that stopped in Mondak had to
qualify as battlers as well as railroad
was
f° wn that supplied northern North
east as Devil's Lake
in the font« of
men for the struggle for tickets was
a critical one in the mob? of drunken,
hilarious workers returning to their
can, P s ar, d fields after a ?pree in Mon
^ ak * Now there is riot enough traffic
to make It worth while to have a wait
Ing room open.
VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE AT
BOZEMAN WELL ATTENDED
The fifth
annual boys vocational
ce a* Montana State college
at Bozeman, was an unparalleled suc-
cess with 1.015 b.»ys registered from
?ix American states and one f'anadian
pvor housed and fed.
there was no confusion in any pla<*e.
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More than 100 boys slept in special
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sleeping cars sent here bv rbe Chicago,
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Milwaukee and St. T*aul Railway com
,
paay and loO were housed in the big
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college gymnasium, where all rooms
province.
Although the largest crowd of vis
itors Bozeman
were filled with beds.
The registration made the confer
ence the largest of its kind ever held in
America, and specialists were here
from eastern states to study the man
igement of the affair. More than 30b
high schools were represented at one
day's conference meetings. Responses
to the address of welcome were made
hy delegates representing Montana,
North Dakota, Wyoming. T T tah, Idaho,
Washington and British Columbia. T.
C. Spaulding of Missoula talked on for
estry as a vocation for young men,
while Dean A. L. Stone of the State
university talked on journalism. Pres
ident Atkinson of the State college
spoke to the young men on the busl
ness of earning a living.
140 Producing Oil Wells
There are 140 producing wells in th«
Kevin-Sunhurst field, with a total of
23T» drilled. The tabulation of wells
follows ;
Producing oil wells in the Kevin
Sunhurst field_
140
PnxTring g s wells .... ...
Wei' '>ro luring water in commer
ci;il n »tint _
.[Dry hi on s;:uehire_
■(Dry hole-;—off
Drilling \ ells .
Rigs up -
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230
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15
60
15
u< • ore.
22
Total
Market for Rabbit Skins
At a time when many people of th» |
part of the state are engaged in cam
paigns to destroy jack rabbits, which
destructive pests on the farms,
there Is much interest in the announcc
ment of M. E, Stebblns, county agri
cultural agent at Glasgow, that he has
been able to find a market for jack
rabbit hides. The market price Is from
40 cents a pound, f. o. b. railroad nta
tion.
are
Many Hogs Shipped
Roosevelt county is again In the
limelight with a total shipment of 21
car loads of hog? from stations within
Its boundaries. Fonrteen more will bo
«hipped before spring. This Is remark
* b,e frora th * fact that car ,oa(ÎS
w,n be an ,ncrPa,e of 30 0Ter
last year.
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L« -ge Sheep Company Formed
One of the biggest sheep deals of the
last year culminated when William
Bruzler of Butte and George Selway
of Dillon incorporated under the nam«
of the McCarthy Mountain Sheep rom
The conqvany will have soma
pany
50.000 head ef sheep grazing on tha
mountain, which Mr. Selway bought
this year In exchange for a ranch in
the Imperial vali«y of southern Oall
fornlt., Mr. Bra*l«r has been a proml
nent sheep owner of Melrose, while
the Selway* are known^thronghout the
weat for their activities la that line.
jR°undup Pioneer Passes
Roundup Record — Wm. J. Nix,
chairman of the board of county com-1
missioners and pioneer resident of
Roundup, died last Saturday morning
at the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn..
where he had gone three weks ago
to undergo an operation for kidney
and bladder trouble. News of his
death came as a distinct shock to the
community, as word received from
Rochester earlier
4TEWS FROM
\EARBY
11 EIGHB0RH00DS
in the w'eek was
to the effect that although his
con
dition was
serious, he was showing
gradual improvement.
shipped to St. Cloud, Minn., his old
home, where burial took place
Tuesday,
The body was
on
Irrigation 2,0ft0 Y ears OW
Rocky Mountain Husbandman—
When our esteemed friend Sam Gor
don, of Miles City, visited Italy, Rome
and the Holy Land, he wrote of the
irrigated valleys and said that after
two thousand
years of continuous
cropping the land was producing
double the crops then it did original
ly. Our friends traveling in Europe
write that there is irrigation in many
of the richest portions of the old
world and that the marvelous thing
about it is that the land is more pro
ductive after continuous cultivation
all these centuries than it was in the
beginning.
Passing 6ö-Y'ear Montanan
Dillon Tribune—When Augustus F.
Graeter answerer! the final summons
Monday morning, there was written
"finis" to the last chapter in the event
ful career of one of Montana's most
picturesque and historic characters.
Not only did he play a conspicuous
part in the early history of the state,
but throughout the remainder of his
life he did much toward the upbuilding
of business and commerce. His busi
I ness ventures were generally success
i
,
ful and at his death his interests in
Dillon business firms and real estate
holdings amounted to a considerable
fortune.
Truckmen Have Close Call
jwas riding with him at the time of
the accident,
Baker Sentinel—The big truck,
owned by Mervin Stroud, was struck
by a west bound freight Saturday
morning at the Main street crossing
and quite badly wrecked. The truck •
was drived by Stroud and Wm. Harris I
;
it was struck by the train. Both men
were thrown from the truek and
Harris suffered a wrenched back and
had the lar*e toe of his right foot
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broken. Stroud was shaken up con
siderable but was not hurt to any
extent, it was a dose call and both
men are surprised they were not in
stantly killed.
The front end of the
truck had just got on the track when
Purity Squad Conducts Raid
Deer Lodge Silver State—The pur-
ity Squad of Deer Lodge, led by Chief
of Police Walter Nesbit, acting under
instructions of the city council, serv
ed six Jo ! n Doe warrants Thursday
night on vix citizens of this city, all
charged with maintaining a public
The city treasury was en-
riched by these arrests to the extent
of $150, and there is more to come,
These raids will continue until Deer
Lodge is free of all public nuisances.
nuisance.
UnexpecUs) Familv Reunion
Belgrade Journal— B. F. and S. R,
Taylor returned from Knoxville, Tenn.,
their old home w'here they visited
their father, S. A. Taylor, who is 84
years of age. The surprise was that,
all the children, except two, arrived
about the same time, and neither
knew the others were coming. It
turned out to be a family reunion, and
the boys were much pleased with
their visit.
Joint Installation at Belgrade
Belgrade Journal—Joint installa
tion of officers and a program of in
terest was held at the Masonic hall
Wednesday night by Belgrade lodge
A. F. & A. M., No. 68, and Belgrade
chapter 0. E. S., No. 85. *
Too Numerous to Mention
Three Forks News—After several
months of mismanagement, misrep
resentation and other miscellaneous
items too numerous to mention, the
citizens of Three Forks, in reply to an
invitation to attend a mass-meeting,
to be held at the Sacajawea Club
rooms last Friday evening, gathered
there in large numbers to protest
against the actions of Mayor Adams
and the city council in passing a reso
lution and making an order that the
lighting system in the residence dis
trict be altered and changed from the
present system of a two hundred and
fifty candle power light to a one
hundred candle power light.
Th v Chicago
Dl „^, F " ! Herald Mr. and Mrs.
ttîrjlw ar 7l ° thC first 01
" «eek from Chicago, and are the
Berg v! Mrs - Connie
, * Ylr " nittet was summoned to
! a Ppear at the federal court,
I session at Helena, as a witness in the
Case against P. M. Abbott and Sam
** ^ rout ^» formerly president and
! ^ city^ ^ FlFSt ' National Unk of
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f ark County to Be Reduced
Shields Valley Record-There is a
***** '»at Park county will be
reduccd from «>c fifth to the sixth,
?rade ln classification as the result
° f a decrease i
now in
in assessement values.
No definite statement has been is-'
sued from the assessor's office con
ceming this matter, the assessor re
fusing to verifv the statement until
he has finished his report of the as
s.essed valuation to the county com
missioners. The assessed valuation
of counties in the fifth class-JUmport
total over $10.000,000 or the county
classification is reduced.
Farm Bureau Elects Officers
Park County News—The Clyde
Park Farm Bureau held its annual
meeting at the club house on Monday,
January 14, and elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Presi
dent, Guy Gibson; vice president, P.
H. Gilbert; secretary-treasurer, Mrs.
L. A.
j ^ ne Ear Open
Fisher; directors, Marcus
Schurrer, Charles Bridgman, R. W.
Smith and T. W. Drynan.
Columbus New's — After sleeping
j with one ear open through practical
ly every night of the cold spell, the
firemen chance
action at midnight yesterday morn- i
ing, when the siren blew' a notice that !
the Trail Cafe was afire. Although
the blaze had got a good start the de
partaient, ably assisted by a few ex
cellent volunteers from among the
citizenry of the town, soon had the
fire under control and the denizens
of the O. K. Barber Shop, the John
Bohn shop and Art Smith's cafe com
menced moving back into their quart
ers with the equipment they had hast
ily moved into the street at the sound
ing of the alarm.
M ater Improvements Must Wait
Clyde Park Herald—Efforts of |
some of the citizens of the town to irn- j
prove the municipal water system of ,
Clyde Park will come to naught for 1
the present, unless something is done
in the very near future.
Big Timber Boys Win
Big Timber Pioneer—Word from
Bozeman yesterday was that the
Sweet Grass boys to the vocational |
con f e f s , in that 4 city ha ? wo " th * j
stock Judging contest. The contest
ants m ' hat d *P ar tment w f ra ™
B rann,n ' Ge0 ^ e Beckman and Ralph (
Jarett, sons of prominent Sweet Grass ■
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county ranchers. The victory at Bose- ;
man msures , 'J'T.ou TS ^ /
I"ternat.onal Stock Show at Portland,
Oregon.
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N. P. Ry. Cuts Down Force
Rocky Mountain American—Oscar ,
Richter has been transferred from the
N. P. service, at Bozeman, to Manhat- ,
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BRIDGE PADS
The Kind
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and at the
Right Price
For Sale at
Courier ( ! Tice
The
Corner Main and Willson
PHONE 80
tan to act as mght clerk, succeed
H. R. Sesser. senority right be
the causc of the chanse. The N.
P- «*"« to be laying off a great!
, ma ". y 0f ita employes haying recent
*>' dispensed with an operator at Man
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Crowley, of Bozeman, wl/în Man
haltan yesterday in company with C.
G. Biederman of Fdtrortnn Wi«™ n
sin It that the .rentier en
have been buying sheep around Bozo
man for some time past and "hip^ng
them to the market, but Mr. Bieder
k attar..
laying Sheep Around Bozeman
man also desires some of these thrifty
I calves
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Red ***** p icket-Joarnal—Mrs.
Anna Planishek was found dead by a
searchi "P P art >' this morning about
a quarter of a mUe irom the W. A.
ice house in Scotch coulee.
* about two mUes from where she had
started Sunday night. The body was
frozen. Discovery was made by
party of miners.
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Shields Valley Record—Word was
received this week, in Wilsall, of the
death of Albert Bruckert, Sr., Sunday,
ât Long Beach, Calif., after a brief
illness. The body will be shipped to
j White Sulphur Springs, where burial
will occur Sunday by the side of his
wrife, who died about five years ago.
At the time of his death, Mr. Brack
ert was 84 years of age. He was one
of the pioneers of Montana and the
j Shields valley, having come to the
AI Bruckert Dies on Coast
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True foot beauty does not always lie in pretty shoes that cramp
the foot and restrict the step.
Foot beauty, at its best, is the foot shod in a graceful, refined
shoe which permits a graceful, natural carriage.
Women, the country over, are realizing the advantage of com
fort and flexibility in shoes as an aid to beauty and gracefulness.
Cantilever Shoes are chosen,
strict the normal functioning of the foot.
Cantilevers promote health, permit freedom and good circula
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state in 1865 from Missouri, and for
a number of years he was er~a«red in
business in Helena and Diamond City.
He came to the Shield? valley about
40 years ago and engages! in live
stock
Militia Mustered In at Lewistown
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i ruu f \^ ount> Ar^us—Lewistown
tana In°wh h "llî *° a '
"t" " •" >n '
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raising, remaining here until
about 15 years ago, when he moved
to the Smith river valley. He had
made hi? home in California about
five years.
organized. Last
September, Company K, 163rd infan
try a rifle com pan v
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^ast Monday evening Company M,
» J. >rd mfar " tr > % o! the Montana
j tlo , nal KUard ' Wa * SWOrn ln at thc ,0 '
ca * armorj*. and it is expected that it
| wlH b< * mustered into the federal serv
,ce Wlthin tbe next week b >' the regu
lar arn >y officer in charge of the
' ^ ard for Montana.
was mustered in
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t Nine Coyotes In One Day
i Virginia City Madisonian — Bert
jMarandi, an employe at the LeDue
sheep ranch, just west of the city lim
its, is doing a thriving business in
the extermination of the coyote fam
! ily. He is using a specially prepared
i poison and there has not been a mont
ing in the past two weeks that he has
1 not picked up at least one victim
of his deadly drug. One morning last
week he was rewarded by finding the
bodies of nine of these animals. When
it is remembered that coyote pelts
bring an average of about $10 each
it will be realized that Mr. Marandi
is in a dass by himself.