The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume], December 28, 1934, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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PAGE SIX
Reports Buccaneers’
Gold Cache Is Intact
The fabulous treasure of Captain
Flint’s buccaneers and another of con
siderable notoriety lie intact on Robert
Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
That statement was made at Mis
soula recently by Dr. George Fi'day
Simmons, state university biologls: and
explorer, in a lecture. He made .c. he
said, to discourage the current hysteria
over buried treasure.-
Dr. Simmons was skipper of a three
year windjammer cruise for biological
research that ended two years ago, and
spent some weeks on Treasure Island.
"I received from a native Brazilian
what appeared to be a true map of the
location of the buccaneers’ treasure,
but when I reached it, I understood
why it has defied removal. A landslide
has covered it with pebbles the size of
a room and excavation costs, even if
the machinery could be landed, would
make removal of the treasure a mil
lion-dollar venture.”
NEW WATER SYSTEM
Work on the new federal aid water
softener at the Glendive municipal
water plant on West Bell and the river
bank is progressing satisfactorily. The
new deep water well is completed. Tt is
8 inches in diameter and 105 feet deep
and taps a splendid flow of water with
satisfactory soda content.
Very little harm is done to crops by
pheasants; the good they do in de
stroying Insect pests and cut worms,
far exceeds any damage they might do.
Although the total area of the Philip
pine Islands is only about equal to that
of Arizona, it embraces 7,083 isles.
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TELEPHONE FIRM
ADDS TO SERVICE
FORT PECK EXCHANGE IS ONE OF
LATEST ADDITIONS TO EXTEN-
SIVE NETWORK
Central Offices at Fort Benton and
Townsend Has Been Moved to Newer
and More Modern Quarters to Im
prove Facilities.
The newest exchange of the Moun
tain States Telephone and Telegraph
Co., was cut into service at Fort Pock.
Mont., a few months ago with 50 tele
phones. The central office equipment,
a 320-line switchboard and assoc:-, ted
equipment, is located in the Town Hall
of the new city.
Thus Fort Peck, a city over night has
been woven into the network of tele
phone communications with an Alad
din-like magic that rivals the Paul
Bunyan magnitude of the construction
now in progress on the dam itself, ac-1
cording to J. N. Whittinghill, Montana
State manager for the company.
A week after the cutover the tele
phone total increased to 140 and when
government construction of the 500
modem homes and office buildings is
completed sometime within a short
while there will be several hundred tel
ephones in service.
In the matter of toll service to con
nect the new city with all the rest of
the world and provide the needed com
munication outside for the construction
activities, two new copper telephone
circuits were strung from Glasgow to
Fort Peck and placed in service early
in 1934. The project required 85 miles
of wire and 440 poles, all of which had
to be placed under adverse weather
condtiions because government engine
ers needed the service as soon as pos
sible in directing this gigantic under
taking.
Central office equipment at Fort Peck
was installed while the building was
being completed amid the din ai d ac
tivity of carpenters, plasterers and
plumbers. Construction of outside
plant also was complicated by the fact
that sewer, electric light and other fa
cilities also were In process of con
struction. But everyone worked to
gether with a minimum of inconven
ience.
A considerable amount of other work
has been done by the company in Mon
tana during the year to provide service
where needed and to keep the p’ant
in a high state of efficiency.
Central offices at Townsend and
Fort Benton are being moved and new
equipment installed. These cutovers
are scheduled for December.
Additional toll switchboard was in
stalled at Glasgow to care for the ex
panded service.
About 4,000 feet of aerial cable was
replaced in the vicinity of Be'.g.-ade
during the year. Three miles of .serial
cable was replaced at Bozeman along
with 70 cable terminals.
In connection with other activities at
Fort Peck it was necessary to reroute
32 miles of the Fort Union-Havre toll
line in order to secure adequate separa
tion from other facilities.
Additional facilities were placed
north from Cut Bank to the oil firlds,
consisting of 75 poles and 31 miles of
copper wire.
Highway changes necessitated re
routing on these toll lines: Missoula-
Darby, Missoula-Clarks Fork, Ronn .up
branch of the Billings-Lewistown and
Vaughn-Augusta.
Repairs and replacements were made
on the following lines: Casper-Billings,
Helena - Calgary, Pocatello - Butte,
Butte-Garrison, and Three Forks-
Butte. Other work in the nature of
service improvements was completed at
Clyde Park, Billings, Helena, Missoula,
Drummond, Glasgow, Harlem, Cut
Bank and Wilsall.
Hard Shooting Men
Would End Bandits
Give the department of justice a few
hand-picked “stnaight-shootin’ men”
of the west and the rule of the gangster
will soon end, take it from Ely “Cap"
Laird, veteran big game hunter of
Lindbergh lake on the west slope of the
northern Rockies.
Having trekked back to civilization
for a few days of recreation Captain
Laird unlimbered his views and his
feelings aroused over the recent slaying
of two department of justice agents
prior to the death of “Baby Face’ Nel
son.
Law enforcement agents .observed the
veteran of many Montana winters are
going after the outlaw element in the
wrong way.
“Quick and sure shootin’ Montanans,”
he added without a pause, “would get
quicker and better results.”
“Just take the Nelson case. Wb) 17
THE HARDIN TRIBUNE-HERALD
Powder River Jack Lee
Publishes Cowboy Songs
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Powder River Jack Lee and Kentucky Thoroughbred Stal
lion “Flash.”
Known throughout the nation for
their cowboy songs Powder River Jack
and Kitty Lee ,of Deer Lodge, have
compiled a most interesting and au
thentic volume of some 50 songs for
which they have oecome nationally
famous. The words and music art in
cluded in a handsome volume which is
also illustrated with numerous photo
graphic cuts of western life and with
prints from several of Charles M. Rus
ell paintings (copyrighted) which are
included in the book by special permis
sion of Mrs. Russell.
The true airs or melodies have been
arranged by Fisher Thompson of Butte
noted composer, and for the first time
it will be found possible to obtain the
correct manner in which the cowboys
of the trail days sang the real songs of
the west. Each number in the book
contains a complete piano part with
proper inflection as taken from Powder j
Rick Jack and Kitty Lee’s voices by the'
arranger. Oftimes classed as the “vow-:
boy and cowgirl with a million friends" j
Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee are
known to every cow-waddle from the
Rio Grande to the Canadian border. ,
Along with the numerous illustrations
in the new song book is a most inter-'
esting picture of Powder River Jack and
Kitty when they were young, which!
has been copied from an old photograph
of the picturesque cowboy and cowgirl
taken in Albuquerque N. M., at which
time Powder River Jack was puncnin’
cows and trailing beef for the XII
—the last herd to leave Texas and trav
el north on the old Kansas trail.
Montanan Elected
President of Wool
Marketing Group
Charles Redd of Lasal, Utah, was
elected president of the National Wool
Marketing corporation a few days ago
at the final meetng of a two-day ses
sion of the corporation’s board of di
rectors. He succeeds Sol Meyers of San
Antonio, Tex.
Guy Stambaugh of Deer Lodge was
named vice president; D. F. Judd of
Boston, secretary-treasurer, and Col.
H. H. Embach of Boston was re-elected
general manager.
Colonel Embach told the directors
the wool market is gloomy. Prevailing
wool prices hover around 25 cents a
pound, while production costs for wool
are about 30 cents per pound, Colonel
Embach said.
ROAD WORK TO CONTINUE
Engineer William Brittain has re
ceived instructions to proceed with the
graveling of four miles of road between
the bridge and the Broadus-Wyoming
highway.
$
Growers in Japan complain that
higher prices for rice came too late
to benefit them.
bullets were poured into his body by
the little pop guns the officers handled
and yet he was able to get away in
their own car.
"Why one good shot from a high
powered rifle in the hands of any one
of the hundreds of men in the west who
hit what they shoot at and don't waste
bullets would have brought him down
and the lives of two officers would have
been saved."
$
Work Commences
at Logging Camps
Operations have begun at the new
Woodworth logging camps of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company. 12
miles west of Ovando in the Blackfeet
valley.
At present 120 men are employed in
the camps, located in a territory expect
ed to yield 500,000,000 feet of tunber for
the Banner sawmill plant.
The camps are modern. Water has
been piped two miles and the lumber
men are housed in bunk cars especially
fitted for their comfort.
Seven different kinds of silk can be
spun by spiders, but no one spider has
ever been found which can spin all
seven kinds. Orb-weavers can spin five
of the seven.
Later they travelled with Buffalo Bill
before following "show business” and
today they are recognized as the lead
ing and foremost singers of cowboy
songs and authorities on the genuine
and real songs of the range.
The book of songs has a three-colored
cover and full page introduction, also
contains data relative to the origin of
the songs, and with explanation of
terms and besides the cuts of long horn
steers wagon trains, and bucking
horses, and famous contestants and
and riders or today, such pictures as
Charlie Russell’s “Scattering the Rid
ers,” the “Slick Ear,” “The West,'
“Trail’s End,” and “The Brcnc Twist
er," (bronze and bust of Russell and
others), all makeup a valuable and
most attractive edition.
Frederick Schweigardt, the noted
sculptor, who created the Carnegie In
stitute works of New York, and inter
nationally famous throughout the w:rld
has placed on exhibition at 5517 Care
ton Way at the studios In Holly
wood, Calif., a twice life-size bronze
bust of Powder River Jack, which was
modeled from life and represents with
an inscription “The American Cowt>oy,”
“Der Meister Singer” or “Master Sing
er. This is now on public exhibition
along with Charles M. Russell, Ein
stein, President Roosevelt and other
celebrities .
Powder River Jack and Kitty make
their home in Deer Lodge, and the song
book' is now off the press, published by
the McKee Printing and Engraving
company, of Butte.
Workmen on Strike
at Spring Hill Mine
Apparently provoked at dismissal of
three workmen, approximately 35 men
employed in two mine shifts at the
Spring Hill gold mine near Helena went
out on strike a few days ago.
The walkout. Gust Carlson, vice pres
ident and manager, said, was effected
without any notice to himself or mine
foreman.
The Spring Hill mine, one of Mon
tana's richest producers in years gone
by, is a unit of the Montana Consoli
dated Mines corporation In which many
Duluth, Minn., investors are interested.
Approximately 70 men are employed
by the company, which resumed oper
ation at the Spring Hill property last
September after a three-year shutdown
during which its first concentrating
mill was destroyed at a loss of SIOO,OOO.
The mill was rebuilt this year and
the mine now has a capacity of 250 tons
of ore a day.
50 Buffaloes Slain
Because Feed Short
As the direct result of forest fire
destruction of hundreds of acres of
feed on the national bison range at
Moiese, easterners may feast on buffalo
meat during the holidays.
Because of danger of over gracing
due to loss of range 50 buffaloes have
been slaughtered and a carload of,
dressed meat prepared for eastern and
midwestem markets.
$
GOVERNMENT WATERING PLACE
IS PLAN FOR OLD WATER WELL
A small crew of relief workers is
working at the site of the water well
purchased from the Minnesota-Flat
willow Petroleum corporation. Tne rig
burned and the debris is being cleared
away. A joint of 10-inch casing has
been set, making the well flush with
the ground, the cellar being filled to
permit a machine being moved.
The well was drilled for oil a num
ber of years ago and resulted in an ar
tesian water well, flowing approximate
ly 20,000 barrels a day. The present
flow is about 5000 barrels a day.
The well is on government land
which has now been withdrawn from
entry by the department of the Interior
and designated as a public wate’ing
place.
After the work on top of the ground
is done, the United States geological
survey will move in a rig and string of
tools, expecting to retsore the well tn its
fanner flow of 20,000 barrels a day.
Blaine County Water Supply for
Towns and Farm Land Might Be
Found in Wells, Avers Geologist
An adequate supply of pure drink
ing water for towns and farms in
Blaine county might be obtained from
wells at a depth of approximately 200
feet, Darwin Harbicht, army engineer
and former geologist for the Mil
waukee railway, told members of the
Havre city council a few days ago.
Harbicht summed up his views of the
sewage disposal and water supply ques
tion In his report as follows;
1. Milk river water In Blaine county
Is not desirable for human use now or
after sewage disposal plants are in use
at both Havre and Chinook.
2. Havre, Chinook and Har.em
should have adequate sewage disposal
plants.
3. Farmers along the river, here as
elsewhere the backbone of our eco
nomic structure, are certainly entitled
to every consideration.
4. The Chain of Lakes project is a
desirable one in practically every re
spect and worthy of unanimous sup
port.
5. It is believed that good water in
sufficent quantities is available across
the entire breadth of Blaine county at
a depth not to exceed 200 feet in the
gravel and glacial debris which lies
below an impervious (water-tight) stra
tum of startified sand and clay in the
preglacial channel of the Missouri river
and its ancient tributary system.
At places it is possible that small ar
tesian flows may be obtained in Blaine
county. It is probable that the present
water supplies of Havre, Dodson, Malta
and a number of farms are obtaned
from this source. It is reasonably cer
tain that the old meandering channel
of this preglacier river approximately
follows the present course of the Milk
river valley across Blaine county and
that its course can be outlined through
the drilling of a number of test holes.
6. Careful selection of drilling sites
should find it at Chinook drilling not
more than four test holes. At Harlem
it may require as many as 12 test holes
and it is probable that it intersects the
MACHINE COURSES
NOW AVAILABLE
PREPARATORY COURSES ARE OF
FEED AT MONTANA SCHOOL OF
TRADES AND INDUSTRY
(MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)
Preparatory courses offered at the
Montana School of Trades and In
dustry, opening at Montana State
college, Bozeman, Jan. 3, next, in
clude a general industrial course,
which is a combination of machine
shop and auto repair course; Diesel
engine and auto mechanics course,
machinists’ course and boiler opera
tors course.
Trade extension unit courses, sub
divisions of the trade preparatory
courses, may be selected by those who
already have a trade but wish to be
come more skilled in some special
branch of that trade. Courses include
lathe work, milling machine work, braz
ing and soldering, heat treatment of
metals, blueprint reading, auto electri
city, sheet metal work, auto engine test
ing and Diesel engines.
The school is not a substitute for
high school or college and no special
educational qualifications are required
for admission, although at least an
eighth grade education is desired.
Courses are outlined for six school
quarters of 12 weeks each, with a def
inite program of work for each quarter.
Opening and closing dates of the
quarters, beginning Jan. 3, 1935, are
winter quarter, Jan. 3 to March 14;
spring quarter, March 20 to June 10;
autumn quarter, Sept. 28 to Dec. 29, all
in 1935; winter quarter, Jan. 3 to March
13; spring quarter, March 20 to June 7,
and autumn quarter, Sept. 27 to Dec.
19, all in 1936.
Information on the school car. be
obtained from the Department of Vo
cational Education, Montana State col
lege, Bozeman.
FAVORS NEW SEWER SYSTEM
Harlowton taxpayers declared in fa
vor of a $12,000 bond issue for the pur
pose of sewer improvements at the elec
tion held recently. The final count
showed the vote to be 136 in favor and
12 against.
Plans for establishment of seven per
manent cosmic ray observation stations
on mountain sites in various parts of
the world are being formulated by Prof.
Arthur Compton of the University of
Chicago.
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present water main that leads to the
pumping station near the river.
Following these, six or eight tests
between Chinook and Harlem should
locate these water bearing gravels in
a number of places and furnish a sup
ply for all farmers who now use Milk
river water either direct or out of un
satisfactory seepage wells.
7. Costs of these tests snould not ex
ceed SB,OOO, even if it is found nec
essary to drill the maximum number
suggested. On the other hand, it is
possible that not more than $2,500 may
have to be expended for this purpose.
8. If the necessary funds cannot, be
made available through private or civic
channels, it would appear that this is
a project well worth consideration and
support by county, state and national
authorities. The interior department
could conceivably be induced to enter
the picture through reclamation and
Indian services.
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