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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-05-30

land through this section is densely
covered With II growth OF the best
tamarack ever produced in any Goun-
try. The Englishman. whose wonder
ment at the extent of the country
caused hlnsAo give voice to his amaze
ment, was no less struck with con-
sternation when he was permitted to
view the wonders of Montanas north
ern cumberland. Especially was he In
terested in the Wondrous growth of
the Montana tamarack and in mani
festation of his appreciation of the
splendid quality of the wood, he had
a consignment of the finished product
shipped to his English manor where
his study has been finished in what
he declares, as an authority of woods
and timber, to be the best lumber IN
the world. That's an Englishmans
expert opinion on the forest product
of Montana.
But to reach the Clark TIMBER prop
erty is Il question which has been, in
the past a veXing one. The extreme
north edge of the Clark forest reaches
within a short distence of the Black
foot river. but of what use is that
The Clark interests have no mill in
the vicinity and no means of moving
the finished product to market were
a mill in operation. The solution of
the difficulty must come through the
establishment of railroads through the
Clark property in the northern por
ton OF Missoula county and the east
ern part of Powell county. This pro-
digious tract of forest owned by the
Clark interests does not reach it's
northern limits until the Sunset val
ley bursts into view
AS if DESTROYS of resting from the
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fioient to support minimum of two
millions Of people. He also stated
that the same condition existed all
along the line from F'lathead county
south to the line of the Northern Pa
cific, the lacking development Of the
country being due to the absence Of
railroads and good highways.
1t would be a problem difficult to
solve to say just how much land
there is in the eastern and northern
portions of Missoula county; the west
ern and northern portions of Powell
county; the western part of Lewis and
Clark and up through the Flathead
country. which could be developed I'M
der a properly devised system of irri-
cation and cultivation. but it is a
surety that the acreage now barren
and arid for want of proper refining
influences, is amazing
The positive declaration is made by
experts in development matters that
while not all of the hills in the coun-
tries named are tillable or even capa-
Bile of producing anything but the
wood and timber natural to them,
| their foothills, of which there are
many thousands of acres, possess
all the necessary agencies which go to
make the soil arabic and productive.
Not only are the foothills now barren
wastes, the lower lands in the districts
remote from flowing water are still
lying idle and win continue to do SO
until there is prospect Of easier
means of handling the crops of both
stock and grains which they would
produce under irrigation and cultiva-
| ton
| Vast acres of lands on which "once
| stood" forests with their myriad
| tongues are now covered with charred
| and blackened stumps. all that re-
| mains of the once mighty nonarchs
of the woods, laid low by the devas-
tating ak welded by civilizing hand
| in the interest of progress onward
| march. These lands are known to
| belong to a class of wonderful pro-
| ducers of vegetation. but are allowed
| to remain uneultivated until time re-
| moves the distractions now standing
| on the claims.
/ The high hills alone are all that
| can be considered useless from the
| viewpoint of the agriculturist. but not
| from that of the commercial man and
| the United States government. 1t is,
| primarily. for the purpose of making
the hills produce all they are capable
OF that the government has rushed
protecting hand toward the preserva-
| ton of the forests of the country. The
| establishment of forestry depart
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! water river and follows that stream
Tor miles to the northward. Far, tar
/ to the east the bank of the Blackfoot
river is thickly lined with stately
trees measuring many feet In dame
ter at their base, Camps have been
established throughout this forest and
the work of clearing off all the ripe
timber is proceeding apace.
Following the course of the Black
foot east the traveller finds broad
=, eypanse of farming country much the
same as that passed through on the
way from Potomac to Clearwater.
. The lands are of precisely the same
productive character and are as vet,
only in a primitive state of cultiva-
ton. The principal settlement be-
tween Clearwater postofifce and the
Lewis and Clark county line is Ovan-
do, Il small town which draws on a
large farming and numbering district
for trade. The lands of this valley
are productive in the extreme and
awaiting only the arrival of q rail-
road to bring further development and
settlement.
From Clearwater far north and ex-
tending almost to the foot of the
Seeley lake, the Clark and the Big
Blackfoot interests own large areas of
timber which is being permitted to
stand for want of transportation IA
cilities by which to handle the inn
mense logs now to be found in that
territory. Still farther north is the
Swan river valley, a country equally
| as famous for it's productive ability
| as the Camas and Sunset prairles.
This valley extends for miles past the
foot of the Flathead forest along the
Swan river to kalspell and toward
the Canadian boundary from the Great
Northern railroad, Farther north
still is q gloriously good country, still
| undeVeloped prairies. This valley
| extends for miles along the Swan
river and through the Flathead ma
tional forest, over the line of the
Great Northern railroad and along to-
ward the Canadian boundary. Every
foot Of the country is as good as%na-
ture could make it, but is still in the
| very early stages of advancement.
| All through this territory there are
| pockets and gullies on which stand
some of the finest specimens of Mon
tana's trees. Here are found most
| magnificent spruce ana tanaraek
groWths adjacent to farming sections
! Of a most desirable sort
| Sneaking of the undeveloped lands
| of the Flathead country, a Missoula
! man, who has made a study of the
conditions all through the west and
northwest. recently made the state
h.1+ Fl1a he DC f,A
Northern railroad through T'athead
county there Were trrigable lands not
! row under process of .eu'tiVatlol sur
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lutely nil, even the stage road to
Clearwater and still further to the
north and east being little more than
many months in each wear is alm).l
impossible. On the plains this ROAD
becomes, each spring and fall. beaten
mire through which horses and cattle
wade belly deep in a sticky mess of
black gumbo, and on the hillsides there
is ever imminent danger of the high
way sliding into the river, leaving no
path until one can be constructed by
the highway commissioners. The
stage road is practically the only out
let for the populace from the country
far to the north and east to Missoula
and even this road can be used but
little for the purpose of moving the
produce of the adjoining farms.
For q distance of 10 miles out OF
Bonner in a northeasterly direction,
the Blacktoot river road passes
through as rugsedly beautiful a
country as one could ever wish to
view. The path winds in and out, over
hill and adoWn vale, at one moment
overlooking the river from a narrow
ledge perilously high up on the hillside
and the next moment almost on
level with the channel of the river.
and enters Immediately on the clear
inc in the woods known as the Nine
Mile flat. At this place a number Of
numbering men make their headquar
ters, coming down from the camps of
that region. Here, too, passengers on
the Clearwater stage alight for a brief
period of rest and reFreshment. The
Nine Mile flat is the practical begin
ming of a number of clearings made
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tricts may be mentioned the great
Okanogan valley of British Columbia
and Washington, the Yakima valley
of Washington and, to get nearer
home the great and only Bitter Root
valley of western Montana. What
irrigation has done for these valleys
can be done for others With the same
nd perhaps. with greater degree
of success. The Bitter Root valley,
the produce of Which is famed the
world over, is still devc' oping It's
watering schemes and extending its
operations far beyond the confines Of
the valley itself
There are valleys il the north por
ton of northwestern Montana which
are fully equal in every respect to the
Bitter Root and lacking only for the
more extensive development in the
question of a broader and more per-
fectly devised rrgating plan. True
it is that such loW-lying lands as are
found along the Camas prairie, tie
Nine Mile district near Clearwater
and along the Swan river bottom
lands, the tracts are we'll cultivated
and show remarkable returns for the
work put on them. Over in the Flat
head country thousands of acres go
from year to year untitled because
there is no practical means of water
ing the lands. Of course, with the
opening of the Fiathead reservation It
Is to be expected that much develop
ment work will be projected and the
cultivation of all of the present arid
wastes be improved. Through the
Tlathead territory at least two rail-
road companies will extend their lines
during the next year, and with the
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ment in the administration Of the
United States domestic affairs is de-
signed for the purpose of continuing
| the hills, otherwise unproductiye. in
the role of the producers of the worlds
best timber, permitting only the cut
/ ting Of the ripe trees and allowing the
remainder to come to full maturity.
Thus, there is no reason to suppose
for a moment that between Missoula
and the Canadian boundary line there
is any land which will not, at some
future time, be rendered productive of
something of commercial value.
Considering all of this, is it any
wonder several great railroads are
now in bitter struggle to secure the
most promising and available routes
| through the country between Missoula
and the F'lathead land?
With the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound railroad company, the
Great Northern and the Northern Pa
cific in a three cornered fight for
right of possession, it really looks as
though the railroad companies had
been among the first to note the pos
sibilities of northern Montana and to
regard it as the real land of promise
| In and around kalispell the Puget
Sound and the Great Northern are
contesting with each other for terri
tory, and it is estimated that nearly
three hundred men are engaged by
both railroads in an endeavor to cir
cumvent the engineering departments
of each other. The invading forces,
representing the Puget Sound COM
panS, are operating north and south
from kalspell, the bitterest fight be-
ing made in the vicinity of Columbia
Falls and Coram, where the new rail-
road company desires to cross the
| tracks of the Great Northern in an
effort to reach the Canadian border,
where immense coal fields exist.
South of Kalispel the Great Northern
is struggling against the invasion by
the Puget Sound company of the Flat
head district, territory hitherto con-
sidered the property of the Hill line
| Nearer home the intensity of the
| struggle has been watched with the
! keents interest because it means the
| opening for development a great coun-
| try from which Missoula will draw
considerable benefit. The battle be-
| ing Waged between the Chicago. Mil
Wal4l1ee & Puget Sound and the
| Northern Pacific engineering forces
| is an intense one. with little
| advantage on the side of either. In
| this merry race for right-of-Way the
Northern Pacific evidently got the
| better of the Puget Sound forces at
the start off gaining a more available
| route out of Bonner on the south side
| of the BlaclSfoot river and forcing the
/ Inn Ilt,r \
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Through wonderful land of rugged mountains beautiful
lakes and fertile Valleys the Milwaukee railway is building
a new line the Canada coal fields
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Continued on Pare seven,l
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25
CHIEF R|CE'S
son" GETS
JAIL TERM

A. e. Rice. an ex-soldier, who
while under the influence of liquor
impersonated an officer and told an
inmate of one of the public resorts,
that he was the son of Police Chief
Rice, was today sentenced to the
county Jail for four months by
Judge Hinkle. Rice secured So
from the woman, on his plea OF
Rice relationship. but was placed
under arrest before he could carry
his operations to any greater ex-
tent.
On being arraigned Rice entered
q plea of guilty and made a state
ment to the court, in which he said
that after serving two terms in the
army he landed in Spokane penni
less. He was about to re-enlist and
had gone out to say last farewell
to the few friends he knew, when
he became intoxicated through the
excessive hospitality of those OF
whom he called. While in this con
dition he threatened the arrest Of
the Gray woman, who believing
him to be an officer, seemed tC
know better than to resist, so she
donated Sc hush money" to the
alleged son of the chief of police.
Deputy Prosecutor Kizer said he
had looked up Rice's record ant
found that this was his first offense
and believed that in view of the
circumstances a Jail sentence only
ought to be imposed. The court
agreed with the deputy prosecutor
but told Rice that his act laid hin
oOpen to a penitentiary sentence
had the court desired to impose it
Rice seemed very much pleased tC
get off with the Jail sentence.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25
OYSTER LAND
GRAB AGAIN
ESPECIAL to The Press

OLYMPIA, Feb. 25.-No session
of the legislature is considered
complete unless the "oyster land
grab" bill comes up, and it is now
before the legislature coming from
the committee on tide lands.
This bill has been before the
legislature in one form or other
for many years, and if persistency
counts for anything, some of these
bright days it is going to work its
way under the governors pen, and
the lessees of the states oyster
lands are going to check up a cou'
pie of million dollars profit.
State oyster lands are now held
by individuals on merely possess
DRY rights, the state having the
privilege of stepping in and taking
the lands any time on the pay
ment for certain improvements
The holders of these lands are ex
tremely anxious to secure title to
their lands, so that they may be
relieved from the restrictive rules
which are laid down by the state
incidentally the title will be worth
about 100000 to the owners.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25

During the last year the Akassiz
carrying investigators detailed by
the Marine Biological Sassociation
of San Diego, has broj INT back to
port many data of uN IN the
mapping of the new Nutrients on
the ocean, and has con bu "a hun
dreds of new facts to BAe aldy-o OF
marine life, in which stke Pacific
at this point abounds.
In the apparatus are included
two pieces which have worked real
wonders. They are a water bottle
which has been successfully sent
down many yards farther than any
other yet built, bringing up water
belonging solely to the lowest
depth reached, and a wonderfully
devised net, whose strong point is
that it can be lowered far, down
and then easily closed. 1t has al
ready brought up a number of speci
mems new to the Investigators.
In a few months a large party of
scientists will leave on the Agassiz
to give this apparatus test more
thorough than any to which it has
been subjected.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25
SALOON SACK
NO GOOD
Especial to The Press.)

N~fSS'e' ~ 'S Soost
OLYMPIA, Feb. 25.-The saloon
interests have sack in Olympia, a
sack filled with unmarked coin
ready for the covetous hand of any
legislator who will quit the dessi-
Gated ranks of the local optionists
and come over where it is more
humid.
And in the face of the presence
of the plethoric sack, the anti-sa.
loon league has dispensed with the
services of it's private detective
who has been logging the tracks of
suspected lobbyists and doubtful
members of the legislature.
The local option fight has be.
come so rigid in it's lines that
money amt no good no more
The saloon men realize that com.
promise is the best they can hope
for and with compromise end in
view they cannot make vote bar
gains. They can pay the price but
they have no specific demand they
can make from the purchased leg
islator because they cannot draw a
line over which they will not be
willing to cross in coming to a
compromise.
This was the reason why the an
ti-saloon league sent it's detective
home. The detective, after the
manner of his kind had an abund-
ance of Clues" chiefly suspicious
circumstances, bearing out the
adage that mans company is an
indication of his, character. The
league knows that the sack is here,
but also knows its impOtency to
watch the sack. The sack has
been preambulating back and forth
to Tacoma and Seattle In manner
so active as to defy the most agile
detective to follow its trail.
The anti-saloon league officials
do not believe the sack has done
any good or that it will accomplish
anything. While the local option
controversy is at a standstill now,
it has become so intense and the
participants so conspicuous that
none of them may materially
change his position without Great
ing a suspicion as to motive that
would be equivalent to political sui
eide.
That the sack is still in existence
undivided is due for the most part
to the untoward turn of events
and is no particular credit to legis-
lative restraint.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25
YOUNG LOOCER
ACCUSED

A gold watch, valued at about
$50. belonging to Mrs. August
Keifer, 02502 Monroe street, was
found this morning in a pawn shop
at 405 Main avenue, less than is
hours after Mrs. Keifer had re.
ported her loss to the police, and
Tom Sprague, aged IS, is in the
city Jail suspected of the theft.
Mrs. Keifer is trying to shield
young Sprague, who has been
rooming at her house The pawn.
broker. In whose place the stolen
watch was found, positively identi-
fed Sprague this morning as the
party who had pawned the watch.
In spite of this fact, the detectives
state that the handwriting of the
one who signed the pawn ticket is
remarkably different from that of
the lad under arrest.
Mrs Keifer, with a Mrs Fisher,
visited the police station this
morning to see what they could
do for young Sprague, and stated
that they believed if Sprague was
implicated in the theft, he had a
partner. The case is being worked
out by Detective Tom Herndon,
and a search is being made for a
couple of rings taken with the
watch from Mrs. Refers home.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25
CASE WARNSLABOR
TO WAKE UP
Continued from page ~

before the join committee OF labor
of the house this week.
| regret that every working man
in the state was not present to
hear the discussion and know the
value placed upon life by their en-
ployers.
Mr.. James, representing the Man
ufacturers. association of Seattle;
Mr.. Griggs. representing the Man.
ufacturers association of Tacoma;
Mr.. Israel, representing the Log
gers association of Washington;
Mr.. Hastings, representing the Met
al Trades association of Washing
ton; Mr.. Cravens, representing the
Sawmill association of Washing
ton; Mr.. Turner, representing the
Iron Manufacturers association of
Tacoma: Mr.. Page, representing
more sawmill interests, represen-
tative of the Seattle Steel Co., and
a half dozen others whom lack OF
time deprived of hearing, de-
nounced the measure and plead for
the right to continue to MAIN and
kill the working men and women of
the state without having to pay
any more damages for so doing
than they have in years past. In
other words leave the law as it is
for they are able to defeat 9 out of
10 personal injury cases. brought in
our courts today.
This means saving of hundreds
of thousands of dollars to the man.
ufacturing interests annually while
the injured working men and wom-
en- suffer want. poverty, degreda-
ton, dishonor and immortality in or
der that the building up of the
manufacturing interests may con
tinue.
Senator Graves denounced the
whole system of liability legisla-
ton as wrong and produced his re-
Gently discovered panacea for all
lls--S. b. No. 20o-which provides
for a stated amounts for death or
injury. All the employers present
expressed themselves as favoring
this measure, although some admit
ted in the same breath that they
had not read the bill. The fact
that it contained limitation of
| $4,000 for death or permanent dis
ability, together with the fact that
| it had been prepared and fathered
by one of their class, satisfied them
| that it was in their interests. If
| this measure is to be defeated we
must get very busy as corporate in
terests favor it and are maintain
ing a strong lobby in its interests.
Remember, boost H. B. No. 81
(women's eight hour law in the
senate, S. B. No. PIT tour liability
bilD in both house and senate, and
knock S. b. No. 205 Graves Lin
tied liability all that you can.
Fraternally submitted,
G. r. CASE.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25
FISH FUGITIVE OUT
WITH WIRE

While Officers Chester Edwards
and Buck" Miller were hammer
ing at his door, No. 6 of the How
ard block this afternoon, w. e.
Wellington, an alleged prize fight
er, leaped from his window to a
corrugated iron roof % feet below
in desperate effort to escape.
After searching the room and find
ing no one but the pugilist's femi-
nine companion, the bewildered
officers peered over the ledge of
the high window, and discovered
Wellington making frantic at
tempts to work his way up a
heavy insulated electric light wire
to the top of three story build
ing adjoining.
He had found himself coralled
between four high buildings, with
the electric light wire the only
available means of escape. The
officers lowered a rope and pulled
the frightened pugilist back, then
marched he and the Clark girl to
the station, where they are book
ed on a charge of vagrancy. How
yelling escaped broken bones by
his leap is mystery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-25
QUICK PASSAGE
TO THE PEN
MOTORMAN WHO MADE BLUFF
AT HOLDING UP CAReARN
GETS SENTENCE SIS HOURS
AFTER THE ATTEMPT.

Trying to hold up the W. w. P.
Co. carbarn and confessing it is a
quick route to the penitentiary.
Joseph K. Miller, the big, broad
shouldered young motorman, who
in an ill-advised impulse undertook
to hold up H. J. Hildebrand, keeper
of the w. w. P. cash box at the car
barns, this morning was arraigned
before Judge j. D. Hinkle. entered
plea of guilty and was sentenced
to Walla Walla penitentiary for a
term of one to Ia years, all within
period of SIS hours after the crime
was committed.
Deputy Prosecutor Kizer explain
ed to the court the nature of Mil
ler's offense Miller, when asked
by Judge Hinkle if he wanted cOun-
sci, stated that he did not want
any and was willing to submit his
fate to the court. The court gave
no words of advice or sympathy.
Miller acted the part of a man who
had been caught in the act and eX-
pected no sympathy or kind words
on the part of the court He had
heard sentence passed upon him
before in the same court and knew
his fate when he faced Judge Hin
kle this morning. His former SEN
tence was for grand larceny, of
which he was convicted seven
years ago.