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The Glenwood post., 1922-10-12
Griffith Explains Why Sweets
Program Would Not Help
But Would Hinder
RANGERS ARE NEEDED

Grand Junction, Oct. 9.-Benjamin
Griffith, Republican candidate for the
governorship of Colorado, attacked the
Democratic partys program for the con-
struct.on of state warehouses for farm
ers and urged the necessity of contin-
uing the state ranger organization in
his keynote address, delivered before
an audience of residents of his former
home city today.
Discussing the farm warehouse issue,
Mr.. Griffith declared that conditions
attending the after war period of re-
construction and readjustment "have
resulted in discomfort and unrest
which afford fertile field for the
planting of political panaceas which
when harvested will yield only fruit
les victory for the farmers, if they
adopt the same
Th' Republican candidate declared
that William E. Sweet, Democratic
gubernatorial candidate, in the Demo-
cratic platform recently announced,
has turned q promise of bread into
one Of stone," in proposing that the
state shall construct and operate ware
houses only Gin limited and reason.
able way"
"The Republican party well recog-
nizes the unfortunate conditions in
which the farmer finds himself,' Mr..
Griffith said. "It proposes to assist,
and has assisted him, by progressive
and sound legislation, which materially
aids him and at the same time encour-
ages and fosters his spirit Of independ-
ence, his thrift and his efficiency
The Republican candidate also re-
ferred to the work of the 9th con.
gress, quoting Senator Capper of Kan
sas, to the effect that this congress
has passed more legislation to en-
courage and build up agriculture than
any other half dozen congresses before
it,"
THE farmer can and will help him
self by and through his cooperative
marketing association, his own ware
house to be built and operated by him.
He needs credit for these and other
purposes. It is the established policy
of the Republican party in state and
nation to extend credit to him and this
policy will be encouraged and enlarged.
Defending the record of the state
ranger force, established in 1921, Mr..
Griffith said it has "proven to be =
preventative of industrial disturbances
and is in method and results the pre-
else antithesis of the old policy, which
represents suppression but not preven-
tion. 1t prevents violence and thus
preserves life and protects property and
eliminates consequent damage to the
state. The service of this force since
its creation in preventing industrial
disturbances and possible insurrection
cannot be overestimated. We have
had industrial peace without fighting
for it. Every man who has wanted to
quit his employment has been accorded
that right and every man who has
wanted to work has been given ade-
quate protection and has worked"
Mr.. Griffith also declared that the
ranger force has been effectively used
throughout the state in aiding the local
authorities in the enforcement of all
laws. He described its costs of main.
tenance as "the cheapest the state has
ever had when compared with prior
times of industrial disturbances and
strikes"
The Glenwood post., 1922-10-12

sive idea of the scope of the kinder
garten, both mental, physical and So
cial. This will be further explained in
an article which The Post will publish
next week.
1t was a very beneficial progra
and was greatly enjoyed by al in at
tendance.
The Glenwood post., 1922-10-12
party because of his endorsement b,
Socialists.

How the radicals, malcontents and
sponsors of Russian bolshevism are
rallying to the support of William E.
Sweet, as man suited to further
their plans for soviet Colorado was
shown Thursday in Sweets endorse
nent by the radical wing of the Farm
er-Labor party.
Edwin N. Burdick, vice chairman,
and Frank E. Searway, secretary of the
party, appeared before Secretary of
State Carl s. Mill.ken and tried to have
the regular Farmer-Labor ticket thrown
out and q new one headed by Sweet
and Hilliard substituted.
Both went on record as preferring
the election of Sweet even to that of
G. F. Stevens, the regular Farmer
Labor candidste. .1FM
Coupled with the withdrawal of the
Socialist candidate in favor of Sweet,
this action on the part of the radical
Farmer-Laborites shows that the entire
soviet forces are lining up for the
Democratic nominee.
These additions to Sweets following
are more than offset, however, bv the
detection of Democrats who prefer to
have an American administration by
Republicans than Russian admins
tration by their own party.
The chief issue Of the Forthcoming
election has now been defined as to
whether peace in Colorado shall be pre-
served by an efficient state police or
by the eloquence of William E. Sweet,
Democratic nominee for governor.
Benjamin Griffith, the Republican
nominee, has declared himself all along
as standing for continuation of the
ranger system, which has proved such
an effective safeguard. Beyond op-
posing the rangers, Mr.. Sweet has said
nothing as to how peace was to be pre-
served, until last Sunday.
Then, in an address to the Denver
open Forum, he explained his plan as
follows:
At the first rumblings of trouble,
1 would go to the scene of the diff
Guilty. There / would gather the
strikers tos...tsr and address them a.
follows:
Gentlemen, as long as you are
peaceful, you will be allowed to hold
meetings and discuss anything you
like. But you will be held accountable
for any consequences. Any member of
your union who incites violence will be
thrown in jail"
How he was going to throw anyone
in Jail without any officers under his
orders Mr.. Sweet did not explain. He
made it clear, however, that he did not
expect any disorders to follow his
speeches.
To persons familiar with the history
of industrial strife in Colorado, the
issue which Mr.. Sweet himself has
lined up-the rangers VS.. the speeches
Of William E. Sweet as law enforc-
ing body-will appear amusing.
The Glenwood post., 1922-10-12
FIRST GAME OF SEASON
WON BY oLENWoor

The Garfield County High school
football team came out at the long end
Of an $40 score last Saturday when
they played Grand Valley High school
at Grand Valley. The game lacked In
terest on account Of the one-sided
score. A number Of G.C.H.s. students
were ardent rooters for their team.
The Glenwood post., 1922-10-12
NURSES HAVE rRoL1c

Tho nurses in training at the Glen
wood sanitarium, chaperoned by the
head nurse, Miss Weaver, enjoyed a
pleasant outing Tuesday afternoon at
Redstone. They made the trip in Mr..
Nottingham s car and after partaking
Of a del cious picnic lunch returned
homo in the evening.
The Glenwood post., 1922-10-12

Of candidates being now on the wait
ing List, and the new officers antici-
pate several limitations in the very
near future.
The Glenwood post., 1922-10-12

,r,sr ADS BRING RESULTS.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Two cowboys, who rode the same range 80 years ago, met on one
of Buttes street corners one day recently.
"Heno, Johnnie" said the former night wranger of the old Nm.
"WeIl III be damned. You sure look natural, Rus" was the re-
jonder.
Johnnie is none other than Senator John f. Edwards of Forsyth,
once candidate for United States senator, and one of the republican war
horses of Montana, formerly of the Mn.
The other is Charlie Russell, now one of Americas foremost paint
ers, and in the late eighties a COW hand on the Big Dry under Captain
Johnnie, of one of the biggest roundups in Montana.
The two snapped stories and "reminiscences of other days. Apart
from his talent as an artist, Russell is one of the most finished story
telers in America. One has to go back to Mark Twain or Chauncey
Depew to find a match for the dry humor that bubbles from the one
time night wrangler.
After years of suggestion and importantly on the part of his friends
he only recently put into type yarns of experience and romance IN the
days when men and things were rough and red and raw in the prairie
country.
His "Rawhde Rawins" will yet rank with the best that Bret Harte
or Sam Clemens ever turned out.
Charlie Russell, with Mrs. Russell, were in Butte, the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. James R. Hobbins, and Johnnie Edwards was in town long
enough to see the lads from MIetown wanop the youngsters from
Russells baiiwick.
The two then young cowboys took diverging trails into the great
arena of life.
Within a few years Russell had won national fame, not only because
of his genius in modelling figures of animals of the plains, but as an
artist, who is without a peer in the portrayal of early day life among
the Indians, COW camp scenes and the more majestic mountain land
possible to get Russell to discuss his art and what it brings him, but it
is stated on the best authority that he iscommanding as high as $4,000
for one canvas.
Senator Edwards is one of Montanas wealhiest as we'll as most
notable men. AS Indian agent at the Crow reservation he displayed re-
markable executive ability. Later he pushed to the front as one of
ontana's leading stockgrowers and bankers. He has been
a tower of strength in the republican party for more than 20 years and
when selections are made for governor or United States senator his
name always appears close to the top.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

provides the town of Bear Greek
with light and power, and operates
the mines of the Montana Coal and
Iron company, which have discarded
steam in favor of identification.
Six miles of transmission line have
been built from Plains to Paradise,
is now lighted and power is supplied
to the shops of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
The past year witnessed the open
ing of the irrigation project at Plains
whereby the farmer is now enabled
to irrigate his lands by means of
STANDARDIZATION pumps, which raise
the water either from the bed of
the Clark's Fork river or from a pri-
vate well dug on his own premises.
This project, which takes care of
some 2,700 acres, is unique in the
fact that, instead of a central pump
ing station, each farmer has his own
motor driven pump, which he oper-
ates according to his personal re-
~quirements and in this way pays for
no more power than he individually
uses. The farmers of Plains report
themselves as very much pleased
with this plan, being enabled to rely
upon a dependable source for irri-
eating their lands and at a cost of
approximately only SO per acre foot
There is a bright future for this kind
of irrigation elsewhere in Montana.
A contract has been made with the
Union Electric company of Dillon, to
make a wholesale delivery of power
at Sheridan, to which point the Dillon
company will build a transmission
line to tap this new source of energy
to supplement the present limited
output of it's own generating plant.
The most important piece of con-
struction during the year was the
completing of IA miles of splendid
thoroughfare connecting the Still
water county road south of Fishtail
with the new power house site near
Mystic Lake, high up in the Bear
tooth mountains. This modern high
way, of easy grades and splendid
scenic assets, will undoubtedly lure
the nature lover, tourist and sports
man in great numbers to a hitherto
inaccessible region during the coming
summer. Here at Mystic Lake the
company plans the construction of a
power plant, pipe line and transmits
sion lines which will greatly increase
it's potential service to all of eastern
Montana. The project will have a
capacity of $4,000 horsepower and
will be completed in 1924, at a cost
of approximately s1,000,000. Incl
dentally, the new $4,000 highway
will be turned over, without cost, to
the county of Saltwater.
The company has enjoyed a grad
ually increasing patronage on the
part of small consumers, the number
of lighting customers mounting from
$4,000 in 1921 to approximately H.
900 in 1922. The growing interest
of these patrons in the use of the
electric range is noteworthy. In 1921
there were $500 electric ranges in
use on the company's system and by
the end of 1922 there will be at least
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

complete arrangements there and i'm
mediately after the holidays, Mr..
Hart and Mr.. Albin and Senator Ho-
gan will leave for New York city to
close the deal there.
Low Field Price
Prime incentive for the organi-
zation of the company, say those close
to the organizers, is the low posted
field price for crude oil in the Kelvin
Sunburst field, 70 cents a barrel now
being paid. They point out that the
government contracted with the Lew
istown refinery for U. S. royalty oil
at 1920 a barrel. The Kevin-Sun-
burst oil is held to produce as high
a grade of gasoline as can be found
anywhere.
Analysis of crude from Hogan No.
l made at the AFRO refinery at Lew
istown, showed gravity 34.2 per cent;
gasoline 37.9 per cent; kerosene, 23.9
per cent; fuel oil 1872 per cent. Or
ders will be placed with supply com
panies for the casing and other ma
terials required in drilling the 10 Off
set wells next spring, and it is in
tended to have all in readiness to be-
gin operations as soon as the weather
will permit.
Meanwhile experts will investigate
the relative merits on the various
sites in mind for the refinery. An
experienced manager of the Mid-con-
tinent field has been engaged. He
will consider the matter of freight
facilities and rates, marketing adj
vantages and permanencies of loca-
ton.
The company has under %considera-
ton a contract with one of the big
gasoline distributors of the country
for the gross output of gasoline.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

3,10O. The proportion OF ranges to
total number of consumers varies
from 2 per cent in Butte to 35 per
cent in Big Timber. All these ranges
are separately metered, enabling the
customer to buy current at the three
cent power rate and making an ire
sistible appeal for electricity in pref
| erence to gas or coal on the dual
grounds of increased efficiency and
greater economy.
Starting late in 1921, the company
in its commercial department 1nau-
gurated a selling plan, whereby on
various occasions electrical appI-
ances were offered to consumers at
very low cost. From a selfish stand
point, any increased use of such ap-
pliance would naturally tend to slim
ulate the demand for current. But,
IN the other hand, the inauguration
of this policy indicates a determine
ton to provide it's thousands OF GUS
toners with standard electrical mer-
chandise at low prices, the company
preferring to render a public service
by an increased turnover at reduced
margins, rather than a large profit
on a limited turnover. The public
response to this policy is indicated by
the sale of 10000 appliances during
the past year.
Instances of other public spirited
efforts might be cited at some length
but it is sufficient, perhaps, to point
out as typical, the company's cession
to the city of Great Falls of a tract
of land surrounding the Giant Spring
and the donation of $500 for the
erection nearby of a fish hatchery,
for which the company will also fur
nish free water and lights.
1t may not be generally known, but
John D. Ryan's interest in the aes-
thetic value of the Giant Spring-re-
puted to flow the largest volume of
water of any spring in America-has
been of lifelong duration. AS far
back as the time when the dam at
Rainbow Falls was built, he would
not permit its being raised to a point
where the river would flood the
spring and deprive the community of
a valuable scenic asset.
The city Of Great Falls plans to
make the spring the center of an at
tractive park, and in this commend
able effort the company was glad OF
the opportunity to cooperate.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28
So, 500, 900 OIL COMPANY
PURCHASES HOGAN LEASES

A S2,5OO,OOO company to take
over the oil holdings of Senator Il.
S. Hogan in the Kevin-Sunburst
field, 1880 acres, including the
Hogan No. 1 well flowing 400 bar
rels daily and the Dox-Beauyais
holdings in the same field, was
announced last week. The COM
pany will include eastern and Pa
cific coast capital, besides local In
vestment. The managing directors
will be: Former State Senator Il.
S. Hogan, r.. M. Hart, head OF the
Hart-AIbin stores at Billings, and
p. r. Hogan, a millionaire lumber
man of Aberdeen, Wash.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28
er, 1921, 4,ooo,o 600 kilowatt hours

Der, 1921, 100000 kilowatt hours
For December, 1922, its output will
be in the neighborhood of 1OO.OO0
600 kilowatt hours. It's product i,
distributed over a territory 800 mile,
square-an area one and one-ha1
times that of New England. In othe,
words, II the system were to be lifted
bodily and transferred to the Allan.
tic seaboard, by placing it's eastern
most terminus at Boston, it's lines far.
thest west would reach Buffalo
N. Y, and those running north and
south would extend from Montreal,
Canada, to Long Island Sound.
Yet in the territory reached by
these 1900 miles of high tension
lines, including so cities, towns and
hamlets, the population does not ex-
coed 100000. Nevertheless, within
this region are located practically all
the industrial establishments of the
state, SO that, because of their in
creasing demands for power, the con-
clusion is inevitable that industrial
Montana is on the upward swing.
This is especially true of the mining
llQ uotly 8 l WhOSC luClS dS6u dCLlVl-
ties the major part of the company's
enlarged output is due.
In general, the company during
the past year has completed a mod
crate amount of new construction,
added to the number of its consum-
ers and extended its service to GER
tain new communities.
The company has built eight miles
of transmission lines from Carpenter
Creek to Milestone, in Musselshell
county, replacing the municipality
owned and operated plant with a SER
vice costing one-half the rates form
erly charged and with an increased
efficiency Of fully 100 per cent. Mel
stone is now the most easterIy point
reached by the company's lines.
During the year, the company pur-
chased the distributing system owned
which formerly bought Montana
Power current at wholesale. Begin
ming with the first of the year this
company will distribute direct to the
people of Deer Lodge.
Eight miles of new construction
have been built to connect the Deer
Lodge 6O~,000-vOlt line with the
Emery mine, where a mill has been
erected and is now being electrically
operated for the recovery of metalli-
ferrous values in the old tailings
dumps.
Four miles of line were built at
Neihart to provide 100 horsepower
for the extensive development of the
properties of the American Zinc and
Lead company.
At Red Lodge, the steam generated
power plant of the Northwestern I'm
provement company, which furnished
power for it's own coal mines, and
light and power for the city of Red
lodge, has been replaced by Montana
Power service.
The property of the Bear Greek
Light and Water company has been
purchased by The Montana Power
company and it's steam plant is now
superseded by electric power, which
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Equally interesting for northern
Montana is the announcement that
the development to begin next spring
will include a 1000 barrel refinery
to be built at Great Falls in all prob
ability, although Lethbridge, Spok-
ane and Shelby are other points to
be considered in locating the plant.
Associated with the Hogans and
Mr.. Hart will be Victor j. Evans, a
Washington, d. c., millionaire.
The plans of the company r for
drilling the two wells now under way
and to sink 10 others next spring.
Group of Investors
A group of investors represented
by associates of the Hart-Albin com
pany, a second group in Washington,
D. c., and a third in Aberdeen,
Wash, will underwrite the stock of
the company. This will include a
100000 issue of preferred stock
bearing z per cent interest to begin
with.
Senator Hogan's interest in the 200
acre tract in sections IL and 20, 3d.
2 west, will be included in the hold
ings taken over by the new company.
This tract adjoins on the east the
tract on which the Ohio-Kearns well
is located. The latter is the second
largest well in the field.
The new company also has a half
interest in 800 acres on section 16-
35-2 west, and contract for the lease
on $40 acres in sections 81 and 30
35-2 west, all in the Kevin-Sunburst
field. Ttg tOta1 hn1djnp e will ho I $50
acres.
Options on 280 acres in the Genou
field will also be listed among the
company's holdings. Senator Hogan
will leave shortly for Aberdeen to
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28
Gordon Campbell Adds 40 Additional
Acres and Another Drilling Well
to Syndicate No. 2 Holdings

Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
No. 2 units are, in our opinion, far and
away the most attractive offering in
Northern Montana today.
In recommending Gordon Campbell
Kelvin Syndicate No. D units to our
clients we are mindful of our record that
no investor has ever lost a dollar with
the Fidelity Finance Company.
We have ascertained from sources we
believe to be reliable that the holdings
of No. 3 Syndicate will not only be
worth upwards of a million dollars when
completed, but information comes to us
a dividend program unrivaled in oil
annals.
In our opinion, Gordon Campbell
Kelvin Syndicate No. . units at SIS each
are not only a sound investment security,
but that they carry speculative features
holding promise of substantial reward
to investors.
The record of Mr.. Campbell in the
Kelvin field is well known to the readers
of this paper. His achievement in open
ing up the Kelvin field is unparalleled in
the industrial history of the nation.
His quick success with the Lincoln
well and his unerring geological knowl-
edge augur well for the early and sub
stantial success of Syndicate No. 2.
The success or failure of the Fidelity
Finance Company must necessarily be
measured in exact ratio to the profit or
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28
IS HARBINCER OF
IMPROVED TIMES
MONTANA USED TWICE AS MUCH
POWER THIS DECEMBER AS
AGAINST DECEMBER, 1921
Frank Kerr, Power Magnate, in Re-
view of His Company's Operations
During Past Year, Says this Means
States Industry Has Had Gradual
Recovery.

Public utility services are paced
by the speed at which general indus
try moves. AS a business barometer,
the operations of the Montana Power
company for the year 1922 show that
industry throughout its territory has
made a gradual recovery during the
past twelve months, says Frank M.
Kerr, vice president and general
manager of the Montana Power COM
pany, in a review of his company's
operations during the year just clos
ing.
To be specific, this company gem
Grated during the month of Deem
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Spokane-Eight deaths from sleep
ing sickness have been recorded here
since December s..
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Helena-Automobile license plates
for 1928 are to be issued Immediate
ly after the first of the year.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

losses of its clients. Hence, it is only
after the most conscientious considera-
ton of our clients interests that we I'M
hesitatingly recommend the purchase of
any oil issue.
A client of the Fidelity Finance Com
pany is regarded as a financial ward
his or her interests and our interests are
identical-our clients must profit before
we can prosper.
The minute Mr.. Campbell
the first dividend for Syndicate No. 2
unit values are bound to skyrocket, and
our clients are destined to profit-with
this thought in mind we urge all our old
clients to increase their holdings in Cor
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the next few months will see many for
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