The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-10-11

PRACTICALLY ALL ELECTRICITY
IN STATE GENERATED BY WATER

power. Not all of this power is bein,
utilized at the present time or else i
is being operated for uses which d.
not require its being reported to thu
public service commission for the tota
developed capacity shown by the pub
lie service records commission record:
is 294,939 horse power.
In the year 1922, according to the
United States geological survey, Mon
tana produced nearly seven per cent
of the nations electricity from water
power and was the fourth state il
rank in point of the amount of power
developed.
Of the electrical power used in Mon.
tana 99.2 per cen is generated by
water. Montana, the state department
claims, uses more electricity per cap
tia than any other state. This, if cor
rect, presumably is due to the fact
that the state while large in area Is
small in population but within its COP
fines has hundreds of miles of cleo
trically operated railroads and has
numerous mines which use a tremen-
dous amount of electric current.
More than two-thirds of the present
| installed hydro-electric capacity of the
| state is on the Missouri river and its
| tributaries in central Montana but APP
p~roximately three-fourths of the po-
tential undeveloped capacity, figures
of the state department show, is in
western Montana on the Pacific slope
of the Rocky mountains, on the Clark's
Fork, the Flathead and Kootenai
rivers principally.
The total potential development in
Montana on the Missouri river and its
tributaries is estimated by the geologi-
cal survey to be 100000 horsepower.
Oats that averaged 10 bushels to
the acre and wheat that averaged "a
were grown this year on the ranch of
Fl. A. Espie four miles south of Wilsall
according to t%hreshing returns.
In drilling a well to supply water for
the Fergus county fair at LewistoWn
shale oil was encountered at a depth
of 300 feet and the ground is now
U6lnS 1ufcSIlSdlCu ny SCOloSlOlo.
The annual poultry show at Deer
Lodge is to be held in the agricultural
rooms Of the Powell county high school
December 6, Z and s. Indications are
that the coming show will eclipse that
of last year.
Five refrigerator cars comprised the
first shipment of the Bitter Root apple
crop to the New York market. The
apples destined for the Gotham market
are of the Mcintosh variety. Ten
other refrigerator cars were loaded out
for nearby markets.
Burns suffered when a pot of boil
ing hot coffee was overturned have
proved fatal to the three-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ziecracker of Malta.
The child was given prompt medical
attention, but all efforts to save his
life failed.
When a 5000 rifle fell from the
hands of John Szasv, a rancher near
Winston, just as he had entered his
home on returning from a hunting
trip, the gun was discharged and he
died a few hours later in a Helena hos
pital. The wound was in the stomach.
The new grain warehouse built by
the Occident Elevator company at
Bridger to replace the structure de-
stroyed by fire during the latter part
Of July has been completed and Is now
receiving grain. The new elevator
building occupies the same ground
space as the former structure.
Efficiency of summer following has
again been demonstrated, this time in
the Silver Bow district where Nels
Swenson of Harlem threshed 1866
bushels of wheat from a 30-acre field,
or an average of As IL bushels to the
acre. This is the highest average yield
ever reported in this section.
William Cowan, n of the few sur
yfving soldiers of the regular army
which fought in the campaign with the
Sioux Indians, is dead in Lewistown,
aged SO years. He served at Old Fort
Maginnis, and mustered out there in
1886. remained near the old fort and
engaged in farming. He was on the
Custer battlefield the day following
he battle.
Yellowstone county Northwestern
Dent corn exhibited by H. e. Melcher
Broadview took first place at the
fair at Helena and second
)lace for the same variety of corn
vent to Meri Naser of Broadview. W.
Allison Of Canyon creek won a
Boggs'' potato grader valued at $75
or the best bushel of Bliss Triumph
,otatoes exhibited at the state fair.
After an illness of several months,
Bice, one of the pioneers of the
died at the home of his nephew,
Matt Bice, in Havre. He was rs years
age. Mr.. Bice was a rancher and
and had lived in Havre 30
rears. Prior to his coming to Havre
,e was a prospector in the western
,art of the state. He was a native of
Cornwall, England.
What may prove the success of a
lew industry for the Bitter Root val