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The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-08-06
ssTHE COVERED wAG0M"--- wE9AT lAM OVERLAND
JOURNEY DON "A PRAIRIE SCHOONER ACTUALLY
MEAMT TO THE PIONEERS OF THE NORTHWEST

When it rose too high Mrs. San
ders kneaded it down. Once this
process was rendered unnecessary.
The Sanders baby, Wilbur T.,
Weakening from a nap, rolled from
the bed into the tub. He was in
stantly recovered, with no injury
to the rising dough, although it
was considerably depressed for
some time after this experience.
The Platte river, along which we
journeyed, was as muddy as the
Missouri, and, being shallow, it
became too warm during the day TO
be drinkable. Two canteens were
made for us in Omaha, each hold
ing a gallon. These were covered
with flannel. At night the can
tens were filled from the river,
and hung under the wagons with
the shoppers removed. By morn
ing the water had settled, and was
cold, remaining cool until night.
The stove was not taken down at
lunch time, but we took what the
mess box held of bread, sliced ham,
sometimes raw, which we ate in
blissful ignorance of its danger
and were thankful for what we re-
ceived. And, Why not? 1t was
preferable to a constant diet oil
Ipemmican, which many gently
reared men learned to relish, wher
living at fur trading posts. We
brought to our meals good, healthy
appetites stimulated by our out
door life.
The first day of our journey ha6
nothing TO redeem its utter misery
due to the unfavorable weather
and to the unaccustomed life. Wher
the cattle were found, it was toe
late to leave camp, and the mex
morning was a repetition of ths
previous one. Again the half-wile
cattle had vanished. The male
personel of the party was made III
of two lawyers, two business men
an ex-druggist, Mr.. Chapman, hav
| ing Joined us in Omaha, our guide
and boy. None of these knew
how to manage cattle, how to yok'
or unyoke them, or the signifi
canoe of the commands Gee" ant
"Haw." Recognizing their ignor
ance, they hired man from Oma
ha to instruct them.
Their teacher rode out from
| frontfnued on Agricultural paRel
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Where once a prehistoric ocean
rolled over the present state of
Idaho, the Anaconda Copper Min
ing company has found deposit
which will mean continued prosper
ity for the great American bread
basket--the farming states of the
Middle West.
The story of this discovery, the
preparation of the phosphates at
Anaconda, the distribution of them
among American farmers, and the re-
markable results of their use, were
told to the Butte Rotary club by DR..
II. G. Gardiner, superintendent of the
Willow Glen experimental farm and
director of the phosphate production
for the Anaconda company.
The mono-calcium phosphate pro-
duced at Anaconda for use as fer
tilizer will restore abandoned farms
to production, DR.. Gardiner said. 1t
will also make productive hundreds
of acres of land heretofore consid-
cred sterile. 1t will keep farms pro-
ducing when other wise they would
have been abandoned.
Like Human skeleton
The micro-organism which COM
poses the phosphate beds on the old
ocean floor of Idaho, is of the same
chemical composition as the human
skeleton. DR.. Gardiner said Prehis
toric sea life has contributed to he
formation of these phosphate bed.
and from them American agriculture
will receive necessary and valuable
assistance. The organisms forming
the phosphate beds are composed oil
tri-calcium phosphate. At Anaconda
this is reduced to mono-calcium
phosphate. when 1t is ready for ship.
ment to farmers in all parts of the
country.
The Anaconda company is carrying
on campaign OF education among
farmers of the New England and
Middle Western states, to make
known the merits of the fertilizer
Many of the experiments have been
worked out at Willow Glen farm
Others have been performed by state
experimental farms and by practical
farmers n various parts of the Unit
ed States.
What Ii VIII Do.
In Indiana an experiment was made
in feeding the super-phosphate tc
hogs. One group of hogs was fed
corn straight for 70 days and In
creased in weight So pounds per hog
Another group was fed corn anl
beans and each hog gained. on tn,
average. SO pounds Another grouI
was fed corn, beans per-phosphate
and wood ashes, and gained on the
average 100 pounds.
At Willow Glen farm the use oil
super phosphate in silage increased
the lamb crop 10 per cent, and Gull:
were very low.
In Minnesota the same use of SUI
per-phosphate reclaimed millions o.
acres Of peat land, where before thu
wild hay was so thin and short tina
it was not deemed worth cutting
This same land is now PRODUCING
from so to 80 bushels of barley al
acre, and from so to 100 bushels o
oats. On one farm made possible b.
the use of Anaconda super-phosphat
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BLAINE ASSOCIATION TO
HANDLE POTATO CROP

Since January Sth, 1924, the Blaine
County Marketing association has
shipped 16 carloads of hogs, a total
number OF 1913 hogs, bringing the
total Of $4,000 to the farmers.
The association is now endeavor-
ing to complete arrangements with
"a Chicago firm for the handling of
the potato crop. 1t has promise of
a representative being In Chinook
about the middle of August. The
early potatoes are being shipped to
southern points for seed,
1t is expected also that the bean
crop will be taken care of by the as
ISOLATION. Secretary w. A. Gesell has
the promise Of several concerns who
are seeking the crop. Up to this time
there have beeen no definite arrange
ments made.
j. N. Edwards is the new manager
for the association at Harlem. He Is
doing some very good work.
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Old Mail Route Again
Ridden by Scout Geo.
MI c Gone, Veteran of.
Days of Pony Express

Events which occurred at Dead
Mans Butte, "A years ago, we're re-
enacted in pageant, on that his
toric spot near Plevna, Montana,
recently, and witnessed by a large
delegation OF Fallon county citi-
Gems. The pageant was conduct
ed under the Leadership Of Senator
G. G. Conser.
This part OF pioneer state history
was reproduced through the help of
Senator George McCone who was a
party to the episode at the time.
The swooping down OF the Indians
upon the lone mail carrier was so
we'll acted that it took but little inn
agination to vision it as real. The
killing of the rider, and the rifling of
the mail sacks, as we'll as the stealing
of the horses was as real as could
have been portrayed. The mail driv-
er fell in the exact spot where the
original tragedy occurred. This spot
was marked by few stones.
1t was at this place that State Sem
ator George McCone of Dawson coun-
~ wiz ~oS al ihat tinio ia INC hiaii
service, found the body of the vic
tim fcrty-four years ago. The Sena-
tor again sat in the saddle with his
rifle under his arm, riding along the
flats and among the hills, looking for
the missing man, just as he had ac-
tually done when his work took him
regularly over the old Dakota mail
route.
According to the Senator's story
he and another scout rode out from
their camp on the Little Missouri
at point near what is now the town
of Ollie, to the mouth of the Fallon
creek near Terry. Not finding any
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were stored, and in the other
provisions for the day. A table
was improvised by removing the
upper front end boards from two
of the wagon boxes, and inserting
them under the strip of board to
which the mess box was attached.
This was an unstable affair, but
served fairly we'll, if due precaution
was taken not to hit it.
A white cloth covered the table
on ordinary occasions, and on this
was an array of half-pint cups, a
pile of plates, and numerous spoons
all of tin. The knives and forks
were cheap affairs, the latter evi-
IDENTIFY calculated for the use OF
those who were accustomed to
knives as food carriers. On the
table also, at that breakfast, were
sugar and milk, huge pot OF cot
fee, hot biscuits, butter that was
soon to be memory, and a heaped
platter-likewise tin-of bacon, or
ham.
Each in his or her turn received
filled plate, and cup of coffee,
which was partaken standing gen
orally, or sitting on the ground, or
on a wagon tongue. The fare var
| led little from day to day. The
delicacies now provided for the
camper or tourist, were then I'M
known. Timed meats, vegetables
and fruits were not on the market
in 1868, although in 1864 large
cans of roast or boiled beef could
sometimes be purchased.
Fresh meats were unobtainable
except from the few military posts
along the way. Game was very
scarce, as might have been expect
ed near a road traversed during The
summer by an endless line of GOV.
cred wagons. Two or three time:
a deer or an antelope was killed
and then we Toasted. / remember
one such occasion, when venisor
and dumplings were served. My
brother Wright, later a page II
Montana's first legislature, had eat
en- to repletion Keeping close tc
the table he moved restlessly
about, his eyes fixed longingly OF
the main dish until he could remain
silent no longer, when he exclaim
ed: ooh, dearl | wish / was hun
grier." And so did the rest of us
but we were ashamed to admit it
The few cows we took with u
furnished milk for the youngel
children, but barely enough for cof
fee. Some dried apples, and a hal
a dozen cans of Ohio peaches, con
stituted our fruit supply, until WI
reach the Laramie mountains, anC
found wild currants enough fol
one dessert of currant pie.
Not being natives of the South
we soon tired of soda biscuits, an,
bread was made, not of the SOU
dough kind but raised with yeas
cakes Mrs. Sanders had brough
i with her. 1t was set to rise in
tub, and carried in the Sanders wa
gon covered with white cloth
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clue, they rode back over the trail
again the next day. Again their eff
forts were futile. Then, the Sena-
tor rode back over the covered ter
ritory as far as Dead Mans Butte
alone, and discovered the body Of
the mail driver where he had fall
len when hit by the bullets from the
guns of the Indians. He at once
summoned help. and wit hthe aid of
broken shovel he dug pit. wrap
ping the dead body in blanket and
burying II at a spot which is still
marked by the stones that were piled
up over the grave.
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the stand of barley was higher than
the shoulders of fairly tall man.
Depletion Moves Westward
The line of soil depletion is NOV
ing westward, Dr. Gardiner said, and
the center of grain production In the
United States would be threatened
we're 1t not for the super-phosphate
fertilizer.
The Anaconda company is now try
ing to get it's fertilizer plant on a
basis where 1t will make some return
to the stockholders, DR.. Gardiner
said. knowing that the phosphate
production will do more than any
other single thing to maintain the
stability and prosperity of the great
Middle West.
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OLD OCEAN FLOOR
WILL ENRICH FARM
LANDS OF WEST
ANACONDA COMPANY FINDS NEW
SOURCE OF WEALTH IN THE
IDAHO PHOSPHATE BEDS

VIII Bring Forth Product which
win Enrich the Wheat and Corn
Lands Of Western and Middle West
States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
THE AIR MAIL

I1HE around the-word iers they reach Seattle-f
~ they do-wi have flown $4,000 miles They have been
gone since March II, approximately five months
The air mail er covering their regular routes from New
York to San Francisco have flown the space of one month
over five times far17391O mes-and this without serious
accident the face of much bad weather. particularly at night
Between the lines of Postmaster General News report of
the first month of the air mail smiles of salts
faction-and justly.
nine hours and fornne minutes the average time eastbound
th1rslx hours twentyone minutes Thunder storms cloud
bursts and tornadoes have seriously delayed the service
Only one nearaccdent has occurred when Pilot wager made
forced landing Omaha, Neb.
The only thing which troubles Postmaster General New
maintenance This, he thinks will overcome when the pub
lie learns to use the service
He wants lighted places between the Mather Field in
the Sacramento Valley and San Francisco between New
Jersey and New York Pilots points in the early
evening and extra lighting will speed up the service
Distinctive stamps would help well. The present air
mail stamps look deal like regular postage and certain
mail has not reached the planes but has to the trains
because postmasters did not distinguish the difference
The four to sixmontbs trial service which Post
master General New suggests should be sufficient to convert
Americans who take readily things to the use of this
quick mail service
The air mail record for efficient operation points the way
to commercial air freight and passenger planes operated with
every guarantee of safety from the other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
THE PUBLIC SAFETY MOVE

traction and railroad wrecks say
nothing of the grade crossing accidents In
diana fully Justify the inssance Frank Singleton
the public commission that the State pay
attention to public safety
sngeton proposal is that the office of commissioner of
public safety be included within the ubc service
organization.
The public service commission required by law to
look after public safety far carriers
cerned 1t has only inspectors oo after the hundreds Of
miles of rails and the of rolling
diana.
This department should be enlarged because is obviously
impossible for take this most important
work We need however for the appointment of another
commissioner There five members public service com
mission Why could of them be responsible
public safety work? He could be relieved the
routine work which could be distributed among other commits
soners AT the time he could be of the com
mission and participate in its hearings and decisions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
Science

Recent newspaper reports have
told OF the increasing number of
persons. principally children, who
have been attacked and bitten by
rats, in New York. n. n. NIameth,
head Of the New York organization
that wages war on rats and other
pests, says these reports will be in
creasingly common, because Manhat-
tan Island, bounded almost wholly
by water, prevents emigration OF the
rodent population. The only answer,
he believes, IS 70 make 1t unlawful
to harbor rats.
Man has lived tolerantly with the
rat for ages. The rat has almost
no commercial value, as his pelt is
worth little or nothing. consequently
he has not been disturbed to any
extent. Today a campaign Of edu-
cation IS being carried on against the
rat. 1t is pointed out that he trans
mits, through his feas. such deadly
diseases as bubonlc plague and ty-
plus.
Not until this generation did man
have any scientific means for ex-
terminating the rat. Formerly a few
were caught in traps. but now thou
sands are being attacked by the
weapons of the chemist and biologist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
In NezO York
BY STEVE HANNAGAN

NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.-Many men
here go bareheaded during the sum-
mer
1t brings about some amusing sit
uations.
A hatless friend of mine. standing
in an aisle of a large department
store was mistaken for a fioorwalker.
Where do I find women's ready
to-wear clothes?" he was asked.
In men't store a short time later,
"a man with two ties and money in
his hand rushed up to him and said,
"IH take these two, wrap them up,
I'm in a hurry."
The following day my friend was
in another store. He chose several
articles and took them to a man
standing in the store.
I'm take these" he said.
Sorry" said the supposed clerk,
81 don't work here, 1 left my hat in
my car"
Families in the east side tenement
section consider it irregular to be
WlAllbuL a pO1luti.
Often a family of five or six will
live in two rooms. Despite that fact
they have a "boarder"
Two rooms in a tenement cost $12
a month. There is running water in
the Railways. Gas meters geared to
accept quarters. The boarder pays
IS month toward the upkeep Of the
home. 1t is payable in advance.
One room serves as a kitchen and
dining room and sleeping room for
the children and the boarder. The
mother and father live in the other
room.
Rivington ST., down on the east
side. A show place for older deni-
bens of the tenement section. Gus
toms and habits brought from an
other country persist. Men with
wigs. The 'Milkway" bath each Fri
day night before shutdown. Pushcart
fish statesmen. And the day is warm.
Peddlers. Bargaining. Apples. Two
for penny. I'll give cents for
five. Kusherneer-Ich hob dir in
dreart-Nem an a misimeshine.
The Irish policeman. Seems out
of place down here. The friend of
every one. Views all with sympa-
thetic eye. Plump housewives. Life
seems to agree here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18

Briton, Squadron Commander Mac
Laren, is a private enterprise, but
assistance has been given by the
British government wherever pos
sible. But the funds for the cost
Of the Zanni undertaking were
raised by public contributions in the
Argentine. Little or no help will be
forthcoming from the Argentinian
authorities.
But the southerners are betting
on Zanni because of his magnificent
record of daring and success. He
was born in Argentina in 1892 and
graduated from the infantry to the
National School of Aviation in 1912.
He became chief instructor of pilots
there. Shortly afterward he electri-
fed all South America by making
the first air flight over the Andes,
crossing at an altitude of $4,000 feet.
Zanni hopes to make the flight by
means of three machines. For the
first stage-Amsterdam to Toxic
he is using a new type of Fokker
machine, fitted with a 450-horse-
power British Napier engine. For
the crossing of the Pacific ocean he
will use a Fokker-Napier seaplane.
whose wing breadth is seventy feet
and whose total length is forty-tfve
feet. The machines have petrol
tanks fitted in the wings. These
tanks are of sufficient capacity tc
allow flights of ten hours duration at
112 miles per hour. They will not
need refueling in that time. The top
speed Of the machines is about 140
miles per hour. The route laid out
for himself by Zanni is: Amsterdam,
Paris, Rome, Constantinople, Bag
dad Allahaoad, Calcutta, Canton,
Shanghai. Toxic, Atka, Cordova.
Vancouver, Salem. Ogden, Cheyenne,
Chicago, Cleveland, New York,
Halifax, st. Johns, Ireland, London
and back to Amsterdam. He hopes
to do the trick within two months.
The special and most daring part
of Zanni's attempt will be in the
last stages. He intends to try the
direct flight over the Atlantic from
St. Johns to Ireland. This has only
been accomplished once by an air
plane The successful crossing was
made by Sir John Alcock on June
Is, 1919, in Is hours and 81 minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
Demand Increases

The reason we have not done this
in the past is because we have been
mining" our timber instead Of
farming" it. Logging operations,
sawmills, ct cetera, have moved
away from cut-over sections just
about the time that paper pulp indus
tries would move in.
Our demand for paper has quad
rupled since 1899, hence paper-pulp
industries have reached the point
where they could make better bids
for lands containing young timber
than lumber companies could. Pulp
wood has since reached a price
where 1t has been profitable to plant
trees on cUt-over lands to keep 1t up.
The report states, however. that
contrary to the popular impression,
lumb sring operations are responsible
for only one-third of the annual
depletion of the forests. More tim.
Der is used for fuel than for lun-
Der. Fencing takes 7.6 per cent Of
the timber from forests, railway ties
9.39 per cent and puIp-wood 2.36 per
cent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
Should Save Timber

Two worries confront foresters be-
cause of the way American pubiica-
tons eat up paper. Their first con-
tention is that we ought to be pro-
ducing more of our pulp timber at
home. The second is that companies
taking off the pulp timber from for.
est regions are in many cases talk
ing young trees which would make
saw timber IN later years II they
were left to grow.
These two theories may seem to
conflict, but a report on the pulp
wood paper and pulp situation just
compiled by the Forestry Service
and the American Paper and Pulp
Association shows that they can
both be wiped away If gone at in the
right way.
The right way recommended is to
combine the lumber and paper in.
dustries. The waste from sawnills.
it is estimated. could furnish enough
material for all the paper we need.
This is the way it is done in Sweden.
where no timber is cut primarily for
pulDWOOd,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
The Daily Dozen
BY HAL COCHRAN

BY HAL OOCt1RAIN
E~7 HEN father, in the morning.
WI says goodby and leaves for
for work, the missus also
turns to daily toll. She always has
a lot to do and can't afford to shirk,
so the kettle of her labor starts to
boil.
She washes up the dishes and the
broom is put to play and she goes
about her duty, often singing. She
keeps at household doings till the
middle Of the day. Then she's halt
ed by the doorbells constant ring
ing.
First the newsie comes for money;
then the mailman leaves a bill. Then
gent who's selling laces stops to
call. Next a fellow with a lotion
that will clean the window sill, or
the stairway or the woodwork in
the hall.
p Even youngsters of a neighbor
who can barely reach the bell, push
the button till they nearly push 1t
out. There's relief that it is no one
who has little things to sell. Gee,
I'd thank va for a cookie" they will
shout.
All day long the bell is ringin'
till it runs poor mother lean. and
she never wants to hear it any more
When you mention daily dozen she
will likely think you mean Just the
dozen trips she makes up to the
door.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-18
ARGENTINE
FILTERS ON
LONG TRIP
Funds to Pay Expenses Are
Raised by Public
Subscription.
BY MILTON BRONNER

ONDON, Aug. Show the
III North Americans what the
IL South Americans can do
This was the parting admOnition
TO Maj. Pedro Zanni just before he
hoped off from Schipol Aerodrome
near Amsterdam, Holland, on his at
tempt to fly around the world in rec
ord time.
The Zanni expedition stands in a
class by itself The American round
the-world flight, undertaken by
Army flyers, Is backed by the re-
sources Of our Government and ex-
tensive preparations were made
everywhere for their convenience.
The world fight undertaken by the