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Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15
ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM
STRESSED BY EXHIBIT

Arrlcultural College Notes
Education with Practice" was the
sI-L stressed at the exhibit of Colo
RADIO Agricultural College the Ma
,ural Western Stock Show this year.
,hars. photographs and lantern slides
void the story Of the training given
sauug men and women not only in
-grlculture, but for industry. Special
Emphasis was given industrial train
I.E because OF the recent oil discovery
. northern Colorado, construction of
me NoTat tunnel and the extensive
road building going on thruout the
-. ate. To impress the opportunities
hat are open 10 graduates in industri-
a.. life il was shown by placards that
80 900 trained men are required in
the industries Of the United States
each year, while the Agricultural and
Mechanical Colleges are preparing
only about 1000 men. The exhibit in
Guided the work Of the mechanical,
civil and irrigation and electrical en-
g1neering departments.
The use OF electricity on the farm
was stressed by the exhibit prepared
jointly by the College and the Rocky
Mountain committee on public utility
Information. Things that electricity
will do for the farmer were thus emu
ncrated: Electricity cuts silage,
grinds feed. shells corn, grinds grain,
bales hay, milks COWS. runs the cider
wlll, pumps water, runs the work
work shop, replaces steam and gaso-
line engines and lights farm buildings.
For the farm housewife electricity
supplies water, washes clothes, heats
irons, sweeps floors, separate cream,
churn butter, grinds meat, runs the
sewing machine and lights the home.
Cutting the cost Of labor and reducing
the time required for farm and house
hold tasks were the things brought
out in the exhibit of electrical appl-
ances. Other departments represent
ed We're the vocational education, vet
erinary, forestry home economics, 10
ology, Agricultural, horticultural and
the state dairy commissioner.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15
COULD CONTROL RANGE
WITH own SHEEP

Glenwood Avalanche
The running Of sheep themselves
sufficient TO Craze the high ranges,
was the suggestion of Supervisor Jas.
A Blair Of the White River forest, as
a solution Of the problem of keeping
out the Utah sheep men.
Supervisor Blair was asked TO meet
with the Rio Blanco county cattlemen
at a mass meeting at Meeker last
saturday, called for the purpose OF
protesting the opening of 4 driveway
To let in the sheep men from the Utah
desert winter range, and the feeling
was very strong at the meeting. As
a result Of the session a resolution de
claring for the abandonment Of the
drive that has been already fixed b.
the Interior Department, was prepaT-
ed and will be forwarded 10 the Colo
rado representatives and senators IN
Washington, d. c. Some OF them
however. express little hope of Sc
curing the abandonment Of the drive:
After n statement of the object oi
the meeting, Mr.. Blair was called TO
explain what he knew Of the establish
ment of the driveway, which was very
little, the forest service having moth
ing 10 do with the matter. He then
gave a statement of the number Of
sheep il is possible to run on tne
White River Forest, and IN ms TAX
suggested that the cattlemen put IN 4
few sheep each, bunch them in bands
during the grazing season under the
necessary number of herders and
themselves secure the profit from the
sheep ranged on the White River
Forest. They being local, he explain
ed. would have the advantage in So
curing permits and thus could make
the driveway void as far as outside in
terests are concerned, as If the ranges
were taken there would be no object
/ in their coming in.
| He further stated that II the cattle
men owned the sheep, they could al
low them TO Craze the larkspur and
the weeds off the cattle range
thus improve the cattle range and re-
duce the losses from poison weed. Il
/ has been demonstrated that as cattle
pick the grass they gradually reduce
this by close cropping, and the weeds
are allowed to come on, reducing the
value of the range. The sheep, or
the other hand, prefer the weeds and
the grass is thus given chance where
the range is not too heavily stocked
The swapping OF ranges is thus found
to be beneficial in cases where the ex-
pertinent has been tried.
Representative Claud Rees, who
has a ranch north of Rife, was at
the meeting and gave an explanation
Of the law passed by the last legis!a-
ture providing that stock from with
out the state cannot be brot into the
borders or grazed without permission
of the commissioners of the counties
thru which it is proposed to drive,
He stated that the validity of the
law has been questioned on the
grounds of constitutionality, and there
is now test case before the supreme
court. The law is considered as a CON
siderable step toward the control OF
driving in stock from surrounding
states, as where the interests of local
stockmen are jeopardized the county
commissioners are quite sure to re-
fuse permits.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

The number Of eggs a hen will lav
per month depends on her capacity to
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

Se-s Of the Stock-lisms
about Stockmen-Foilo~ ~Ing
Plo~ and ShoseI-Dry Farm
ing Notes of Interest
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15
ALL OUT OF SORTS
So Was This Good Woman Who Tells
Her Experience.

All too often women accept their
pains and aches as natural to their
sex. They fail to realize that weak
Kidneys are often to blame for that
backache, those headaches, dizzy
spells and that tired. depressed feeling
Thousands have found new health and
strength by helping the weakened
kidneys with Doan's Pills-a stimu-
last diuretic. This case is one of
many in this locality.
Mrs. John O'Toole, TAO N. Mesa
Ave, Montrose, Colo, says: "The fll
weakened my kidneys. They didn't
act right and was weak all over. Ny
feet became swollen, so l couldn't get
my shoes on and had constant pains
in my back 1t seemed as though
couldn't move without suffering. My
sight became blurred and l was so
dizzy, could hardly see. Doan's
Pills relieved me and haven't needed
them since"
60c. at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co, Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15
IMPROVING NORTHERN
GtNNISON NTY

Iaonlan:-
Last year stock driveway was
constructed from lee Creek up what
is known as Chair creek, distance of
four miles, at a total cost of SlS3.
The construction of this driveway
opened up a practically new range
with a carrying capacity of about
600 head. of cattle and horses. This
year an appropriation Of S25 is asked
for the construction of trail from
this driveway to the Mcclure pass
trail, distance of two miles. An al
lotment of SIS was also recommended
for the construction of a trail from
the driveway to connect with the
Miners Cabin, and from this trail to
the forest boundary. The construc-
ton of this trail Will open up addition
al grazing land and can be used for
general administration and for the
protection of a large body of timber
near the north end of Ragged Noun
tain.
Arrangements We're made for bet
ter management of the grazing bust
ness and better distribution of stock
between districts. Some shifts in
stock viii be necessary to other graz
ing division. II is planned to trans
fer some of the stock from the Mamm
creek range near Rifle to the Clear
Fork on the Muddy to relieve the
over-grazed conditions of the Mamm
creek range.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15
Ranch and Rance

thas year or last u is apt 70 cause a
general rush into that line Of endeay-
o. sv!th the usual outcome Of over
production and consequent low prices
and many farmers founder from ore
thing 70 another 10 find that all have
.dFa =backs and difficulties. II the
range could be opened and kept open
for strlctly local farmers who owned I
fea, sheep the plan might be all night,
but often il develop-s that some large
owner buys up a lot OF the little fel-
loss and trouble ensues. II the cat
tlemaa and the sheep owner could
Only work in harmony, a great benefit
= ould result, but il has been demonst-
rated many times that such cannot be
Consider the proposition very careful
y and know where you stand before
recommending that the Grand Mesa
Be opened 10 sheep, not that we be-
Eeve the sheep business any detrimeut
- the country but the two industries
did not work together for harmony.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15
ANOTHER VIEW

Cedaredge Champion
The question of sheep permits upon
the Grand Mesa Forest is under dis
cussion these days and many small
stockgrowers are favoring the opening
of the reserve to sheep in order that
they may change from cattle to sheep.
1t is question that should receive
careful consideration. The fact that
sheep have been bringing good re-
turns for the past few years is apt to
influence the better judgment of many
farmers. As We have stated III these
columns before that when certain
product is bringing in good money
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

Hi Hickman is now at 322 Orange
ST., Long Beach, Calf, and plans to
remain in that vicinity for the bal
ance of the winter. Hi has been see
ing the sights ilce laaving Gunnison
during the holiday season, and we are
forwarding his News.Champions to
give him the news of the Gunnison
country.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15
BRING YOUR SCHOOL CHILDREN

To the La Ve;a Hotel. whero D. K.
C. Sapero, the well known Eye. Ear.
Nose and Throat specialist of Den
yer, will examine their eyes and yours
free, on Thursday, February 2lst.
Glasses fitted scientifically ST.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

faonian.- Floyd Fluke returned on
Sunday from Utah where he went
several days ago to arrange for the
purchase Of cattle to be fattcned in
the Crawford country.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

Editor Sills Of the Republican went
Sunday night to Denver. and is re-
naming to take in the party confab
during the week
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

digest food. Do not breed from birds
with pinched backs, little depth in rear
and which lacks fullness in abdomen
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

Herman Childs Of the Sapinero
valley was in our city the latter part
o. the week, returning Saturday morn
!ng BY train.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-02-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Lora Curtis We're in
our city from Doyleyille early in the
week.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-03-14
BY HOMER FAUST

lT HERE is probably no section in
4 Montana that is richer in ro-
- nance and tradition than Beav-
erhead county. There is hardly a
spot there that has not been colored
by historical deeds and Incidents.
Through the valley and up the can
yon of the Beaverhead river the
Lewis and Clark expedition made its
way nearly a hundred and twenty
years ago. And over the same trail
traversed by those intrepid explorers
| the old freight trains, many of them
drawn by oxen, made their hazardous
way, bringing supplies to the newly
discovered gold fields in Alder Gulch
and at Bannack. At Bannack, Mon
tana's first organized government
was set up, and the little mining
camp became the first capital of the
territory. Here Henry Plummer,
then sheriff of Beaverhead, and his
band of road agents, carried on their
reign of terror until the Vigilantes
organized and melted out crude but
effective punishment among the rob-
bers and murderers. In the Big Hole
Basin, Chief Joseph and his Nez
Perces Indians paused in their mem
orable retreat to make a desperate
stand against the white man.
Historians, however, almost with
out exception, have told only of
events which followed and were dir
ectly connected with the discovery of
gold Another field of development,
fully as important in the up-building |
of the state and fully as romantic !
as the search for gold, has been over
looked. Therefore, few people, even
those familiar with the story of those
early days, are aware of the fact that
Beaverhead county was the birth
place of Montana's great livestock in
dustry. Here the first permanent
homes were established and here the
pioneers of agriculture met with and
overcame hardships and obstacles
that would have disheartened any
but the most courageous of men.
All, of course, were brought to
Montana by the lure of gold. Proba-
bly, not one in all the hundreds who
rushed in following the discovery of
gold had any intention of making his
permanent home in the new, practi-
ally unknown territory. But those
With foresight soon saw that the
placer mines could not last forever,
hat they must soon become exhaust
ID, and in casting about for another
ind more permanent source of in
.ome it was only natural that their ;
yes should fall upon the broad val
eys and verdant hills of Beaverhead :
ounty. I
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of soldiers, fighting against odds in
Central Africa. He, too, was a MEM
Der of the association. Then there
was Pierre Wibaux, scion of a great
manufacturing concern at Marseilles,
France, who abandoned luxurious
home and certain future to come
into the western wilderness to be-
come Montana stockman. His
bronze statue looks forever towards
the town of his creation, in the east
ern Montana county which bears his
name; John Clay, marlborough schol-
ar, historian of the free range and
his associate of those days, Charlie
Robinson, who were later to be-
come, as they are now, dominant fig
ures on the Chicago live stock mar
ket; Charlie Russell, the cowboy, now
the greatest of western artists; and
Teddy Blue of the Three Deuce ranch,
who refuses to abandon his vocation
of yesterday and still rides the range
in limited way in Fergus county,
near the Montana end of the Texas
trail over which he followed the long
horns into the state; the Bie1enbergs
and the Broadwaters, the Poindex-
tiers and the Orrs, and thousand
others, most of whom have gone
down the long, long trail, and who
belong to the ages. Living or dead,
they were stalwarts all, and Montana
reyeres their memory.
But the organization they founded
survives them. 1t will meet next
month in Dillon, the Beaverhead
county seat, where the industry was
Graded, and where it still nourishes.
Here is a story by Homer Faust, on
the county to which the first cattle
came, with something about the
Beaverhead men who pioneered in
The industry. w. w. @. i
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The Jingle of Ghostly
Spurs

~ NE of the states institutions
possessed of traditions worth re-
- calling is the Montana Stock
growers association, which came into
being when the cattle barons were
| living romance and making history.
For many years the headquarters of
the association were at Miles City,
then the center of the free range
country. There, at the annual con-
ventions of the organization the kings
OF the range met and conferred for
mutual good. With them came their
retinues of cowboys and wranglers,
good and bad hombPes, who in their
picturesque attire and with their
carefree mannerisms, made of old
Milestown, for the nonce, town such
as writer's of the old west love to
romance about.
Whether it was sending a bunch
OF two-gun men out after some COM
munity of rustlers who were violating
precedent by making mavericks out
of four-year-olds or taking care of
some other delicate matter in the in
tereSt of the stockmen, the business
was speedily and properly dispatch
ed; and, after a stirrup cup att he
old Miles City club, these lords of
the Montana pampas, rode back to
their herds and ranges, feeling that
they had done themselves and their
guild some good.
One can almost hear the jingle of |
ghostly spurs, the weird creak of sad |
die feathers long passed to dust, the |
soft thud of mustang hoofs on vel
vety grass that has been withered |
these many years, as the memory of |
those splendid men of the golden days
of the free range comes trooping back
to those who have not forgotten
them. And how some of them have
blazOned their fame on the pages of
history! One can conjure up the fig
ure of Theodore Roosevelt, tender
foot stockman of the border, in after
years a world figure, writer, SOL
der dear to the people he served, a
president of the United States. 1t
would be hard to make some people
believe that this COLOSSUS in Ameri-
can affairs, was at one time a Mon
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The majority of these early ranch
ers did not at once give up their min
ing operations. The close proximity
of Horse Prairie, which contained
choice farming land, to the Bannack
gold fields gave the settlers an OPP
portunity to finance their early
ranching activities by means of
wealth taken from the placer mines
Few could afford to devote their en-
tire attention to their newly acquired
ranches. Some formed partnerships,
as in the case of Barrett and Shine
berger, and while one worked the
mining claim the other devoted his
attention to the ranch.
The first settlers in the Beaver
head valley were James Selway and
family, who came to the district in
1868. The log cabin which he built
on his "squatter's claim" was the
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-03-14

fornia in 1856 by P. H. Poindexter
and w. C. Orr and known all over
Montana to this day as the "P. & Or
company. They took up the present
ranch in 1865, driving in a bunch
of beef cattle from California and re-
turning the following spring for
more. These drives were fraught
with peril because of the hostility of
the Indians On one occasion the
Up & o" party was preceded by a
company of forty-one Chinese, and
all but one of them met death at the
hands of an Indian war party. Poin-
dexter and Orr were among the first
| to bring cattle and horses into Mon
tana for breeding purposes.
Bandits and the Ranchmen
! To Martin Barrett and Joseph
| Shineberger is credited the true be-
ginning of agriculture on Horse
Prairie. where they took up claim
in the spring of 1863. Mr.. Shine
berger, however, went to Virginia
City, where he purchased a mining
claim, leaving Mr.. Barrett to care for
the ranch. No little amount of gold
was taken from the mine and for
safe-keeping Mr.. Shineberger turned
it over to his partner, making the
trip from Virginia City to the ranch
at night, as holdups were frequent.
During the days that the road
agents were in power Barrett and
Shineberger experienced a great deal
of trouble because of beautiful gray
horse owned by them and wanted by
Plummer's men. After several vain
attempts to make away with it,
Dutch John Wagner, acting upon the
advice of Plummer, stole the horse
and started out of the territory. Bar
rett's party pursued him, recaptured
the horse, and told him to leave the
country at once. This Dutch John
would have been only too glad to do
but his fate was sealed. He was
taken by the newly-organized vigil
ance committee, tried for his various
crimes, convicted and hanged, one
of the first of the road agents to
suffer punishment at the hands of
the Vigilantes. Other early day ran
cheers, too, suffered from the depre-
dations of the road agents, who stole
ANYTHING that struck their fancy.
To Craig Cornell, one of the 1865
settlers, belongs the unusual exper-
ence of having seen city born and
grow to become a metropolis at his
yery front door His ranch is stu
ated on the outskirts of Dillon, but
t was nearly fifteen years after Mr..
Cornell had located on it that the
ent town of Dillon was built as
criminal on the Utah and Northern
abroad. Even then no one dreamed
hat the rough railroad camp would
yer become the center of a great
.gricultural section.
There were dozen other early day
anchors who passed through all the
rails and privations connected with
anching in country frequented by
ostile Indians and thieving road
gents. and surrounded by unknown
erritory. Phil Lowell, d. E. Metlen,
ames Mauldin, A. F. Graeter, Thos.
I. Hamilton, w. B. Carter, Nathaniel
[. Wood and others all took up ram
hes on Horse Prairie or in the Beav-
Concluded on Agricultural Page.)
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The whole country was as yet I'M
surveyed, of course, and the settlers
who desired to take up ranching had
only to look about until they found
a choice piece of land and then build
their cabins upon it. This was known
as "squatter's right" and several
of the largest ranches in Beaverhead
county were originally acquired in
that manner.
First Cattle From California
Through the land itself was thus
easily acquired the stocking of the
ranches was far different matter.
Cattle had to be trailed overland
from great distances, some of the
first herds being brought from Cali
fornia, and the unknown character
of the country traversed, the hostil-
ity of the Indians and the natural
1ardships of such a journey combined
TO make the long drive stupendous
The first bands of sheep
we're brought from Oregon.
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tana stockman and member of the
Montana StOckgrowers' association.
Then one recalls the Marquis de
Mores, old world aristocrat, of the
blood royal of France, who dreamed
of accomplishing the impossible at
Medora, and who INDUCED in lido
syncrasies that brought to him the
contempt of the eastern border, but
died CALAMITY like the brave man he
was, at the head of forlorn hope
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-03-14

Always ask for Diamond Dyes"
and if you don't see the name "Dia-
mond Dyes" on the package-refusa
it-hand it back
Each 15-cent package of Diamond
Dyes" contains directions so simple
any woman can dye or tint skirts,
dresses, waists, sweaters, stockings,
kimonas, coats, draperies, coverings
everything new, even If she has
never dyed before. Choose any color
at drug store. Refuse substitutes!
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first in the valley and was a favorite
stopping place on the much travelled
road between Bannack and Virginia
City. The first product raised was
potatoes, which were sold at Bannack
for eighteen cents a pound.
One of the oldest firms of any kind
in Montana is that founded in Cali
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-27

, ham shall have and hereby reserves the right to grant to other persons, firms or corporations rights similar to those herein granted, and the rights herein granted shall be and continue subser- vient to any rights, franchises, or privi- leges which have heretofore been granted.
 (e) The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company may place said trans- mission line, wires, guy wires and poles above the said street, as herein pro- vided, or lay the same underneath said street, but should it place said lines on poles above said street, it will upon written demand of the City of Birming- ham, remove the said lines and poles and place the said lines underneath the said street, as directed by the said City of Birmingham.
 Section Three. The grantee shall, within ten days from the date hereof, file with the City Clerk a written ac- ceptance of the terms and provisions of this franchise.
 Section Four. This franchise or per init is subject to revocation and can cellation by the governing body of the City of Birmingham at any time upon six months written notice to said Ten nessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, | its successors or assigns.
 Section Five. In the event of such cancellation or revocation, as provided for in the next preceding section, or upon the termination of this franchise, the said Tennessee Coal, Iron & Rail- road Company, its successors or assigns, shall forthwith at its own expense re- move all it's transmission lines, wires, guy wires and poles and other equip ment from said street, discontinue said service, and, if required by said city, re- move all its equipment from under said street, and at it's own expense restore said street to it's condition prior to the use thereof by the said Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company.
 Approved Dec. 23! 1924.
 D. F. McLENDON,
 President of the Commission.
 A true copy.
 l.. B. GRAY,
 City Clerk.
 Age Herald, Dec. 27, 19s4-Jan. 3-10,