The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-29
STATES CREDIT
ON SOUND BASIS
EASTERN FINANCIAL CIRCLES
ALL HOPED UP, SAYS
LARSON
Population of State Penitentiarv at
Deer Lodge Now. Greater Than it
Was Year Ago; Removal Of Power
Bank May not Be Approved
~ ON Helena CorresnnndentN

(By Our Helena COrrespondeDt
MOntanas credit which had been con- ]
siueraDly weakened during the period Of
financial and agricultural depression of n
few years back, appears to have been firm
ly established in eastern financial circles
according to Jay G. Larson, state suDerin.
tendent OF banks, who has returned to the
state capitol after spending several weeks
in Minneapolis and other DOints in fbe
middle west. '
The eastern people seem all hoped up
over Montana" said Mr.. Larson. ''Tbe
people back there are taking a deem infer
est in Montana and I received many in
quirles as to conditions and as to ODpOr-
tunICles IN various sections Of the state.
confidence seems to have been fully re-
stored In Montana in banking circles, and
the banks of the east are willing and de-
sirOus OF extending any reasonable amount
OF cFeulG TO the people of this state. They
think Montana has actually come back
and That she is again on her feet, this time
to stay there.
Bond houses have a very high regard
for Montana securities and are especially
DESTROYS of obtaining Montana municiDal
bonds: and 1 learn there is not a municipal
OOhu issue OF the state on the black list"
Population Of the state penitentiary is
now 40, an increase of about 80 over that
or one year ago, according to Austin Mid
dletOn, warden of the prison, who was i'm
Helena on official business the other day.
Mr.. Middleton states that about one
third of this population is nOw emDIOved
-. 0A@DN UN1A'AAASos sui
as farming operations, hauling coal and
supplies, and working in the wood camp
or in the logging camp.
n force of p men is now EMPLOYED get
ting out logs for the prison in a camp
about eight miles from Deer Lodge. The
logs are brought to the prison, where they
are cut up IN the prison Sawmill and the
product IS used at the prison, at the in
sane asylum, the tuberculosis sanitarium
ana IN supplying private customers around
Deer Lodge with rough lumber. A force Of
II IL mon is Hf work in the wood onron rof-
ting out fuel.
Mr.. Middleton states that he has his
force we'll organized for the motor vehicle
license department recently transferred to
the prison, a force of about eight men
working in the prison office outside the
b walls, and another of six working inside
Z the walls. He anticipates no difficulties in
handling the automobile license and auto
mobile title departments now under his
e supervision.
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e Although he has not inquired into the
4 condition to an extent sufficient to justify
5 him in making a decision, JAY G.. Larson,
state superintendent of banks, is disin-
cllned to agree to the removal to Cut Bank
Of the Power State Bank. as has been un-
I der consideration for several weeks. Upon
! his return to his office the other day. after
/ an absence of a couple of weeks, during
which time he was in Minneapolis and
\ other middle west points on business con-
/ nected with his department, Mr.. Larson
" found a protest which had been directed
~ ~ ECNNAHOA ~ 4NnA'ANAAAo VI w W.
= jecting to the removal of the bank from
Z that place. The protest bore 81 signatures.
Mr.. Larson states that while he is de-
SlrOuS of seeing a new bank established at
Cut Bank he does not look with favor
Ii upon any proposition which involves the
removal to that place of a bank establish
ed and doing business in some other COM
munity.
e Specificic commodity rates for the move
ment to points in Montana of petroleum
= coke from the refinery of the AFRO Oil and
q Dnffnfnn onrnnn "a NTocA I nus-N,nrn Tn-o
y been submitted to the Montana railroad
commission by the Milwaukee railway for
u authority to publish on short notice.
According to the request Of the Milwau-
kee, the proposed rates, in carload lots
d minimum 10000 pounds are upon a basis
Of S1.4O per ton for a 20-mile haul; $1.7C
for a 30-mile haul; 81 for a 40-mile haul
u and 1920 for a 5O-mile haul.
y Beyond 90 miles the scale increases j.
u cents per ton for each 10 additional miles
up to and including 100 miles; a 12-cent
from 100 to 200 miles; a 10 cent increase
: for each 1O-mile jump from 200 to 30(
miles, and an Scent increase for each 10.
mile jump over 800 miles.
Charles A. Rasmussen stepped out Of Of
flee the other day as collector Of interna
revenue for the Montana district but
stepped right in again. The occasion fol
the procedure was the fOur-year transfel
of the office. Collectors, Mr.. Rasmussen
- explained, are appointed for a fOur-yeal
term, holding office at the pleasure of tn,
president. At the beginning of each new
le term new bonds are demanded by the gov
n ernment and the office is temporarily
10 transferred to the Washington jurisdiction
The collector also announced that his Offic,
ranked first in the United States for fielC
efficiency during the last quarter 1925
according to the efficiency chart mad
a. ~ up by the Washington office. Tax cOllec
2. ton liabilities of the Montana district hav
been reduced since January 16, 1922, whel
Mr.. Rasmussen took office. from 81,
II 307.670.71 to Sl04S214S2 on December 81
u 1925.
Applications have been filed with tn
u Montana railroad commission by the Grea
Northern railway for permission to dis
continue agency service at seven station
u on its lines in the state, with the idea o
installing custOdians at each Of the sta
II lions to take care Of such business as ma,
q necessarily be handled there.
w The stations from which the cOmpan,
y desires to withdraw its agents are MerinC
Judith Basin county; Laredo, Hill county
ln Dunkirk, TOOle county; COburg, Blain
ne county; TampicO and Vandalia, Vale,
III county, and Enid, Richland county.
1t is understood that the Great NOrther
49, is not pressing the applications, but ar
T putting them before the commission 70
a. consideration.
~ For the unlawful killing and shippin
OF out of the state Of a trumpeter swa
DE- Howard Lester Of BrOadus has paid fine
~ aggregating $50 in. the justice Of the peaC
% court at that place, according to a repOl
ny received by the state game warden. G. i
sW Thex, Of Otter, was likewise before tn
n same court and was fined $25 on a charg