The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-06-07


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their attitudes range at about tn
same level; there is no mountain ban
rler between them and they are a
citizens under one flag. We don
know where to locate this Wyoming
Montana boundary line as we trave
the interesting routes from Powell
across the Clarks Fork valley to Re-
Lodge, and we can't figure out jus
why we have never been there before
to behold this most beautiful spot
but it must be that Billings and the
better highway leading to that larger
city attracts us away from Red Lodge
and very seldom it is that Powell peo-
pie get there.
But, let us outline to you most
interesting drive that can be easily
negotiated in one afternoon and need
not take you beyond occasional sight
OF the Heart mountain landmark.
We travelled straight west from
Powell, as we started on last Sunday
afternoons motor drive. We found
a new road to us and it must be new
to many, for not yet has it been
travelled sufficiently to mark out a
well defined trail, although it guides
you along toward the western point
of Polecat bench through most in
teresting stretch of prairie. This road,
leading straight west from First
street in Powell across little patch
of badlands in north of RaIston gives
you a most excellent panorama of the
forthcoming Heart mountain divisions
farmlands of the Shoshone reclama-
ton project. You are at once i'm
pressed with the close proximity of
the very heart of this attractive irri-
cation project, soon to be opened to
to the already we'll estab-
ished agricultural center of Powell.
It is fairly good road that leads you
through this stretch of eight or ten
niles to the junction with the regu-
arly established Sand Coulee road
North of the Gloeckner shearing pens.
On the short cut out of Powell there
ire lacking several small bridge
that could be built in days
line by a concentrated chamber of |
commerce good roads day drive, and
his we ought to bring to pass, for this
'oad is an important connecting link
Powell and the Clarks Fork
ALLEY, from which much trade and
raffic is derived.
We were happily surprised at the
conditions of the Sand
Joulee road. Colonel Wright and his
'oad crew have been making a real
horoughfare out of this important
lrtery connecting the railroad points
# Ralston and Powell with the Mon
ana line. 1t is a much travelled road
low; it will be many times more so
n the years to come. There are at
east two bridge structures over the
Sand Coulee waterless creek bed that
lave just been built and will stand
here for many years to come as
monuments to the enterprise of our
ounty road supervisor. You don't |
ee much but an occasional prairie
og on the principal stretch of the
'and Coulee road, but you have gotten
My 22 miles out of Powells city linn
is, as your mileage indicator on the
Instrument board of your car will !
lainly show you when you see before
on plainly marked sign reading: |
Badger Basin Oil Field" This came
s happy surprise to US, for we had
ardly realized that this new Park
ounty oil field lay so easily accessible
nd so near at hand. 1t is but a quick
detour from the main road
this busy drilling site that may
lean so much to Powell and Ralston
ome day. The drillers told us that
lie Ralston station was only IS miles
lstant, while Belfry, the closest rail-
Dad point in Montana, is even nearer.
owever, the shipping in of supplies
} the Badger Basin oil field is more
economical via Ralstop or Powell, for
lie reason that the freight rates are
'nsiderably less when hauling from
lis way. The Badger basin is not
aite so near the Montana line as
the Elk basin, II miles to the east.
he drilling there is expected to be
'ep. Workmen have the rig built
ID In readiness, and the oil fuel has
zen hauled to be placed in two com
odious tanks. When we visited the
tie of the proposed we'll Sunday, the