Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-10-13

and fiatboats from Illinois, which so
years ago drifted down the river with
flour. smoked meat, and corn juice
4moonshine," these steel barges plod
eight miles an h0ur-no faster thar
Marquette padded In his birch anoe
But the rattle of the electric truck has
replaced the song of the roustabout.
and one close tied fleet OF barges car
ries the freight of a dozen splashing
river boats
The highway leaves Cairo. curving
through the Ozarks- Back in the hills,
families are living In primitive log
cabins .Egypt'ss fields OF cotton.
which dare frost but escape the boil
weevii. change around Anna into or
chards of apples. peaches. and pears
and beds of asparagus and strawber-
ries-
Beauty spots r preserved as state
forests and parks. Bald Knob, 1880
feet high. crowns a hardwood tract.
Another reserve contains the only
stand Of short-leaf pine In the state.
Fern Cliff park has a wealth of fern
covered powders and waterfalls. and
In Giant City park nature has lined
great square rocks like streets. AT
Tunnel Hill the Illinois Central has
bored 4 7,000Lfoot tunnel as part OF the
16flmile cutoff between Edgewood, Ill,
and Fulton. Ky.
I%fx
CTucible clay OF the highest grade
comes from around C~arbondaIe, north
OF Anna. and "a Of the I09 counties I'm
Illinois produce coal, most OF which is
mined In adjacent Franklin and VIII
hanson counties
Through the Coal Fields.
Marion where Robert G.. Ingersoli
studied 10 be a lawyer and where Gen.
John 4 Logan made the speech which
kept southern Illinois In the Union. Is
III miles easf Near 1t is the town
once known as bloody" Herrfn. Pol
ItIcs has changed and the barber shops
and stores now have signs I'm their
windows. This place will be closed
Mt noon for prayer"
Benton liz farther north. over a
straight seam of coal from Z to IA
feet thick. estimated to contain two
and a half billion TONS III Ia the CEN
ter OF vast mines. five OF which in
different years have held world records
for production Orient No. 2. at West
Frankfort, often bringing to the sur
face between 1900 and 1900 tons q
day. II N of the largest coal mines In
the world Ii Is electrically equipped,
II It's lock rooms and baths for min
ers. a requirement under the state
Law. could lave a regiment from black
To white without overcrowding. The
deepest bitnmin0us mine shaft In the
country. more than 1000 feet. fl near
AssFfHs4tfe
Adventures searching for gold have
settled continents, but the lasting
prosperity of nations rests ON sfruc-
fural material and baser ores-coal.
iron. oil copper, limestone, and the
clay and sand. PENNSYLVANIA
and WeSs Virginia. and I'm some years
kentucky. produce more coal than
Illinois. hut they rank below IL In I'M
touched deposits Of bituminons.
Our automobile highway now crosses
the afraost-fnrEntfen trail followed bv
.ol- George Rogers Clark In ITS. Pat
r1ck Henry sent this youth OF twenty
i've and a band of Kentucky frontiers
men to establish the vast orthwa
territory az part of Virginia. They
down the Ohio and unfur1ed the
Stars n Stripes. for the first time In
Illinois, over Fort Massac, now a mark.
Grain and Oil.
Fields of wheat and oats alternate
9Th corn and oil replaces coal under
surface. a. the road runs north
through CenfraIia- Oil was discovered
n Clark county rs years ago. and once
he state produced more oil than Penn
1t still produces some 6.OOO.-
ED barrels a year. but it Is as a REIN
liz and distribution center that nlf-
II most important to the oil in
lustry- The pipe line radiate to the
atlantic. the gulf. and Canada from
river and Rpxana-
One of these lines follows the old
rail OF the covered wagon between
.'Incennes and Cahokia. The first
rail i'm Illinois came along this route
n 1905 Towns were spaced off every
: miles, which then was a good days
AT Qlney Is one of the five game
In the state and the home of
Late Robert Ridgway. formerly
of the division of birds in the
'nited States National museum. and
world authority on these ~feathered
FEATURES With 80 varieties. he
ated Illinois rich in bird life.
Returning TO the n0rfh-to-south
Wa come to Vandalia. due
prth of Gentralia- Here la The old
tate Capitol building OF 1So0L1S37,
ter a county courthouse, and now a
scum Its architecture of d past
ye contrasts with the drab two story
iiidings around the yandaIia city