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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-10-13
MONTANA

WI ONyTARJA where the west wind blows
And allday shines broad praries;
Where sheep herders in the long still hours
Have reared monuments Of unhewn stones
where dust Sits dull haze over the roads,
And grain stands under the burning SKY;
where the bits in oil derricks on reedeB
Regions drilling, drilling drilling
Down the beds Of ancient seas
Montana 8 where alday sun CLEANS
ON mountains chsed TO dragged peaks
And sheer walls; where glacial streams 1ali foaIlns
INTO cool blue lakes wearing crclets
az aRe-smOothed stones like jade and carneilan'
And brown rocks riven straight like hymn lines,
Rest one on beside waterfall -
I shall go again to Montana;
] shall row up q sun-bT1ght river
(Raybe slim hewn from
A cedar log by q Blackfeet chief
And ride on a dun mountain pony
UD q steeu trail to q cabin set
ON hill; and / shall stand, quite
Beside the window and count the elk
A thousands they so by stately
with their broad antlers.
Montana Is where ail-day bends
over prairies and glaciers and lakes
NELLIE B. MACE.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-10-13


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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-10-13

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-10-13

During the last few days we have
been reprinting some pf our earlier
publications which serve as ''measur-
ing sticks" for royalty investors.
8oRae interesting tActs come TO
Light ia the REHABILITATION OF the fig
ures which are intended to show what
royalty investor can expect based
on the last 90 years pf the oil in
dustry.
As an example, one of these publ
cations shows the average price Of
oil (by years) the past 20 years. The
average is $1.68 over the entire
United States. The average price re-
ceived by producers and royalty own
ers for every barrel Of oil produced
since 1920 is $1.68 Here in Montana
the average price paid 10 producers
and royalty owners is $50 per
barrel. This IL easily determined by
dividing Al, 531 ,S72.32 (the number
Of barrels Of oil produced) into $50,
65S, SS1.72, which is the price received
for the oil
When we know what the average
price win PROBABLY be, and also
know how much oil the average acre
Of ground is likely to yield, we have
q measuring stick for royalty values.
We feel that the man who is with
out such q measuring stick had best
stay out of the royalty business.
At the right is one Of the interest
ing tabulations which shows the pro
duction Per acre of the - leading
oil fields.
Contained in this interesting pub
LEGATION are the production records
Of Montana oil fields, by years
giving similar data It gives the pro-
ducing acreage Of the principal Mont
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
Board Fills Vacancies
 High School Faculty

The school board this week filled the vacancies in high school caused by the resignations of Miss Dorothy Johnson, Miss Valborg Brunsvold and Douglas Gray.
 Raymond R. Rigg of Seattle will teach the science subjects and typ ing. He graduated in 1929 from the University of Washington where his father is professor of botany.
 Miss Esther Wicks of Astoria, Oregon, will teach music, English and home economics. Miss Wicks graduated from the University of Oregon in 1930. She has been assist ant teacher of violin and orchestra tion in the School of Music, Univer- sity of Oregon, and the Eugene, Ore gon, public schools, and taught mu- sic and art at Seaside, Oregon.
 Miss Anna Patrylo of Blackstone, Mass, will teach French and Latin. She is a graduate of the College of Mount St. Vincent, New York City, and holds diploma from Sorbonne University, Paris.
 School will open on September 4 and a considerable increase in en- rollment over last year is anticipat- ed by school authorities.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
PIONEER WRANGELL MAN
 PASSES AWAY IN SEATTLE

P. c. Mccormack received the sad message Thursday that T. c. McHugh, his oldtime friend and business partner at Wrangell, had passed away that morning in Se- attle. He had been In failing health for some time.
 MT. McHugh who had come west from Cincinnati, Ohio, in the early 9O's, was in the mercantile busi- ness with D. B. Montague, at Bel lingham, or Fairhaven, as 1t was then known. MT. Mccormack had come out from Nova Scotia and was in the contracting business there and the three young men be- came great friends.
 Mccormack came north In the gold excitement of 1898 and was joined at Wrangell shortly after by McHugh. Together with Montague, and J. W. Stedman, who was from Fairhaven, also, they established the St. Michael Trading Company, Stedman withdrawing after a short time. McHugh lived here until 1910, when the three partners and John Kallson started the Pillar Bay Packing Company which Mo- Hugh operated for several years. Later he sold out that cannery and started the Port Althorp cannery with August Buschman, McCor- mack, meanwhile, acquiring the en- tire interest of the St. Michael Trading Company.
 In 1908 Mccormack and McHugh married Bellingham girls, who were close friends and naturally, throughout the years the bond has been very strong between the two men and their families.
 After his retirement from Alaska MT. McHugh was largely interested in the Imperial Candy Company of l Seattle.
 He is survived by his wife, two | daughters and three sons in Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
Miller Comes to Alaska
 From CeylOn and India

From Ceylon and the plains of India to Alaska with a brief so- journ on the Atlantic seaboard, is the experience of c. w. Miller. newly appointed director of Wran- gell Institute who arrived here last week accompanied by his wife and their daughter, Miss Frances Mill ter. He went to work at once get ting the Institute in readiness for the coming school term.
 MT. Miller was graduated from Clark University at Worchestsr, Massachusetts, his home city. In his under graduate work he com pleted the pre-medical course, ma joring in biology, and for several years was in chagre of a biological institution in Pennsylvania, first as assistant director, then as director. He had graduate work in education at Columbia University, New York City, and after receiving his mas ter's degree was sent out to Jaf- ina, Ceylon, in 1913, as principal of a college maintained by the American Board of the Congrega- tional Church for the Ceylonese, who belong to the Tamil race,
 Curiously enough, says MT, Mill Ter, that peninsula was engaged largely in the fishing industry, as is this section of Alaska, but there is a marked contrast in the meth ods.
 Here, modern methods are em- ployed both in taking the fish from the sea and in preparing it for market by the canneries, and by freezing fresh or mildcuring. In Ceylon the fishing was done in primitive fashion, the natives put ting out in catamarans-or log rafts with sloping prov and pro- pelled by sails.
 In addition to supervision of the college MT. Miller had supervision of the primary education in a num- Der of villages where the schools
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
VICTIM OF ODD AILMENT
 TALKS ALL DAY AND NIGHT

MT. GILEAD, Ohio.-Through the dawn and into the night a man lies talking without end. Donald Campbell, 32-year-old truck driver, suffering from talking sick ness" is weakening under the ner- vous strain of a fever. He now is in the eleventh day of his sickness and shouts, mumbles, laughs and sobs constantly.
 His wife is watching over him and his small daughter wonders at the strange words of her father. Diagnosis of Campbell's illness re- veals it as a form of encephalitis. an illness akin to sleeping sickness, but with an opposite affect.
 Campbell does not talk of his ailment. He recognizes acquaint- ances. Although he has shown no actual signs of mental Arrangement, he talks incoherently much of the time. Ice packs are keeping his head cool. It is believed that his illness is the result of an infection in the lower part of the brain, while another theory is that he worried too much over his job.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
INDUSTRIES STRIVING TOOVERCOME
 HANDICAP OF CITY WATER SHORTAGE

the sawmill and operations were suspended Thursday while the mill was closed from lack of water for it's boilers. To augment the water on scows a pipe line has been laid from the old mill dam near the w. E. Burch home, to the sawmill which pumps the water into the cannery. The cannery started work early in the evening and continued through the night.
 Seiners Limited
 The company's seiners are now limited in their catch, and no out side fish is being bought As long as the shortage of water continues production will be curtailed about 25 percent and the expense of op- eration will be considerably in- creased.
 The V. L. Boardway & Co. crab cannery is trucking fresh water from Wrangell Institute and pump ing salt water. The Reliance Shrimp cannery shipped its weekly supply of 400 pounds of shrimp meat yesterda and closed down until Monday.
 M. J. Antonich, manager of the Stikine Sea Food Company, states that he has no intention of closing down because of the present water situation, but would run every day of the week could he but enlist about thirty additional shrimp and crab pickers.
 Shrimp are cooked satisfactorily in salt water, fresh water being a necessity only for the boilers. This" says Mr Antonich, q in- tend to supply somehow"
 Operations Retarded
 The Diamond K cannery is not cutting production, but is taking care of the increased catches of fish. The water shut-off is slowing down canning, more time being used in getting the fish into cans.
 The cannery tenders keep four scows filled with water from Eto- lin island. The water is lifted into the cannery by pumps on the rig ging scow. Two salt water pumps
  bring clear water from deep in the bay which Is used for washing down floors. on the shining tables, in the fish fumes and elevators and for fire protection.
 Towing the scows puts the ten ders eight hours late in getting the fish to the cannery. so that the canning crews can not start work until noon and the cannery must run most of the night
 A little over 5000 cases were canned Tuesday. Lack of fresh wa ter prevented proper outside wash ing of the cans so that before they were cased Friday it was necessary to wipe 15,000 cans by hand with cloth saturated in gasoline
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
GAME COMMISSION STARTS
 CONSTRUCTION NEW FLOAT

Homer w. Jewell, of the Alaska Game Commission Is in Wrangell this week to get work started on the new float which will be built from PWA funds allocated to tn9 commission last year.
 The work is not permitted to be done by contract but must be Ter formed by day labor. A. B. Ander- son has been made foreman of con. struction. Driving of piles began yesterday with the Diamond K. cannery piledriver under lease.
 An extension ten by thirty feet will be built at the end of the city dock at the breakwatef The float will be twelve by fifty-eight feet, and will be used to tie up boats of the game commission and the U. s. Biological Survey
 It is a part of tn. boat, float and docks, storehouse and headquarters building program of the Alaska Game Commission. The total sum allocated by the PWA is $195,700. Of that amount $160,800 is for vessels, $12,150 for floats, docks and storehouses and $22,75O for headquarters buildings.
 The buildings include dock, float and storehouse which has been constructed at Ketchikan, the float at Wrangell, a headquarters building at Dillingham;, in Bristol Bay which is being erected, head quarters buildings at Kodiak, Ken ali, McGrath and Chitina, and dock and storesouse at Anchorage.
 There are six vessels on the pro- gram. One has been completed, another will be this week, a third in 30 days more and others will be launched by November II. The largest boat Is IA feet long, second is 5S feet long and three are 30-foot scout speed boats, one of which has been completed. The sixth is 27-foot river haat-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
PROUD PARENTS SEND UNIQUE
 BIRTH NOUN CEMENT

Mrs. c. W. DeRemer recently re- ceived the following unique birth announcement from her brother and sister-in-law, MT. and Mrs. E. R. Vim of Salt Lake City:
 "The Vim Production Company announces the new 1884 model Vim baby girl, wheelbase 19 inch es, model number 1, weight lbs, 10 ounces.
 Designer and chief engineer, Err nest Ray Vim.
 Production manager, Stella A. Vim.
 Technical assistant, Dr. P. G. Snow.
 Model released July 1, 1894. Features: free squealing, economic al feed, scream line body, water cooled exhaust, changeable seat covers.
 ''T h e management guarantees there will be no other models re- leased this year."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
Water Shortage Acts
 Against Fish Buyers

The Wrangell Cold Storage be- gan operating again Thursday morning after having been closed Tuesday and Wednesday due to the city water shortage.
 The Cold Storage made the al terations necessary to use salt water and started up in time to save the big stocks of fish in stor- age. It is being operated entirely with salt water. A pump installed in the fish house supplies water for the system. The operation Is apparently satisfactory except that 1t Is impossible to make Ice with out fresh water.
 Closing for the two days placed severe handicap on the fresh fish buyers and was especially serious coming at a time when fish are plentiful. Besides the following ar rivals of the past week from out side waters the Stikine river run Is beginning to show.
 Friday evening, August 10, Otto Hucke with the Almarie came into port with over 1000 pounds of kings and echoes, selling to A. R. Brueger at the current prices of Is, s, 6 and 6. The following morning Robert Scott arrived with about 11,000 pounds of echoes. Smaller loads of 96O pounds of CO., hoes, and two loads each contain ing 500 pounds of mixed kings and echoes were brought in by Bert Zuver, Ole Lygren, and Bob Val borg, respectively.
 The Emblem and the Alyeska, both owned by A. R. Brueger, ar rived the first of the week with ap- proximately 10000 pounds each from Pt. Baker Al Cramer brought in approximately 24,OOO pounds
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
Buchanan Makes 18th
 Trip North With Boys

George k. Buchanan, of Detroit accompanied by 30 boys visited | Wrangell Friday evening while the Princess Louise was in port. They were homeward bound from a trip across the continent up the Inside Passage from Seattle to Skagway and on to Atlin, B.C., where they spent a week on Lake Atlin's beau tiful shores.
 Over 500 boys have now made the trip with MT. Buchanan, but the groups of the past few years have been much younger than the first groups, the boys now ranging in age from nine to 1s years. It has been clearly demonstrated, stated MT. Buchanan, that the younger boy is more sincere than the older one, more alert and impresslonable and is quite able to understand the points of interest in the trip.
 A St. Paul, Minnesota, newspaper had the following to say of MT. Bu- chanans boy project, while the boys were in St. Paul on their way north:
 "A 65-year-old bachelor philan- thropist who has invested $40,O00 in boyhood was in St. Paul Monday on his annual interest collecting trip.
 The interest that George E. con to A Alaska) Buchanan collects doesn't jingle in his pocket, for the return of the Detroit mans invest ment is what he learns from the boys enroute yearly to Alaska from every section of the United States
 Famed for his On to Alaska plan MT. Buchanan visited St. Paul with this years group - 30 snappy, bright-eyed youngsters who in a few days will see the wonders of the Pacific Northwest and Uncle Sam's northern possession.
 This is the twelfth On to Alaska tour and none of the 30 youngsters who range in age from to IF is more eager than the Detroit coal dealer.
 MT. Buchanan defrays one-third of the. cost of each boys trip which this year totals $354 The boy him self must earn one-third while the parents contribute the other third Each boy is expected to repay the amount advanced by the Detroit
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17

Dry weather, together with the drag of the water used by two sal mon eanneries, since canning start ed July 10. two shrimp and two crab canneries, so depleted the city water supply that on Tuesday morn ing the town council which had been deeply worried for some weeks by the low water, cut off all con- sumers until hard rains have taken place, in order to have water on hand for fire protection.
 City trucks have brought water in tierces from the main near the city light plant and parceled it out to citizens by bucketsful, since Tues day.
 Wrangell will shortly have $27,- 900 in PWA funds available for an extension of the water supply. so that similar situation is not like ly to arise another year.
 Industries Handicapped
 The shutting off of water has been a handicap to every one, but some industries, particularly the canneries, have been most seriously inconvenienced
 The Wrangell Steam Laundry had the washers started, when the main broke on Front street which was the immediate cause of the waters being shut off. Through the kindness of c. w. Miller, direc- tor of Wrangell Institute, the washing was completed in the school laundry, but as the Institute does not have a mangle the wet clothes were brought back to town.
 The Wrangell Cafe had to close down until Wednesday noon while alterations were made in the range and plumbing. The Wrangell Hotel brought several extra electric plates and appliances into the kit chen and with a modern oil cook stove is going on with meals.
 The hospital. with ten patients, had a difficult time for about an hour until the first trucks came in with water.
 Water from Etolin
 The canneries met the situation by bringing water on scows from adjacent islands. N Nussbaumer of the sawmill and the Wrangell Pack ing Company united in sending out the mill scow and barge to Etolin island where they were filled from a waterfall by using 1SO-foot troughs.
 When tides permitted Tuesday, the cannery pumped salt water as usual for all operations which did not demand fresh water. By We'd nesday night connections were made so that the pumps worked farther out In the bay and were in- dependent of the tides.
 The cannery gets its steam from
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
EPORTS UNF0UNDED THAT CITY WATER CAUSING SICKNESS

Rumors seem to have spread over the Territory that the low water at Wrangell during the past few weeks has caused much sickness.
 This is without foundation says pr. w. M. Whitehead of the US. Public Health Service, who states that to his knowledge there has not been one case of sickness here at tributable to bad water. He be- lieves that those persons who have diagnosed their own illness as hay been mistaken.
 The supply has been inadequate to the demand put upon 1t, but the water is pure and uncontaminated, he says.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
Birds to be Hunted 3 Days Week for 10 Wks.

In conformity with the migratory bird regulations adopted by the ad- yisory board in Washington on July Il and 12, stated a wire received lnis week by the Sentinel from H. X. Terhune of the Biological Sur 9ey, the Alaska Game Commission mas recommended that the 30-day open season for hunting migratory water fowl in Alaska be fixed to permit hunting three, days each Sunday, Monday for ten weeks beginning on Satur- day, September l.
 The official fixing of this season depends upon approval and signing of an executive order by President Roosevelt of which territorial wide telegraphic announcement will be made as soon as known. Bag limits excepting redheads, canvasbacks and scaups remain the same as last year,
 The Wrangell chamber of com merce advocated the division of AldShd luLO LOuSS TOT migratory bird regulations. This met the ap- proval of MT. Terhune and was recommended to the Department of Agriculture, under which the US. Biological Survey functions.
 The department did not approve the zoning measure and allowed but 30 days hunting, so MT. Ter hume has recommended that the 30 days be spread over three days a week for ten weeks.
 Stamps for Hunters
 Hunters of migratory wild fowl this year are required by Federal law to purchase a special stamp, sold at $1. The proceeds from the sales will go for establishment of additional refuges and other pro- lection for the birds. No more than 10 percent can be expended for ad- ministration and the remaining 90 percent must be expended in actual protective measures.
 The stamps will De placed on sale in practically all of the post offices in Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
 FISHERMEN
 ON STRIKE

ASTORIA, Ore, Aug. 16.-Not fishing boat is in operation on the Columbia river today, although sal mon are running at rate that would make record catches com monplace.
 The long pending strike of gill; netters and cannery workers went into effect last night despite the rumored last-minute protests from some fishermen.
 The union voted to strike when the eannery price for salmon was reduced from to 1 cents
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
LEGION WANTS LABOR CAMPS
 ESTABLISHED IN TERRITORY

SAN FRANCISCO. - Establish ment of detention and labor camps in Alaska is recommended by the American Legion of California.
 Resolutions passed by the con- vention of the California American Legion here last night included one favoring resembling the recognition of soviet Russia by the United States and another proposing es- tablishment by the federal govern ment of detention and labor camps in the Territory of Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
ALASKAN FAILS TO APPEAR
 FOR SEATTLE GIRLS CHARGE

SEATTLE. - Frank Dorbandt, Alaskan aviator, Wednesday failed to appear in court here to answer charges filed by Miss Marjorie Sel- Ter, 19-year-old former Anchorage girl, alleging that he Is the father of her 17-months-old baby. Counsel for the girl told the court that he understood that Dorbandt is want ed on another charge in Alaska and that his bondsmen had surrendered him in that Jurisdiction. The court set the case for September 12, say ing that if the state was not ready at that time the case would be dis missed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
NEWS FROM
 ALL OVER
 THE WORLD
COLLECTOR OF ALCOHOL TAXES OPENS JUNEAU HEADQUARTERS

o. S. Sullivan, deputy collector of internal revenue for Alaska. as signed to headquarters in Juneau arrived there last week. His office was created after the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. He will have charge of all taxes, alcohol and otherwise, paid through the Bureau of Internal Revenue, with the exception that his work will not embrace checking up on income taxes. That will be handled by field representative of the bureau as in the past.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
SEVENTEEN FROM WRANGELL
 CALLED FOR JURY SERVICE

The following Wrangell citizens were drawn for grand jury duty converting on September IT in Ket- chikan: Mrs. Charles Darwell, Lee Mccormack, Mrs. Charles Whipple and Ralph Prescott.
 The petit jury drawings for Sep. tember 24 at Ketchikan include the following: A. B. Anderson, Charles Borch, Charles Denning, H. D Gray, Harris Harms, w. A. Lucas o. F. McCombs. Nick Nussbaumer Mrs. R. N. Scruby, Walter Shades ty, Roy L. Turner, Mrs. N. J Wellesly and M. L. Skelton.