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Norris Region Was Rich i'm Gold Ore for Many Years; Alexander
Norris Discovered Reuenue Mime; Dick Lands Is Lost of Miners


Old Virginia City, the cradle of Mon
tana history" the scene of so many of
Montana's early tragedies, for so long
struggling valiantly for its very exist
ence, Is now the center of renewed &C
Invites: The seat of the latest achieve
Virginia City-with its n long main
street, bordered by old, dilapidated
buildings which once housed men play-
ing a big part in Montana's history.
over the doors we see Inscriptions
First Newspaper in Montana" 'Vigi-
lante Headquarters" "M~adisonian Ho-
tel" Walking through the peaceful,
tree-shaded town, one can fancy times
past when Plummer and George Ives
and "Club-foot" George stalked it's
streets, waiting, with alert, ruthless
eyes; for the coming-in Of looted stage
coaches. Or when Williams, Fair
weather and x. Biedler and Stuart as
sembled a group of courageous men be-
hind a locked door of a room in that
shabby building now marked "Vig-
llante Headquarters" to plan a desper-
ate war on Montana's greatest menace
to her progressive road agents. A war
eliminating in rows of graves up on
the hill overlooking the town each
headed by a wooden slab tersely in
scribed: Frank Parish, Hanged, Jan.
1fIll, 1oof, bOOIe HELM, hanged Jan.
14th, 1884," Jack Gallagher, Hanged
Jan. 18th, 1854" And so on, 10 marked
graves wherein lie men who left only
monuments of hatred to account for
their existence.
The hectic days of tragedy are long
past for Virginia City. Now its silence
is broken, not by rifle shots, but by the
throb of the mighty machine in Alder
gulch, as it bites the last fragment of
wealth from the sands, promising pros
perity once o for the Cradle of
Montana History"
Many dark specks dot the side of the
mountain which towers over Galena
mine, a few miles out of Norris. Closer
view shows them to be the mouths of
tunnels leading into the mountain
nine of them.
Dick Lands, one of the first pros
pectors in that region dug those tunnels
alone, As years ago, urged on by the
thrill of the search for gold that result
ed, finally, in the locating of the Hot
Springs mine and the Keystone. But
long before Dick discovered the rich
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vein in Hot Springs two big fortunes
had slipped away from him. Today
Dick Lands and Mrs. Lands are liv-
ing in modest comfort on a ranch not
far from a piece of gravel about nine
by 16 feet where once he took out $170O
at n digging. The exciting activity
OF mining is over for Dick. He has
enough for their needs and what more
could any man desire? He is happy with
his cows, his chickens, his garden. He
can, whenever he chooses, pull trout
from the stream below their house for
their dinner. He is content now to look
on while others continue the mad quest
for the gold he helped locate.
This is the history of almost all the
early-day prospectors. They were the
trail blazers but others, following along
the smoothed trails. are reaping the
harvest of untold lonely toll and hopes.
Very few Of the old p~rospectors sense
any tragedy in their loss. Although
they did not acquire or keep vast for
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they had to get a yield of so cents per
yard to make a profit. But that huge,
powerful animal-machine, painting
away tirelessly today in Alder gulch,
sitting about five Thousand yards of
free gold every twenty-four hours, can
pay for its labor at five cents per yard.
And so. after all these years, the fam
u gulch which has given so generous
last remaining particles of the yellow
metal. This dredge, operated by the
Humphrey Gold corporation of Den
yer, is the only one Of its kind in the
world, working or a n unit electric
power, with a running capacity of from
$11O to $125 an hour.
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The history of the famous Alder
gulch near Virginia City is an old, IA
miliar story. We know that none of
the men who were instrumental in To-
eating the richest vein in the west,
neither Fairweather nor Granville
Stuart, nor Anderson, filled their own
pockets with the vast wealth they op-
ened up. Today, in Alder gulch, already
worked three times, a huge dredge, like
a monstrous prehistoric animal, is Bit
ing deep into the "tailings" left by
early miners, and lifting, at one mouth
full, $500 pounds of sand. There was
a time when Alder gulch yielded $25
men toiled with pick, or PANIED gravel,
kneeling beside a stream, watching,
with an intensity of quivering hope we
can only imagine. for the bright, yellow
flecks glittering in the sand. Then,
with the crudest of mining equipment,
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(By GLENDoL1N DAMON WAGNER,

Wy oAk,l~DOAAIN D1N1ON WAUNEft)
Cuddled among the foothills of
Montana between the Tobacco Root
and Madison ranges is the little old
town Of Norris, which boosts a gen.
eral store, hotel, two filling stations,
the justly famed morris Club" and
about 200 inhabitants. 1t is the GEN.
ter Of a region rich in gold ore and
stock. Much wealth in gold and in
sheep and cattle goes from the little
town to the outside world.
In days past men talked and bargain
ed, bought and sold, in terms of gold
dust. Daily, grim-faced, dust-grimmed
prospectors came into Norris from
lonely hills, bought enough grub to
dust across the counter in payment
OF their purchases, and stalked back
into the solitudes, where they probed
with pick and shovel deep into the
mystery of the hills, OF squatted beside
little streams of water patiently shak-
Ing pans of gravel, watching continual
", hopefully, for the tiny, shiny, yell
low specks that meant wealth, and,
more than wealth, the triumph of a
men might, in time, return to Norris
beaten. some with a fortune in dull
chunks of rock, and some might never
return at all.
Few of the prospectors who devoted
q lifetime to the search for gold were
greedy for money. Few of them would
have valued wealth if it had come their
way. 1t was the thrill of the search,
the sporting chance, the challenge of
sesSed them above all other considera-
lions. And very few of the determined
men who did find the elusive yellow
metal that has ruled the world benefit
ed directly from their discoveries. Al
most invariably they bungled, playing
always for higher and higher stakes.
Fortunes slipped through their fingers
and other men reaped the harvest of
their years of lonely. gruelling toll.
and gulches all about Norris fairly ooz-
ed gold. The bleak, sun-baked valley
between the Madison and Tobacco Root
ranges held power within its breast.
In 1864, the Hennepin Ore and Melt
ing company came out from the East to
locate and work diggings. They brought
with them, as bookkeeper and assayist,
a young man named P. v. Jackson.
Young Peter Jackson was a we'll edu-
Gated man, a university graduate. For
four years he and the Hennepin COM
pany struggled along with limited cap
ttal and without results. When the
company finally admitted defeat its
young bookkeeper took leases as pay
ment for back salary. Those leases
CHANGED to include a little spot of
earth down in a gully between two
buttes, known today as the "Boaz
NINE" It is said that the small hole
in the earth's surface yielded, at one
shot $250,000. But P. v. Jackson. the
discoverer and first owner, a little,
spidery fellow" the old-timers recall,
never made or kept a fortune in gold.
Miners are, at heart, inveterate gambl-
ers. Frequently the wealth taken from
one mine was Immediately sunk into
another, for it was the fever of the
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tunes they dc not look upon themselves
as failures. They accomplished what
they set out to do-found gold. The
silent Montana hills and gulches Of
fered a grim challenge which they &C
cepted. They played a game with ma
ture and they won, for the stakes we're
for them, not money, but gold. Which,
to our pioneer prospectors, are two
quite different things.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04
TEACHERS PENSIONS PAID

The state public school teachers re-
tirement fund board has just made the
quarterly retirement award to those
entitled to share in the fund at this
time. OF the 203 former teachers In
that classification $50 received the full
award of SIS and % on the disability
list received lesser amounts.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04
ROAD SECTOR COMPLETED

Thirteen miles of the main road be-
tween Augusta and Choteau has been
completed and opened for use, accord
ing to announcement by E. B. Donohue,
assistant chief engineer of the state
highway commission. The unit has been
graded and oiled and offers a short
cut to Glacier park from southern
Montana, cutting off a triangle which
heretofore was covered by the main
highway from Great Falls.
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CONTROL WRIT SOUGHT

The Montana supreme court has been
petitioned by the North American Life
Insurance company of Chicago for an
alternative writ of supervisory control
to compel the district court Of Fergus
and command the town of Moore to
make a tax levy sufficient to pay the
remainder of a 1896 judgment enter
ed in favor of the relator and against
the town council.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04
LOSSES AMONG CATTLE : sHEE1

Heavy losses reported among cattle
and sheep in some sections of Califor-
mia this year, believed to have been
er, are thought to have been effectively
checked through Investigations by DR..
Roy H. Mills Of the state department
Of agriculture. The clover itself has
been given a clean bill Of health.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04

NEW CORN RESISTANT TO WILT
Among corn being tested for the first
time in Connecticut by the experiment
station at New Haven, are strains re-
sistant to the European corn borer and
others resistant to bacterial wilt.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04
AUGUST COAL OUTPUT

There were approximately 121 900
tons of Goa produced in Montana dur
ing the last three weeks of August. &C
cording to Charles L. Stevens, publicity
director of the state department of ag-
r%iculture, after compilation of govern
ment mine reports.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04

Every child born in the United States
unless his parents are representing
foreign governments-is a natural born
citizen.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04

Native Italians are fined rs cents,
payable on the spot, for kissing in pub
lie except for farewells at railway sta
tons.
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HOLDS
FALSE E Tight

Hutch forms a comfort cushioat
holds the plate so snug it can't rock,
drop, chafe or ''be played with.
You a eat and speak rs well -
you did with your own teeth. Csc and
-Hc a box at Drug Stores.-Adv.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04

According to tradition, Schenectady,
N. Y, stands on the site of the chief
village of the Mohawk Indians.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-04

The Grand Coulee dam in Washing
ton will be twice as high as Niagara
falls when completed.
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Paris now permits street dancing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-11

tracks of passengers through the gate.
Already streaks of brightness cleaned
in the sky above the ghostly whiteness
of the Lincoln Memorial. Down the
river she caught glimpse of the mast
of the Van Ruyter yacht. She wished
that she were aboard it, sailing away
from the place that had been encom-
passed these last hectic hours. Sanctu-
ary Dick would be that. Shed been
right in the plan of life she'd made
before she'd met Kim. Dick'd be good
to her. kind to her, proud OF her. She
wouldn't be keeping him from any
thing he should have. She wouldn't
be watching day by day, year by year,
the misery of mans failure, knowing
that she'd been its cause. Shannon
had been right. Shed have to give
up Kim. But how'd she tell him?
Not the truth. Not in any way
that'd make him sorry for her. The
only way would be to rouse the temper
that she knew must be under his stub
bornness. Fight. She'd have to fight
with him, to make him lash back at
her, to hate her if needs be, till this
was done. How'd she start it?
Some day, Holly, you and I will
take a plane across Europe. Berlin
to Stamboul-"
STEAMBOAT to Calcutta!" She might
not have to say anything if French
or Savedra came soon. Perhaps
Savedra would take Kim back with
him to Washington.
continued in TOmOrrOW'S StarO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-11
WASHINGTON NIGHT
BY MARY SYNON.

tor Shannon to send you here If they
didn't intend you to 60 to his country"
Il suppose he wouldn't. I did let
the old boy down, didn't I? That's
one reason why I listened to you and
came along. I really owe him an
apology"
1T was my fault. I'll tell him."
You'll do nothing of the sort He
wouldn't be so willing to overlook it
l fancy, IL he didn't know that French
wants me. Boraventura won't be so
hard with the two of them plugging
for me- Well make a record there,
Holly dear
You like it, don't you?" From the
end of the bridge she could see the
great trans-continental Stinson tri-
motors of the commercial airWayS,
and beyond them, the Curtiss-W Wright
Condors. then private craft, a huge
Sikorsky amphibian, Boeings and
Northrops. a Fairchild and Lockheed-
Vega, silvery Bellanca. sports model
Simon French's. she supposed, waiting
for him. Ready to take him to the
other side of the IsthmuS. 1T must
be a swell place. Balconies and guitars
and walled gardens and senoritas with
roses between their teeth, darlin."
Il won't be bothering with them
you've always enjoyed the service,
haven't you. Kim?" With a drone of
motors a plane rose from the ground
and circled into flight. 1.-THE place,
the power, and the game?"
Il don't know any other game.
suppose every man likes power"
Would you want to stay in Bona
ventura all your life?"
"Oh, Lord. no!'
Il didn't think So" She swung the
car off the highway to the airport
gate and parked it beside the rail. A
porter ran out to them. Has Simon
Frenchs plane gone yet?" she asked
him.
Not yet" He pointed to the Bel
lanca. They've got it ready, but he
hasn't come"
He left them, and she watched the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-11
Check Coughs!
Here's How

Promptly, pleasantly, Halls
Expectorant soothes and heals
irritated me mbranes of the
throat. Coughs, due to colds, are
checked amazingly quick. Users
say Nothing better for coughs
when one has a cold" Right they
are! Halls Expectorant has been
relieving cold coughs more than
rs years and is in great demand.
Remember the name. Ask any
druggist for Halls Expectorant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-11

Continued in Tomorrow's Starr
The Washington times., 1935-01-31

Graham 1888 Blue Streak Sedan NOnB
-Opalescent paiAta white side OOSO
wall tires: to be sacrificed: liberal
terms.
SUPERIOR MOTORS, INC.
1890 14th st. n. W. Decatur 1900
The Washington times., 1935-01-31
Automobiles for Sale
"SEE BELL FIRST

SEE BELL FIRST
We have several exceptional good buys in
Fords. Chevs.. Phys. Bucks from 1929 to
1884 models: also prices range from S57
By Bell Motor Co., Plymouth De Soto
Dealers 456 to 460 New York Ave N. w.
GOOD USED CARS NORTHEAST MOTOR
CO.. 920 Bladensburg Rd. N e.
The Washington times., 1935-01-31

HupmobiIe

Hupmobile 1880 Deluxe Sedan Q1NE
Has had good care and Is in O1OO
extra fine shape throughout, snclud.
ing tires: trade and easy terms.
EMERSON B ORME
18th d M SITS. N. w. Dist. 800
Evening star., 1935-08-13
Troupers
Glimpses of Stage Folk
in Washington.

NOTES on dog trainer who once
did a little lion tanning as a
side line:
Karl Sonderland Worked IL years
in the circus in Europe. had whole
troupe Of dogs with him and diverted
himself by training lions. The circus
burned, so did all his animals. He
took up schooling police dogs for the
German Army. later came to Amer
lea to get fresh start.
He considers the act in the Loew's
Fox Going Native Revue" this week
very limited sample, performed by
dogs that are only beginning to learn
what they will know some day, yet
in it he has poodle that dances, a
fox terrier that stands on it's front
paws, a police dog that boxes with
him, obeys numerous complicated COM
mands with no more guidance than
the sound of the voice.
Sonderland thinks Bozo, the police
dog, will be great one some day. He
is now only years old, but is under
almost absolute control. You could
step on his head while he Is lying
asleep back stage Zone of the girls in
the ensemble did so accidentally the
other day. and he'd never bother you.
If you climbed into Sonderland's car
when only the dog was there, Bozo
probably would tear you to pieces.
Ferocity has to be taught with whip
ping. Otherwise, Sonderland says, it
is impossible to get anything out of
police dog by cruelty. Fox terriers,
on the other hand. are so stubborn
they can be taught only by the re-
observation-disclosures method. Two
other breeds likewise have peculiari-
ties. but any of them can be trained
One of the smartest in his troupe Che
has seven, using three this week. is
an out-and-out mutt.
The acrobatic dogs are treated like
athletes in training. Without daily
exercise and suppling they get stiff,
cannot work balance stunts effectively.
Skippy. the poodle. is a tight wire
walker, even performing blindfolded.
and consequently has to keep her paw
in at that. whether working or not.
Sonderland says the real distinction
between moderate and first-rate trick
dogs is this: Do they perform on all
-FOUR feet or standing on the hind
legs? The latter, of course, is doubly
difficult. Cats, who dislike work, will
not DO 1t at all. r. B. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1935-08-13
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
GIVE SYLVAN CONCERT
Agriculture Musicians Are Popu-
lar Contributors to Sum-
mer Festival.

THE perfect Summer setting Of the
Sylvan Theater and as fine an
August evening as you could hope to
see blended with the voices Of an
expert chorus and the strains of an
accomplished concert orchestra to
make last nights thirteenth Summer
festival program. on the Monument
slope. a huge success.
The Agriculture Chorus, directed by
Robert Frederick Freund, who facilely
modulated the voices of his choir,
offered two heartily received groups
of songs, principally American folk
tunes, and the Agriculture Concert
Orchestra, under the baton of Walter
E Bauer. played five selections.
The best voice displayed in the
evenings solo numbers probably was
that of Miss Marie Martel, who sang
Believe Me If All Those Endearing
Young Charms" in solo and When
You and I were Young. Maggie" in
duet with David Manley. Grays
Revelers, a better than average quar-
tet, drew the only encore of the eve
ming, after their rendition of a corn
field medley and Sailing. Sailing"
Roy Gray was enthusiastically ap-
plauded for his singing of the old fa-
vorite, Asleep in the Deep"
Other individual numbers on the
program. which were most highly
approved by the audience, were Annie
Laurie" a duet by Elizabeth Eaton
and NJ. L. Bulkley; Seeing Nellie
Home" sung by Walter H. Redit and
the Mems Chorus, and Beautiful
Dreamer" duet by Frances B. Fallon
and Beatrice D. Holland.
Accompaniment for the chorus Of
ferings was furnished by Victor H
Neal. pianist: Edgar T. Hart, violinist,
and Louis G.. Zanoff, cellist.
The Agriculture Concert Orchestra,
while attempting nothing overly diff
cult, played with an enthusiasm and
a display of skill which made its por-
ton of the program thoroughly en-
joyable. The orchestra displayed Its
versatility in its opening group, start
ing with the brisk overture to Fra
Diavolo," following this with the
slower. smoother flow of Album
blat," and closing the group with three
dances from the German edition OF
Nell Gwynn." H. M.
Evening star., 1935-08-13
ROMEO NEXT WEEK.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
will be presented by the Bartfield
Players OF Washington in the National
Sylvan Theater. at the Washington
Monument, Tuesday, August 20. at
8 o'clock. Directed by Esther GAL
braith, with settings by Howard Whit
field and costumes by Christine Stew
art, the play will be offered in three
acts and a number of scenes. which
will be set simply but effectively on
the Sylvan stage. with special light
ing effects, suggestive of the mood of
the drama.
Leading roles will be assumed by
Edythe Lazaroff Goldman, as Juliet;
Howard Whitfield, as Romeo; Rob-
ert Duke. as Mercutio: Mabel Owens
Wilcox. as the nurse: James NJ
Rawls. as Paris; A. L. Diket, as Ty-
bait: Ted Freter. as Benvolio: Hugh
c. Smith and Esther Gailbraith, as
Lord and Lady Capulet; Harry Crow
and Natalie White, as Lord and Lady
Montague; Stanley Protheroe, as
Peter: Marjorie Beall, Dorothy Man
ming, william Gochenour, Jack Rob-
inson and others.
Evening star., 1935-08-13

Randolph Scott, Walter Connolly,
Janet Beecher and Dickie Moore will
appear with her under the direction of
King Vidor. The screen play was pre-
pared by Maxwell Anderson, Laurence
Stallings and William Slavens McNutt.
Accent on YOUTH which has been
completed already, will present Sylvia
Sidney, Herbert Marshall and Phillip
Reed in the leading roles.
"Other Paramount productions
which will be shown at the Earle
include:
1.-The Last Outpost story of the
World War which reaches its climax
in Central Africa. Cary Grant, Claude
Rains, Gertrude Michael and Colin
Tapley are in the cast. Charles
Barton directed.
Without Regret an upper-world
melodrama with ELISA Landi, Kent
Taylor, Frances Drake and Paul Cava-
nagh. directed by Harold Young, who
directed The Scarlet Pimperuel'
The Virginia Judge starring
Walter c. Kelly in his famous charac-
terization, brought to the screen in
a story by Kelly and Octavus Roy
Cohen. Johnny Downs, Stepin
Fetchit and Rosalind Keith are in
the cast. directed by Ralph Murphy.
Amateur Hour with Ray Milland,
George Barber, Ida Lupino and Willie
Howard.
'Hopalong Cassidy based on the
famous Western story by Clarence
Mulford and starring James Gleason
in the title role. supported by Paula
Stone, Kenneth Thompson and Robert
Warwick.
These are the outstanding Para
mount attractions listed for the first
quarter of the 1886 season. They
will be shown first in Washington at
the Earle and the Metropolitan Thea
tiers. All important Paramount pro-
ductions have been booked for subse-
quent runs at the neighborhood thea
tiers owned by Warner Bros. in
Washington"
STEVE COCHRAN is back in town
so is dapper Dutch" &.
Mr.. Cochran says that Lunt and Fon-
tame will appear at the National the
week of September 30 in The Tanning
of the Shrew" =. He will have a new
play the week after that, and from
then on things will be humming along
E street He also says that Ethel
Barrymore is all set for her extended
tour in The Constant Wife" and
that Edwina Wise, ingenue with this
seasons National Players, has inter-
views arranged in New York with
Brock Pemberton, Max Gordon, Sam
Harris, Lee Shubert, Gilbert Miller,
Harry Moses and Barney Klawans
National theater patrons will also be
glad to hear that the theater has a
new carpet for its balcony.
EDWIN CAREWE. Hollywood pro-
ducer, arrives in Washington to-
morrow.
Two Baltimore critics came over
yesterday to attend the preview of
China Seas" as guests of Carter
Barron. They dined afterward at the
Variety Club.
Annapolis Farewell" was screened
this morning for Navy officials some
where" in the Navy Building.
Hitler Innes, Paramount official, is
at the Mayfower.