The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-26
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total length of 34,100 feet and air.
marked 50 Montana cities.
Public Utilities-Built and repaired
1874 miles of storm or sanitary sewers
and 319 miles of water mains. Drilled
IL municipal water supply wells and
built city water reservoirs with a COM
bined storage capacity of 3,600,O 600 gal
Ions. Placed 1880 feet of river levee
and rip-rapping, paved 1918 feet OF
gutter, removed 7,240 feet of street car
rails, operated sawmills through which
3,097, $50 board feet of lumber was pro-
duced, laid 1875 miles of concrete and
cinder sidewalks, built 681,126 linear
feet of fence, handicapped and beautified
1884 acres of lawns, parks, boulevards,
school and other public grounds, and
performed many other miscellaneous
jobs requested by municipalities.
Much Other Work
In addition to these major work clas-
ETY. of other activities during the first
year, of which these were outstanding:
Tanning of $1,000 sheep pelts; drain
age of 1860 acres of swamp land and
spraying $1,000 gallons of chemicals and
oil for mosquito eradication; built g.
637 sanitary privies for rural families
and families not served by municipal
sewage systems; served 1884 hot
lunches to undernourished and under
privileged school children; planted and
cultivated 5,400 trees in city parks and
boulevards and pruned $50 others.
Also cut and sawed 1904 cords of wood
for relief use; repaired. indexed or
filed 390,781 public school, tax deed,
mining, census, claims, mortgage and
other public documents.
Employed WPA hunters who killed
1924 livestock destroying predatory
animals such as bears, wolves, noun
tain lions and coyotes, repaired 174,-
$40 books, catalogued 71,945 books and
collected and distributed 1889 books
and magazines, provided needy per-
sons with 1888 medical, dental ane
nursing examinations and treatments
operated Al women's work sewing
rooms which produced 246,759 garments
and household articles for relief families
from many kinds of materials including
49O, 410 yards of cloth donated to Mon
tana by the Federal Surplus Commodi.
ties corporation; distributed 31707!
garments and $4,000 pounds of sur.
plus relief commodity foodstuff tc
needy families, and supplied, mixed ans
helped spread, 1925 tons of poison fol
combating the worst Mormon cricke
and grasshopper infestation in the his.
tory Of the state.
Art and Educational Studies
The WPA also employed several hun
dred professional and white collar
persons who directed Al public ar
study groups with an average attend
ance of 325 persons, Al music instruct
ton groups with an average attendance
of 1,179 persons and so recreationa
centers in which an average Of 6,94
persons participated. The WPA ais,
gave jobs to unemployed needy teach
ers who conducted rs workers, adults
vocational, and Americanization classe
in which 1929 people were enrolled
Unemployed writer's compiled an
wrote millions Oh WOIua III lldiidlis
material on all points Of interest in tn
Sc counties to create local guide book
and approached final compilation an
editing Of comprehensive State Guild
Book and the chapter on Montana fo
six-voIume National Guide Book.
In conjunction with various govern
ment research agencies and the state
institutes Of higher learning, skille
technical workers compiled importar
data on range land utilization in
counties; irrigated lands in 48 counties
farm Indebtedness and farm statistic
!, each in Sc counties and other state
wide studies on such subjects as Law
!, and records, crime, general censs
: and a consumers survey
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