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Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18
HOT SPRINGS JOB
TO BE FINISHED

The S3OO,0OO Mammoth Hot
Springs development project In
Yellowstone national park win be
completed before the opening Of
the 1888 season, Yellowstone park
company officials announced a few
days ago.
Workmen are now busy constructing
a new SAC, 600 recreation hall and a set
of 95 new cottages. A renovated hotel
and new dining hall and grill units
in the larger project have been in use
during the current season.
The new recreation hall will include
a large auditorium, stage, barber shop
and beauty parlor, public baths and
a cocktail room. It viii be in the
center of the development with the
cottages clustered around 1t.
The cottages will be of varied types,
all including running water and some
equipped with baths. They will offer
deluxe accommodations for persons de-
string more luxury than is provided in
the present lodge cabins.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18

eral average of tests made over miles
of river bottom.
Sell Stock Locally
The company at this time is doing
no public financing save the offering
of 10000 shares of stock in Montana.
The company is anxious to have Nom
tana stockholders in order to eStab-
lish good will and friendly under
standing in this state. Permit for the
sale of this $4,000 shares of stock has
been issued by the State Investment
Commissioner, but no stock is offered
to anyone living outside the state Of
Montana, thereby making it unneces-
sary to qualify the offering under the
federal securities act.
To give an idea of the vast posi-
bilitieS of the Big Horn Placer Mining
Corp. holdings, the writer would state
that the only other similar operation
that is anywhere near comparable in
the state of Montana was that of the
COnrey Placer Mining Co. which was
formed in 1898, and the Poor Farm Co.
in 1904. The Poor Farm Co. was after
wards absorbed by the Conrey Placer
Mining Co. in July, 1915. This COM
pany operated at Ruby, Mont, about Ii
miles from Alder, branch terminus Of
the Northern Pacific. Prof. N. F, Shales
dean of the Scientific Department of
Harvard University, acted as consult
ing engineer and president of the COM
pany until the time of his death in
1906.
Cost Of Dredging
This company operated a series OF
dredges on their property and between
the years 1899 and 1916 copy of the
operating report of the Conrey Placer
Mining Co., taken from the proceed
ings of the Second Pan-American
Scientific Congress, compiled by Glen
Levin Swiggett, then assistant secre-
tary general, showed that the above
companies dug over 81 100000 cubic
yards with an operating cost of 591
cents per cubic yard and an indirect
expense Of LOS cents per yard, or q
total of 696 cents per cubic yard.
However, the many improvements
made in dredges since that date have
reduced the cost Of such dredging OPP
erationS materially. In fact, the Con-
rey company, during the month of
May. 1915, with one dredge known as
No electric, dug All 900 cubic yards
with 80 percent running time, a depth
Of 81 feet, and an operating cost OF
2.66 cents per cubic yard.
On account of the vast yardage OBJ
tainable in the Big Horn canyon, and
the CANYONS Of Its tributaries, the
commencement Of operations there
should open a new epic Of placer min
ing in the state of Montana, one that
should produce untold millions Of
wealth, and provide employment for
a vast number Of people for a num-
Der OF years.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18

AT mime, well or
refinery, Gar
gOyle Industrial
Lubricants can
help you combat
the heat and
wear of metal-tO-
metal friction.
Equally irnPOr
tant, they can
make possible a
Lubric alton
profit.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18

Following drill testing over a period
of three years, the Big Horn Placer
Mining Corp. started operations on its
Crow Indian leases on Sept. 10. A steel
constructed plant assembled by the
Union Iron Co., of Spokane, Wash, is
million yards Of commercial placer
ground has been blocked out by drill
testing during the past year.
Not since the day Of the GeorgianS
in historic Last Chance gulch and
Alder gulch have such rich values been
reported in Montana placer operations
as in Big Horn basin. Values varying
from u cents to over $1,000 per yard
in free gold are reported from the
testing thus far The average dredg-
ing operation in this state has had
values of around 25 cents per yard,
and such operations are highly profit
able
In addition to the free gold. high
values are claimed as a result of five
ASSAYS of the black sand. So great are
the recoverable values in the black
sand, the operators state, that the Big
Horn Placer Mining Corp. may intro
duce the use of a cyanide plant IN
conjunction with the dredges with
which to treat the black sand. The low
est assays reported on the black sand
have been SIS per ton.
An idea Of the contemplated richness
of the gravel is afforded by the fact
that the company was able TO give the
Grow Indians a royalty of 80 percent
of the gross on Indian lands The Crow
Indians have been widely pubhcized as
a result of this contract which eastern
writers say will net the Indians $780,
900 900. Figuring that there are 1900
members of the tribe. each member
cfn
newspaper feature articles claim. Were
such claims authentic, it would mean
a total recovery on Indian lands alone
of upward of $450,000,0OO which would
dwarf Alder gulch, Last Chance and
all the other famous placer properties
of this state.
Officers
The Big Horn canyon project has
been much more widely publicized in
the east than in Montana. The pres
ident of the corporation Is j. F. Sperry. !
He is identified as the president of |
Sperry & Co.. Inc, of st. Paul. where |
he has been in business for 35 years. /
For the last 20 years he has been ac- |
lively associated with the mining in |
duStTy.
H. r. Fisher, executive vice-president /
and secretary, has for Is years been
president of the HeTzog Ornamental /
Iron Works of st. Paul.
A. w. Longbotham, vice president,
is a st. Paul contractor, being vice
president and chief engineer of the
contracting firm Of Lowering q Long
botham.
John Lyle Harrington
John Lyle Harrington, vice president
and consulting engineer of the Big
Horn Placer Mining Corp, is consult
ing engineer Of the Reconstruction FL |
nance Corp, which federal agency has
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18
MAN
HEADS DEMOCRATS
vERN HOvEN ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF CLUB AS POISON MEET
ING CLOSES

Vern HOven, Of PIentywOod,
county attorney Of Sheridan county,
was elected president Of the Mon
tana Young Democrats club at the
closing session of the organizations
annual convention at Poison re-
Gently.
He succeeds William P. Jones, for
merly of Helena. Jones resigned re-
Gently when he accepted a fedora,
position in Washington, D. G.
Elective state officials were COM
ministration of the state government
in resolution adopted by the state
convention.
Vera Loveland, Of Lewistown, was
elected first vice president; Hugh Le-
mire, of Miles City, second vice pres
ident; Jack O'Brien, of Butte, Secre-
tary; Robert Lambeth, of Poison,
treasurer; Gayle Brown, Of Helena,
national committeewoman, and Ran
dali Swanberg, Of Great Falls, national
committeeman.
Executive committee members were:
Henry Stark, Of Hamilton; John Nc
Grath,, of st. Ignatius; Mrs. Farrell
Gallagher. of Anaconda, and Mable
district, and 10 Colgan, of Poplar;
Mrs. Gladys Berkner, Of Great Falls;
Orville Stagg, Of Scobey and william
Hulett, Of Cut Bank, for the eastern
district.
Resolutions adopted commended the
state water conservation departments
urged the state highway de-
partment to be given authority to
compete for tourist traffic; asked the
legislature to enact a law providing
for compulsory examinations for driv-
er's licenses, and urged expansion Of
Young Democrat clubs throughout the
state.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18

Dempsey" Br1ffy said. Romey says no
road agents were harbored at Days
ranch house barroom. Pete DAILY, he
says. was respectable man Bruffy
said: Maybe road agents visited Rob
ranch. Neither Pete nor Dempsey could
help that. But neither man was In
cahoots with those robbers and muir
derers"
Romey says: 7 don't know who
started the story about Days place
but, it is a lie"
Among the places being considered
for perpetuation, Romey said, are the
old Virginia hotel, the Chinese temple,
the Masonic temple, Sisters hospital
and the stage coach depot.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18
TO TRANSCRTBE RECORDS

Records in the office Of the state board Of
land commissioners are to be transcribed and
classified as a WPA project. The work has
been approved at washington and will be
started on Sept. 25 according to Mrs. Nanita
Sherlock. state land commissioner. It viii en-
ploy six persons for an extended period. They
win work directly under the supervision Of
Mrs Sherlock
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18

Representatives Of Montana and Wyoming,
acting under the provisions Of q measure en-
acted by the last congress. soon VIII meet to
discuss terms Of a possible compact to cover
the waters of Yellowstone river and its trib-
utaries and Of the Little Missouri, which
J. s. James of Montana and John Quinn OF
Wyoming discussing the matter informally
at Helena, expressed the belief that an inter
state agreement would deal primarily with
general principles rather than specific al
locations Of water.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18
OIL for
Troubled " Waters

IN EVERY industrial field, plant super
Il intendents and management executives
turn TO the SOcony-Vacuum Oil Company
with It's 20 years. experience whenever a
lubricatiOn problem, great or small, threat
ems TO disrupt operating schedules.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18

BKTLTNGG-Deiewnte TO the biennial con-
vention OF the Montana conference, Catholic
Daughters OF America. recently elected MRS
Della O'Nell, OF Glendlve. state regent; AIRS.
Arthur Baker. Of xewistcwn. and Mrs. r. ,.
Barry. Of LivinRs&0n, Ffca rc&ents. and Axisa
Ths conferences wiAs nsssA Asain IN 1854.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-09-18
Claim Vast Deposit Of
Pay Gravel in Big Horn

largest deposit the modern mining history of Mon
the Big Horn the Crow Indian
reservation southeastern part the Operations
portable wash plant OF rated capacity Of 1000 yards da
Evening star., 1937-11-08

slaShed his brother under the left
arm with a butcher knife during q
fight in which Robert had Harold
down on the floor
Officer Ashley testified further that
he was told the fight began when
Harold returned to Roberts room
about am. after a previous visit
and pulled his brother from the bed
and knocked him down several times.
The argument began, the policeman
testified, over Roberts refusal to lend
Harold S.
Capt. Ira E. Keck, assistant chief
Of detectives. said earlier that Robert,
40. had admitted killing his younger
brother during fight when the latter
came to his basement room and
dragged him from his bed after
haunting him about his refusal of the
loan.
Asked SIS Loan.
Mrs. Marie Morrison, 1888 Eleventh
street, a close friend of the. brothers
and one of those present at party
said to have preceded the stabbing,
said she was told by Reuben Walden
that after the stabbing Harold cried,
Robert has killed me! Get doctor!"
Claimed Self-Defense.
Robert, she said, sat down in a chair
saying, Il guess have, but did it
in self-defense. I'll wait here for
police"
Harold was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where he died yesterday.
Reuben was spending the night in
Roberts room the night of the stab
bing because young sister. Douglas,
who had come to Washington recent
ly from their home at Alta Vista,
Va, was staying with his wife. Mrs.
Virginia Walden.
All the brothers except Robert had
come to Washington since August
from their home in Alta Vista, Mrs
Morrison said. Robert had been here
some time. Both he and Reuben are
carpenters and Harold was house
painter. A fourth brother, David,
about %, is employed in a cafeteria.
Evening star., 1937-11-08
TREMAINE OFFERS
new TAX PROGRAM
Levies on Gross Profits on Sliding
Scale Is Plan of New
Yorker.
Ry the AssoctatAd Press.

0y tic hssoS&Aro Tiess.
A revolutionary program of corpora
ton tax revision, designed to stimulate
production and employment, has been
suggested to the administration by
Morris S. Tremaine, New York State
controller.
The plan contemplates, in effect
taxing of gross profits. on a sliding
scale, the rate declining as inventory
turnover increases, with the granting
Of credits for maintaining stability Of
employment.
Corporations could decrease their
taxation rate by increasing production
and could gain credits by retaining en-
ployes during slack periods.
Mr.. Tremaine Is said to have argued
that the plan would tend to lower the
cost of manufactured goods and in
crease employment. Mr.. Tremaine said
the cost of government should be
levied as a FIRST cost Of goods" In
discussing the plan before the Invest
ment Bankers Association at White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, yesterday
Present taxes levied on net profits
after sale of the goods, he explained
tend to impair corporation credit and
penalize enterprise.
MANY Of the best minds" he said
believe the capital gains and loss tax
undistrihuted surplus tax and other
levies tend to retard industrial recov-
cry and "they certainly keep the reser-
voirs of credit closed"
Evening star., 1937-11-08
OO,OOO-TOn War Fleet Claim,
For Anti-Red Allies Debunked

will, after many months, bring the
total up to 1,779,163 tons. Up to July
! Japan had 45,594 tons actually built
and 79,272 tons building or appropri-
ated for, Italy 396,683 tons built and
147.600 tons building, Germany 147,-
632 tons built and 262,482 tons build
ing.
Britain alone had 1,216,398 tons
afioat and 541,0 900 tons building or
appropriated fora total Of LIST, ,588
tons. Britain and France together had
1.6S5,744 tons afloat and 2.4ol,o77 tons
including those building-roughly
100000 tons more than the three anti
Communist states had afloat, building
and appropriated FOR.
II the United States be included, the
three democratic countries had 2,769,-
074 tons actually afloat and a grand
total Of 3,8l9,972 tons including those
building and appropriated for. Group
ed together, the three democratic coun-
tries have 100000 tons more ships
afloat, building and appropriated for
than Japan. Italy and German taken
together.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-11-08
Daughter Is Shot
As Father Fires at
SuitOr He DisIikes
"U L0tU Won't Protect
Home, PO,cder WiH,''
Says Parent.
1s . Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

ny y StAu eTpO0uenb Ol Nc STAR.
LAUREL, Md, November g.
Thomas A. Merson, 75-year-old re.
tired employe OF the Navy Depart.
ment, today justified firing sho,
which early today wounded his %.
year-old daughter Jeannette when she
returned home in company with Isaac
Knisley, 3e, Of Savage, Md, at ! am.
BY saying Knisley was a married man
and father Of five children. Knisley
was unhurt.
Merson, now living on his farm
near here, said he laid in wait at his
home until the couple returned and
that when he fred the shot, he be-
1ieved his daughter had already en-
tered the house. Although he had not
left his home and police had broad
cast q lookout for him, no arrest had
been made up to noon.
Merson said the police had not
visited his farm home.
Miss Merson was taken to Univer.
xity Hospital in Baltimore. where
shotgun pellets were removed from
her scalp early today. after being treat
ed by DIR. Bryan P. Warren, a Laurel
physician. She was to return to hel
home today.
The father, who also is the father
OF Edward Merson, Prince Georges
County policeman, who was killed ir
an accident early in September while
answering call In Muirkirk, Nd, tolc
reporters:
If the law of Maryland won't pro-
tect my family, black powder will"
Evening star., 1937-11-08
TRIO SLIGHTLY HURT
IN PLANE MISHAPS
Aviation Instructor and Girl Pas
senger Cut and Bruised When
Craft Hits Wires.

Three persons, including an aviation
instructor and his girl passenger,
escaped with cuts and bruises in two
airplane crashes in nearby Maryland
yesterday.
M. G. Solomon, flying instructor,
ard Miss Ethel c. Schaeffer, 18, of
FsssSstville, Md, received only super
f1cial hurts when the plane in which
they were attempting to take of from
the newly established Suitland Airport
stalled, struck overhead wires and
crashed into q bank. Observers said
Solomon was trying to get the plane
back on the field when the under
carriage caught in the wires.
At Greenbelt, Hubert Routt, 49,
year-old insurance adjuster Of the 1000
block Of L street Sc, escaped with
minor cuts and bruises when the plane
he was plotting TAXED into another at
the Greenbelt Airport. He was taken
to Casualty Hospital for treatment, but
later was returned home. Julio Fala-
bello, 4sl2 Third street NV, . passen-
ser La the plane, was uninjured.
Evening star., 1937-11-08
BY Cable to The Star.

LONDON, England. Nov. s.-Con-
siderable amusement has been created
In British naval circles by the Fascist
boast that the three signatories Of the
anti-Communist pact "can together
defend themselves with nearly 2,000,-
900 tons Of warships which are being
constantly and rapidly increased"
Virginio Gayda, III Duce's mouth
piece, who made this statement, seems
to have gotten his figures badly balled
up. In the first place the three anti
Communist states do not have any
where near 100000 tons of ship,
either built or building. In the second
place their combined fleets are not
much larger than the fleet Of the
British Empire alone. They look
positively puny compared to the COM
bined fleets of France and Britain,
and ridiculous compared to the COM
bined fleets Of France Britain and
the United States.
The Fascist powers actually have q
total of 1885. .909 tons Of overage and
underage ships afloat. Additional units
which are building or appropriated for
Evening star., 1937-11-08
D. c. FAM|LY'S KIN
MISSING IN CHINA
Miss Isabel Hemingway Un.
reported in Fierce Shansi
Fighting.

Unreported in fierce fighting in
Shansi Province, where Japanese
forces are clashing with Chinese, Is
Miss Isabel Hemingway, sister of Mrs.
Horace w. Truesdell of Silver Spring,
and niece of Mrs. Anna Eckels, 701
Shepherd street NV.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Shanghai today listed eight persons as
unreported at Taiku, now believed to
be behind the Japanese lines in North
China. Taiku is about 80 miles from
Taiyuanfu. capital Of Shansi Prov
ince.
Although the dispatch said nine per-
sons were unreported. only eight Of
their names were listed, but the other
ID believed to be Miss Hemingway's
mother, Mrs. Mary w. Hemingway
Both were planning on remaining in
Taiku, ready to flee into the safety Of
nearby mountains II fighting came too
close.
Evening star., 1937-11-08


Mrs. Truesdell~ said today that her
mother and sister, both of whom are
connected with the Oberlin Shansi
Mission in Taiku, have visited here
often. Both Mrs. Truesdell and her
sister were born at Taiku, their
parents. the late DR. Willoughby A.
Hemingway and his wife, having been
with the mission since 1908
Received Letter September s.
A letter received from her mother
on September 8, Mrs. Truesdell said,
reported that the fighting was con-
stantly coming closer Many of the
residents at the mission had fled, but
Mrs. Hemingway and her daughter
Isabel elected to remain. planning to
flee into nearby mountains if the Sit
uation became too dangerous.
However, Mrs. Truesdell said that
all mail from her mother which
went through territory held by jap
anese was censored Letters to Peip-
ing. now occupied by Japan, were all
sent through the censor, she said, but
airmail by way Of provinces still held
by Chinese came through as written
Although there are telegraph facih-
ties at Taiku, they would be con-
trolled by the japanese military ma
chine II the territory has been occu-
pied, Mrs. Truesdell believed.
II realize it is very risky for them
to remain" Mrs. Truesdell said, but
mother says that it would be just as
dangerous for them to attempt a
Journey to. the coast Then. too. she
and Isabel hate to leave their work"
Mrs. Hemingway's Sister.
Mrs. Eckles is the sister of Mrs.
Hemingway.
Among Others listed was DR.. L. F.
Wilbur Of San Francisco nephew of DR.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, former Secretary
Of the Interior in the Coolidge and
Hoover administrations. His wife and
two children were reported with him.
Others unreported were P. D. Dut-
ton, Auburndale, Mass; Gladys Will
liams, Oberlin. Ohio. and Nettie
Senger, South English, Iowa.
Evening star., 1937-11-08
.b0RAH DEMANDS !
ANTITRUST ACTION
Time Is "Now or Never, "
Senator Declares on Eve
of Special Session.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Senator Borah, Republican, of idaho
said today the time had come when
Congress must pass antitrust legis-
lation land not just talk about It,"
"It is either now or never he said
President Roosevelt has proposed
that the special session OF Congress
strengthen existing laws to lend re-
strains now imposed upon business by
private monopolies and financial oil
garchies."
Attorney General Cummins said
Wednesday that he did not believe 1t
was possible to get a speedy solution
of the antitrust problem.
1T will require an enormous amount
of research and disinterested study"
he said.
To Cooperate With Administration.
Senator Borsh, asked If he had
tactics of his own In mind, replied
that he would cooperate with and
await the initiative Of the administra-
ton, "at least for . while"
you know, I've been studying this
thing for 80 years." he said, his eyes
twinkling. "As was one Of the recall
citrants back in the days when Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt found there
was difference between good and
a bad trust"
National Charter Plan.
Senator Borah's own solution for
driving monopoly from control and
breaking its grip once for ALL is a
bill to provide national charters for
all corporations engaged in interstate
or foreign commerce, and for their
regulation by the Federal Trade Com
mission.
Senator Borah, here for the special
session, which begins November is,
looks in the pink Of condition. AL
though past 70, the Lone Lion OF
Idaho" is still a rugged man, with q
name of hair parted In the middle, q
heavy face above a conservative bow
tie, and a large, loose frame usually
clothed In a dark gray or blue suit.
The popular conception to the con-
trary, the Senator does not roar when
he goes forth to battle. His voice Il
gentle, his manners charming. his
demeanor bit shy.