The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-11-05
Tourists Hooking for a New Place to Go"
Will Be Repaid for Visit to Wheatland

pleCSS ulouIlIeu Oil panels. Inc arrow
heads in the collection are especially
notable. The arrowheads are made Of
flint, petrified wood, obSidian, moss
agate, and bone. some of them barbed
n some of them made with a slight
spiral to cause the arrow to spin in
its flight and give a greater penetra-
ton. The arrowhead collection o n
so called because of the first discovery
Of the heads les Folsom, N. M.
The collection also includes stone
amulets, leather cutters, pemmican
hammers. war clubs. tomahawks, fire
strikers, dishes, pestles, dice, ear orn-
aments, effigies of animals, and pipes.
Or. Brown can identify 80 percent of
the specimens by tribes and has traced
the migrations of the tribes by the To-
calities in which the relics were found.
The collection of antique firearms
owned by William c.. Almquist of
Harlowton is also worth seeing. One
wall of his gun room is covered with
with sporting arms. The military arms
range from the pre-revolutionary Ken
lucky long rifles to arms used in
the Spanish-American war. The finest
piece in the sporting rifle collection
is the .54 caliber Hawken rifle made
by the famous gunsmith. S. Hawken of
st. Louis. who was born in 1885. Most
Of the pieces are muzzle leaders and
flintlocks, complete with powder horns
and ramrods. The collection numbers
100 pieces.
Ernest Stein, also of Harlowton, is
an artiSt-craftSman in hand-Worked
woods and has at his home an inlaid
bowl made of 1882 separate pieces Of
nine different kinds of wood. The bowl
a syndicated daily newspaper cartoon
of the Ripley's believe 1t Or Not"
type. The owners of all these collections
will be glad to show them to interested
persons.
Wheatland county, along with the
rest of eastern Montana, has been ad-
versely affected during past years by
the continued drouth but agricultural
of the Dead Mans basin irrigation
project will change the picture COM
pletely. Abandoned farms will take
on new life and e farms will be de-
veloped where today only a sweeping
wind blows across barren range lands.
The Dead Mans project will, on it's
completion, provide water for 81 1000
acres in the Musselshell valley. Dead
miles square, and will have storage
capacity for 10000 acre-feet of water.
1t will be filled through a 12-mile canal
to the MuSSelShell river near Winnie
cook. A %1,O0O-foot tunnel will be con-
structed at the east end of the basin
to control the outlet. After the water
has passed the tunnel it will take a
natural course over the benchlands and
into the Musselshell valley which is
depleted of water except in the flood
season of April and May. The slope
is such that the natural distribution
of water will be easy. This project,
which is located east of Harlowton
on the county line, is considered one
of the most important water develop
ment jobs in the state of Montana
where the comparative results of ir-
rigation and dryland farming have
been clearly shown. ~
Wheatland's attractions have not
been much publicized but they are
none the less worth a visit. The county
has come a long way since the old
'Jawbone line" the Montana Central
railroad, first rolled to a stop on Ly-
curgus Fitzpatrick's farm.