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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
ENGINEER DESCRIBES
BLACKFOOT DISTRICT

for the mine $4,000 In 1926 ore and con-
centrate were being shipped by Cook 81 West
who we're operating under lease.
The underground workings include three
adits, spaced through vertical range Of
about 800 feet and known as tunnels I, 2
and 3. beginning with the highest. Tunnel
is q crosscut at an altitude Of about $500
feet. It passes through the Little Nell and
intermediate veins and reaches the Mike Horse
vein at a distance Of l. $50 feet. Tunnel No. 2
is a shorter crosscut. Drift on the Mike Horse
vein at level No. aggregates about 500 feet;
at level No. 2, $50 feet, and at level No. /,
$50 feet. The different levels are connected
by raises There are several large slopes. and
the maximum depth to which the vein is
explored is about $50 feet.
The Mike Horse vein has been proven for
depth Of over $50 feet, the west drift from
tunnel No. shows the vein continuing down.
ward below q depth Of 400 feet. At the out
crop above tunnel No. the vein is about
feet wide. Below this point It expands in
places and above level No. reaches maxi
mum OF IL or is feet with some mineralized
material which forms part Of the vein, and
could be mined and miIed. on level No. the
vein has a width Of rs feet with well defined
walls, but all the vein matter Is not COM
mercial ore. About Is feet or so Of the width
is good mill ore. The foot wall of the vein is
diorite, and the hanging wall Is argillite. The
hanging wall Is much altered and at places
well mineralized and added considerable width
to the vein milling ore.
In the outcrop Of the vein is found oxidized
lead, carbonates and also grain OF galena.
In level No. the ore is oxidized, but in level
No. the ore is chiefly galena, copper, iron
ryrite, zinc, with gold and silver values
Returns from the East Helena smelter for
concentrate produced at the Mike Horse mill
in 1924 show the following average: Silver,
1885 o.; 1889 percent lead; IA percent zinc.
Shipments OF crude ore averaged 1875 o.
silver, 305 percent lead and 1875 percent INC.
The average net return was about $46.o5 per
ton. To produce one ton Of concentrate, about
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22


with free crystals OF pyrite and quartz. Other
specimens are crystalline aggregates Of pyrite
and galena or pyrite, galena and sphalerite.
A little bornite is associated with the pyrite.
These minerals have partly replaced altered
diorite. The adit is said to expose three ore
shoots that range from 10 to 80 inches in
width and from so to rs feet in length Sam
pies of different ore bodies are reported to
have assayed as much as $38 In gold and 10
ounces OF silver to the ton, % percent Of
lead. and percent Of copper.
An open cut above the adit partly exposes
the vein outcrop. which consists Of finely
porous or cavernous iron oxides showing lus-
trous bronze films (peacock iron) on surfaces.
Rich silver ore is reported to have been
found on the Blackfoot Belle claim at the
surface.
At the time the writer visited this mine
three years ago leasers we're mining some
high-grade silver lead ore with some gold
value Several faults we're noted and q large
porphyrytfc vein was being developed near the
face This mine, at that time. showed the
need Of capital to develope the various veins
already traced on the surface. The mine has
indications Of developing a fair size property
considering the size of the veins and the num-
Der of ore exposures already developed All
the workings have been very shallow so far
and the ore indicates that there will be good
ore shoots in depth. 1t is promising prospect.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
MIKE HORSE

Going back to the Midnight Camp on the
Blackfoot river, and up that stream, we reach
the Mike Horse mine and mill, there is q
fairly good sized camp, and much work was
done years ago In an attempt to mine and
mill the ore, some production was carried on
but the milling results we're very poor
The Mike Horse mine, the property Of the
Sterling Mining and Milling Co., was dis
covered by Joseph Heitmiller In 1893. In the
next is years more or less development work
was done, but owing to the lack Of suitable
roads no large amount Of ore was shipped.
A small production was reported in 1915 and
again in 1917. In 1919 q mill was built and
So 600 worth Of lead silver concentrate was
reported TO have been produced. Since then
the mine has been operated at times, its
most productive years being 1928 and 1924.
Except for small operations by lesses the
mine has been idle. Shelter returns for 1923
and 1924 show a little less than 1,120 tons
Of ore treated, for which the net returns
from ore and concentrate delivered ct Silver
station we're s50,808, or about S46 per ton.
Ihe freight from Silver station 10 East Hell
ena smelter and the treatment charges amoun-
ted TO $40 ton, the gross yield, therefore,
neine about $4,000. About three-fourths Of
TINS amount was the value Of the lead con-
tanned IN the product and the remainder silver.
Ene production before 1923 Is estimated to
nave neen at least $4,000 and the total gross
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
Dust Storm Hurts
Girl, Wrecks Car

Six pupils attending the annual
Sneak day" picnic near StevenSville
miraculously escaped death In traffic
cars ahead, Margaret Squires, driver,
failed to see sharp turn in the high
way. Her car plunged off the road,
down the bank Into an irrigation ditch
and rolled over three times.
Jean Hamm, the only car occupant
injured, suffered serious bruises. The
car was demolished.
The accident occurred as the party
was returning from the annual school
picnic at the old CCC camp ground
on upper Burnt Fork creek.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
REX BEACH

The Rex Beach mine is on the east slope
Of the Shoue creek, north Of the Consolation
group. The main development working Is 9
cross cut adit about 200 feet and several
hundred feet Of drifting along two veins.
The country rock is diorite, which in OF
close to the vein shows the alteration usually
noted in this district Of o gray gangue sort
Of porphrytic condition.
The veins range from a seam to over foot
In width and was widening as the work was
going on, this, the porphyry veins, as called
by the leasers working there. At the end Of
the drift heavy naturalization Of galena and
pyrite was coming in.
The Rex Beach vein is from TO feet
wide and Is a sort OF crushed sheared min
eralized zone, containing pyrite, galena, and
zinc There is a large amount Of carbonate
in the upper part Of the Slopes, and the rock
mass has been replaced by lime carbonate.
Ore shipped years ago showed gold, silver,
lead copper and zinc. Some ore shipped In
early days Of this mine averaged about $50
per ton. At the time Of the writer's visit
some leasers developing the mine had opened
some very GOOD ore shoots raising toward
the surface into the carbonate oxfdi2ed zone
and had shipped already some very high grade
ore in silver, gold and lead. The value Of this
ore shipped was around 500 Per ton. In
the drifts good shipping could be had, If
sorted, to eliminate zinc ore as much as
possible. However, some OF the ore developed
in some slopes and ore shoots shows very
little zinc, and needs no sorting to discard
1t, as 10 is not in sufficient quantity to
penalize the ore. The pyrite and the copper
sulphides carry a fair value in gold.
This property, like the Consolation, is q
very promising prospect. but needs capital to
develop It, as the leasers usually have not
such finance at their command
Up the stream Of the Shoue creek there
are several other promising prospects but de-
velopment is needed, road repairs and other
improvements which require capital. There
are also placers in the creek bed, which may
produce good returns. Across the Consolation
mine and the Rex Beach there are some good
1re exposures, outcropping in the northwest
side Of the creek, and warrant more develop
nent to prove their commercial value.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
Three Chick Battalions
Mop Up Grasshoppers

Even the chickens have Joined the
war against graSshoppers In eastern
Montana Oscar johnson, farmer and
poultry raiser at Sonnette, in Powder
River county, decided to let his flock
Of 1900 feathered allies try their luck
in clearing his field Of the insect pests.
johnson divided his flock into three
battalions Of 500 chickens each, placing
each battalion In q strategic position
where the 'hoppers appeared thickest
declaration Of war, and soon every
graSshopper in the vicinity had gone
to the happy hunting ground or left
for parts unknown.
Johnson's chickens have cleared one
40-acre field planted to wheat, and he
believes he has the insect enemy licked
to a fragile"
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CONTINUED from Page Three)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22

Regional gains ranging from to 70
percent In 1armers' cash receipts from
mRrkettngs Of principal farm products
during the first quarter Of this year
as compared with the corresponding
bureau Of agricultural economies. For
the month OF March alone, cash re-
ceipts from the principal farm products
we're higher Ia each Of the regions
than in March last year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
NFw LAKE COUNTY AGENT

After serving as associate extension
agent on the Milk river irrigation prof.
ect for the past two years, !. ID. Z0ben
has been named Lake county agent
announces J. G. Taylor. director Mon
tana Extension service. Zoben succeeds
the late j. c. Paisley. ZoDells place
on the Milk river project win be taken
by Glenn T. Baird of Ogden, Utah
He is a graduate OF the Utah State
college and Is experienced in irrigation
and dairy farm practices.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
ACREAGE BASES
ARE ANNOUNCED
PLANS FROM WHICH FARMERS DE
TERAEINE 1887 OPERATIONS
IN 81 COUNTIES

Acreage bases from which Mon
tana farmers determine their far
ming operations for 1887 under the
conservation program have been
announced for 81 counties by the
state committee with the approval
Of George E. Farrell, western region
director, according to A. J. B0rtOn,
executive secretary Of the state
committee.
Only four counties remain and COM
plete statistical information has been
received from three of these and 1t
Is expected that the remaining bases
viii be determined soon, Borton said
Counties whose bases have been APP
proved follow:
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22

Daddy John" Davidson Of Black
well, Okla, can lay claim TO the mara
thon whiting title. Employed now by
knife company, he has been carving
wooden figures for 81 years.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22
Use HATCHERY CAPACTTY

The fish hatcheries Of the state could pro-
duce 100000 fish from five to seven inches
long with which chambers Of commerce and
sportsmens clubs could stock streams If they
would provide funds to pay for the production,
J. W. Schofield. superintendent Of hatcherieg,
told Montanans Inc. the state chamber Of
commerce. It has been proposed that the civic
examinations participate in financing the
raising of the fish and also in the distri-
button to the end that the lakes and streams
Of the state be better stocked
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22

May Robson makes several dozen
ties every year for her friends. She
embroiders her name on each hand
made tie.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22


the Chart Music Publishing House Inc Of Chicago recent compilation
wildly rejecting
mey that pded the vast reaches Of grazing country vest Of the
noted
the cattle cOun laureate Many Of the in the present col
originally impaired
restored
ordinary
unmtakb body
melody cowboy
well be accounted western institution.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-22

Katydids keep such perfect time
when singing In unison, that the song
of q dozen may be mistaken for the
singing Of one insect.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
TREASURY HAS
 SMALL DEFICIT,
 BIGGEST DEBT
Fiscal Year Reveals U. 5. Is in Hole by $34,-
 400,000,000

WASHINGTON, July 1. The United States Treasury has rounded out the fiscal year with the smallest deficit in six years and the biggest debt in the history of the country.
 Showing the greatest income since 1921, the Treasury had on hand a billion dollars in the government coffers. With spending reduced from this year, the President showed in his Budget report that revenues tor his revised estimate by fifty oi sixty million dollars.
 Spending for ordinary govern ment purposes is said to exceed the forecast by seventy-five million dol lars. The public debt now stands about $34 100000 today, which i' the largest ever amasSed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
INTERNATIONAL ROAD BOOSTED
 IN PARK PLAN
Schwellenbach Adv an ces Yukon Proposal as Boon
 to World Peace

WASHINGTON July l. = Strong impetus to the proposed Interna- tional Highway to the Northern tip of Alaska came today when U. s. Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach proposed that Canada join the Unit ed States in the erection of an h. ternational Park from the south western tip of the Yukon Territory.
 If the establishment of the park is accomplished, there would be no doubt justification of our govern ment in offering to bear two-thirds of the expense in extending the Pacific Highway into Alaska" he wrote Dr. Ernest H Gruening. di- rector of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions.
 The international park idea was officially sponsored by Senator Schwellenbach and Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond 10 days ago af- ter the two officials had mulled the possibility over for some time. Senator Schwellenbach also wrote Dr. Gruening that 1t would con- stitute an outstanding contribution to the cause of world peace.' The proposed area of 10000 square miles, including all portions of the Yukon Territory now dividing Southeast Alaska from the remain der of the Territory would be set aside for the International Park, he said.
 In exchange for the establish ment of the park, Senator Schwel- lenbach said he believed the United States would be justified in creating free port at Skagway
 The International Park would be boon to Alaska aviation, providing an inside route" without their be- coming entangled in international law At present Alaskan aviators must skirt the rugged coast, haz- ardous trip during the winter, if they wish to avoid the red taps of entering Canadian territory.
 The park also would provide a playground for Americans and Can adians, sponsors declared President Roosevelt is reported very recep- tive" to the proposal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
Jackson Makes Queer
 Statement On Fishing;
 Coming North on Probe

SEATTLE, July 1.-Charles E. Jackson, Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries, one of the party of five sailing today on the Brant for the Northland to investigate the reports of Japanese invasion of the Ameri- can fisheries in the North Pacific, predicted that the worlds fishing banks will soon be dominated by nations with the fastest boats.
 "The Japanese invasion, if there is one, is serious, but no more than the invasion of any country It won't be long before all fishing banks will become international and the best hauls will fall, not to the nation whose waters are being fish led, but to the nations with the larg- est and fastest boats" declared Jackson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
TWO SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST, KIDNAP THREATS
Mob of Two ThousandHowl About City Hall. and
 Yell Hang Him.

INGLEWOOD, Cal, July 1. = A 33-year-old transient, Luther Dow, who is said to have been dishhonor- ably discharged from the Navy, is held on suspicion of murder in con nection with the Kidnapping and staying of three little girls.
 A crowd of 2,000 irate citizens pressed about the city hall last night as Dow was transferred, there from the Los Angeles police station.
 Shouts of hang him" went up as the manacled prisoner was led into the city hall, but no move was made to wrest him from the police.
 Handkerchief duplicates
 Dow was arrested in Los Angeles. Tn his pocket was found a woman's handkerchief which Mrs. Merle Ev- erett. mother of two of the girls outraged and slain, said resembled one of hers and which she believed her daughter had when abducted.
 Two women also identified him as the man they saw playing with the children, later found murdered. Park employees did not identify him however, as Eddie the Sailor
 The scion of a prominent Los Angeles family is also being held, but he is lying in drunken stupor in hospital, in no condition for questioning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
Federal Agents Booked in Death
 Of Elderly Man
Two Liquor Unit Men Are Charged with Second !,
 Degree Murder

SEATTLE, July 1.-Two agents of the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit today were accused of fatally slug ging an elderly merchant who was engaged in an act of charity.
 Prosecutor B. Gray Warner filed charges against E. T. Kelly and Leonard Began after a coroner's jury found Fritz Muller, 61-year- old meat dealer, had died Friday as a result of unnecessary violence in the course of an investigation for an alleged violation of the law.
 At the inquest witnesses said the agents struck Mueller with a black jack as he was delivering a weekly gift package of meat to an Invalid. They said Mueller fell down a hank and the agents stepped on his head and feet. The agents were investi- gating an anonymous letter Which said bootlegger was delivering moonshine to the apartment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
SIT U A I ION IS REPORTED AS VERY STRAINED
Tokyo Demands that Soviet withdraw All Forces
 from Disputed Area
MOSCOW REPLIES BY
 SENDING CUNBOATS
Nippon Cabinet Says Ready for Any Emergency-De-
 fends Manchuokuo Right

TOKYO, July 1.-Japanese re- ports here tonight said five more Soviet gunboats had appeared to- day at Sennufu Island in the Amur River.
 These advices, together with con- tinued Soviet occupation of the is land and also what the Japanese said was Moscow's failure to reply to Tokyo's prote against "in- vasion,p heightened critical appre- hension here.
 Cabinet in Session
 The Japanese Cabinet has decided at an emergency session that the Russo-Japanese crisis can be set tied peaceably if the Soviet will immediately withdraw all armed forces from the territory where the scene of disturbance occurred. The Japanese claim that the trouble has inspired the State of Manchukuo to combine its armies with Japan Manchoukuo forces
 The Cabinet said it was prepared for any eventuality if Russia as sumed a warlike attitude.
 Both armies are reported mobil- izing along the Amur River between Manchoukuo and Siberia where the Japanese army reported it's artillery had sunk a Russian warship, dis abled another and forced third to fleet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
AVERAGE
 FALLS BACK TO
 JANUARY LEVEL
Concise Review Is Given for First Six Months
 of Present Year

NEW YORK. July 1.-Impelled in part by heavy European specu- lation, commodity prices surged up- ward in the first quarter of 1887 and fell back in the second, finish ing the half-year at approximately opening levels.
 The general situation at the start of the year was one of light con- sumer inventories, unusually low world supplies and restricted pro- duction of many staples, running head on into rising industrial and consumer demand.
 Higher quotations stemming from this bullish signal were prodded into runaway advances in several products by Britain's announce ment of her rearnament program.
 Metals Climb
 This attracted spectators, nota- bly in London and especially in met als. Copper scared to IT cents a pound from the IFS quoted on De- cember 31, 1886. Lead boomed to "A cents, 32 per cent jump from the years opening price; tin swept from 51A to 67A cents pound.
 The Associated Press weighted index of 35 important wholesale commodities climbed from 1922 per cent of 1886 levels at the first of the year to 98.l4 cents on April 5. This was an advance of 10 per cent and carried the index to the highest point reached since late 1929.
 The non-ferrous metal group chalked up the widest gain. 35 per cent at the peak. Other industrial with steel scrap and bil- lets setting the pace, pushed IS per cent ahead.
 Increases in agricultural prices during the first three months aver aged 10 per cent. Textiles managed by a slim margin to string along with the majority. while food prices declined 8 per cent.
 Roosevelt Warning HaIts Rise
 The speculative frenzy spread from metals to many other industrial, raw and finished goods as companies and individuals bought heavily against future needs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
Pilot L.F. Barr Married ;Coup|e
 Due Here Shortly
Miss Mary Katherine Sands of Atlin Is Bride of
 Juneau Aviator

Married at a 10 o'clock ceremony yesterday morning, with scores of friends from Atlin and vicinity as- sembling for the large reception be- fore noon, Pilot and Mrs. L. F. Barr (Mary Katherine Sands) are due to arrive in Juneau aboard the AL aska Air Transport Stinson late to- day or tomorrow.
 Pilot Sheldon Simmons left for Atlin last night to congratulate the couple, and returned here at ' am. today.
 Mrs. Barr, who visited here last spring with Mrs T. J. Jacobsen and Mrs. Lyman Hodges, was raised in Atlin and met Pilot Barr there when he was in charge of the North Cana dian Air Express.
 The two will make their home in Juneau where MT. Barr is now as- sociated with Alaska Air Transport.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
ROSS SMELLY
 IS RESIC MING
 AT MATANUSKA
Turns Administration of Colony Over to Leo B.
 Jacobs for Present

PALMER, Alaska, July 1.-Ross Sheely is resigning as General Man. ager of the Matanuska Colony end is turning over the administrs ltion of the colony to Leo B. Jacobs, As sistant General Manager.
 Sheely VII take vacation of one month before his resignation is eff fective, on August l.
 Jacobs will be in charge until a new manager is appointed.
 Mining interests and operation of a recently purchased ranch will require the full time of Sheely.
 Sheely was loaned by the Uni versity of Alaska in March, 1855, to do initial colony surveying, later in charge of construction work and he became General Manager in No vember.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-01
LETTER WRITER IS ARRESTED IN
 NEW ENGLAND,
 SEVERE CHARGE
Former Deputy U. s. Mar shal at Seattle Taken in Custody-Cas Has Ex-
 tended Is Months

BOSTON, Mass, July I. - Federal officers have arrest ed Morton Wainwright, 72, of Withr0p, Massachusetts, and charged him with writing let ters threatening the death of President Franklin D. ROose- welt.
 The letters have been re- ceived at the White House during a sixteen month period and have constantly been growing in severity.
 At first little attention was paid to the letters but lately they took on such an aspect that the authorities took steps to make an arrest.
 Both Postal authorities, Se- cret Service and other off cers took up the case and the arrest is announced today.
 The President has treated the letters with no concern but not so the officers.
 Wainwright was formerly a Deputy United States Mar shal at Seattle.