The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-07-30

1t seems that someone or some
thing keeps packing their ranks.
While most of us soldier" all
we can under the domination OF
Big Sill or Shorty Sam, a real,
dyed-in-the-wool scientist works
for love, his dollar a day being
merely incidental. Some of them
now nave a machine with which
they intend to put the sun to
work. I'm guessing that if Shake
speare were here these midsummer
days he would paraphrase him
self into saying: Loves labor
should be locked for being late
on the job"
They came to Bannack in 1862
"a lot of big, bewhiskered, adj
venturuouS men whose coat of
arms was a pick and shovel cross
ed over the back of a pack-mule.
They we're looking for the gold
that lay in them thar hills"
and at Bannack they found it.
In 1868 word came across the
valley of the Beaverheal that in
Alder gulch the gravel was trade
marked with that golden CLINT
which always has and always will
be, potent to stir the ingredients
of human nature as thoroughly
as a housewife stirs her pan Of
batter. Much of Bannack moved
to Alder gulch, pick. shovel, pack
mule. ebullition, and all. They
tossed and tumbled the soil and
gravel. washed them in the waters
that came sparkling down from
sylvan sources in the Tobacco
Root mountains, and took f-om
their clean-ups enough of the
mystery metal to make t"e|r st.
teen miles of creek bcttorc v''tn
a width of o~reoua"ter mile '"o'-
like a twin Of King Solomon $
mine.
They set a high mark in the
| history of placer mining, for ev-
, cry foot of that sixteen miles
was pay dirt from the grass
roots to bedrock. Look where
you will. and find, if you can,
placer area that will equal that
g record. They acted out pages
= AID chapters of Montana history.
7 They ~bequeathed a background
t Of virility and romance as the
l heritage of those who came after
t them-a heritage that will endure
5 until man shall cease to CLEAN
: the fields of the past for the
/ sporadic sheaves that mark the
beginning of those things he sees
about him. Adjoining the found
l alton they laid in the wilderness
there is today a superstructure of
modernity-restless. bustling, biat-
:: ant modernity crying its ego 10
l high heaven, and yet as beauti-
! full as the mystic beauty of the
! hills and streams and mountains
1 amid which God has set the life
of man as a perpetual diadem.
} And those bearded miners alone,
had non others followed in their
industrial steps, would have JUS
: titled u present designation of
Montana as THE Treasure State"
! But with the crude methods at
!. their command they were unable
to reap the full of the golden har-
:, :, vest. 1t is only a couple of years
since the Humphrey Gold Cor
poration installed modern dredg-
:, ing machinery with which the
same ground has been worked
! over again with startlingly sue
:. cessful results. Lode mining, too.
has become increasingly success
full within the invirons scanned
by those bearded boys of old.
To the writer of this article
it seems meet that the Mining
+ Association of Montana should
!: choose this year. Aug. 6 and Z;
to take its meeting to the scene
:. Of almost the original discovery
OF gold in Montana, to the site
that seems anathema to the
Wra!ths of ghost camps. And
finally the writer is getting to what
|, he wanted to tell you about, and
!, the following is not applesauce:
The business men of Virginia
City have given all sorts of ra-
zors a vacation and will welcome
{ the association members with as
large and as unkempt boards as
r can be produced in a short grow
ing season: Even the barber has
gone re~actionary and is stand
ing IN with the play. He is 90
ING TO help the boys withstand
the itching and ingrowing toe
nails OF their whiskers, and I
suspect he might have sent to
John P. Fischbach. Hardin,s mer-
cnant tailor. for some of that
mothlcide to prevent Virginia
Guys modern counterparts from
carrying Goals to Newcastle"
Turkeys in Montana" is the
title OF a revised bulletin Just
Issued by the Montana extension
service at Montana State College.
BoZeman. Written by Miss H. E
Cushman. extension poultry spe-
clallSt, and DR.. Howard WEIGH