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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01

THAT the navy has been per-
feeung, since 1891. light
weight. diesel engines" fer sub
marines. which can be purchased
for about "one half the cost per
horsepower Of previous designs"
0-The newest .5oo-ton and ]. $50
= ton destroyers are reliable and
efficient A few minor troubles
developed. and are being corrected.
This apparently was = reference
to congressional demands fer an
investigation into reports that some
Of the new 1.500-ton destroyers
are top-heavy and unstable.
3-That the rapidly expanding u.
- S. fleet possesses a shortage
Of repair facilities afiost. which
may become acute shortly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01

TIE ntest -
based "a II
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crosses IN -
today and N
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knnwn tsoahle-
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01

bis d Pc right
out 81 the feed
box. too.
Mention Vic
toris, an q
everybody I'M
mediately re-
calls = quiet.
unhurried COM
muni,y Of Ss-
600 people rid
Ing bicycles.
Across the
harbor il Esqul-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01

vsasels have been stopping for
eign ships for Identification for
soms tims. hut the story brought
home by Charlie Mann sounds
very, very huslnsssiiks,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01
announcement

This the largest Federal Mutual institution for Savings In
the Pacific Northwest at this time that IT has
earned and December 81, 1889. will credit TO ell
insured savings accounts its books dividend
the basis of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01

Charlie Mann Is local journalist Of maritime affairs
This week he returned from unket 10 Victoria loaded ID
the marks with hitherto unpublished facts and fables per
tanning to grim and war-lke activity In that port
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01
Mays Engineering Bureau
Answers Critics in Congress

WASHlNGTON-Actng Secretary of the Navy Charles
Gdson received departmental report prasing bold
engineering experiments in the face of conservatism irep
daton and little opposition contributing heavily to
the effectiveness of the navy's newest warships
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-01

EFE IT. " N"IVI HHtN wv
there for q second honeymoon
but that didn't prevent his gath
ering = good yarn or two. Got al
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

Annual taxes OF more than 81 lO00,-
600 600 are paid on the motor va1icaa
property In tbs United States.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
Oldest Civil War
Vet in Montana
Lives At Conrad

POndera county claims the dis
tinctiOn OF having the oldest living
Civil war veteran In Montana and
one Of the oldest In the United
States.
Joseph A. vaught was born Aug.
%, 1871. He enlisted Feb. I0, 1862,
In company b, Fourth Missouri.
During two battles two horses we're
shot from under him. A bullet went
through his OvercOat under his
right arm
Vaught served years, / month
and 13 days and captured single
handed one Of the most desperate
Of bushwhackerS. He served under
General Brown and Gen. b. Gratx
Plesent0n during = l7-day raid ut
Springfield, Mo.
Vaught Is In good health, al
though hearing and sight are some
what impaired. He Is proud of the
fact that he cast his first vote for
Abraham Lincoln for president and
that he has never missed voting
for q republican for president
since.
He came 10 Montana I'm 1910 and
hOmesteaded In GenOu district. He
moved to Conrad In 1922.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

river and other ranges were not until
recently available.
Settlers Invade North
Already the Milk river section is
going like the rest, 1t is being rapidly
settled up by ranchers, and with the
improved system of irrigation, settle
ment viii be made more rapidly. Then,
too, nearly all the large drives from
other states are dumped on the Milk
river and Bear Paw ranges, until al
ready come from cattlemen the COM
plant that these sections are over
crowded, and that the drives should
cease.
'It seems inevitable that the time
must come eventually In Montana
when the cattle business must be car
ried on as 1t is now In the smaller
eastern states Of Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri, where farm-raised cattle are
furnished, and each Of which states
have today more beef cattle than
Montana"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
BUTTE PARK PROJECT
GIVEN FINAL APPROVAL

Final approval has been granted the
Butte citywide park and recreational
facilities project, to cost $187,750, and
which will be used to improve present
Fairgrounds and create new athletic
areas, a telegram from Senator B. K
Wheeler stated.
The project will employ 800 wPA
workers for several months. Federal
authorities will appropriate $157,613
and the sponsor, the city Of Butte,
will add $30,132.
Included in the work Is construction
Of $50 square yards of oiled tennis
court surface; planting Of 5000 trees
and shrubs and 10000 square yards Of
lawn and erection of eight water
fountains.
In addition, several handban and
volleyball courts will be constructed,
installed and baseball and
tennis courts improved. It calls also
for grading and improvement of fair
ways of the municipal golf links, as a
part of the addition Of $4,000 feet Of
leVeling.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

ranch locations were being fast located
by people seeking new homes. The
outlook was that small cattlemen and
farmers would eventually have COM
plete possession Of what little open
range remained.
"It seems only a question of q few
years when Montana must fall In line
with the more eastern states" said the
Journal again. "Of all the northwest
ern states Montana is the greatest In
the production Of range cattle, and In
the number of big companies ranging
herds. During the early eighties all
eastern Montana was q paradise for
the cattlemen; but the increase in
population from $4,000 inhabitants in
1880, to 10000 In 1890, has encroached
upon the COW counties, and driven
many owners to seek new ranges.
During the decade Meagher county
doubled in population, and as a con-
sequence, the pretty valley Of the
Musselshell, ten years ago one Of the
best Of ranges, had been almost en-
tirely cleared of cattle to make room
for the settler. And while there were
last year more cattle In Montana than
in any previous year, it can be attrtb-
uted to the fact that until Of late
Montana land was not SO rapidly
taken up as at present, while cattle
multiplied; also, that the great MIX
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
HEAVY WATER CONTENT
IS REPORTED IN SNOW

Unusually heavy water content in
snow on the Marias river watershed
near Summit is reported by the snow
survey crews of the United States geo.
logical survey, A. H. Williams, associate
engineer, with headquarters In Helena,
said. An average Of readings from four
sites on Ten Mile creek near Helena
also indicate greater water content
than last year, Williams said.
The Madison river surveys showed
slightly larger water content than In
1888.
On Feb. l, 1899, 55.4 inches Of snow
on the Marias watershed measured
course yielded IT'S inches of moisture.
Last year at the same date 404 inches
Of snow yielded 1874 inches Of moisture.
Feb. 1, 1899, averages for the four
Ten Mile courses showed 5-92 inches Of
moisture In $500 inches Of snow, COM
pared with 4.45 inches Of moisture In
22.62 inches of snow last year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
Fire Fighting Park Rangers
SuUe Truck Loaded With Elk

ing from beneath the truck, climbing
in heavy snow some two miles from
Mammoth, with five elk already loaded.
Snappy action saved the day. With
a ranger stationed at the truck S
loading gate to release the trapped ami
mails before they could be endangered,
Jay sped on to Mammoth. DiSregarding
warnings against possible explosion,
Henningsen and Whisrnan shoveled
snow like madmen and were barely
able to check but couldn't extinguish
the flames. Within Is minutes the
mountains echoed and re-echoed the
screams Of sirens. Jay raced with a
large hand extinguisher and barely
had 1t in action when the parks bright
new fire truck whirled in behind him
with trained rangers showing speed
and effectiveness that would have done
credit to any metropolitan group of
fire laddies. The truck and the elk
were saved. A few hours later 80 ami
mails were on their way to Foster creek
and belly-deep snow near Georgetown
lake.
Anaconda sportsmen helped in the
unloading and were informed so elk
they had ordered would be ready for
transplanting In the same district
shortly.
Rangers and Henningsen made q
study of the possible cause Of the fire
in the park and were convinced that
1t was having tank too full Of cold
gas near an engine that quickly
reached maximum heat. They didn't
attempt to make an official expression
but did wonder If similar condition
might not have caused airplane ex-
blossoms in midair.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

in the fact that the cattlemen of
Wyoming objected to the trailing Of
sheep across that state.
It was the era also In the cattle in
dustry in the northwest when a con-
stantly increasing population may
have had something to do with the
state Of nervousness" on the part Of
cattlemen everywhere. Cattlemen Of
the Dakotas were reported about this
period to be following the example Of
the former cattle kings of Kansas and
Nebraska In closing out their big
herds. There were really no large out
fits for the reason that the flow of
emigration westward was taking UP all
the water, broken the range and made
1t impossible to maintain large herds.
Big Outfit Quits In 1893
In the late spring Of 1893 1t was re-
ported that the last of the big outfits
in the Black Hills region, the Key
stone Land and Cattle company, dis
posed Of their herd Of 5000 head Of
range stock, the cattle passing into
the hands of another company which
was then furnishing the beef for the
Pine Ridge Indian agency.
South Dakota formerly had been
a splendid range country for the car
rying on Of the cattle industry, but
The influx of settlers was so great and
so rapid that the business could not
be carried on large scale. Desirable
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
Death Ends Career
of Only Charcoal
Expert in Montana

Death came to Oscar Carlson,
70, In . Butte hospital, ending one
Of the most unusual careers In
Montana history.
Since 1902. when he was conn
missi0ned by the Anaconda Copper
Mining Co. TO furnish charcoal for
the refining plant I'm Great Falls,
Carlson followed his old trade. Be
cause his father had produced
charcoal I'm Sweden for steel re-
finertes, he set up evens near Ber-
nice and soon was producing more
than 600 tons annually for the
Great Falls and Butte interests Of
the A. C. Nj. Co. The charcoal
burning plant was the only one Of
its kind In Montana. There are
but two or three I'm the northwest.
He Is survived by three sons and
daughters-in-law, MIR. and Mrs.
Frank Carlson Of Butte, MIR. and
MRS. Albert Carlson Of Basin, MIR.
and Mrs. Charles Carlson Of Basin
and a daughter, Miss Jennie Carl
son, also of Basin, q teacher In
the Basin schools. His SON, Charles,
is q county commissioner in JEFF
fersOn county.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

The following editorial, titled
"Old West" in a rectn issue of
the magazine Business Week, lauds
the late Charlie Russell, famed
Montana cowboy artist, for Sim
mortalizing" the glories of the
west:
1t was Charlie Russell, the unlettered
but inspired cowboy painter of the old
west, who once complained that our
country never had recognized its debt
TO the bumped backed beef" as he
called the buffalo.
1.-The Rocky mountains would have
been hard to reach with out him."
wrote Charlie. "He fed the explorer.
The great fur trade wagon trains felt
safe when they reached his range He
fed the men that layed the first ties
across this great west. There is no day
set aside where he is an emblem. The
nickle weareS his picture. Dam small
money for so much meat. He was one
of natures biggest gifts and this coUn-
try owes him thanks"
And now, Charlie, they've even taken
his picture from that dam small
money and put Thomas Jefferson in
his place. Had you heard that over
there on the boundless range beyond
the river? OF course, those fellows In
the government mint may have figured
that although the "humped-b backed
beef" helped to conquer the west it
was Jefferson who acquired it in the
first place.
But next time I'm In Great Falls,
Charlie, I'm going to stop in at that
other Mint" have a drink to your
and hold pow-wow with your
shade. For I'm sure you must have
left him there for Just such emergen-
cies. Wen talk about those hundreds
Of American businesses and thousands
Of business men, from the dude ranch
es and the motion picture lots of the !
west to the publishers and the "cow- !
boy suit" factories OF the east, who |
owe so much to the amazing glamour /
that you, Charlie. and others like you |
have spun around the brief but color
full interlude Of the old west. wonder
Il they know it.
And whoever may have acquired the |
west, and whoever may have conquered |
It, no one can question your part in |
its glories. SO you have |
J right to say your say about this busi-
ness Of running off It's measly scent
the image Of its noblest
denizen. And I'd give lot, Charlie,
70 hear you say It'll
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
MAGAZINE LAUDS
RUSSELL'S WORK
BUSINESS WEEK SAYS COWBOY
ARTIST IMMORTALIZED
OLD WEST

Editorial Based Upon Complaint That
Country Had Never Recognized Debt
to Buffalo without Which Settle
ment Would Have Dragged.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

Fast work by Yellowstone park
rangers with their new fire fight
ing equipment is credited with
saving huge truck hauling elk
for Butte sportsmen. Fred Hen
ningsen is owner of the truck that
caught on fire enroute during the
afternoon, but which late that
night was, happily, able to have it
and a companion truck move
through the main streets of Butte,
loaded with elk that within a few
hours were released near Georgetown
lake.
Henningsen, himself a widely known
sportsman, has his trucks on their
third trip for Butte wildlife lovers,
transplanting elk from the park to ad-
joining counties to stock once famous
game ranges. Thirty-six animals had
been moved into the Elkhorn district
between Cardwell and Boulder and as
many into the Tobacco Root noun
tains south of Whitehall, being dis
tributed into areas as agreed on at
between stockmen, sports
men and representatives Of the United
States forestry, interior and parks de-
partmentS.
They went for another load Of 80
elk, consignment paid for by Butte
sportsmen. It was below zero when gas
tanks were filled at Gardiner and the
trek started into the park. Harvey
Whisman was driving a front truck,
Henningsen following with Ranger
Johnny Jay, who noticed flames shoot
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
Score of Blackfeet Indians
In Shirley Temple Picture

Falls arrived recently at Brown
of Shirley Temples
ture@ Of MOunties"
be they VIII
that they win not be asked
to appear anything dignity Of their tribe race or
posted $4,000 bond with the
bureau OF Indian affairs
They win distinct facial characteristics and
ceremonial which they win teach 20 shirley
chief Maurice moskv
native of
Martin GoodrideE Montana
interest child
youngster adopted by
Canadian mounted police
Canadian Pacific railroad
In acting technical
adviser Covered Wagon" He started
finally
his JOB he has priste cslecon Of Charles kussen
Willis
Aocompany4ng Seth
CenkuyFox
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

Sun river for the Yellowstone,
said q writer in an article appear
ing in October, 1888, in the Cal
gary Herald.
This was the last herd Of any con-
sequence in what was only four. years
ago the banner grazing district OF
Montana It is now completely barren,
having been eaten out
''Reports to the same effect come
from all parts of the United States
ranching territories. Hundreds OF
square miles Of what was once superb
grazing country Is nothing but a bar
rem waste. Overcrowding did 1t, and
their greed have devastated q large
part Of their own country, they are
said to be casting longing eyes upon
Alberta's broad acres. If the barriers
were thrown down the country would
be overrm by Yankee cattle in three
months: and before three years our
unequalled grazing ground would be
'rWhat would the American cattle
kings care so long as they had turned
three years growth OF Alberta grass
into gold Better a thousand-fold TO
have our grazing grounds only half
up tlAdA4 " nav NANSA@@ w.
crowded and eaten out.
Defends Montana Ranges
The Stockgrowers' Journal, pub
ushed at Miles City, took up the
cudgel for the Montana livestock in
terests.
speaking In behalf Of Montana"
said the journal, I'VE venture the
opinion that our Arctic Canadian con-
temporary Is q trifle hasty in his con-
illusions, not to say considerably out
Of humor. We are by no means aware
Of our ranges being eaten out, ana
this seems q veritable instance Of the
old saw, go away from home to hear
the news"
Attention was directed to the fact
that in Montana and Wyoming that
season the range grasses had never
before been excelled or equalled. That
was true, the Journal stated, Of the
whole vast region extending to the
Gulf of Mexico, except In few dis
tricts where the drought "eat out" the
grass.
again" continued the Journal, "a
very large part, or percentage Of the |
Yankees down this way who are in |
the cattle business, and whom the |
Herald seems to love so well are good /
British subjects themselves, and we /
sblarsted Yankees treat them well, too, /
and permit them to help us eat out +
our ranges, without kick, don't chu
moi"
For further evidence Of the luxuri- /
GUS forage growth, 1t was remarked by /
the Journal again In late December, I
1888, that ranchers and their wives
could make some extra money from
~the amount of hay, corn and other
stock feed which Is cribbed and
stacked upon so many ranches in
Custer county this winter" which will
not be needed In great quantities to
carry stock through the cold season.
III the ranch folks would milk a
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
NEW OIL TOPPING PLANT
BUILT IN PONDERA FIELD

structed on the Warren OH Co. hold
ings In the Pondera field. G. r. Den
nison Is in charge OF the plant and
capacity is 200 barrels day. The crude
viii be refined and the products sold
at the refinery. Deliveries win not be
made and therefore the company will
be able to sell It's products 10 the farm
ers and consumers at the plant at a
lower price.
Production In the Pondera oil field
has been almost at Etandstill during
the last year due to nonmarket, the
producers and they are using the crude
from their leases In the Conrad re-
finery and In Great Fails.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
Canadians Reported Ranges of Montana Were Eaten Out
During the Late Eighties When Kohrs Big Herd Was Moved
By @MoN TANA LOU" GRILL

w YHETHER feeling of envy matter of the exercise
wv of Simple cussednes the records of Montana ranges reveal
two situations which suggest the other In the
eighties the gained currency the Calgary region of the North
west Territory Monana ranges had OUT
several years period Wyoming had
for cattle Montana drive their herds that
fertor "Conrad herd of $4,000 head left
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-30
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Evening star., 1939-09-23

loan was frequently discounted 20
per cent or 40 per cent. This makes
minimum total of $51 each month
for mortgage payments alone.
THE property tax was somewhat
lower than at present, but probably
amounted to about So a month. Fire
and hazard insurance was about the
same as at present-$2.34 a month.
On this $4,000 house in 1929 the
monthly carrying charge, therefore,
may be estimated at $61.34. This
does not, however, include any al
lowance for the numerous fees and
fines which were then charged the
borrowers.
I'm the case Of a first mortgage
on a Straight or unamortized basis,
the $500 mortgage money needed
might be financed through q 60 per
cent straight mortgage loan Of 81 400
and second mortgage loan of
81 200. Excluding renewal fees, the
carrying charge on the first mort.
gage loan at 6 per cent interest
would be $12 per month. On a Sec
ond mortgage loan amortized in
about three years, the minimum
monthly payment would be $36 per
month. This would make a total
monthly mortgage payment Of about
$48. Taxes and insurance would
bring the total monthly outlay to
$58.34, without including anything
for repayment of the principal in
the case of the $2,400 first mortgage.
I'm short, the progress made dur
Evening star., 1939-09-23

heating, water rent, gas, light and
other household expenses.
If we accept the usual rule that
a family can afford to pay 20 per
cent of its income for shelter, we
find that $32 per month is 20 per
cent of an annual income of 1920.
Therefore, the type of house which
we have been discussing can at
present be safely purchased only by
the upper third of the population
in which family incomes of $500
or more are found.
I'm 1929 a family might have been
able to make a cash payment of
$40O. But it would not have been
possible, as it is today, to obtain q
$500 loan on a first mortgage; q
second mortgage would have been
necessary. For the first mortgage
loan the typical family might have
gone either to building and loan
association for an amortized loan or
to some other financial institution
for straight loan.
Interest Rate Unusually High.
with a building and loan asso-
citation. we find that a typical loan
in such a case as this would have
been for $4,000, with a monthly pay
ment of $35 to cover interest and
principal payments. The borrower
also would be required to assume
second mortgage of $500. If the
borrower were fortunate, his second
mortgage would be written at 6 per
cent for a term of five years and his
monthly payments would be about
$l6. Usually, however, the interest
rate was much higher, from 8 per
cent to Is per cent a year, and the