Hungry Horse news., 1955-10-14
F|athead Becomes Hunters Frontier

These are the days that the Flat
head best shows as a frontier with
men preparing for the start of the
regular hunting season, Saturday.
The whole mountain country is in
the bloom of autumn with Colds Of
cottonwood and larch interspersed
in the spots and dashes through ever
green forests.
There is the desired new white on
nearby mountain tops and the healthy
feel of frosty mornings.
MORE COLOR
Men and boys are about in red
jackets and hats, and there is the
flow of trucks and trailers with hors-
es bound for the back country -
principally the South and Middle
Forks of the Flathead.
Some autumns have seen forest
tWlgs cracking dry, but not the fall
OF 1855. Coram ranger station re-
ported 2.67 inches of rain so far this
month, and at Spotted Bear, PA in
cheS.
Cow and bull elk harvest in the
Flathead averages 1000 head a
year. Peak year was 1916 with 1885
head; poorest year, 1850 with $50.
Last year was average, and 1853 had
1,24O killed
Other detectives are buck deer
until Nov. L; then both sexes, and
black and grizzly bear. There is
also final Oct. Is to 10 open sea-
son on Rocky Mountain goat in the
r0adless section of the upper South
Fork.
In Lincoln county the deer season
opening Oct Is includes does.
! AT CHECKING STATIONS
Game wardens Jay Penney and
Richard Motichka have returned to
the east side road checking station
for the South Fork. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Hatton, serving as checking
WardenS, are in trailer on the
west side road just above Hungry
Horse Dam.
From Wednesday noon until Thurs
day noon, Penney and Motichka
checked through 60 hunters going up
the drainage to set up camp for the
seasons opening Oct Is.
The west side road along Hungry
Horse lake is reported muddy but
passable for trucks. Continued dry
weather will improve the road, but
use of logging side roads is not adj
vised. They are muddy.
MILL HOLIDAY
In Columbia Falls, Martin City
and Coram, lumber mills and woods
crews are observing the annual
. hunting season holiday.
! Superior Buildings Co. sawmill
! will be down Friday and Saturday;
j the planer will operate. Plum Greek
! will be down Saturday; Rocky Noun.
! tain will be down Saturday and pos
sibly Monday, and Stcltze it to be
down Saturday.
AT Anaconda aluminium Co. where
operations continue 365 days year
production men on night shift thi
week get a break. They'll be of
! four days from Friday morning un
r til Tuesday at am. The day shit
= gets a two-day weekend, and tn
: swing shift, three days off. Pro
~ duction workers average a 42-hou
az week at the plant picking up tn
ny ny extra day on the day shift.
~ =. Principal Carl Launer at Columbi;
~ ~ Falls high school is permitting tw,
I'd days absenteeism by students goin
hunting, if they make up work be
mt forehand, have parents permission
u, and a hunting license.
I'M Results of the early hunting sea
son that started September Is an
rst was extended Oct. / in the roadles
ed areas of the Flathead's South an
10 Middle Fork is as follows.
in Big Prairie district showed "a
alf hunters bringing out surprisingl
ro- good ratio of 159 elk, S grizzlies,
ow black bear and 9 deer. The Spotte
ov- Bear count was 80 elk, 2 black beal
he 8 deer, 2 moose and 8 goats.
ity Report on the duck hunting SCI
son that opened Oct. from Ros
The Wilson, supervising game warde
m for northwestern Montana, Wa
M good"