{ title: 'The Powder River County Examiner and the Broadus Independent (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, March 09, 1923, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about Chronicling America - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84036256/1923-03-09/ed-1/seq-1.png', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84036256/1923-03-09/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84036256/1923-03-09/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84036256/1923-03-09/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
About The Powder River County Examiner and the Broadus Independent (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935 | View This Issue
The Powder River County Examiner and the Broadus Independent (Broadus, Mont.), 09 March 1923, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn84036256/1923-03-09/ed-1/seq-1/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
/ - Volume V Numbef 21 Site tutta Tic. ecm Broadus, Montaiid, A owder Sb eee em eee TEMS OF INTEREST as / STATE LEGISLATURE Among the senate bijs sigued by President. Story just before the legis lature adjourned were the following: Senate bill 90, by Greening, fixing the linait of stop-payment orders on checks a@4 Grafts; senate bill 147, providing Pemalies for the possession and sale of mercctics; senate bill 122, by Reads, te establish bird preserve in Teten county; senate bill 166, by G@esening, relating to chattel mort- «ages; senate bil! 92. by Greening, re- qairing benk checks te be presented fer payment within a year; senate bill 98, by Dowlin, providing for pubiica- tien of state examiner's report on eeunty officers by county commission- ers; senate Dill 195, by Church, provid- ing for the appointment of park com- missioners. Bringing to life of house bill. No. 3356 by Smethurst of Musselshell coun- ty, which increases payments and adds to occupattonal diseases under which clabos are filed under the state work- men's compensation act, pa the way in the house for what promises to be a hot battle. The bill died on the . house board on the fiftieth day of the Seaxion, rules of the body provkiing that. bills other than appropriations “Measures shai! not be transferred from heuse to honse after the fiftieth day. ‘ Pra a a Four bills were signed by Governor Dixon” Saturdsy.—~-They--were~to~pro- hibit traffic in “mescal buttons” or peilote; to govern provisions for sale or removal of mortgaged property; to appropriate $25,000 for the industria! accident Insurance board and to pro- vide for county appropriations to kill rodents Lamed-8t. committee on revenue and taxation “with an adverse report signed by seven of the nine committeemen and a fa- verabie report from the minority of twe members. The following senate bills were among those which were concurred in on third reading in the house this week: No. 157, by Walker, relating to lense, sales and mortgages of railway equipment ; No. 62, by Haley, releasing/ cities from lability for damages sought by persons tajured hy falls in streets amd alleys; No, 52, by Greening relat- Ing to increase of livestock covered by chattel mortgage. Two state departments, the oil and gas inepection department and the bureau for the registration of motor vehicles, both ander the direction of Secretary of State (, T. Stewart, were warmly endorsed by the house commit- tee, composed af Hanson, Cronk and Brandjord, appointed to investigate executive departments of the state, in a report submitted to the house re- cently. J Twenty-six bille and one senate reso- lution were signed by Speaker Crum- baker of the house on Monday morn- Ing. Among the measures signed was senate bill No. 4 by Duncan. which provides for the abolition of the office of state parole commissioner. This measure has already been signed by the president of the senate and has ndw gone to the governor for approval. The inheritance tax measure, one of those recommended by Gov. Dixon in his message to the legislature on its opening day, was given passage by the senate with 52 amendments, and will go back to the house for concurrence in the amendments. The house bill by Representative Fd- wan Scharnikow of Powell county to amend the laws relating to protests against improvements by areas em- braced In special improvement dis- tricts, was given final passage by the senate. Senator Siegfriedt’s bill to prohibit aliens owning or leasing land in Mon- tana known as the anti-Japanese meas- ure, was recommended for concurrence by the house committee of the whole without a dissenting vote. A meastre to add to the state's tax ~income by inereasing the ratio of tax- able value to assessed value of all lasses of property, introduced in the house the first of the week, was killed. The house appropriations committee has reported favorably on a bili to appropriate $12,000 for a World war ‘“eteran'’s monument to be placed in the rotunda of the capitol. - A bill carrying appropriations ag- gregating $2,565,482 for Montana’s edu- cational institutions in the next two years wea iutroduced in the house Wednesday. - & senate bill providing for-a budget system ia cities and’ counties was recommegded for concurrence in the house after brief debate. . thto Betle Fourche. He has been in South jeounty where -he was taken into cus- eae Rivé and The Bro tia ora County dusindependent - ° ys b LD AS Montana is paying no more bounty on coy¢etes, wolves or other predatory animals, killed in the future, accord- ing to word received by Sheriff Hi Farnum, advising him not’ to accept any more pelts, the state having abandoned the system which has been in use for a number of years, and which encouraged farmers, ranchers and hunters to help rid the. country cf predatory wild animals that each year destroyed a great amount of livestock, says the Miles City Daily Star. The reason the state has made the change, it is said, Is that the employ- ment of professional trappers and hunters in other states has proved mest successful, and 1t is believed the state of Montana would likewise be benefited by employing men who would give their entire time tq the work, Since other states and Canada have abandoned the bounty plan, it is claimed that pelts of wild animals have been brought into th’s state and the beunty collected from Montana coun- ties, Each month for several years large numbers of coyote pelts, and some of wolves have been brought in here from the surrounding country, but the wolves and coyctes have been gTow- ing fewer each year until now there are not the large numbers of such beasts to be found as once roamed this region. JUSTICE COURT WEEKLY GRIST Simon Oliver was arraigned in jus- tice” Court” Monday” Wiofning Dereret Charles B. Lewis and yleaded gutity to a charge of escaping from the ecun- ty jail. He received a fine of $260 and 90 days t\ jail, and is. now serving time in the custody of Sheriff Warren Oliver was arrested over two years ago, charged with larceny of a calf owned by Robert Eccles but before his trial escaped from the jail and walked Dakota until re yiwhen he re- turned to the Southeastern part of this jody Saturday by Sherif Warren. Olf- ’ married and has five children, Whom are said to be. Sedfast ss. arday Judge Lewis was wh papers which réquite him to submit to Judge McKinnon a tran- script of the proceedings in the case ef School District No. 28 against Geo D. Grooma. In this action, Judge Lewis is restrained from: further pro- ceedings until the case is reviewed by the district court judge lle SHORTY'S HALL GOES TO THE MANAGEMENT OF MI, FRANKLIN See Through a business deal compl éted this week, Milton Turley leased his hall and garage to G. EB. Franklin, the latter taking possession of the hall at once and the repair shep after the first of April. E. Culbertson, who has been in eharge of the hall and garage. wiil remove his building in sections from Boyes to Broadus and have it ready to occupy as a garage by the ist of April His Iceation will be in prox- imity to the tennis court Mr. Cul- bertson in addition to his machine shop proposes the installation of an acetylene welding equipment ADDITIONAL LOCALS —_—_—— : Joe arengo of the Peerless mine transatted business in town Wednes- day. Miss Thelma Lewis, who was em- ployed in the office of County Clerk West on land classificaticn, completed her work Wednesday and returned to the home of her parents on Powder river. Lester Liles, who has been visiting with relatives 106 miles south of Portiand, Ore., the past four months, returned yesterday afternocn and will reside on his homestead in the Pinto country until the survey crew starts work this spring. Mr. Liles had been reported a victim of the Kelso, Wash.. bridge disaster but at the time he was in Washington. Fred W. Trautman of Epsie trans- acted business In town yesterday. William Lavell was in town Tuesday from Hay creek. Ceunty Surveyor F. L was in town this week. Hugh R. Wells was in the vicinity of Ashland several days last week. P. C. JenBen, state senator from this county, has returned to his home near Bowderville and Julian Terrett, rep- resentative from this county, has, re- turned to his home at Brandenbure after attending the recent session of the state legislature at Helena. The price pald In Miles City Tuesday for wheat, Was 97 cents a bushel. John Hudson transacted business in town Yesterday. Sunkenbusch was defeated In the house. After one of the most intense strug- gies ever witnessed on the floor of the Montana legisiature, the senate recom- mended for passagé the oil tax bill carrying a license tax of 2 per cent on the gross revénue of crude oi) pro- duced, the tax to be based on an aver- age value. Governments of the city of Rutte Silver Bow county will be united | r ow on Powder re P| a‘ fy -Its_ Resources state eocndieeeeeteene RIVER, ONE OF ITS MANY UNDEV THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN B FEET IN HEIGHT. The Haskell! oil Sait Creek oll field of Wyoming, but with their plans for building Which is to be ber 1, 9924 the no retains its pricr right by reason ef the one eventually designated. The sidering the ratlroad project only via Powder river or Tongue. river ‘Witheut «oing from one to the other. All the propaganda that was brought to bear upon the state board of land ecmmissioners of Wyoming both for and against the Haskell interests availed but little when that organiza- tion decided not to enter the competi- tive field. Sheridan had a large dele- gation at Cheyenne to use its influence with the state board, and Miles City was aiso represented, A prominent at- torney of that city officially repre- sented Montana by carrying a message from Governor Dixon to Governer Ross of Wyoming As a result of the oil lease proposi- tion the Haskell off Interests are ob- ligated neither to Sheridan, Buffalo or Miles City, and fer this reasen it is confidently believed in this county they will eventually choose the Powder River route upon ita merits as being the most feasible and practical route for it woyli be the shortest; its con- structicn would cost a million and a half dollars leas than the Tonguéd river route and ite yearly maintenar would be upwards of $70,000 « year less. The Haskeil oi) interests will pro cure.a survey of the Powder River route before-they-make a definite so- lection for a raiiroad. They are al- ready familiar with the feasifitity cf the Powder River route for its water grade, mileage, ete.. and its natural resources such as soil productivity, its coal and gas resources and within a short time eminent geologists will in- Vestigate the possibilities of -Powder river fcr oll and will take the field as son as weather and road conditions permit. No official of the Haskell oil inter- ests has yet made a statement as to a preferment in the €wo routes unde consideration. An erronecus report was published in a Miles City paper stating that an official of the Montana- Wyoming Railway company had in- formed the Broadus representatives that the read could only go via Tongue river and Sheridan Susiness men of Miles City have closely questioned residents from different portions of this county concerning the article published in the Exanriner two weeks age.and have discovered without an exception that the article has beén endorsed everywhere and that it re- flects the sentiment of all the people residing in this county. How Miles City will. redeem itself in the graves of the people of this country remains to be seen The railroad project of thirty miles scuth of Forsyth that will be built by the Northern Pacific Raflroad company to tap immense coal fields would prac- tically parallel a Tongue river rail- road for that distamce and would se- riously detract from the tonnage to be preduced from adjaceht country. The oil discovery in the Baker fields at a depth of 585 feet. the strong possibil- ity of proving the Arvada country as a potential field for ofl production, all these and perhaps more, are impcrtant factors in determining the. cource of a north and south raifroad from Wryo- ming to Montana, that would result in the favor ef Powder river. “Rajiroad Ip Avoured, ; Cheyenne, Wyo., March &—The Wyo- }ming state land board, at a public Senate bill No. 190, which restricts the pardoning power of the governor, meeting in the hall of representatives POWOER-RIVER'S CHANCEFOR RAILROAD NOT. WEAKENED nievrests at Cheyenne submit & bid for a tive-year oil lease On the famous Schur LSettion 36 in the ah soe their intentions of proceeding started by June 1 ef thi ‘ihe route to be foliowed by the ra@firoad has not yet been it is believed In view of the circumstances that the Powder River Reute still ite a superior advantages and will be this morning receive@ibids for a five- year operating lease on Section 36-47-. THE ABOVE PICTURE DORKS NOT DEPICT A SCENE ON THE MARNE IN FRANCE DURING WAR TIMES GAUSED RY BOMBS BURSTING IN THE WATER, BUT SHOWS A NATURAL GAS FLOW ON OUR OWN POWDER OPED KESOURCES. WEEN BROADUS AND ARVADA. THE GAS BUBBLING FROM THE RIVER DURING SUBZERO W EATHEK THREW A SPRAY THAT BUILT UP THESE ICE SENTINELS ELEVEN Wyo. Monduy forenoon failed to and scuth railroad, construction of year and completed prior to Septem- announced, but el interests are believed to be con- Salt Creek field, this lease to be- eme effective at the expiration Octc- ber 1, 1924, of the lease on the section how held by the Midwest oi! company Pour bids were submitted as fol- lows: Texas Production companys subsi- diary of the Texas Oil cx mpany; roy- alty of 50 per cent of value of ol) pro- duced; oil to be refined in Wyoming John W. Hay of Rock Springs, Wyo royalty cf 65 per cent on gross value of off and 40 per cent on gross value of gas produced, on basis of posted mid-continent price: oll to in Wyoming at refinery cf 5,000 barrels daily capacity to be constructed by the bider and in operation by Get. 1, 1924 Derick «i! Company of Douglas. Wyo.; royalty of 51% per cent on oil produced, the state land beard to tablish an equitable price which reyaity is to be calculated with a min- ly led es- on Peclaving that there are acceaRke of coal and lignite’ beds te be present time, Thomas Edison Smith, coal mine at Bear Creek, Mont., City business men to examine and repo: der Kiver basin, auds that the larpest seven miles nerthéast of -\3uland, Mon three sides of a tract One-half niiles si heat In his w of examination and sur~ vy of the ‘coal and lignite beds, Mr. Smith states he is co-operating with the cfficials of the Custer » National forest, the Indian service and the ge- ological survey. “The coal field which ts under ex- amination,” he says, “is a pottion of the great area of tertiary rocks, main- ly coal bearing, which extend from Casper and Douglas, Wyoming, cn the seuth, to the central part of Saskat- chewan On the north, and from the Big Horn mountains on the west to the Black Hills in western Seuth Dakota en the east. “Lignite,;” he says, “can be found io practically all of this im- mense tract, but the Tongue river group of rocks which contain thicker beds of harder, purer coal than the others, - often Srading ‘into true coals, pcovers a much smaller area, being beundea approximately by the Bur- lington railway on the south, and on the north by a line drawn through Bgandenburg and Coalwood, on the west by Sarpy creek and on the east by the LitUe Powder river “In this smaller area,” he “are to found seventeen asserta, be beds of persistent quality cheaply Over large areas, thick enough mine (ne of these beds ranges from 95 feet In thickness and th. range from 9% to 30 feet The highest bed in the Tongue River sroup was probabiy everywhere more than 30 feet thick, but only fragments of to xood and ts 10 ethers of it remain, having been preity thor- oughly eroded away or burned “Over this great area of coal bear- ing rocks,” he continued, “the mest prominent characteristic is the red, flat-topped hills, due to the slags formed by the burning coal beds. When the coal burns the heat generated ts sufficient to melt the overlying shales and sandstones just like glass melts when thrown into a stove, melted reeks, upon cooling, octal amma sembling in composition the Basal lavas of the Idaho desert, There are four beds which burn pretty generally whenever the physical conditions per- mit and several other beds burn and fuse the overlying rocks occasionally. “The cause of the burning is prcbably spontaneous combustion.” he “The lignite coals ignite easily. and this property of the sources of dancer Sheridan, Wyo When fine coal of this quality gets seven feet deep cr more it is apt to ignite, especially if covered with snow. Along the heads of rapidly cutting streams where a thick bank of coal ig exposed. the physical conditions are suitable for the coal to ignite, espe- clally on the north and east side of the guiches {t is fourd in nearly every case that the coal is barred fur- ther up-stream, about and a half miles on the sid T te stream than the side’ The burning coa! bed in the land district ie a sight worth ing miles tx declares Mr “The bed which is on fire persed coulee nearby wher it than feet thick Whore: -i beraing the coal is no 7aere? under less. than. 105 feet of cover and in one says is one in mines at one east other nort' of on \gh- travel- Bmith eX\- is see, coal in a is mere 2% ie } } imum of $2 per barrel bonuses of $200,000 a year for each year of term of lease, or $506,000 for a five year lease; oil to be refined in Wryeming Midwest Oil Company. several alte- native proposals as follows (1) such @ Toyalty as may be agreed upon by the stand land board and the Midwest after negotiations; (2) royalty of 12% per cent and benus of £5.000,000- (3) royalty of $1.25 a barre! plus 65 per Cent on “Any WHT Teivend trex cega. of the posted price; (4) royalty of 65° pe cent The Midwest set forth| that it claimed a preferential - leas- ing right to the section under the Wyoming law and that it propsed to push such rieht Furthermere, its bid pointed out. leasing the section 36 to any other than the Midwest might make necessary such intensW\: pro- duction by the Midwest from section 36 that there would be a flood of oil and a ccnsequent reduction in prices The Midwest requested the beard to postpone consideratiof& of all bids un- tit after a conference with the Midwest relative to its claimed leasing. right The Middie States Wil company, a Haskell concern, the efforts of which to cbhfain a lease on section 326 caused the land board to advertise for bids Ppresefitable today, did not formally en- ter a bid, its spokesman preferential re- ex-Congress- Man Scott Ferriss of Oklahoma, how- ever, read a bid which had been pre- pared. for submissicn.: butw hic he aid not formally present This pro. follows Royalty of 33 1-3 per cent on gross Market value; royalty of 50 per cent on all preduction after lessee had realized from section a profit on its lpvestment = therein An alternative Proposal of a flat royalty of 50 per cent was containe) in the bid. The Middle States as ‘an addéd considera- tion,” agreed to build a standard guage rafircad from the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul in Montana to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy at . Dyo., construction to begin before June 1, 1923, and the road to be in operation before September 1, 1924 _ Ferris stated that. the awarding, cf the lease on section 36 to another than the Middie States company would not terminate the latter's plans for the north and south railroad, but that it would “continue its efforts” fcr such @ road, and “pledged renewed energy” in promoting its construction. The lobby to the high schcol build- ime was lathed and plastered this week by John Rogge, .asaiated, by Riri Place there is 165 feet of strata above the burning coal As the fuel burns Helena, Mont about two hundred waves arising from the fires beneath produce a strange a burning cauldron in the bowels cf the earth. GOnl ed wired four are TOMATRADIY | Neclting ee ee oe fay von r Historical Library, - a fires burning in the vast found in southeastern Montana at the formerly superintendent of the Bear Creek and now commissioned by a group ef Miles rt upon the coal resources of the-Pow- and best known burning bed {ts about t.. where the fires are burning around quare, and that the smoke, steam and effect and suggest the overlying reck falls down abour 10 or 12 feet, leaving great, deep crevices through whieh the hot rocks can be seen far below.” Mr. Smith says he tossed sticks down into some of these cracks and they Caught fire almost instantly. These cracks remain in evidence for years, and as they are about ten feet apart and fairly Straight, they give the burned urea the appearance cf a fleid ‘plowed with u gigantic plow. This Particular bed, he adds, has been burning to the accurate knowledge of residents, for more than 50 years. “In the last 42 years the fire has moved Over a distance of a mile and a quar- ter. Since Octobder, 1921, the fire on the south side has moved 154 feet, which is excepticnally rapid,” accord- ing to Mr. Smith. Commenting on this phase of- the Situation, Mr. Smith says: 2 years erosion has not “In the past of the burned area progressed sufficiently to. ex- pose the slags, or completely fused the recks beneah. As much of the burned area the fused rockg Projecting above the surface, it is certain that pose were burned ages ago, . an experience, Mr. Smith nearby residents formerly coal from a bank on Cook creek on Tongue river. A rancher one day procured a Icad of coal and gleft his pick and shovel leaning ag&inst the com. When he returned several days later, the fire which had beens burning In behind the coal face bed had broken through and burned the handle out of his tool. “That bed,” he says, “ig no longer a source of fuct and cn cold days the steam arising from the fires below may be seen ris- ing above the sround. “The coal in the region described,” he continued, “ls of low guality, being more hearly allied to the lNegnites than to the true ceals of the other regions, although th © are i n “ea, -bituminous in wan Breat objection to the use of this is the high moisture content. mining and exposture tc the air coal parts with this moisture and to pieces. It has, however, in many instances a heating value high- er than the true coal, but the slack - ing prevents the utilization of the heat values.” The Rosebud coal Forsyth, from which eifle railway the future is has says that secured The coal After the falls feld south of the Northern Pa- expects to get Its fuel jn @ part of this great coal field, he declares Discussing the commercial possibil itles, Mr. Smith states that “eventy- ally the coals found here in such enor- mous quantities will be used when the progress of Invention has enabled us to utilize them. There are two Ways in which this may be done: first by gasifying the coals In a gas pro- ducer and burning the fas in a gas engine; secondly, by pulverizing the - coal to a flour-like pewder and burn- ing it like off. Roth methods are past the experimenta! Stage and when a coal shortage of the high prices for other coais forces us to the point of using the low grade fuela, this region near Miles City will supply fuel in abundance fcr warmth, and. power.to millions of people for thousands of years. Powder River feuniy dees not Pro- | pose to enter into new road construc- | tion during the present year, its finun- cial conditions precluding such proj-+ ects. cither in dirt or gravele work Such was the. action taken by beard of county commissioners at their! regular monthly session this week, with all three members presnt, Chas M. Smith, chairman, and Baxter Piercé and F. T. Kelsey. The commisstoners | placed themselves on record by adopt-| ing the following resolution, introduc- ed by Kelsey, seconded by Pierce and carried with all members voting “aye.” “In consideration of{the large amount of outstanding Indebtedness azainst the road and bridge funds of this coun- ty. we. the board of county commis- sioners deem ft inadvisable to sell bonds or construct the »preposed state highway from Broadus to the Mizpoh creek and hereby postpone Action thereon indefinitely, and for the same reasons hereby resolve that no new rcads or permanent improvements on ‘xisting roads shall be laid out or constructed except where absolutely necessary and only then upon the a’- rect and specific order of this. board and any ‘claims filed for work other than neceasary repair cr maintenance will be promptly disallowed, except as previously ordered by” this board, and that a copy of these resolutiuns be forwarded to each an&® every read eu- pervisor of th's ccunty’ on or before “prit 1, 1928.\ * p- The commissioners were familiar with the condition ‘of’ the diferent county funds whene the -above resolu- GAAVELED ROAD NOT | BUILT, SAY COMMISSIONERS 0 BE 415.20 were registered for Payment on March 1. and in the bridge fund there were $14,150.66 In registered warrants jon that date The registered road warrants will not be called for pay- ment for two years and it will be three yeats before the bridge warrants are paid. The county clerk was notified to dis- pense at once with all deputies ex- cept these allowed by law. This order evt from the payroll the services of E. P. Boyk The commissioners deferred until the April meeting the appointment of road supervisors. ‘ The petition for a road beginning at Mcorhead and intersecting the Ot- ter creek road was rejected, The county assessor was allowed a Special clerk during the month of March. There was an agreement with the county superintendent of schools to alow him $12 a day in using his own car when inspecting schocis. The claim of Emmett Maloy in the sum of $6,530.63 for tand classification work was laid over until the ‘next regular meeting to give the commis. sioners an opportunity for inspection of his appraisals and classification. On March 1 there remained in the general fund $19,872 and sufficient money in the contingent. fund to meet the salaries of county officers for two months , ; . “NOT: YET NOR SOON, BROTHER. —_—_——— The Powder fon was adoptpd.. In*the road fund, county warrants te t#@“eum of $25,- -_ * 3 : han oe + ‘ > wee wrx ‘ an ee FA Bie iat nation be All the People of Powder River County Should Procure fice Them a Railroad . q Examiner © (March 91925 Sait \ae aTicacn See $2 Per Year in Advance“ eae - TI — TONGUERIVER GOAL § ~ TO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION ‘ “magazine” blew up last week. Miled City has got Camp's soat.—Ashland Pioneer | 5 ‘ wae < a - ht at
