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THE EIKALAKA L. 4 .,r BUMPER CROP OF MONTANA WHEAT 110 IT IS NORMAL( AND THE WAR . CONTINUES SHOULD REACH.$00,900,000 It Will Be the Year of Greatest Op- portunity for the Montana Farmer and He Should Take Advantage of It; After War the Prices Should Drop. , It is within the ‘ p?ssibilities for Montena's wheat crop of this year to sell for $90,000.600. - Wheat will be the big item of the 1917 crop. But ether cereals and root crops should put the agricul- tural total away beyond $100,000,- 000. One of the largest milling con- cerns in the state, which keepe touch with the cereal pulse,- eatimates that with a normal 'crop, Montana will produce 60,00,006 bushels of wheat this year. The, estimate is based on acreage plowed last fall, and that the prices will be approximately the same as last fall. The prices will depend, to an ex- tent upon the continuation of the war, although all experts are agreed that all grains will continue high for some time after peace comes. But if peace should COme within the next three Months, which is hardly prob- able, millions of soldiers will remain in the trenches for months while the statesmen of Europe discuss peace terms., Snow Means Wheat. Thd snow that has come to Mon- tana during the past winter, and which now covers the great wheat belt like a blanket absolutely insures sufficient moisture to mature the biggest wheat crop Montana has yet grown. The wheat crops of Argentine and Australia are failures. These great crops come into the market, as far as we are concerned, between sea- sons. This shortage, aside from any other consideration; insures the price. So it is up to the farmer to put in every acre of grain that is possi- ble. He may never have an opportu- nity like this again. The price should not be less than twice that of normal, years. Wise farniers, in certain sections of the.state, even contemplate run- ning -night and day shifts in order to take advantage of the greatest of farm opportunities. This is espe- cially feasible where the crop is put in by tractors. Buy a Small Tractor. If you are a small farmer, and have not a small tractor in your equipment, the thing to do is to get one. A moderate priced tractor may add thousands of dollars to your in- come next fall. It will take the place of men and horses, both of which may be scarce when the time comes to put in the crop, a few weeks away. Two men and a tractor can accomplish a world of work- Four men 'and a tractor, working two shifts can•replace a sta- bleful of horses and a bunkhouseful of hired men. Farmers should realize that this is the year of their greatest opportun- ity. Great wars like the one that lig now being waged, and which has made these plienomenalf-prices of - farm produce, occur probably once in a life -time. The rarmer should strain every point to grow all that .he can, because he will receive four or five profits for everything he will market this fall. After the War. After the war prices will continue high, in the opinion of experts, for several years, but they. will be away under the prices that should obtain this fall. But thig IR to be the year of the big prices, and the farmer who doe - s - not take advantage of it, will regret it in the years to come. When conditions settle down to normal the wise Niontana farmer will MONTANA MONEY IN FAR PLACES RICHES ACCUMULATED IN THIS STATE HAVE ACHIEVED GREAT WOltKS ELSKWHI..11t E. Montana Money Built Clark's Rail- road From Salt Lake to Los An- geles; 'Helped William It. Hearst to Establish Greatest String of Newmpapers in World. Montana money, or money that was made in Montana, is accomplish- ing much in the outside world. The Clark railroad which stretches from Salt Lake City co Los Angeles, half way across the continent, was built by one man, former Senator W. A. Clark -of Montana. Senator Clark came to Montana a' poor man. He worked with his hands in some of the early day placer diggings. Then he branched out into mercnandising and banking, and made mining a side is- sue. He was wofth many millions of dollars before he want into the Ari- zona copper fields. His great rail- road may have been said to have been financed, to a veil% great extent by money made in Montana. The great Copper City bank, one of the financial giants of tho finan- cial world of New York, is practically a Montana institution. It was organ- ized and hi controlled by John D. Ry- an, who, after Senator Clark, is the wealthiest Montanan. The Hearst Newepapers. The San Francisco Examiner, the New york American, the Chicago American, the Los Angeles Examiner and Boston Examiner and the Boston American, together with evening edi- tions too numerous to mention, and other Examiners, big and little, the whole constituting the greatest string Of daily newspapers in the world, were financed with Montana money. William R. Hearst is the owner of these newspapers. When the for- tunes of his father, the late Senator Hearst of California were at the ebb tide, Marcus Daly interested Ails old time associate in the Anaconda mine. Years later, when the estate's, inter- est in this magnificent property were disposed of, Mrs. Phoebe ellarst, the widow, left Montana with $11,000,- 000. This money went to the son and helped him very materially in fi- nancing his first eastern newspaper venture—the New York American. From this institution all of his other newspapers have grown. Montana money did it. Mrs. Hearst's grati- tude to Montana was made manifest by the construction, equipment and maintenance of the Hearst publfc library of Ana - co - nda, one of the most magnificent librariea in the state. .It was Montgna money which helped to develop the great Nipissing mine at Cobalt, one of the most won- derful silver mines in the world. This money was furnished through W. B. Thompson of Butte, now retired and many times a millionaire. Helped Stranded Ame cans Many Americans, stranded n Ger- many at the beginning of th war, have reason to thank Montana for the possibility of their getting away from a war•torn country. James Ger- ard was the American ambassador at Berlin. Mrs. Gerard, as a daughter of the late_Marcus Daly, _ inherited vast wealth, which she expended lav- ishly for the relief of her country- men, cut off from their friends and resources by the exigencies of war. Much of the large fortune left his widow by the late John Moroey_ Great Falls is - Tieing used in Red Cross work for the relief of wounded -Belgian and French soldiers. not attempt t - e -- go into the. grain growing - business He will invest in blooded stock and go in for niixed farming. Ile may miss out on some years of big wheat' prices, but his income will be safe I and sure. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ATTENTION FARMERS! The American Society of Eqiiity IN THEM Insurance Department OFFERS FIRE AND HAIL INSURANCE AT ACITAL COST Tide is a great organization composed of nearly 14.000 !Wending farmere offering you insurance on your farm property, such as buildings and contentsi livestock, hay, grain and all other classes of farm property, against Loss or Damage by FIRE and LIGHTNING AT GREATLY REDUCED COST. Also insurance on GROWING CROPS AGAINST LOSS BY HAIL under better tering and at MUCH LESS C,`OST than it can be eecured from any other Company. Our (\ompany wrote the largest lino of Hail Insurance written by any Company in this State last year (over $2,000,000.00,)in which we saved over $50,000.00 to our members and gave the greatest , satisfaction in our methods of settlement. This Company furnishes insuratiew ore -a purely mutual basis and their plans are based on sane and reasonable methods. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity of securing insurance at actual cost in a Company owned and controlled by the farmers themselves. Applications should be made early, as our lines 'of insurance are written under necessai7 limitations and we are certain to have offer- ed to us vastly more insurance than we can safely carry; therefore, . In order ,to be fair we shall lia,ve to adopt the rule of \ first come. first served.\ Write us at oncq for full infermation. We are sure that we will be able to convince you that this is the Company which will afford you the most satisfactory protection at the least possible cost. Equity WWI Hail& Fire Insurance Co Home Office, 27-28-20-30-31 T041 Block, Great Falls, Montana. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A EIDE [IN MOWS CIENETERY, On HOW' RU13IE THE RECKLESS, CANE CLOSE TO THE CASH 1111 The bunch in the cigar store were, talking about sudden death, when1 Rube cuts in. \Several times in my life I've been close to the cash in, - he says, \but about the nearest I ever came to crosain' the big range is a.few - years ago before I move to Montana.. This is down in California, and there's a friend with me at the time—I ain't givin' his name, but we'll call - him Bill Roselin. His father's a Chicago millionaire. . \Bill crosses over, and the reason I don't tell his right name is because his folks never know what kind of ad end'Bill meets. - It seems he's out west for his parents' health, they re - Ike Tried to Cut a Freight in Two. mainin' in the east, and it appears they never get the facts in the case. They believe today that their lovin' son quit -this life in bed with a preacher hangin' over film and a doc- tor takin' the pulse count. The truth is there wasn't no one with him at the finish but me and a team of hosses, and the hosses took the long trail with him, leavin' me in the co-ly tray- elin' cemetery I've ever seen. \The way this incident starts, we are leanin' over the mahogony in a joint in Los Gatos, after a big night together. As we're both hoes lovers, we're givin' this subject a lot of our conversation, and finally he suggests that. a buggy ride would be a good ; . • -- ••• _ /••• tli/R L0110 At NtsT eta Eyes Opened 0 n a Tombstone. - WYORIONG'S OHL DEVELOPMENT ATTRACTING MUCH MENTON • .___W-yoming-ie-in the - throes of an bill - strong syndielirei - 3 formed, boom that may grow into one of the while Denver is the stock selling most important petroleum develop- center. The excitement is spreading ments that guive occurred in the to Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago. United Statee for some time. That tbere is it lot of substance back of the boom is evidenced by the fact In six months Casper has grown that oil wells of the state .produced from 2,000 to 6,000 inhabitants. It over 8,000,000 barrels of oil last la almost impossib!e to get any soet year . as . against 3,000,000 barrels of accomodations there. An oil stock during 1915. The oil is very high exchange has been organized, and grade, much of it carrying as high this givea the local traders an oppor- as 50 per cent gasoline. _. tunity to buy and sell local issues. The development, which started in which are numerous. Two daily the center of the state is gradually newspapers are published there, and moving to the north, and into Mon- the bulk of their space usually de- tana. On the Montana sidd of the voted to local newa is given over to Elk Basin district, a small escarp- stories of oil etrikes. ment enclosing about 2,400 acres oi One of the new oil barons of the productive oil land a number of pro- Wyoming fields, is a man named ducing wells have been drilled. and Hearst, who, a couple years ago was the single pipe line, laid to Frannie, poistmaster at the little town of Grey - the nearest railroad point, 1 . 2 miles bull. He put his last $500. Into a from production, has proven wholly nine -share syndicate which drilled inadequate to move the oil to the the first well in the Elk basin coun- railroad. try. Oil was struck in quantity be - Aside from the Elk Basin develop- fore the syndicate's $4,500 was ex- ment prospecting is neing prosecuted hausted. All the other members of in about 15 other Montana counties. the syndicate sold their interests to Fairly good showing of oil have been the Ohio company, but Hearst held had in wells dr,illed in the Crazy on. He is now receiving' monthly Woman'a Pocket country, about 60 royalties that amount to about miles northwest of Billings; in the $4.500. Hailstone basin in the same locality, The state of Wyoming •owns much and in a couple .of wells that have of that land on which discoveries are been drilled in Beaverhead county, being made. This land is leased to 175 miles west of this section. oil prospectors on a Dash; of 10 per cent royalty. Where several con- cerns applicants for the same piece of land it is put up at auction, and the company which will pay the larg- est bonus, in addition to the royalty, gets the property. A tract of land in the big Muddy country brought R bonus of $105,000 the other day. Hearat was the successful bidder. It is believed that the royalties the state will receive from its oil lands will. in a short time, pay all the ex- penses of government. Gas in Montana. Gas sufficient for municipel per- posee has been discovered near Bak- er in'Fallon county; near Glendive in Dawson county; near Havre in Hill eounty; and interests allied with the Anaconda Copper . Mining company are drilling extensively in the Sweet - grass district, on the Canadian bor- der directly north of Great Falls. But in the neighboring state to the south discoveriea of immense im- portance hnve been made during the past year.- Oil men have always re- garded Wyomieg as a promising •field, and sufficient/ oil has been. de- veloped prior to WO years ago to make the operation of half a dozen refineries along - the single line of - railroad that rune north and south from Billings to Denver profitable. - Now all' the big eoncerns like the Standard, the Texas, the Ohiceihe Midwest, and other oil conipaniea Of almost unlimited means have spread their organizatioes from o . ne end to the other of the oil fields. developed and -prospective. Folldwing. 'them heye come a host of smaller con- cerns. . - -bevelopment is in progress in\ eVety seetioe that shows promise. Casper is the center. and head quarters of this mill. Denver on the south and Billings on the north are sub -centers. In Billings a number of Casper's Quick Growth. No matter how fair a man tries to be, he will always twist his side of -the story a little.so as to give him- self the best of it. Facts About Farm Loans You can get a loan on your form from The ilanking Corporation. Ilelenn. Montana: there is,no red - tape in their methods; !mins are CIOMPII promptly And the money paid over. They make fair interest rates and give liberal -prepaytnent priv- ileges. This rotwern is the largetst Wm mortgage concern In the statb. nod !tinned more money to farmers last sear thnn 20 competitors com- bined—the Company of service. Hee their local agent In your home town. or write to them direct for Informa- tion. -- 7 _ thing, as we're feelin' the need of some fre.sh air. We leave this joy parlor arm.in arm and visit a friend of mine, who owns a livery stable. I tell him what we're after, and he gives us the best he's got—a span of bays bted in the purple, and as good as any roadsters in-Californla._ \For ;fear of loain' any of this joy- ful feelin' we've accumulated, we're heeled with a quart of corn juice, which we're partakin' of free and regllar as we spin along one of them good Califorina roads with our hoes - es up and comin'. Bill keeps, tellin' me how fancy he is with the reins. nt# forgetting to' criticise my drivin', fOr he's reach'ed the stage - where he's gettin' argumentative. Froin the line of talk he hands but I've got my doubts as to how much he knows about hoseflesh, but I'm not disput- in' him any, for the whole world rigkt now looks so oeautiful to me that Mere's no chance for an argu- ment on any subject from religion or Teddy Roosevelt to the best brand of red eye. I want to sing, and do war- ble for awhile, but Bill ain't got no musical - ear, and he claims the noise I'm makin\ is frettin' the team and drivin' all the birda out of the coun- try. From feelin' musical I begin to get sleepy, and the last I remember I'm dOzin' off. I. recollect Bill reach- in' for the'reins, and the next I know I've a vague notion I'm in an airship and can see clear to the Mexican line. I'm wonderin' where I changed cars when the light'goes out. • • • • • • \When I wake up I'm layin' with my feet higher than my head, and my eyes open slowly on a big marble tombstone with the letterin': \ 'OUR LOVED ONE \ 'AT RES \ 'JOINED THE.A ELS \ 'JUNE 30, 1 1.' \I think to myself may be their 'loved one,' but they're liars when they say I'm at rest. There aint a place on me than don't ache; even my. hair is sore to the touch. \I start figurin' from the date on the stone how long I've, been dead. but my brain won't work and I give it up. While I'm wonderin' whether I'll have to make a squarin' talk with Peter, the gateman, I hear the puff of a switch engine somewhere close by. \ 'Since when,' thinks I, 'did they get a railroad built through hereV But the thirst I've got makes me think maybe I've took the southern route,' and perhaps they're haulin' coal. \ 'What the hell you ddin' here?' breaks in a voice, and it ain't no an- gel talkin, so I realize that I'm in the same old world. Lookin' over the tombstone, sizin' me up, is the toughest lookin' brakie I ever see. \ 'Where am I?' I inquire without movin'. \He gives mie the name of the burg, but its a camp I never heard of. \ 'If yob will lead me to a thirst parlor,' I says. 'I'll buy somethin' and you're in on it. \ 'You're on, Bo', says he. \Then satin' up and looki around, I discover I'm on a flat loaded to the rims with tombstones. and I'm layin' in front of the biggest one in the lot. Although it nearly kills me to move, I scramble to the ground, and the brakie pilots me to a little joint across the tracks. There's nobody in there but the bartender and the flies, and this toddy mixer is busy readin' a newspaper. Throwin' my silver on the bar I tell him to get in. It's pretty bad booze. but it helps bring me back to life. The bartend- er's sociable, and after I buy a couple of rounds for the three of us, pickin' up the paper again, he says, 'quite a killin 'across the state.' \ 'What killin'?' says I. \ 'Some' feller runs a team into- a freight that slidin' down a grade about three hundred miles south of here,' says the barkeep. 'Smashes himself and the team into chunks.' \ 'I'll bet that's Bill Roselin,' I says. 'Seems to be I gins buggy ridin' with him Borne time this year. Judgin' from where I find n.yself this morn - in' I was with him at'the cesh in.' \ 'What do you think of that?' the brakie asks the bartender, tappin' his forehead. \ 'Turn over you're layin' on your back,' says the bartender. 'That smaehup happens a day's ride from here. 'Wait a minute, though,' he goes on. It does say here that there's a feller with Aim that they can't lo- cate.'- qr,„ \ 'Well, that's me,' says I. \I find out later the_ Roselin tries to cut a freight in two with this team, killin' himself and both bosses. That's when I land among these grave ornaments and take a ride in a movin' cemetery.\ MONTANA- CLAIMS GENIUS JACKLING HAS MADE - OF BUTTE AND 8U- PERIOR'GREAT1ZST ZINO MINE IN WORLD. Farm Hand at 18; Worked Hte Wily Thronigh Oollege; - Walked Into Cripple Creek With $3 in MB Poc- ket; Developed the Bingham Into Great Property. While D. C. Jackling, the mining getilus, is a world figure, operating . everywkere, Butte claims him be-' cause of his development of the Butte •and Superior mine into the 'skeet- est zinc producing property in the world. In additien to his Butte end Superior holdings, now- first in irtn. portance after the Anaconda Mining company, he has acqeired extensive interests in the Butte district. He is Jackling of 'Montane just as much as 'he •is Jackling of Utah or Jack - ling of Alaska. Montana claims him - because the big end of her horn of plenty is pouring wealth lavishly in- to the coffers of this already. fabu- luously rich operator. The contract for treating the sine ores kof._ the Jackling's Butte prop- erty hi held by the American zinc and Lead Smelting comPany, operating gas smelters in Oklahoma. The con- centrates of the Butte and Superior are shipped to these smelters. In 1916, before zinc reached the pin-. acle of price, the Butte and Super- ior's freight bill on concentrates was over a -million dollars. This contract expires of March 27- \ After that_date the concentrates will , be shipped to tile electrolitic smelter at Great •Falls. An Interesting Career. Jackling has had a niced interest- ing career. The second year of big life he was,orphaned. At 18 he was a common laborer. At 20 he was working his way through college. At 30 he vas a mining superintendent with a salary of $3,000 per year. At 40 ife,was a millionaire. At 45 he went round the Horn 'in his ,_ own steam yacht. When the yacht was new he started on this trtp from Se- attle. It did not suit him. His cap- tain _told him that it was not long enotigh. So he let a contract by wireless and when hp arrived at San Francisco his yacht went into dry dock and he had it cut in two and sufficient length added to it to make it seaworthy. He is now 47 years old and a mul- ti -millionaire. He contr( four mines, which produce twice as much copper Jas all of the big mines of Michigan together. He is one of the big men in copper, the big man in zinc, the factor in gold quartz oper- ations in Alaska; is a controlling factor in the largest fleet of vessels which sails on the Pacific; owns beet sugar factories, banks, railroads, trust comban;es and other interests too numerous to enumerate. Worked Fifteen Hours a Day. How did he accomplish so much in such a short time? He worked 15 hours a day. In 1888 he was driving a span of mules. lp 1891 he had worked hia way into an assistant professorship of metallurgy. In 1894 he walked the 18 miles from Divide to Cripple Creek, with $3 in his pocket. Ile won hTe - spurs et - Cripple Creek. He v.nn more laurels in solVing the problem of treating the refractory ores of the Merciir mines. Then came the big achievement at Bingham. The property was a worked out copper mine. Nearly ev- ery mining expert who looked at it eondemned it. But Jackling, the in- dividualist, kept his faith, and after years of failure interested the Gug- genleims. He put in steam shovels, and after moving more_tonnage than did Goethals at Panama reached the ore. His reward was millions. Jaeklingis the type of a man who moved mountains. While he is do- ing the moving he get all the values they contain. His Butte success has been on a par with his successes in Utah and in Alaska. He has devel- oped the Butte and Superior out of nothing into one of tne great prop- erties' of the world. do not know much. But we now that women do not wear eek-a-boo waists because they want other women to look into them. w ill' put up with dingy wall paper? • Paint your walls with Gilt Edge \Velvet\ —then you can wash them anytime. Healthful,dur- able, and much cheaper —many pleasing tints to match anv color scheme. FOR ANY JOB —inqide or out — r t i ' ,4 1. 1i ‘ r t ,:*; ;,:1 1 ,1 0 b l y tT tic E a r rs E Ev PA E I R Pl yw T t H h E a t tis . 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