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• 1 I . • • • • THE EKALAKA EAGLE. , • , ' • STEARIN TS ON 11111SSOURO FikAM FORT BENTON TO THREE FORKS VISIMN 1)IF ENGINEER ON 1872; FOUND MATCHLESS ROVER SCENERY With the completion of the,Holter hydro -electric ' plant the Montana Power company has added another irnportait unit to its power -producing facilities. The construction work will be completed after the first of the year, and by next spring the gener- ating of power will begin. • The new plant will generate 40,000 kilowatts. The dam, built of rein- forced concrete, is 1,350 feet long and 100 feet high, making it the highest dam in the company's,system of water power development. The Hotter dam, with the Hauser lake and Canyon Ferry plants, converts the Missouri .river into a chain of lakes for a distance or 60 miles, mak- ing a total storage available for stream regulation at Great Falls of 150,000 aere-feet. The Holter dam will impound 60,900 acre-feet, or enough to cover a flat surface of 60,- 000 acres one foot in depth. Above the dam the Missouri will be turned into a great lake. For a distance of 20 miles the wa- ter will be backed up through the picturesque canyon of the Gate of the Mountains, considered one of the most beautiful scenic spots in the country. Heretofore it has been im- possible to make a trip through the canyon excepting by -canoe or small boat, because of the rapids, but the dam will raise the water level and dmake it possible for boats to ride easily up and down stream. In connection with the great change that is to be made in the phy- sical condition of the Missouri river between Great Falls and Helena as a result of this work by the Montana Power company, it is of interest at this time to know that as late as 1872 a government engineer, Thomas P. Roberts, made an examination of the Missouri between Three Forks and Fort Benton and reported, as a result of his investigations, that, at a comparatively trifling expense in removing obstructions, steamboat navigation could be maintained dur- ing the summer season between Fort Renton and the Three Folios, provid- ed a railroad were built from the foot of the Great falls of the Missouri to the present site of the city of Great Falls, a distance of some 12 miles. Mr. Roberts' report contained rec- ommendations as to the size of steam- ers that should be placed on the river above what is now Great Falls, and other suggestions concerning the im- provement of navigation. This examination of the upper Mis- souri by Roberts was the first thorough exploration of the stream made by white men since the Lewis and Clark expedition, 67 years before, and during these intervening years little was known of the river below Gallatin City as far down as Fort Benton. The military explorations of General Reynolds in 1860 embraced this portion of the Missouri country, but the party traveled by land down- ward to Fort Benton, and being com- pelled to make wide detours from the river, they were able to obtain only oocasional glimpses of the stream. Roberts organized his party for the trip at Helena, selecting as his lieutenant Lewis H. Barker, a civil engineer, and six others, several of._ whom were French-Canadians and ex- perienced batteaux men. After con- siderable difficulty in Helena, where thore was something of a dearth of shipbuilders, a fine boat was built. National Life Insurance Company of Montana Legal Reserve Company writing the most liberal pollutes on the market. ASSETS DYER $600.000. 'tome Office BALI' BANK BUILDING Butte, Mont. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• MONEY FOR FARMERS We have loaned over n million mitt n buff dollars to Montana farmers this yenr—to Improve. buy livestoek. break out more land mid for gen- eral develot•Ing purposes. No tlelny or red-tnpe--a tun:Wens proposition -- reasonable Intermit rates noel prepayment privileges. See our agent In your home town, or write us direct for infortuntion. The Banking Corporation 111:LVINA MONT. \Safety First\ Great Falls le geographi cally situated to give bettor eervice to country banks than any other city within the state. The First Na- tional is the big - gent bank in north Montana and is fully equipped to render prompt efficient eervice. Your patronage Is solicited. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Great Montana. Estatillehed 1886. 24 feet in length and four 4,nd one- half feet in width. The boat and provisions being ready for the jour- ney, they were placed in wagons and hauled overland to the Three Forks, near Fort Ellis and 65 miles south of Helena. Near the forks stood old Gallatin City, consisting at the time of a grist mill, two stores, a ranch and a race course, which wee annual- ly the scene of exciting horse races. There gathered .ranchers from.. the Gallatin villey and miners from neighboring camps, who used to bet gold dust against flOur and bacon on their favorite horses. The first work of the Roberts . party was -to gauge the vol- lime of the three forki of the Mis- souri, it never having been deter- mined which of the streams --the Gal- latin, the Jefferson or the Madison— was the parent stream. They found that the Jefferson discharged 226,- 728 cubic feet per minute; the Madi- son, 160,277 cubic feet; and the Gal- latin, 126,480 cubic feet of water per minute. It was therefore demon- strated that the Jefferson is the fath- er of the Missouri, which fact makes it by fair inferehce the grandfather of the Mississippi. Startling River Figures. Adding the above figures together, Roberts found that there was a total flowage of 512,480 cubic feet of wa- ter per minute in the Missouri at Three Forks; and that if the flowage was reduced to the lowest stage known, there remained more than 300,000 cubic feet per minute in the Missouri at that point, which Is three times the volume of the Ohio river at Pittsburg when at its lowest stage . The length of the water course, in- cluding the Missouri and the Mississ- ippi, can be appreciated when it is considered that Three FOrks 18 260 miles below the extreme head of the Jefferson, and about the same dis- tance above Fort Benton. Fort Ben- ton is not less than 2,900 miles above St. Louis, which city is 1,200 miles above the mouth or the Mississippi. The entire length of the Jefferson, Missouri and Mississippi is not less than 4,600 miles. In his report of the journey down the Missouri, Roberts could pot re- frain from commenting upon the wonderful resources of the territory of Montana, as follows: • \Over $120,000,000 in gold has been taken out of this favored terri- tory at comparatively little cost, and yet most of the placers remain to be worked by a system which will re- quire capital and a legitimate amount of honest labor to yield a handsome reward. At. this stage in yielding wealth nature has paused, as if she had advanced enough to advertise 9 country whieh possesed so many ele- ments of wealth that would speak for themselves. There is little doubt that her advertisement will be suffi- ciently remunerative, for a decade will not pass before her iron, coal, copper, silver and grazing and agri- cultural resources wil be furnishing employment to tens of thousands of settlers, who this day have no more idea of their destiny to labor in these fields than they have of making a flying trip to the moon.\ Down the River. — The joul•ney down the river from the Three Forks started at noon on July 17, 1872, and between that date and August 1 the party camped snd observed and made their examina- tions. By that time they had reach- ed the Black Rock canyon and halted at French bar on the left bank of the river, only 12 mi;ts distant from Helena. The repo describes some interesting placer operation there as follows: \At this point the firm of Taylor, Thompson and company are carry- ing on operations by hydraulic min- ing extensively. The entire slope of the hills here, over an area of sev- eral hundred acres, is rich with gold dust, the pay streak. however, being overlaid by from 10 to 30 feet of gravel and earth. To get rid of this surface this firm has, at an expense of $65,000, run a ditch from the mountains along the ridge, a distance of 23 miles, with such a slight de- scent that it is here more than 400 feet above the river. At the desired point the water enters the pipes and is conducted to the mines to strike the banks with the force of a dozen steam fire engines. By the operation of the undermining tne boulders. gravel, sand and mud are dumped at the river bank and the gold deposits itself along in little pools of mer- cury placed to catch it in the rough bottom of the trona . or bedrock flume.\ White Rock Canyon. Toward the Gate of the Mountains, so named by Lewis and Clark, the party pased through White Rock can- yon, described by Roberts as possess- ing more grandeur in its scenic ef- fect. than the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and he said it would be- come more famous than any other scenery on the North American conti- nent. He gives the following de, scription of the canyon: \As if by magic a gap in the moun- tains began to unfold to view the en- trance of the river into a canyon through the range toward which we had been bearing. Not until we were within its portals and the sunlight was. shut out did we Tealize fully (tow cloeely the river here is locked within the embrace of the moun- tains. For two mile -s ahead a won- derful vista began to' open out, and still there was no outlet visible to the turreted' and pinnacled walls which penned us in. Higher the walls grew ani darker and n:o. - -) s. , inbtr became the shalowl, whih- a soinien stAiness eel kid not only to 10.4 - varie the air, nut Alio water, whicii for- tunately for our observationti, flowed sluggishly along. \High up on either side are cot - It was 67 years after Lewis and Clark made their famous expedition up the Missouri river before another examinagua of the river above Fort Benton was made by the government to determine what uses might be made of it for navigation.• The Lei,vis and Clark journey up the river in NIontana was ender...taken in 1805. In 1872 Thomas P. Roberts, a governmint engineer, and six other men built a 24 -foot boat at Helena and transported it by wagons to Gallatin City, near the Three -Forks of the Missouri, from which poini they made a trip down the river to Fort Benton for the purpose of making a detailed report to the g-overnment on the navigability of the upper portions of the stream. Roberts .reported that the stream 'was navigable for light draft steamers all the way from Fort Benton to Three Forks with the use of a railroad built from below the Great falls to the mouth of Sun river, at the spot where the city of Great Falls stands today.. He made recommendations for the type of steamers to .be used and prophecied that some day tourists would be taken by rail from the Yellowstone National park to the Missouri river at Three Forks, and thence by light steamers to the Great falls and bort Benton. Roberts,declared _that the 4.cenery in the White Rock can- yon of the Missouri between Helena and the site of the new pow- er plant of the Montana Power company at Holter, which even today few Montana people know exists, is grander than that of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. In his report he declares that the time will come when tourists will travel from Yellow- stone park to the Great falls in a day and enjoy the most spec- tacular scenery on the continent. - The - building of dams across the Missouri river at Hauser ;vice and at the site of the Holter Power plant, the latter juM completed, has•had the effect of transforming the swiftly- flaw- ing river into a series of lakes which will make the scenic beau- ties of the Missouri canyon accessible to all. ossal statues, carved by the niaster, Time, in the niches of this gigar.tic winding hall, five miles long. The walls rise majestically 600, 800 and 1,000 feet high, and in places ap- pear .to rest against the white clouds above, which complete the arch over- head. The Bides afford no foothold for man or beast, excepting occasion- ally up through lateral Bemires, in whose dark recesses lay tumbled in rare confusion huge broken pillars and angular rocks, jammed and forming natural bridges from chasm to chasm. Rocks Hang Over River. \Down the river, midway in the none so grand, intervene between it canyon, the wall actually hangs over and the final exit of the Missouri the river, so Butt a plummet -line 600 from the mountains 36 miles below. feet long, dropped from the brow, \Emerging from the White Rock would strike the boat passing be- canyon, we found ourselves passing neath. Pine trees fringe the sum- between the grassy slopes and tim- mits and struggle for existence -in bered mounds and ridges, which roll some of the crevices, some of their . Deck a mile or more to the high tops pointing downward; many are mountain ,peaks of the great range broken off because the weight above we had just passed through. At one is too heavy for the slight hOld of point a spur reaching to the river their roots. presented a mammoth \foot\ to be \Such grotesque forms, such washed -100 feet or more from heel heights and depths, such lights and to toe. shadee as here present themselves \On our left was now plainly vie - are far beyond the power of the pen ible the \Bear's Tooth,\ a mountain to illuetrate. Words may exakger- whose craggy top, which is a vertical ate points; but no descriptive Ian- seam with deep serrations rising out guage can do justice to this scene. of the steep earth flanking it nearly \Our boat slowly floated past the to the summit. It well merits the \Black Crook Dens,\ skirting the name of \Bear's Tooth,\ from its re - deep river, which nowhere through semblance to the fangs in the jai,v- the canyon is more than 300 feet wide. Although not a breath of air is stirring, we all notice sudden changes of temperature, from time to time passing throtigh a cooler strata o/ air; now warm—now 20 degrees cooler. We have been un- able to account for this atmospheric phenomenon . Gate of the Mountains. \Thus we drifted for two hours through this great White Rock can- yon, each point of view only adding fresh charms and novelties to its stately grandeur. Lewis and Clark called this canyon the,\Gate of the Mountains,\ which may do very well, though several other \gates but Will \Garabed\ Prove Greater Than Steam or Canned Lightning Has Garabed T. K. Giragossion, an Armenian mechanic or Boston, dis- covered a new motive power that will displace electricity and steam and win for its discoverer a place among scientists such as le held by Franklin and Fulton is the question that is the pat43nts committee's hearinge. It appears that Giragossian demonstrat- ed a machine of 10 horsepower. On its performance he based predictions that 'it will do away with boilers, furnaces, motors, coal steam, oil—in short everything that has heretofore been connected with the idea of pow- er. \Gsrabed\ is not a perpetual puzzling both official and scientific motion machine, he said. Washington. -\Gatabed which is the name of tle new power system, will, \ the PIONEER MISSIONARY IN inventor's claims materialize, revOlu- lionize warfare overnight and end the conflict as suddenly, with Ameri- INDIAN COUNTRY IS DEAD ca victorious. The system, which has been worked out by its inventor after 26 Death claimed one of the first mis- years of experimenting, is a \free sionaries among the Indians of energy generator.\ Here are some of the things he says it will do: Southeastern Montana when the de - Drive a bane ehip any distance mise of the Rev. John P. Williamson -without stop for fuel. Propel an aeroplane around the Possibilities of Invention. Give an aeroplane strength to car- ry thousands of pounds of muni- tions. work among the §loux at a time Enable an aeroplane to wear ar- when they were alliat war with the mour heavy enough to,turn any anti , United States. Ile was statiqued at aircraft gun's missiles. Crow Creek agency in 1863. working Send torpedoes at greater speed. double tne speed o f among the SIOUX. In 1871 lie ester, - Practically lished the first regular church steam engines. Other than to state that his s y, 3 _ among the Dakota Indians, though county. into the Crow tem of utilizing free enegry is as occasionallY coming reiolutionary as Franklin's discovcry Frequent trips were made by him of electricity. Ginagossion has in the pioneer days under the most publicly described his theory. So radical ire his assertions that they trying conditions in- order that he might hold religious service. The would be dismissed with a shrug and a smile, hail he not in Hecret .demon_ hardships suffered on some of these excursions lieggar description. and Stratione convinced the members of could hardly be imagined by the the patents committee of the house of its practicability to the extent Present generation. • that a bill was passed the final . days- of the special session anthortz- Ricks Out Professors. ing -Girgoselan to demonstrate his Because they haie done harm to theory to the secretary of the inter- the country hy '..dr public oppo- lor. It failed, however, to receive sition to the conduct of the war, presidential sanction and so did not Professor James McKeen Cattell, become a law. Private demonstra- head of the depart_nent of psychol- Bona of \Garabed\ may be given, ogy in Columbia university, and Pro - however. fessor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Used 10 H. P. Machine. Dana of the English department were The only light thrown on the sub- eipelled by the trusteett of the uni- ject comes from a deleted report of venal'. . Occurred at the age of 82 at Yankton Indiarrageney recently. In the '608 and '70s he made fre- quent tripe westward into the ter- ritory of Montana, and he took sp bone of a bruin. In height the 'Bear's Tooth' is not much less than 2,600 feet above the river. Its high- er pdints are visible several miles below, looming up over considerable cliffe 300 to 500 feet high, under which we passed. It is distinctly vis- ible also over minor ranges and hills from Ilelena, not lest; than 22 miles' away. \The advantage. of having a boat in a navigable stream, from which •to look up into every crevice and niche along the way adds much to the interest, ease and pleasure of the tourist in viewing such scenery. I should judge that the Missouri can - you would more effectually gratify the tourist than even the fright- ful gorg,e of the Yellowstone, with its - terrific depths and raging stream 3,000 feet below, which forms the From the hurricane deck of a principal wonder of the' famed Yel- bucking broncho to a seat in tha lowstone park. The best photographs I have seen of the .Yellowstone gorge represent the downward view, but still the eye is not entirely distracted ffbm a softer and more distant land- scape of trees and mountains lying across and miles beyond it. -\Nothing of this nature -detracts from the view we 'obtained of the canyons of the Missouri find in the future, wken the light -draft pleasure steamers shall take tourists from the National park and Three Forks to the great falls of the Missouri, trav- elers will admit that they never en- joyed such treats of scenery as will reward them on the way. \The deecent by rail and river from the National park to the Missouri falls may hereafter be made in a single day if the 'time tables' are properly constructed.'! Pool Fifty Miles bong. After leaving the Missouri river canyon, the Roberts party leisurely took their way down stream and on August 5 burst forth from the moun- tains . The report continues: \The river flows from the moun- tains for over 50 miles with little or no current through the plains to the Mouth' of Sun river. a short distance above the falls of the Missouri, and this portion of the river we named the 'Long Pool.' \The sun was just dropping below the horizon on August 6 as we ap- proached the mouth of Sun river. We hurriedly pulled into the left bank and found ourselves at the first rapids of the series that extends for 20 miles down the stream. \Dead buffalo were numerous on the plains about the falls, and num- bers of live antelope and deer were seen in every direction. Many buf- falo are lost in the spring as they journey southward by breaking through the ice into the river, while some are swept over the falls and drowned. At one place 26 carcasses in one heap were counted by us on the river bank. Their living number are in the millions. However, I do not artak f the le that BRONCHO BUSTER HEAD OF PRESS GEORGE H. CADE OF KALISPELL NEW PRESIDENT STATE ASSOCIATION. Chief Recreation Subduing Wild 'Horses on Flathead; Came to Mon - Lana as Actor and Went Stranded; First Active International Typo- graphical Member as President - e o v w some entertain, that they are very rapidly being exterminated by hunters. They will, of course, disappear before the white settlers, and as their feeding grounds are encroached on will be more and more hemmed in until, for want of food they will perish. Their natural increase would now, how- ever, supply the meat market of the country could it be economized. Do- mestic cattle will take the place of the buffalo with the ( Advent of the railroads.\ Referring again to the investiga- tion into the navigability of the Mis- souri above Fort Benton, Roberts says: Surveyed Road Around Falls. \Our duties embraced also a sur- vey for a railroad around the falls, to connect with the upper river pro- vided we discovered the upper por- tion to be fairly navigable. This fact I was ready to report and did report, with special recommendations as to the eize of steamers that should be placed upon it and other sugges- tions concerning the huprovement of the navigation, etc. We found a practicable railroad line which would admit of the construction of a rail- road at moderate cost . '\rhe most striking feature in the natural navigation of the upper Mis- souri river is the exisrence of the 'pool' above the falls. 50 miles in length, having a channel depth throughout of l0 feet. The other important feature is the persistency of the quantity of weer, which never falls to the extreme or minimum sup- ply which characterizes the low- water periods of the rivers in the states. Navigable for 4,600 Allies. \Four thousand miles from the sea. yet navigable for steaimers! Truly dile the father of waters. It seems upfortunate that our early navigators mid geographers, had not given' the name of the principal stream tO the main river above the junction of the Mississippi with the Missouri. Above thet point, although the Mississippi is a fine stream and navigable for largo steamers as high as the falls of St. Anthony, yet neither in its navigable length nor in its entire distance to its source or in the area of its watershed does it compare with the Miesouri. \On the Mississippi there are 1,200 miles of navigation Rem the j11T1C- tIon of the Missouri to the falls of St. Anthony, while there are 3,000 miles of navigation from the junc- tion of the Missouri to the great falls, above Fort Benton. \The . entire length of the Missis 7 Opp' from ihe function-:oi the glis- souri to its source in Minnesota is but 1,700 miles, while the Missouri is 3,600 allies long from the source of the Jefferson to the junction of the Missouri with the Mississippi. \The area of the watershed of the Mississippi above the junction of the Mismiuri is 200,000 square miles. while the watershed Of tht - Missouri above the junction id more than 600,- 000 square miles.\ presidential chair of the Montana State Press associetiod Is the pro- , gress made by George Cade of Kalis- pell, who in conjunction with Lou Knight, presides over the destinies of the Kalispell Times. George is perfectly at ease, wheth- er seated in . the saddle of a wild cay- use or in the whirling chair of his editorial sanctum. He can handle any critter that ever wore a coat of hair, rope and throw and brand him, and when he gets through with the '' 71' . 1779'0** ,,,,,,, • ,,,, ,••••••“•:' George Cade. animal make him eat out of his hand. He is just as effective with his edi- torial pen for when he goes after any- thing through the columns of the Times he usually gets it. Of course, it is in the later way that he earns his daily bread, except when he chases the festive advertiser or hunts a little job work; but 'when he wants real recreation and relief from the strenuoud activities of •edi- torial life, he goes out to his famous ranch, which overlooks the most pic- turesque region of the Flathead. finds a real bad actor among the horses, s and subdues him, just for ex- ercise. How large this ranch is George has never said, but one of the well known citizens from northern Montana once declared he owned the whole country, or could have any- thing he wanted. So it is probably bounded by the limits of his desires. Once Trod Before the Footlights. Fortunately for Montana, though Mr. Cade did not think the incident very fortunate for himself, misfor- tune made him a resident of the Treasure state. Ilowever, he imme- diately set about t take the \mis\ off and has succeeded to a high de- gree. Once upon a time (keep it dark), a wondering troupe Li' thespians—ac- tors they were called—landed in Havre after having toured a ortion of the state. Business was bad, so bad, in fact, that. the company went stranded and it became necessary im- mediately for its members to hunt other work. The hero of the tast, a handsome young fellow with thespian locks and a winning personality, who made an especial hit with the ladies, had learned the printing trade in his boy- hood. So he turned to it to replenish his fortunes. Ile dug up the trusty old I. T. U . working card, which said that George II. Cade - had qualified as a journeyman after serving as an ap- prentice in a print shop, and so he gotH: cases,. for some time in Havre and tl - en journeyed further WCHt. Olt the Great. Northern, event- ually settling in Kalistell, where he and Lou Knight got hold of the Times and proceeded to make of it a real power in the newspaper world and a moneymaker that gave assur- ances than never again would the ex- actor have to hustle for \ham an'.\ George An Old Stand -By. It has been a long time since there was a press convention in Montana without George Cade there. He was always' there. at 'the busineas sessions and when they were over did his turn in the social activiiies. In between sessions he worked as a member of the executive committee, looking aft- er the interests of the state press. For the past several years he had been one of the minor officials, who had to do a lot of work and get very lit-- tle n c o re l d s it a . i so the first active member of the International Typographical union to be elected president of the Monlana state press.
