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Friday, June 19, 1925. THE HARDIN TRIBUNE -HERALD Page Five -4W 1 '1F -- It 101 II Ii It ir SAW MILLS IN WESTERN MONTANA IN THE EARLY DAYS WERE SCENES OF OLD-TIME DANCES AND OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS 5 (- A aMeaiiiiSMIEISMirMEEHEFII By ANNE HAWKINS I MADE a trip to Bonner from Missoula recently }list especially to see what resemblance I could find in the splendid big mill there, to the little, old stumpy saw mills of the early days I saw three trim band saws ripping into the logs, in place of the old-time circular saws. Mr. Lubrecht explained that the band saws cut a much narrower width of sa - v dust' from the log than the more cumbersome circular saw, thereby eliminating a lot of waste. The old-time circular saw was the most wicked looking piece of ma- chinery I ever gazed upon, and I re- call an early day play where the hero was bound onto the log carrier by the villain and headed straight for the cruel teeth of the circular saw, when by the timely intervention pro- vided by the playright, the 'hero es- caped being sawed up. I never have been able to quite overcome the feeling that it must humanly \hurt\ the log when the saw bites into it, or repress a little shiver as for a human being on the operating table. Four hundred thousand feet per day, Mr. Lubrecht said, is the capa- city of this great mill, the largest in the state of Montana, and some five hundred men are needed to operate it. Mentally, I was comparing our little early -day mill with its fraction- al part of such an output with this huge plant at Bonner. It made me almost disloyal to even make the comparison, so I added stoutly under my breath, but \she\ was a good little mill and a sturdy worker, our old-time mill was. The general classification for the work is about the same now as in early days, Mr. Lubrecht said, but the lumber itself is graded much more closely, 25 or 30 grades now, to three grades then. I asked if there was much improvement over the old- time way eof \snaking\ in the logs to the mill, with horses and oxen, and Mr. Lubrecht smiled as he said although they had dispensed with the oxen, they hadn't found anything that was' an improvement on the horse for getting the logs out of rough country, I was glad, because I know now there is one place I can go where I won't have to flee for my life from the onrushing honking cars. They have some fine horses at Bonner. I noticed one big hand- some black horse that hauls out little cars of lumber on the tracks. He conid do everything but attach himself to the car and speak the English language. Then there' was a big dapple gray team, noticeably good to look upon, hauling loads of lumber across the yard. Very seldom in the old days did we see anything so handsome in a Mill yard. We had the little old bronc, the goverment mule and oxen. I looked around for the sawdust pile and was told that the big incin- erator took care of that as well as all other waste material not Ward for fuel. What a capacious maw! A Change From 1873! Standing on the elevated walk- ways inside the big Bonner mill above the whizzing, whirring ma- chinery and looking down upon the immense amount -of lumber being handled, one realized how much in sped and efficiency had been accom- plished since the days of the old Hammond mill in 1873. My recollections of the early -day saw mills in a sparsely settled coun- try are those of a place where you could go and have a real good time. much as community houses are now. We had dances, and Fourth of July celebrations and once we had a school exhibition (please note the word \exhibition\) and then on rare oecasions we had \Spelling Bees.\ Probably more of the old-time dances were held at saw mills than at any other one place. It was good to be alive and ride in the dusk of the evening through the sweet-smell- ing pines and dreadful logging roads up and up to where the mill was and =OM:1=c= Service 1Many Merchants in Montana Q . 0 rely on the Paris for au- thentic \style\ and \sta- ple\ merchandise. If your own merchant cannot sup- ply , you l _write the Paris , today! , _ Great Falls can furnish you i r‘ with EVERYTHING in sup- plies that you cannot pur- chase at Home. Gccat Falk, lout a an The Paris. Ilreat Falls, Montana. Pleage mend me OLEN tutor matron on your cOmplete shop ping RerViCe. Name ................................ P. 0. Address 0 001 t t then to dance all night on the new pine floors in some one of the clean, new buildings. The little old saw fills had a cluttery mill yard with a big pile of sawdust and piles of slabs and pieces of most everything lying around. We liked it that way, though. A Fourth of July celebra- tion meant considerable extra work In the way of building platforms and roofing them with boughs and even building a merry-go-round, but we couldn't have celebrated properly without them, we thought. People came a long distance to attend and those were the only attractions we had to offer. I recall but one \School Exhibi- tion\ that was held at a saw mill and that was because of the limited space in the school house not far away. Stage and .scenery was built on a generous scale, in fart, it was rather awe inspiring to some youth- ful amateur performers who were dreadfully afraid they would \fall off.\ Just why entertainments given by schools in those days should be called \Exhibitions\ I do not know, although sometimes they were that literally. Now about Spelling Bees at the old-time saw mills, of course, we had many \personally cotaducted\ ones in the old log school house, but some- how the spelling bees at the mills were funnier. Maybe it was because of the unique characteristics to be found there. Usually there was quite an assortment. I recall one man by the name of Dick Rose who had drifted in from --no one quite knew where—a man of noticeably fine ap- pearance and was very well educated. He might have been a diplomat at a foreign court, but—he wasn't. He was a booze -fighter cook for the saw mill crew. I do not know where or how he learned spelling. I know I didn't teach it to him, but if there coudn't spell it was because he had - not heard of that particular word and at that he could sometimes spell it. We ,had some pretty good spellers in our old-time spelling bees, too. They could not only \spell the house down\ but they could wear out two or three \pronouncers.\ Dick Rose was like that when we had our little spelling matches at the saw mill where he cooked. Of course there were other good spell- ers, too, even those that hadn't gone beyond the fifth grade, if they hap- pened to have had access to a mail order house catalogue. Most of the people that Came to the back axle of the running gears, the mill for lumber had to stay over and before many 'miles had elapsed, night and so, with the crew and the Iwould begin to get moody and have one or two families that lived there, bitter introspective feelings and ask there were usually enough people to myself why I was se foolish a sto try for some form of amusement, select that style of locomotion. Cer- 'most any time. I have recollections min it was'ihe Wheel's never missed. of going to the mill on the running a rock and the horses always trotted pow •••••,•••••'^..PMl.. gears of a big wagon with our men folks for lumber. I would have a cushion and sit over the back axle. One started out joyously enough but you know there are no springs or shock absorbers in conneesion with riiIIIIEE3P1111.111B1312111E1 tr 5 ) in the roughest portions of the road. A8 soon as I reached the mill my gloom would vanish and I would im- mediately find plenty of interesting things to see and do. The old circular saw always fats- A SCENE IN A WESTERN MONTANA LOGGING CAMP, one of the many which furnish the mills at Bonner, with the logs that enable this milling company to maintain a daily cut of lumber amounting to more than four hundred thousand feet. cinated me even if I did shiver every time it struck a log. The engineer was always sociable and raised his voice high above the buzzing of the saw to talk with me. Helped To Pack Shingles Once the engine \blew up\ in a government saw mill and knocked the roof off and made quite a scatter- ing. The off bearers didn't have much machinery to help them out in those days, any more than the sawdust men did. I helped pack shingles once and wrote my name and address on one shingle, but nothing romantic came of it. I liked to sit on the steps of some family house and watch the teams come in, the gov- ernment mule, teams of six or eight mules, and the oxen like \dumb driven cattle.\ In those days to be compared with a government mule was a term of opprobrium, and yet most of them were perfectly respect- able mules, only a bit tricky. It is Presumed that the word \mule skin- ner\ for drivers must have originat- ed from the fact that the old long - lashed whips used by the drivers could draw blood every time it was cracked. If I remember correctly three wagons piled high with lumber, all fastened together, could be hauled out with the eight mules. How slowly the oxen moved and how cumbersome they were and how much \whacking\ it took to get them along. I never learned just how many \whacks\ it took to make a fullfledged bullwhacker, but a great many, I imagine. I remember old Tamarack, a big black and white ox that I tried to \whack\ and got my fingers severely pinched between the_stick and the top of his sharp back bone. I do not know which ranked high- er in social distinction, a mule skin- ner or a bullwhacker, but as I recall, the seating arrangements at the oil- cloth -covered tables at saw mills, a question of precedence never came up and so I presume their social standing was about the same. What a variety of types sat around those long tables and how I loved to partake in a meal there. \Montana\ was one of the saw mill women I liked very much to visit with. 'Tana had been married four times and she could neither read nor write and after her third husband died she mnrried an impoverished Italian cdunt, 'Tana, the countess! Now an educated woman couldn't have done any better than that, could she? And the countess was the cook for the saw mill crew. I recall seeing a big forest fire and the men trying to save a saw- mill—and they did save it, too, by working all night. I rode to the top of a guich.and looked down into a fiery furnace. It made me positively sick to see the fine old pine trees suffer so. They writhed and twisted and seemed to groan as the fierce, red flames laid hold of them. I wonder it the beautiful descrip- tion that Deano Stone has written of the life of Sentinel Pine has sunk deeply enough into our appreciation 200 Species of Birds Migrate to State from Southland to Spend the Summer B IRDS of many different species enjoy their summer vacations in the mountains and on the prairies of Montana. These little feathered visitors fly northward from their southern - winter resorts In the early spring and often delay their departure until they are forced to return by winter's first cold blasts. Contrary to the general be- lief that only a few birds may be found in the eastern Montana region, bird lovers have seen as many as 200 different species during the migra- tory seasons. Great Falls seems to have its own attraction to the bird world for the distinctive notes of dozen of differ- ent birds may be heard hare almost every summer day. They are in the trees overhead, on the lawns and boulevards and along the banks of the Missouri river. Of the people living in central Montana perhaps there is no one more familiar with the birds of the state and their habits than Mrs. W. B. Willey of 1517 Fourth avenue north, Great Falls. Bird study has been a lifelong hobby, her first glimpse being gained into the feath- ered kingdom when as a little girl she accompanied her father, a forest supervisor, on Dips into the forest of Idaho. Since coming to Great Falls years ago, Mrs. Willey has closely observed the bird life peculiar to this territory, and these are some TIRES WITH 500 NAIL HOLES LEAK NO AIR A new punctuie-proof inner turn. has been invented by a Mr. N. J. Milburn of Chicago. In actual test it WRN punctured 50CI tiutes without loss of air. This won- derful new tube increases mileage from 10.000 to 12.000 miles and eliminates chang- ing -it coats no wore than the or- dinary tube. Mr. N. J. Milburn. 331 West 47th St., Chicago, wants *hew introduced .‘erywIrere and is making a special offer o agents. Write hitn.today•—adv. Celebrate the Fourth of July the Old Time Way—As You Like It. r.,,t this sp lend Id assort went of Fireworks. Only F2.50 (retail value $3.00 or more). This wonderful as- sortment of fireworks constats tot 3 pkgs. Firecrackers, S pkgs. large Flardicrackers riouriest made), 12 Sticks Priak for firing, 25 Spit !revile, ln Maintuoth Torpedoem, 3r1 Sparklers. 3 Volcanoes. 2 Fenther Bombs, 486 caps for same. 2 Red Flare Torches. 6 Roman Candies. 2 Weeping Willow Fountains. Other assortments for 51.00, 1$5.00 and $7.rar Write for cli•cular. Don't wall Remit today. Express only. CASCADE NOVELTY CO. Dept. X. Esrx CM Great Falls, Mont. of the interesting facts that she has disclosed: Friendly Species Around the city itself we find numerous friendly species breeding, like the robin, the bluebird, gold- finch and several kinds of fly catch- ers. The goldfinch is a bird that is conimohly called the wild canary be- cause of its song, which has all the thrills and cadences of the canary's. It is much smaller than the robin and has a golden yellow body with black wings and a saucy black cap. Some people seem to question the robin breeding here, but I have no- ticed them nesting and the young ones every summer. The western bluebird takes readily to bird houses and is one of the most beautiful birds here, with its brillaint blue back and paler breast, markedly dif- ferent from its eastern cousin with the deeper sapphire blue wings and back and ruddy breast. Both kinds are found here. In fact this portion of Montana seems to be a meeting place or common zone for both eastern and western birds, as well as some from states far to the south of us, like the striking black and white lark bunting, which took possession of the fields and pastures here last summer and is usually noted in Texas. Bobolinks are seen occasionally. The redstart, a most beautiful black and orange warbler, Is classed as an eastern bird. but I have seen it in our parks and found it breeding in the mountains. \On the other hand there are many typically western birds like the western anager, the most brilliantly colored. bird -of the west; the red -- shafted flicker, Clark's crow. Cana- dian or Rocky Mountain jay and wa- ter ouzel, all breeding around Mon- arch and Neihart and in the High - woods. At King's hill and Sheep creek I have seen several kinds of chickadees, juncits, jays, Clark's crows, rube crowned kinglet, nu- thatches, warblers. catbirds and che- winks, besides many more. Known by Songs To me the song of a bird means as much as the perfume of a flower —for just as flowers are recogniza- ble by their fragrance, so birds may be known by their notes. Some are RO distinctive that the birds receive their names from them as the Phoebe, killdeer, curlew, cat bird, mocking bird, etc. Others are so descriptive as to have become a part of our vocabulary as coo, quack , cackle, hiss, hoot, caw. \In this region we find a variety of geographical conditions, such as meadows and plains, forests and mountains, riverls and open shaded banks, and a corresponding variety of types of birds. Each type. ie most wonderfully adapted for the condi- tions under which it must live. In the meadows and plains we find birch which we never see in the heavy timber. The larks, lark bunt- ings and long spurs which we see all about us just outside the city limits, are conspicuous by their ab- sence in the mountains. The seed - eaters and birds who get their living by scratching, usually have well de- veloped bills and feet and are rather widely distributed. These include the numerous sparrows, finches and members of the thrush family, such as the thrushes, robins and blue- birds. Birds that are especially notice- able here are the swallows and night hawks. Getting their living from the air as they do, their mouths are enormously developed, much resem- bling frogs' mouths, and just capped by a tip of a bill, but their feet are inconspicuous. We are filled with admiration at the daring feats of the aviator, but how awkward and bung- ling does his flight, the result of man's intelligence, appear when compared with the graceful dexteri- ty of these birds. \Like the swallows, the fly catch- ers get their living from the air, but their habits are greatly different, for instead of skimming through the air on the wing for a considerable length of time, they choose a convenient perch and sit quietly for what the gods may provide in the way of passing insects, after which they Ott, only to return to almost the exact spot Just quitted. Their mouths - are also unusually large and make their heats appear father large' for their bodies. The king bird, wood pewees and Phoebes are common fly catchers. For the most part their songs are prolonged whistled notes, some rather mournful like the pe- wees and Pheobes, or shrill and piercing like the olive sided fly , catchers found in the heavy timbered regions of the west. Distinct Species \The woodpeckers, flickers, sap- suckers and nuthaches form another group of which we have a good many representatives, and all get their liv- ing from the trunks of trees only. Their bills are long and heavy and some of their tongues forked or barbed to enable them to extract the grubs and insects from the - holes they bore. They have a special toe development and their tail feathers instead of being soft and pliable, are very stiff with the shaft sometimes protrudng beyond the feather proper. This arts as a prop to the bird as he clings to the trunk. \Last'year I saw here a black poll warbler for the first time and this year a single aka, grogbeak. I had been looking for the pine gorsbeak for sometime, but hardly expected to see one on a Great Falls lawn. An obliging robin chased this one from the lawn into a tree just a few feet over my head and Icould scarcely believe my eyes as I noted his size to be almost that of a robin and his color almost entirely red, but rather darker than usual. His wings were dusky with indistinct wing bars. \If one may have a pet hobby, a pet aversion must also be allowed and the English sparrow is mine. Perhaps that is why I do not like to stress the economic value of birds for he is known to be such an omnivor- ous eater that in Europe, where he is reared in cages as a table delicacy, the cost of maintenance is said to be almost prohibitive. I have heard that the late Paris Gibson made a special plea that our boulevards and lawns be kept free from dandelions and I greatly regret that he did not add 'and from the English sparrows.' for if we should become as ashamed of the bulky nests in the shade trees and about the houses as we are of the yellow blossoms in the grass, the English sparrow would soon receive his death sentence.\ Blue Varities The following is a list of the birds that have been seen in Great Falls and vicinity by Mrs. Willey: Bald eagle, schreechowl, western horned owl, western short eared owl, belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, Louis woodpecker, sapsucker, redshafter flicker, nbghthawk, broadtalled hum- ming bird, kingbird, say phoebe, wood pewee, western flycatcher, de- sert horned lark, meadow lark, mag- pie, stellar jay, Canadian jay. crow, Clark's crow (nutcracker), cowbird, redwinged blackbird, Brewer black- bird, bronzed grackle, pine gros- beak, blackheaded grosbeak, cross - bill, goldfinch, pine siskin, English sparrow, vesper sparrow, white - crowned epaerovi i _chipping sparrow, fox sparrOW - , — gamble sparrow, song sparrow, slate colored junco. Oregon jnheo,' Mnntana rbelvink, lark bunting, Western tanager, cliff swal- liw, saxwing, waxwing, shrike, warb- ling vireo, yellow warbler, black poll warbler, andubon warbler, redstart. ouzel. Wilson thrush, catbird. Toun- send solitaire, wren, redbreasted nu- thatch, whitebreasted nuthatch, long tailed chickadee, mountain chicka- dee. ktngiets, robin, mallard,Areen winged teal. Canifda gose, Great blue If You Want to:Make More Money! ' —and Yon surely rlot Send for our new FREE.:hook- let on Oily . % fox farming. It tells you how makc more mon- ey. isn't that a real Induce- ment/ Send y'our name to no—TODAY ! 2 T I N 1 f ilu ilt ni to te n d 13 S u l i a ld te i li ng! \ S lir ook g. a l ne !a Vv rri n s . • 4 , 11> of tine things? And if we realize just what the life of the pine means? Going through the Art Institute in Chicago, 1 stood long before a paint- ing of an old pine tree. The picture was not likely to have been done by a master artist, but it brought a mist to my eye and lump in my throat for it was a true likeness of one of my dear friends in the big pine forests of the west. INDIAN FIGHTER DIES IN SEATTLE I. N. HAZLETT, FOUNDER OF CHOTEAU IN TETON COUN- TY PASSES AWAY Ran Away from Home at Age of 15 to Fight in Civil War; Came West With 25th Infantry; Was Quart- ermaster Sergeant at Fort Shaw. Stuart Hazlett of the Choteau city engineering staff was recently called to Seattle where his father, I N. Hazlett, Montana pioneer, Indian fighter and .founder of the town of Choteau had died. The career of the older Hazlett, who was 76 years of age when he died, was one of the picturesque type of the old west. He was born at Toledo, Ohio, 1849, and at 15 he ran away to join the Union forces in the Civil War. He was wounded several times. He fought in the battle of Gettysburg, where his brother, James Hazlett, a famous artilleryman, and other brother were killed. He served three enlistments, com- ing west as an Indian fighter in the • 25th Infantry stationed at Fort Shaw. He was qUartermiister's ser- geant with Judge Taitan of Fort Benton. After leaving the service he es- tablished a trading post near where Choteau now stands. With Al Hamil- ton, he formed the firm of Hamilton & Hazlett and went into general mercantile business at Choteau, which he founded and laid out. • In 1890 he went to 'Seattle and has remained on the coast most of the time since. He is survived by tea:, sons, Will- iam Hazlett of Fort Cobb, Okla., and Stuart Hazlett of Great Falls. There are also numerous relatives in Ohio. He was related to William Hazlett, the writer, and to Zane Grey. 0 Pulling Orchards W. L. Shovell, chief of the division of horticulture for the state, has re- turned from a trip to Stevensville where he made arrangements for the pulling of abandoned and neglected orchards in the Bitter Root valley. As a result several crews under the supervision of R. 0. Young, inspec- tor at Hamilton, have started the work in the Stevensville district. No- tices were sent out about a month ago, according to Mr. Shovell, to non-resident orchard holders allow- ing them until June 1 to comply with the orders. Hearon, spotted sandpiper ,golden eye, coot, herring gull, pintail duck, canvas back, pelican, spiltary sand- piper, Canadian curlew, killdeer, gray ruffed grouse, Richardson grouse, (folhen), mourning dove, western goshawk, western redtailed hawk, roughlegged hawk, sparrow hawk, lazuli bunting and downy wookpecker. Cuticura for Pimply Faces. fie remove pimples and blackheads smear them with Cuticura Ointment. Wash off in live minutes with (\till - cure Soap and hot water. Once clear keep your skin clear by using them for daily toilet purposes. Don't fail to in - 'r , Ifs Cuticura Talcum.—Adv. Champion is better because of its gas -tight, two-piece construction, which allows it to be taken apart for cleaning. ChamtvionX f or Fords 60c. Blue Box toraliotherears. 75c. More than 95.000 dealers seU Chant - Pions. You unit know the gets. wine by the doable -ribbed core. -\Art. et; takessitier - ,
