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Page Two THE HARDIN TRIBUNE -HERALD FRIDAY. OCT. 2. 1925. LIGHTNING LEADS IN FIRE CAUSES 211 '- P I R CENT OF CONFLAGRA- TION IN FORF.STS SET BY ELECTRICITY Number of Man Caused Blazes In Nilontatsa and Moho U . t !• Greatly Reduced Mu Year, Although To- tal Number of Fires Was Greatest. That the public Is becoming more careful in the USe Of fire in the woods, although using them more for recreational purposes, is the belief of forest officials judg- ing front the great decrease in the number of man -caused fires in district No. 1 of the National for- ests in Montana and Idaho this season. Man -caused blazes for 19:15 were only about 40 per cent of the average for previous years. This tact is looked on with much encouragement as man -caused fires previously have given considerable trouble, usually being started in good timber stands. On the other hand, the season this year, considered by forest officials to be the worst since 1919, has been especially bad from ---the_ _standpoint of lightning fires, which were far in excess of the av- erage. Fourteen hundred and seventy - by the forest fires have beer fought by the forest service in disefrict No. 1 which comprises Montana and North- ern Idaho, up to August 31, and of this number, 1.191, or 81 per cent of the total, were caused by light- ning. In contrast, the number of man -caused fires was 282. which is about half the usual number of what may be termed preventable blazes. Railroads set 61, campers 82 and smokers 71. One thousand and forty -tour of these fires were exanguished before they reach - ed - 1 - -4 acre in size, 320 covered more than 1-4 acre each but were held under 10 acres. and 109 exceeded 10 acres each before being controlled. The total area burned over was 62;492 acres, of which 44,544 acres wre national forest lands. In the National Museum is a fossil of a dwarfed camel, believed to be 1,800,000 years old. Say \Bayer Aspirin\ INS1941 Unless you see the \Bayer Cross\ on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by phy- sicians for 24 years. Safe Accept only a Bayer package which contains proven directions Handy \Bayer\ boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists Aspirin la the trade mark of Bayer Mane - facture of isasoseetteseidester of fialkallakeld Mining Supplies Station Pumps Sinking Pumps Electric Hoists Repuano Gelatine Powder Drills Compressors Sirocco Ventilating Fans Anything and Everything You May Need for Mining Mail Orders Solicited A. C. M, HARDWARE HOUSE Butte Monta f ?'It 11 II 1t1=2 r ic I c==i Discovery of Marias Pass Gave Lowest Rail Route Thro ugh Rockies in State ts, t (By MRS. M. E. PLASSMANN) F ROM the geographies in use when I was young. I gained the impression that the Rocky mountains was a single. long row of conneeteol peaks of nearly uniform height extending across the United States front north to south dividing the East front the little known West, and that these mountains rose ahruptly from the piaius. To go over them was easy, apparently — , — Ft being simply a matter of going up one side and down the other, and this might I. ....- its highest down.\ =l1= peak, never _so be throwe With the establishment of the Can adieu boundary line, and the eaten shin of railroads, the possibility 01 uniting the East with the West begar to be agitated in congress, when Sen ator MeDuffie. having described the country west of the Mississippi as he believed it to be—a desert country \where rain never falls, and there ttniteites- -44e paseable --except through depressions\ to he reached only by going hundreds of miles out 4 f,rst heard that there was a possibil- try of the St. Paul & Maniteba rail- %•:ty being extended westward, and h new of the efforts that were being made to induce James J. Hill to un- ssrtake the task. I saw the first train of the Great Northern enter ,vat Falls, and true to the predic- set of the legislator front Missouri. ssi• tears at the sight, but not for 0 lack of bread. They were tears ' joy Air what had been no long Patiently awaited. • From Great Falls the road went had been a tradition. Indians had described it, and explorers sought It unsuccessfully. John F . Stevens, the great engineer, who was then in Mr. Hill's employ, determined to discov- er whether the stories of the Indians and the report of Governor Isaac I. Stevens (that he judged there must be a pass at the head of the Marina river), had any foundation in fact. The result was that on December 11, 1889, he located the desired pass. about 125 miles north of the passes near Helena, at an altitude of 5,200 feet. When, last March, John F. Stevens was awarded the Fritz medal, Presi- dent Ralph Budd of the Great North- ern Railway company, told the story of this discovery, which I quote from the book issued in commemoration of the awarding of the medal. Preident Budd atm:- then was left behind, as the train \On the last lap of the exploration thundered on. of the Militias Pass, he (Stevens) was There, on the plateau where he spent that memorable night, in a superb amphitheatre surrounded by lofty mountains, stands the bronze statue of John F. Stevens. erected by the officials of the Great Northern Railway company, to show their ap- preciation of his services in their be- half. No one who knows why it is there can fail to be thrilled on be- holding it in its unequalled setting, of valley and towering heights. Not only did the discovery of the Marias Pass, open up the lowest rail route across the Rocky Mountains in Montana, but this also cleared an en- eranee to the Glacier Park country, and the beautiful wooded slopes Or the western side of the divide. Here we have a picture of beutiful Lake McDon- ald, the gem of the Montana Rockies, located just three miles front Belton on the main line of the Great Northern, about forty miles west of Summit. be accomplished anywhere, but pre- of the direct course, immortalized ferably where the two peaks joined, himself by inquiring: and there was a slight depression. \Well now, what are you going One evening at sunset in 1863, our to do in such a case? How are you guide, who had accompanied us from going to apply steam? Have you Ohio on our journey across the made an estmiate of the cost of a plains, drew our attention to masses railroad to the mouth of the Colum- of what appeared to be clouds in the bia? Why the wealth of the Indies west that were outlined against the red sky, and said: \There are the mountains.\ , I could not believe it at first. They did not correspond with the serried \line depicted in the geography, for they varied in size and form. My astonishment was greater, when I came amongst them, and discovered ' that in entering them one found him- self in a maze with no visible exit, and without a road to follow the trav- eler who was unfamiliar with the country would be lost. We passed one chain of mountains only to encounter a second, and once within their con- fines we never were out of sight of them. The ascent to South Pass was so gradual that we had to be told we were in it; and it was many years before I knew what the finding of that pass meant to trans -continental travel. Trappers and hunters went back and forth over the Rockies long before, but horseback or afoot. The first wagon to go through South Pass was that of a Protestant mis- sionary, Dr. -Marcus Whitman, in 1836. Its feasibility for this kind of a vehicle having been demonstrated, others profited by the experiment of Whitman and soon the tide of emi- gration crossed the barrier which Thomas H. Benton once said should be the western limit of the Republic, and that on the ridge of the Rocky mountains \the statue of the fabled God Terminus should be erected on AFTER EVERY MEAL . _ . affords benefit as well as pleasure. Healthful exercise for the teeth and a spur to digestion. A long- lasting refreshment, soothing to nerves and stomach. The Great American Sweetmeat, untouched by hands, full of flavor. Cuticura Soap Is Pure and Sweet Ideal for Children 144 , Seep, Ointment T *van fr.. Addres. Mum would be insufficient. Of what use would it be for agricultural pur- poses? I would not, for that purpose, give a pinch of snuff for the whole territory. I wish the Rocky moun tains were an impassable barrier. If there was an embankment of even five feet to be removed, I would not consent to expend five dollars to re- move it and enable our population to go there. I thank Pod for his mercy in placing the Rocky moun- tains there.\ The ignorance of our statesmen re- garding this western country, is at- tributed by some historians to pro- paganda of the Hudson's Bay com- pany. If so, its agents were more successful here than in England, for had the truth concerning it been credited there, the Canadian line might now have been lower. It took several exploring expeditions, and the reports of those who were familiar with the region, to make our government understand that on both cid pit of__ and includin the Rockies, lay a vast empire of untold wealth; then the vision sat a connect- ing railroad became an actuality. Now, with automobile loads of tour- ists \whizzing\ across the continent, the East is becoming acquainted with the West as it is today: but these sightseers who speed over our na- tional highways, can never imagine the tremendous difficulties sur- mounted in taking the first wagon through the South Pass. The pion- eers who followed the Oregon Trail at a snail's pace in covered wagons, could form some conception of it, but even for them the way was made comparatively easy by the knowledge gained from that initial trip. Time, as we know, overcame op- position to the building of a rail- road to the Pacific, and East and West were inextricably bound to- gether. Engineers solved the prob- lem of the \depressions\ by means of passes and tunnels, and the pre- dicted impossibility was accom- plished. Sckstcely were we accustomed to the' fact of the Union Pacific before the Southern PaciSie was building, followed by the Northern Pacific— three great lines stretching to the western limit of our country. But opposition did not cease with the construction of :the first. I was in Helena when the legislature had un- der consideration the Northern Pa- cific question, and I well recall one speech made at that time by, I think, a native of Missouri, who was decidedly opposed to encouraging any railroad to enter the state. He said be had never seen a railroad, nor did he want to; and then added. in a trembling voice, that if a rail- road came here we should hear the children crying for bread. The Central Pacific crossed the Rockies at Evana's Pass, at an alti- tude of over 8.000 feet. The North- ern Pacific followed the route out- lined by' Mullen, through the pass bearing his name, and nearly 3.000 feet lower than its central rival—a trifle over 5,500 feet. I left Helena before the Northern Pacific entered it, and was living in the \City of the Future,\ as Great Falle•waa then denoMinated, When I on to Helena and Butte, the princi- accompanied only by a half-breed In - pal cities of the state. At first it dian, as no one else would venture was thought that a pass would be sought in that direction, and if found Into the mountains so late in the Year. Carrying their packs on their elsewhere, the trade on this line backs, they had reached a point would prove lucrative. However, about five miles from the summit should the road seek an outlet in when his companion became exhaust - this neighborhood, it would not be ed and had to be left at camp, if an nearly so advantageous as would open fire on ground cleared of two be a pass farther north, and in a feet. of snow can be called a camp. more direct line. From there he went alone through For many years the Marias Pass the pass and far enough to make sure he was in the Pacific drainage. Alone that night at the summit, he PyR adium for Pyorrhea tramped to and fro to keep from freezing, and in the morning came back to his Indian only to find the fire out and the fellow half frozen. 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