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Ifistoritit Society • .lorgripSiguri • ig Conservative estimates show other crops proportionately great, with unparalleled prosperity on the way. No Roosevelt panic possible, as in those good old republican times when wool sold for fourteen cents, and cashier's checks passed as currency. Nature and the democratic party work serenely hand in hand to discredit all the futile wails of professional republican calamity howlers MONTANA'S WHEAT YIELD ALONE TO BE THIRTEEN MILLION BUSHELS Washington, July 10.—The first idea of the size this year of the country's greatest farm crop, corn, was given today when the department of agriculture issued its report show- ing the acreage, .condition and esti- mate of the number of bushels of corn which condition reports indicate - will be produced. More definite fig- ures as to the size of the great wheat crop, the largest ever grown, also were given, as well as the first idea of the size of the potato, tobacco and rice crops. .0 The corn crop is estimated at 2,- 868,009,000 bushels, an increase of — about 421,000,000 bushels over - last - year's crop and 417,000,000 bushels over the average for five years. The total wheat crop is estimated at 930,- 000,000 or 30,000,000 higher than the June estimate, itself indicating that a new record will be maae. Figures for whiter.. .wheat In Men- tana show a condition of 92 per cent, as compared with 91 per cent, a 10 year average, with an estimate per acre yield of 27.6 bushels and an es- timated total production of 13,300,- 000 bushel. ----Detatis-of-the - acreageTeondition on July 1, indicated acre yield and total production, interpreted from condi- tion reports, of the various crops, follow: Corn—Area 'planted, 105,067,000 acres, compared with 105,820,000 acres last . year. Condition, 85.8 per cent of a normal, compared with 86.9 per cent on July 1 last year and 84.7 per cent the 10 year average on July 1. Indicated yield, 27.3 bushels per acre, compared with 23.1 bushels last year and 25.9 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total production, 2,868,000,000 bushels compared with 2,446,988,000 bushels last year, and 2,450,000,000 bushels, the average for the past five years. Winter Wheat—Area planted, 35,- 387,000 acres, compared with 31,699,- 000 acres last year. Condition, 94.1 • .r c•r* et -a -normal, compared -with 92.7 far cent on JUne 1,81.6 per cent on July 1, last year, and 80.2 per cent, the 10 year average on July 1. Indicated yield 18.5 bushels per acre, compared with 16.5 bushels last year and 15.6 bushels, the average for the - five years. Estimated total produc- tion, 655,000,000 bushels, compared with 638,000,000 bushels, the June forecast, 623,561,000 bu - shels profitrced last year, and 441,000,000 bushels, the average for the past five years. Spring Wheat—Area planted, 17,- 990,000 acres, cempared with 18,485,- 000 acres fast year. Condition, 92.1 per cent of a normal, compared with 95.5 per cent on June I, 73,8 per cent - '•im July 1- last year and f14 - .4 - per-cent• the 10 year average on July 1. In- dicated yield. 15.35 bushels per acre, compared with 13.0 bushels last year and 13.3 bushels the average for the past five years. Estimated total pro- duction, 275,000,000 bushels, compar- ed with 262,000,000 bushels, the June —forecast, 239,819,000 bushels last year and 245,000,000 bushels, the average for the past five years. Fall Wheat—Area planted. 53,377,- 000 acres, compared with 50,104,000 acres liSt year. Conditioh, 93.4 per cent of normal, compared with 93.7 per cent on June 1, 78.6 per cent on July last year and 81.7 per cent, the 10 year average on July 1. Indicated yield, 17.45 bushels per acre, com- pared with 15.2 bushels last year and 14.7 bushels, the average for the past -five years. Estimated total produc- - 4ion, 930,000,000 bushels, compared with 900,000,000 bushels, the June forecast, 763,380,000 bushels last year, and 686,000,000 bushels, the average for the . pas0 fiVe years. The amount of -wheat - felftb - itiing on farms July 1 is estimated at about 32,236,000 bushels, cOmpared with 35,515,000 bugles on July 1, 1913, and 23,876,00 bushels on July 1, 1912. Oats—Area planted, Vt 0 acres, compared wi 38,399,000 last year. Condi , 84.5 p , t of a normal corn • cid with 89.5 per cent on June 7, 1ö per cent on July 1, 1913, and , .1 per cent, 'the 10 year average on July, 1. India catecl yield, 31.9\ inisheltr per acre, compared with 29.2 bushels last year and 30.6 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total production, 1,201,000,000 bushels, compared with 1,216,000,000 bushels, the June forecast 1,122,000,000 bush- els last year, and 1,131,000,000 bush- els, the average for the past five years. Barley—Area planted, 7,528,00 acres, compared with 7,499,000 acres last year. Condition, 92.6 per cent of a normal, compared with 95.5 per cent on June 1, 1914, 76.6 per cent, on June 1, 1914, 76.6 per cent on July 1 last year, and 84.4 per - cent, the 10 year average on July I. Indicated' yield, 28 bushels per acre, compared with 23.8 bushels last year, and 24.a bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total produc- tion, 211,000,000 bushels, compared with 206,000,000 bushels, the June forecast, 178,000,000 bushels last year and 182,000,000 bushels, the av- erage for the past five years. Rye—Condition, 92.9 per cent of a normal, compared with 93.3 per cent on June 7, 1914, 88.6 per cent on July 1, last year and 89.5 per cent the 10 year average on July 1. In , dicated yield, 17.2 bushels per. acre compared with 16.2 bushels last year and 16.1 bushels, the average for the past five years. White Potatoes—Area planted, 3,- 708,000 acres, compared with 3,668,- -000-aeres-last--)iefte.--Gonditi per cent of a normal compared with 86.2 per cent last year and 88.7 per cent, the 10 year average on July 1. Indicated yield, 96.1 bushels per acre, compared with 90.4 bushels last year and 97.1 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total pro- duction, 366,000,000 bushels, compar- ed with 332,000,000 bushels, compar- aad 357,000,000 bushels, the average for -the past five years. Sweet Potatoes — Area planted, 593,000 acres, compared with 625,000 acres last year. Condition, 77.1 per cent of a normal, compared with' 86.5 per cent last year end 87.3 per cent, the 10 year average on July 1. In- dicated yield, 84 bushels per acre, compared with 94.5 bushels last year and 92.7 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total pro- daction, 50,000,000 bushels last year, and 58,000,000 bushels, the average for the past-kfive years. Tobacco—Area _planted, 1,151,009 acres, compared with 1,216,000 acres last year. Condition, 66 per cent of a normal, compared with 82.8 per cent last year and 84.6 per cent, the 10 year average on July 1. Indicat- ed yield, ,636.9 pounds per acre, com- pared with 784.3 pods last year and 815.1 pounds, the average for the peat five years. Estimated total pro- duction, 733,000,000 pounds, compared with 954.000,000 pounds last year, and 996,000,000 pounds, the average for the past five years. Flax—Area planted, 1,927,000 acres, compared with 2,291,000.- acres last year. Condition, 90.5 per cent of a normal, compared with 82.0 per cent last year and 86.8 per cent the 10 year average on July 1. Indicated yield, 9.1 bushels per acre, compared with 7.8 bughels last year and 7.8 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total production, 18,000,000 bushels, compared with 18,- 00(1,000 bushels last year, and 20,000,- 006' bushels, the average for the past five years. Rice—Area planted, 704,800 acres, compared with 827,000 acres last year. Condition, 86.5 per cent of a normal, compared with 88.4 per cent last year and 88.0 per cent, the 10 year aver- agit on July 1. Indicated yield 33.3 bushels per acre, compared with 31.1 bushels last year and 33.3 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total production, '23,000,- 000 bushels, compared with 25,744,000 bushels last year, and 24,000,000 bushels, the average for the past Ave years.\ - ient--of -a-- no al compared with 88.7 per cent on June 1, 1914, 80.5 per cent on July 1 last year and 81.9 per cent the av- erage for the past six years. Iift cated yield, 137 tons per acre, pared with 1.31 tons last year 1.34 tons, the average for the past five years. Apples --Condition, 64.2 per cent or a normal, compared with /3.7 per cent on June 1, 1914, 59.4 per cent on July 1 last year and 59.4 per cent the aveAtge for the past 10 years. VISITING IIER tbe tibaoteont rt. VOL. XLI. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914. No. 43 IT'S THEIR MASTER'S VOICE ci That Dear_Theodore_holds whip band over the -G. 0,1 3 ., and all thesigns indicate that he will compel the distracted republican party to nominate him two years hence Washington, July 13.—Seven out of ten republican members of the house are praying for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt as -the pro- gressive republican_candidate in_ 915_ About two out of ten have doubts as to the wisdom of_the course. The third is hostile, or at least unwilling to commit himself on the proposition at this time, either privately or pub- licly. Even with a majority_ got the re- publicans and most of the progres- sives willing to unite on Mr. Roose- velt it would - not be an easy matter for the two parties jointly to nom- inate the former president. There are practical difficulties in the way, al- I - U - Yugh friends of Mr. Roosevelt sal+ they will be removed long before the time for the nomination rolls around. The difficulties in the way or a dual nomination may be thus summariz- ed: Early in the preconvention cam- paign of 1912 Mr. Roosevelt announ- ced his indorsement of the principle of the recall of judicial decisions. The progressives who are disposed to join with the republicans in 1916 name as a condition for such a merger the acceptance of all of the progressive platform. Many republicans regard judicial recall as fundamentally and morally wrong, and declare that rather than accept it under the terms of a party amalgamaton they would rather stuy out in the cold forever. There are progressives who are bitterly hostile -te•-the thought !if forming an offen- sive and defensive alliance with re- publicans for' the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt or anything else. Among these may be mentioned Representative Murdock of Kansas, the bull moose captain in the house. Mr. Murdock expressed himself, on the subject in this way: \You better talk about erne:game- tion with the democrats. It is more logical than amalgamation with the republicans. The talk about the pro- gressives and republicans nominating Mr. Roosevelt in 1916 is utterly pre-. posterous. \We're not in this fight for office for any man. A joint nomination of Mr. Roosevelt presupposes a compro- mise on issues. We cannot compro- mise with the republicans. The dif- ferences that divide us are funda- mental.\ There are rePublicans in the sen- ate who agree with Mr. Murdock. They decry the talk about a dual nomination. These republicans and Mr. Murdock and those progressives who 'agree with him are the \stand - patters\ of their respective organi ze tions. They would fight out the pres- ent,fight, regardless of consequences, until one party or the other was elim- inated. But the majority of the republi- cans in the house are not digitised to wage a long fight with the progres- sives with the certainty that while the warfare 'continues the democrats will continue to occupy the seats of the mighty. And that is why most of them are willing to listen to ways and means of devising some sort of a plan whereby Mr. Roosevelt may be named as the standard bearer of the two parties in 1916. Rot -, -welt sentiment is not as strong In the senate as it is in the house. The reason for that is that in the senate there are a number who themselves have ambitions to land the republican presidential nomination two years hence. Among these may be mentioned La Follette of Wiscon- sin, Cummins of Iowa and Borah of Idaho, all of whom have a following and all of whom stuck by the Grand Old Party in the hour of its peril in 1912. Strangely enough, republicans who are opposed to accepting Mr. Roose- velt as a candidate under any circum- stances do not mention the former president's bolt two years ago as their primary reason for opposing him. They hark back to the speech that he delivered at the Ohio constitutional convention in the spring of 1912. On that occasion Mr. Roosevelt lapoan- ced that he had been won over to the justice of writing into the laws a plan permitting the people to recall or reverse decisions of the courts. That speech alienated such men as E k u Root of New York, IIenry C. Lodge and Augustus P. Gardner of ELIGIBILITY SETTLED Helena, July 11. ----Under certain cir- cumstances a man may even be a candi- date at a primary election and yet not be able to vote. Such conditions have aris- en at Red Lodge, and County Attorney Frank P. Whicher sought the opinion of Attorney General D. M. Kelly. Mr. Kelly holds that an attorney who established residence in the county about the middle of October, 1913, and was ad- mitt41 to practice law about November 1, 1913, is qualified to have his name upon the offici4 . 1 ballot, providing he has suffi- SON. dent sigqattires on his petition, - ha he • - Mrs. Bessie Hadzor of Norris has cannot vote hims,ejf at such election be - been the guest , of her son, Deputy Sheriff James H. Hadzor, the past cause he could not be a qualified elector. two or three days. Massachusetts and other conserva- tives, who, while no longer exercising large influence nationally, are still potential in their own state. The opinion is quite general that the election of a democratic house this fall would give an impetus to the movement for the joint nomina- tion of Roosevelt two years later. Republican success would embolden - those who are opposed to the idea. On the other hand, a democratic vic- tory would encourage those who want to see the former- president nominated in 1916 on the theory that he is the only man the republicans could name who would stand a show of success. DISTANCE TARIFFS CUT. An average reduction of 20 per cent per hundred pounds in the gen- eral distance tariff rates on the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and the - Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads has been secured by the state railroad commission follow- ing a conference with the traffic man- agers of those carriers, held June 10. The general distance tariff rates are those which apply between all points in Montana except such as have distributing rates, a hearing on which was held last fall, and an or- der made reducing materially these rates. Later, however, the railroad commission reversed its first ruling and put into effect rates which were originally suggested by the railroads effected. The reduction in the general dis- tance tariffs, including ten classes, is made in conformity with the dis- tributing rates, and puts Montana on the same basis as Washington, per- mitting of much cheaper shipping of commodities generally within the boundaries of the state than in the past, In promulgating the new tariffs, the commission says: \In the matter of general distance tariff rates, the commission having had under consideration the question of mOre reasonable general distance rates on all classes of freight, both carload and less than carload, the question was taken up with traffic representatives of the Great North- ern Railway company, the Northern Pacific Railway company and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- way company on June 10, requesting these carriers to submit to the com- mission for its consideration revised schedulee of general distance rates in lieu of the rates now in effect, and the above named carriers having sub- mitted to the commission schedules on the same basis as are in effect in the state of Washington, the commission has accepted such schedules to be- come effective not later than 20 days from this date.\ A table accompanying the state- ment of the commission compares the new with the present rates for a dis- tance of 700 miles on all ten classes, and shows, as will be noted, that the average redaction is 20 per cent. This applies to each class considered by it- self and also in the aggregate. The reductions are more pronounced as the longer hauls are reached, and av- erage, as has been stated, 20 per cent on the whole. For instance, on 50 miles the old rate is 35 cents and the new 40 on class 1; class 2, old 40, new 30; and so on to class E freight, upon which the old rate is 8 cents per hundred and the new 7 cents. For a distance of 700 miles on class 1 the old rate was $2.20 per hundred and the new is $1.80, and so on to class E, where the old rate was 44 cents and the new. 36 cents . COUNTY VALUATION. Assessor Hardin Vinson has com- pleted his report of the 1914 assess- ment which must be filed with the county clerk and recorder. 4 Owing to 4 r a big decrease in live stock, the valu- ation is only about $30,000 higher than last year, although the railroad assessment when fixed by the state board of equalization may_bring the - total increase to $100,000. The total value of real estate and improve- ments is $3,729,726; personal proper- ty, $2,556,501; mineral reservations, $50,000; bringing the- grand total up to $6,336,227. The valuation of property in Class A is as follows: Real estate other than town lots, $1,926,687; improve- ments on same, $727,980; improve- ments on lands the title to which is vested in another than the person so listing it, $45,135; city or town lots, 1 :,095; improvements on same, $381,480; mining claims filed on or patented, $90,100; improvements on same, $160,000; telegraph lines, $8,- 880; telephone lines, $24,614; power lines, $166,885; irrigating ditches and flumes, $50,000; station grounds and depots, $9,870. The valuation of property in Class B is as follows: Thoroughbred horses, 60 head, I $21,025; range horses, 5,742 head, - $217,305; work horses and mules, 4,208 head, $213,- 440; beef cattle, 688 head, $23,730; yearlings, 3,918 head, $581685; 2 - year -olds, 791 head, $15,820; cows, 1,523 head, $45,700; stock cattle, 19,- 348 head, $491,600; sheep, 101,044 head, $202,090; rams, 1,725 head, $8,- 625; hogs, 2,476 head, $24,760; pn- gore goats, 20 head, $40. Other personal property is valued lid follows: Mortgages and bonds, $88,580; express, water and electric light companies, $269,146; watches, jewelry and plate, $350; household goods and furniture, $29,930; musi- cal instruments, $10,285; law and miscellaneous libraries, $2,050; goods, wares and'merchandise, $172,760; sa- loon, store and office fixtures, $11,- 900; farming utensils, $26,450; wag- ons, harness and saddles,' $120,580; - machinery, $57,820; solvent credits and bank deposits, $181,820; bailie stock, $261,950. • Lands are classified as follows: Grain, first class, 10,000 acres, valu- ed at $250,000; second class, 12,200 acres, valudil at $180,000.-4Iay, first -- class, 10,200' acres, valued - at $204,- 000; second class, 20,000 acres, valu- ed at $204,550. Grazing, fenced, 288,- 877 acres, valued at $628,220; unfen- ced, 125,464 acres, valued at $193,- 280. Timber lands, 20,000 acres, val- ued at $125,000. _BEIM FROM Harrison C. Elling, one of the leading young business men of Pony, is visiting relatives in this city yes-' terday and today. He reports that crops in northern Madison county were never so good as this year and, barring hail storms before harvest, immense yields will be the result. Mr. Ening is a sincere booster for the Montana creameries, Pony hav- ing one of the best in the state. He says, however, that Montana cream- eries work against heavy odds, as Montana merchants seem to prefer buying butter of eastern creameries at the expense of home industry. It is probable that a _state publicity campaign, with the slogan, \Ilse only Montana Batter,\ may yet have to be organized. DOMESTIC ARRESTED. Shexiff iOAdaIni, made j trip to Ennis night before last, returning With :;141its rlorence teight, who had been in the employ of lAts. Arthur Nelson as a domestic. It it. alleged that the young wernan had in her possession a large supply Of clothing 'and iiOfiie 'valuables belonging to the Nelson family. Our conservatively and progressive mahods promote the interests of Our patrons. Southern Montana Bank, Ennis. Mont.---Adv.
