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- r bile lelh4 744 1 • 1 Life, Endangered by Austrian - Attack on Montenegrin Palace. MUST PROTECT SHEEP - 42OCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP ARE THREATENEWSVITUXTEIC- hence it - maybe too late to aaveanat --- Petittorts - for - thewseattan of theTis nifitmEwitt ---- ought leo be takee-ou TION UNLESS PROTECTED. , There is a movement now on foot that has for its object the passage of a law that will prohibit the killing of mountain sheep in Montana for the next 10 years, the itnerim allow- ing of sufficient time it is thought, for propagation of the animals in considerable number. The Rocky Mountain sheep is. be- coming quite scarce in4hiilititte and * extinction may be -the result a an annual open season so far as this an- imal is concerned. From far away New', York the man- ager of the zoological perk has writ- ten to different wettern states Urg- ing that the sheep be protected, Idaho and, Washington: • . \You are now confronted selth this .question: Will -you stop all hunting of Mountain sheep for A - term of 10 yearle as Colorada - hak thine has done, .or will you permit killing -to go on Until your wild sheep are extermin- ated?-' • , \You -know very well that your mountain sheep are being killed fast - than• they are breeeding and that for any species this mean extinction. You know perfectly mall that while the -your -state game laws permit ona the'. killing of rams the ewes are disappearing just .idly as. the :rams. You knotthat your. \pro- 'tection\ of your mountain sheep (as ,.e Species) . is a joke. _ \Your „stock of. sheep hats fallen so low, that eastern sportsmen - , (at least to. my acquaintance) no tong,er think of going to Montana, Wyieming, _ - Idaho or Washington to hunt big horn. ,\Thesinatter -has been, brought to your' attention before, but ,in some (itates the legislators have been afraid that 'the sportsmen wouldn't stand for a long. 'closed season,' and so no real' progection has been accorded. • • t ocation 6 aft.- rogram os were His letter follows: - made. The werel.' Afforded \To the people of Montana, WYoming, an opp6\r tunity . to witness n'lasket- )all game Imtwi3en. the univeyeities of Utah and Montana.. • . - The domestic science defiltrtmenb -, erved luncheon during e after - non -for the benefit, of t visitors ni - td, the ladies -.of the nniver ty fac- -By received visiting ladiee, in the NVOTnen s • dormitory., In the -evening there wa - s4a . bair- nuet in -the city- at which the visitors Were . entertained by the Missoula Chorebet of. Commerce. This 1.17P regular Red Red Apple banquet which has made. Missoula laniqus - and' which Proved, this year, ,even More successful than ever before. TRAIN BREAKS IN TWO _ county of Wilson, were read by At- torney -C. E. Carlson, representing petitioners. Certified copies of names appearing on registration books in rf Gallatin - Jefferson and Madison coun- ' r LEGISLATORS VISIT UNI. ties • of precincts proposed LO be in- . 'eluded:in the new ,county offered as evidence 'in support of :petitions. - Two hundred legisletoYalerid other Objections to said petitions read :state .officers -of- . , Montan' visited the by Attorney M. M. Duncan, rentesente a big increase. in small timber sales; State University, Satut Fehru- ing the objectors and proixt :ants.' these numbering 8298 in 1914 against ary 6, the guests of isSoula After hearing the arguments for 610 - the previous year.. Desirable ioitors 'end against said petitions and objec- .bloell of national forest tipiner Was - ii4ecial dons the board finds and holds that been appraised and put on the - mar- k:Ion thJ petitions for the. creation of the ket; and it is expected that these will gs and county -of Wilson, filed January find purchaSers when - conditions in 1915, are not sufficient to be accept- ed - as - prima -- facie - evidence- of the :luridictienal facts ,• necessary to be found by the board and the board , fixes - February 24th, 1915, 'at one o'clock p..m., 'at the court, house in Virginia - City, Montana, h • Selling some billion and a half board feet of timber and supervisiny the cutting op several, ,thousand dif- ferent arias, overseeing the grating ot e more than 1,500,000 cattle and 77,00,000 sheep; and building more 411aft 600 miles of road,'3000 mileit of 6411,3000 miles of telephone line, and 700, miles of fire line are some of the ;things which the government for- est 'service did last year, as disclosed in the report by the chief forcater for 191 t . These activities were all on the nat nal forests, whch at present to- tal bout 185,000,000 acres. There is need, says the chief for- ester, to increase ,the cut of timber from the national forests stterever a fair price can be obtained for the stumpage, because great 'deal Of it Colorado? When her sheep 'were re- spEciAL m[gINGIRDINATIoNALF0REsTsus[ from fire. These improvements in- duced to a low point Colorado en- acted a 10 ' year cleaed seakon law. Today that state coins about 7000 proud of them. The pictures that have been made and -Published of the GUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST - PORT TELLING OF THE USES , herde that come down into the town THE NEW COUNTY. OF NATIONAL FORESTS. of Ouray—to be fed and photograph- ed at distance of 15 feet—are very ' mu_ch....tos_the_ _credit of Colorado. 4 \Men of Montana, Idaho, Wyom- ing And Welshingon, get busy! Sure- ly, you do not want your remnants of mountain sheep to be extermin- ated. That would be barbarous. Why let the slaughter go on merely to please a very few men who have no scruples about exterminating wild game? You have today only enough' sheep remaining to serve -as seed stock in bringing back the vanished herds. Remember your duty to posterity.- • \To exterminate that , fine big game species would be a crime; and it is the duty of your legislature; to prevent it. Enact a law at once to give your mountain sheep 'a ten year closed season. \Don't hesitate about it, ,and delay it for two more years; for two years . MT. big horn and the kole state is COMMISSIONERS LISTEN TO AR- CHIEF, FORESTER ISSUES RE - VOL. XLII. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTAN Y, FEBRUARY 19 1915. CARLOhE CESPEKS. Cuban Ministilr is Prineilial Speaker .at Maine Memorial. No. 22 \Why not learn so * Abing from remnant. Do it nowt, toefore thi3 legislature adjourns. -Years , very sincerely, • e , - \WILLIAM T. HQKNADAY.\ r,. Chamber of Commere. arrived from: Helena o train and spent the a specting the university equipment.. There, Was a 'special of studeas at 4 o'clock ernoon, at v:hich a musil was given abli a -few sPen Secial February session, Saturday, February 13th, 1915. Pursuant to call the board of coun- ty commissioners of Madison county Montana, met in special session at the court hot4e in Virginia City. MadiSon county,. Montana, on Febru- ary 13th, 1915, at 1:30 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of hearing the peti- tions for the .creation of the county el Wilson. Present: C. W. Chowning, U`siihrian, Bert G. Paige And Peter a Grant, commissioners; arid AT: irr . Thomas, clerk. The petitioners .represented by At- torneys C. E. Carlson'and H. A. Pad- dock and the objectors and protestants represented by Attorneys M. M. Dun- can, Ike E. 0. Pace rind H. A. Bo- linger. • . 0.nowngommit 1 7 ble and to insure t e r protection D elude 270 mi es Of improvements road', 2,153 ' and place for receiv g and awing the proof offered- sustain or con- trovert the said etiticets and counter petitions- filed and for the, further thins filed and tor the_ further con. ceonsideration 'of . fl said matter. ' The bond offered by the petitionere I was taken 'under cant ideration; biethe board aa . to . ,.whether it should be ap- proved. ' C. E. - Carlson representing petitioners stated' petitioners would put Op a cash bond if required no advantage is to be taken or ,attempf- -- ed to- be taken provided_ satisfactory bond is filed on or before the date to. _which the hearing adjourned, February 24th, -1915. Board adjourned to February 24th, 1915. ,- Dillon, Feb. 12.—A brakeman en C W. -CHOWNING, - the- Short Line by the name of Fer- Chairman: guson yesterday morning Met with Attest: 3y. H. Thomas, County Clerk. . a ' terrible accident when he had one 'of his feet cut off at the ankle by a car- wheel passing over it, The sad affair occurred as the train was de- scending the Feeley hill. _Ferguson was working with the brakes on :op of a car when the train broke and Ferguson fell between the cars and was run over, Beet growers representing 4 . 0,900 acres of land in Montana, Wyoming, , Colorado and Nebraska have given to the central committee of the Inter- state Farmers' association power of attorney to rngotiate with the Great Western Sugar company regarding 1915 beet contracts. miles of trail, 3063 miles of tele- phoneljaL 0 175 miles of fire line, and 106 — 1 - 4Rout stratus, besides bridges, barrels, fences and cabins. additien 642 miles of road were built for the public by the use of 10 per tent of the national forest re- eeipts, as authorized by congress, In ei , the national forest receipts for the year, amounting to, $586,593,0, were aid over to the various 'states in which the forests lie for the benefit of county schools and roads. Since 1909, when systematic classi- fiscation of national, forest land was begun, more than 10,000,000 acti3 have been eliminated. Scattered in- terior tracks which it is not practical to eliminate are opened to settlement through listing, which allows them to be taken up under the forests home- stead law. Anyone may apply to have land within n forest examined to de- termine vihether it is - best suited for Igriculture, and if found )3o it is op- ened to settlement under the law. p R o r Durin g the - year 2690 tracts, total-, ' S ADVICE ing 282,483 acers, applied for by in- . `dual a -WM1 -- tinorrerl --- for - elate y BY - — elimination and listing the percentage of unpatented agricultural land with- in the national forests, never large. has been reduced to a very small amount. -- EXTENSION - SERVICE. In compliance with an act of con- gress, a division of agricultural- ex- telision ,servico has been organized at ele. part of the Montana agricultural college. The,ei - eincipal activities of this division ditto far are: , Home economics, demonstrations, short coures and lectures to farm the, industry improve. All • told, the , g-overnment, - ._ received $1o3 01 ,05. 66 I women in country homes , rural 1 -school houses and country communi- from the sale of timber on the for- ties With MiSs Katherine Jensen in este, in 1914: rie receipts from all k sour r' totaled $2,437710.21, ellar o ll. y 6 ; and 1,1 :, club, f in I lifter 'eight years of experience chniere of Miss Augusta M. Evans. stockmen are wV11 satisfied, says the Farm manageinent .liorve ,, et end chi f forester. with _ the of Livestock on t gr. .ing, of forests is c reme ae ., r ie rdteee l dealonstr at ion w°Y the demonstrations under H. li. Cannon. re lated, and have even urged upon tvork, corn a r and alfalfa Poduction, conkrisk.s the - apfilication - of the same better farming and gretection of me mid - of control to the unreserved uhlic range . Almost 29,000 per live stoic, destruction of 1 , 0 p •Avro, •aze rtock on the national for- :, 9 1 . 1 ° ,: ,;i x e m M . L. Wilson, ts ') LI )1 ty egeti. titte leader, , F ,.. e. - nd Dresensaid to the iroVer • lr- Pin nt nratietion aipecialistia crop itle4 in the fiscal year 1914 'fees ,specipikts, a field Men in plericulteral amounting to over a million dollars. educaton and several more county The present tendency to raise fewer agents are needed. I sheep_ and ,goal and more cattle and The Smith -Lever act gives $10,000 horges is -shown in the fact till the in 1914, $12.952 in 1915, and $15. - eke room for Siveung growth.- Mr rable conditions in the•eltfinbei:, tra e caused - newi sales ,of national. for of timber te fall off somewhat during the past year, though the op- eration e on °attending sales ,con- tracts brought -the - total cut . above that of the previous year by' -130,099- 000' board feet. There . was; however, number of cattle end horses permit - tees . on the western forests increas- ed last year by 1579 4 'while the nurnber of beep and goat permittees fell off by a total of 268: The west- eni stock business, the forester points paid to men in -the field, 17600 per out, is beeeiiiing - ifttiticked to thesoil, year.. •'$1500 per year is mIld to Mr.' and the ititierent sheep grower and ;Hillman . by the Dairy division. Oth- the speculator in. cattle are giving er funds for -work on reclamation pro - piec e to the permanent resident and'i nate in Manna l_and_exuects the owner of improved ranch property. state to Meet the other half, which is The latter le always given prefer-a anann abl e. nee in the use of national fdrest , - . To meet the federal appropriations range. , 412 in 1916 for. extension service in, Montana. From the $400,000-appro- related by congress for states outsiM the cotton belt, Montana is now re- ceiving in the - form of part salaries Of $23,052 for 191li, and $24,512 for Some $400,000 was spent by the1916, the legislatuTe is asked to an - forest service during the year for propriate $20,000 for 1915, end $25, - permanent improvements on the nu -000 ,,for 1916 for agricultural exten- tionai ...forests to make them accessiesion..service. • _ FAMOUS 'LIVE STOCK EXPER't ADVOCATES THE IIAISIN'GL. OF DUAL IVPOSE COW. • Tuesday aftemioon_and evening the local branch 'of the Mentanft Farmers' Institute had us ,i.t guest a likLin- guIshed educator, Prof. ThomaS' Shaw, - an' eminent authority on the Short-, horn breed of cattle and the dual par- - poSe ; Ow—an animal -that will .pro - . duce an - abundance of milk and whert passed the prodifeing----age can, be easily fattened - for' the beef market, says the -Twin Bridges .Monitor. Prof., Wilson, a graduate of the- Michigan college of agriculture, accompanied Mr, Shaw, Confining his- remarks chiefly.•to the . prom: - N • nreeding and . ., 1 feeding of hogs to oW•n - best . finan- .cialetyoults. I.. A. Th1 mpaon, Pr es. : . idea of the loon( farmers' institute, presided at both Meetings, express ing regret at the smallneSs•pf . the audience but explairoing that a farm - era' - convention at Whitehall had tak- en many pro:ninon( f:Irmers and stockmen' 'to the.neiehhor town, .while a big social gathering of townspeople in the . evening leapt many from at- tending the cloOing meethus. Shaw- limes- been - contending - for the' past talentyetive years that the . dual purpose cow was the 'un- met that moat be extensively raised in - America if a shertage of beef Wtlfi to be- avoided. He stated that this by - most all -collego-edoeators untit vacant yodFs, but May all were be- lievers. Ile made it deal. that the depetition of the open range, the de-. chime af cattle production - were re- sponsible for the beef shortage now existing, a condition that would be- come more acute if American farm- ers And dairymen failed to promote the breeding and rearing of the dua purpose aninial- • Prof. ShaW.,ie the expert purchaser (Centinued . on page Five.) WHERE EYES OF TIIE WHOLE EARTH ARE LOOKING; WORLD'S OR • ' 1 :•Are • ' •' , 4•:.:\ • '4041343t iiftlikAlt• • TEST EXPOSITION AT GOLDEN GATE A PART OF Tlit NIAIN—E*BIT SECTION OF THE GREAT PANAMA -PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. . , p ANOli.kNiA , taken' frOnl the dome of Festival Hall at the Panatn4-Paellic intOrnationni Exposition. The view shows the western part .Of t h e mein group of exhibit palaceslooking down the Avenue of Palms. The tall Tower of Jewels, in the center, which Is 435 feet high , conceals the l'innonii ite, a ldela Clete entrance to the hay of San Francisco. The domed structure at the left Is the Palace of Horticulture. the other palaces shown, from left to right, are these of Education, Liberal Arts, Agriculture, Mannfacturesnn ,a J•fratIsPertation• Beyond these is shown the bay of Bon F ranc isco, with Mount To:Weals and the hills of Maria County in the background. In front of the Palace of Horticulture are the gient South Gardens. The photograph was taken early in December, 1914, more than two months before the opening - of the EIPoillilon, Feb. 20, 1015, . ' , ,,c- ,,, - .._. .____ .
