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Saturday, August 3, 1940 MONTANA OIL AND MINING JOURNAL PAGE SEVEN mmmmmmmmmmmrntm
!»■ Gave Up Trying After Five Years of Stir ring Events Which Accompanied Efforts to Establish Permanent River Loading and Settlement at Mouth of Musselshell Unloading Point and Trading Post Linked With Western Montana by Wagon Road and Pony Express Route Carrying Mail from St. Paul to Helena; Indians Were the Biggest Menace
By EKIC THANE The pony express rider was cold. : A raw wind from the north made :r RURAL ELECTRIC a fire comfortable, and the rider, not at all imbued by the “mail mast go through” code, EL>eg dropped off bis horse in the shel PLAN PROGRESSES ter of a break of cottonwoods. He at'* began to build a fire, bat recent HALF MILLION DOLLARS WORTH pness made the wood difficult fli ilHTiTiTfl to Ignite. So the rider opened his OF NEW APPLICATIONS NOW , mail bags, palled oat the news- > h BEING FILED papers and letters, wadded them tinder, and presently was 1 Most of Proposed New Projects In tl warming himself. Counties Are Expected to Return This incident was one of several j m \ V, similar ones on a route between St. ! 3F, H- T “ * ; LT ï From S8 to $10 Per Mile of Line Per . mm - Paul, Minn., and Helena. Mont., in Month. 1867. Riders often rolled letters to * make cigaret papers. As a result, the '. g government refused to pay further Montana's rural electrification subsidy and the pony express line 'S- program is continuing to attract ceased. l.1-' V the interest of rural residents as The route led along the Missouri, is evidenced by the fact that more near where the Musselshell flows into than $500.000 worth of new appli that river. Here was an ideal site for -T cations for federally financed REA a city, and at various times in the lines and extensions to existing history of Montana attempts have been lines in 27 counties are in the made to establish a settlement there— bii * ♦ process of being fUed with the a rival to Port Benton, as various rural electrification administration founders envisioned It. In 1866 several One of Montana’s Early-Oay Forts Which Were Built to Protect Settlers From the Indians, and in Many Cases They Were Used As Trading Posts at Washington, D. C., according to men associated themselves as the Rocky Armin J. Hill, extension rural elec Mountain Wagon Road Co., and opened trification specialist at Montana State college. Hill said that these applications, to- Sft'gSgft'S H SDSsK äV } Three Horsemen of Madison 111,000 TREES, | gether with those already filed, will bring the state’s REA program for ïsæsâsu$1.000.000. Mon first to see the possibilities of a settle- them, much to his dismay He noun- Hold______Annual Reunion- ' Again° SHRUBS PLANTED REA work' this year with. um« the indlca-<« mpnt, upon tills locfttion &nd tlic d6T8d around until d&ybr^&^< when ne ” _ 1 tion tnai additional funds may be futoe meteonolis TfMoSa “ s££d;Sn *SÄTbut Smd thatotnS he was« ärapidly t“15swarmingÂÎ of one of ^ quartet durinfS' ùâ the last SEVEJÏ™WITH CCC CAMP CREATE Ii SSuÏÏ.of areas in“ <,ÏÏS^iJ?l!S'.'S£a;the state. Hill said, where The company put up a log cabin, but being overtaken. Escape seemed im- Indians Are Defeated Thornton on1 nîi? VERITABLE FOREST i REA projects can be had with proper two years passedi and toe lown failed possible, but he pressed on, almost, j «plterftte odds they opened Ä-T' ______organfration by rural residents. to grow according to plans. Then Hood frenzied with despair. fire, and the Indian“ surprised by rKl v ,____. .. „ , Most of the proposedprolectsm the waters swept the establishment of the Hides In Sink Hole the white men s audacity, began » Steen Planting, Made on "f.J being cleveloped on a Rocky Mountain Wagon Road Co. into lost the bad lands return the fire. But the rain had I obvrverfPfor a third °of L centtîv 99 Acres ln Central Montana; Pro- înm Ither catSo?6«?htownsCithatP^^ the region. Presently he discovered ; soaked their bowstrings and the pans The three horsemen are W D Thom- vide Windbreak, and Abo Help to return is possible the lines can be «. bu? * a water stak, common h such retags. * the^Uock pms with wtach many | ton of New York cUy. Charles s Hen- Prevent Soil Erorion. built and o^ted and REA loîSS “ Dut air not. where the water had worn a subter- oi unem were armed, so tnat tneir i Person of Lone Beach Calif and Mal- naJd Som#» nf thp rvnrwuvi nmipctt Attempt Renewed in 1868 ranean channel from high ground to weapons were almost useless, and the cojm qjiiis of Butte. The fourth. Ben cover rather “thin” areas from the Lj1 t"e the bottom of some ravinc. The ln- three white mwi were th^- j Calkins, died at Los Angeles last year Nearly 111.000 tree, and «hrnbs standpoint of number of customer, per under the atppicra of toe Montana dians were now so close at hand that as far as mechanical means of kUltog ( Thornton and Henderson are former have been planted on 90 acre* on mile of line. Hill said. However, in mûe * ^nnfmrt^ClT«^eq Dennis had noJch°ice, indtaktim?ÄmtTnniffher^tfprp^Smt Butte residents. Malcolm omis is still the farms of seven co-operators these cases high individual guarantee« a party of nine men under James the sink and wriggle forward until todlcatmg that ta aH there were “bout a resident 0f the Mining city. daring the two years the soil con- have been given and In several ta- Brewer to take p<^ at toe mmito of he found a curve ta the «Jd®. MO Indians who faced *ke 20 white 'Charlie” Henderson was sheriff of serration service CCC camp at stances large cash contributions have Nbe Musselshell and bulld^awarehouse. which he huddled and made himself as men. Theyleft 13 of their nuntoer silver Bow county for two terms, and Lewis town has been In operation. been made toward the construction of Ttoey arrived in March. .^d out smajj and stiö as possible. "Die.to dead or woimded in the shoulder TTie ^ now one 0f the leading business men according to Philip VanCleave. the lines. a town on toe south bank of toe Mis- dians knew where he was but hesitated fight began at half-past 7 ta the mom- of Beach. junior range examiner for the serv- At present there are 11 REA proj- amiri, and called it Mi^eltoell. Soon ^ attack, for only one man °°^d nao , tog mid ended at noon, and was one The “four horsemen"—for Ben Cal- ice. The farmers co-operating with ects operating in the slate with a total afterwards they were totaedby Col. forward at a time and a desperate white of toe most hotly contested ever fought kins wm there in spirit, too—will j the 8C8 furnished 11.250 or 11 per- j of 1,800 miles of line. Two other proj- Oeorge Clendennin and his brother amd armed with a knife and gun ap- with Indians ta Montana. be joined early this month by friends cent of the 110,900 trees planted. ects are under construction and with a James McGtoness, who began con- too dangerous a foe to be at- |be wounded toe : from Arizona and California, and i the SCS supplied 98,650 trees and the projects proposed. Montana's REA structlon of further buildings. A num- tacked single-handed. ^re^ledi^d scalped probably among the latter will be for- shrub« and all plantings were made ' lines will total well over 3,000 miles of ! ber of people came to toe settlement, But at last toey discovered the .1^^ j day C^tatoAndrews, who bad lost, mer president Herbert Hoover, who under the supervision of the serv- line serving more than 5,000 farm a company of soldiers under Captain of the slnk m the ravine hetaw^ The, Mme oxen because of raids, removed has a guest of Thornton on va-, Ice using CCC labor. families Nugenf of the 13th infantry »me opentag here was wider, and toe In | the heads from 10 of the bodies of to. rjous occasions for several years 0f the 90 acres nlanted 21 acres Counties in which REA development fixwfl Camp Cooke, took post there, hTqtlk rea&oixeci that Dennis attention .slain Indians, cutting off and preserv- ■ ■ <^> . r ._..~ u beim? niunnpH for this vpat inriudp buUt a stockade with bastlrais just be- be directed at the entrance to tog the ears and boUlng the heads milk BOARD BUST M^asta mountains 10 acres^ Lincoln! fathead. Sanders, Mineral low toe town, giving to this protection sinki hence toey might be able to until the skulls could be cleaned, The state milk control board now SLead windbreaks 17 acres to field Missoula. Ravalli, Granite, Powell toe name of Camp Reeve. The friendly come upon him from fcbe exbibltlon and has 30 market areas under Its régula- wlndbreaks 39 acres to buffer strips Deer Lodge, Silver Bow, Beaverhead! Gros Ventres and Crows came to the he was aware of them. So three young fbially carried east. tion and additional districts are ex- < 2 acres to gully nl&ntlngs and I acre Madison, Jefferson, Broadwater, Lewis {dace in large numbers and the sum- warriors stripped and entered. Musselshell passed through the re- peeled to be added soon, according to rtam «nn rw™ir nfantinuK and Clark Cascade Teton Chouteau, merof 1868 saw the settlement of Mus- ^S^.Äver, was alert for any mainder of toe year 1869 without any ^ report by Dr. W. J. Butler, state 10 da™ and reservoir plantings. Ponder^T^e.taVrtT Hlll Judlta selshell giving every promise of Its attack from any direction, and he was more events of ^f^r^an®®-11 bf?S2 veterinarian and secretary of the board fB^e Basin, Fergus, Wheatland, Golden Val- found«* dreams, nAf taken unaware He sensed rattier to appear that as a freighting town th» board sets ud nrice schedules In ^ trees and shrubs around the farm- jpy Miutäkhpll -ï But toe hostile Sioux had different tlmnheard^the cautious approach of It was a failure, as out of the large defined^ areas in co-operatfon with 'stead 40(1 85 field windbreaks, Van- y 1 ideas. They swept down upon the town, ^ered trio, and huddled back waiting fleet of steamboats which in that year producers It operates on fees paid by ' cje8ve ,“}?• T5e . Plantings reduce INSPECTOB APPOINTED- rustled toe herds and killed two sol- rj?,to be right on him before he plied toe Missouri, only one discharged dalryinen wind velocity and yields are Increased E M Keelev {ormer rw-r Lodee Sers of toe garrison. In toe faU of mte^def that no shot of his freight at this point. But the inhabi- a*lrymrL------*------I as a result of the reduced moisture h(£, operetor Ld ^re rStlv sef- 1868 toe soldiers concluded tois loca- Jevolver should miss, or no stroke of tants held on. hoping for better things, ix)8g SELLING ILLEGAL l0fs.A close field planting wUl reduce reUry ^ ti>e Livingston Chamber of tion was too hot and were withdrawn hJs ^ futile if the combat be- next spring . The state railroad and public service wind velocity for a distance of as much commerce, has been appointed Ins pec t- to Camp Cooke. came hand-to-hand. And so still was The first thing they heard1 in 1870, eommisslon has ruled that selling be- 88 .20. tijP®s the height of the trees or for tbe Montana trades commls- In toe spring of 1868 A1 Bradbury, hg that the foremost of toe three was was the familiar crack of the Sioux ^ no matter the size of the 81111 shrubs. sion. He was appointed by the state superintendent of the pony express ^im before the red man dlscov- war rifle. However, there w®re no sen- ; articjg sold 0r the size of toe trans- These woody plantings also serve as railroad and public service commission, route whose riders used toe maÜ for Then it was too late ous engagements, and to protect the action. Is in violation of the Montana ! feeding and nesting places for wildlife, which also acts as the trades com- tinder and cigaret makings, arrived shof the man, the muzrte of settlement, General Hancock loaned it j unfair trade practices act. The ruling VanCleave points out that one of the mission. Keeley will devote most of at Musselshell while Investigating toe .. almost against the others a 3-inch smooth-bore cannon. On the WM made in an order directing the ; secrets of having plenty of wildlife. his time to enforcement of the state affairs of the company. About toe mid- flesh and then turned the muzzle to night of July 3 1870, a red raiding Red c^vi stores In Miles City to stop such as pheasants, partridges and unfair trades practices act, according die of April he set out for Helena .. gioux behind toe first. He killed party concealed Itself in cellars then 0ffering certain articles for sale at be- I grouse. Is by having suitable nesting to Austin Middleton, chairman of the accompanied by Henry McDonald, a g* ^ easUy, and could have got being dug expecting to slay the men ^ pric^, j and cover habitats. These can be fur- commission. daring and successful rider on toe .. except that the man turned digging the cellars as soon as they ------»>------nLshed through the planting of trees I T route, and four other men. The route . #jed with all speed. appeared next day. But toe next day Tillletudlem is the name of a Scot- land shrubs and properly caring for Gold production to Colombia Is 14 chosen led them over toe Judith moun- fhe tadians who waited outside were being the Fourth of July, toe diggers tJsh statlon point. 1 them. percent above a year ago. tains, near toe base of which they dis- ^ unnerved when only one decided to knock off work and rest, ------covered a party of about 30 hostile , attacking party returned. They hence did not return to the cellars. Sioux Indians! The party at once raced y1a ^uncil ?sm decided that the The Indians waited in vain for them, illlllllllllllllllllllll tor a small knoll where toey en- “hite man’s medicine was too strong; and at last during the afternoon gave trenched themselves by digging small jTftir which they mounted and rode off. up. They fired however upon a white rifle pits with their butcher knives. 81 ^av Tennis remained to the cav- man who approached «ear, but did ,...... „...... The Indians charged but were driven and at night came out. During not hurt him. IP1“ off. Night intervened and toe party davs thereafter he wandered with- Finally Gives Up in 1874 began to feel uncomfortable, especially t food or water, when he managed A nttle earlier in the season a since they had lost all their horses. , reach a camp of the friendly Crow Frenchman, unused to toe country, They decided to retreat through the decided to leave Musselshell by foot., dark and take chances on running into Military Road Surveyed Upon the top of a steep-sided hill Cheers for Calumet’s New Low Prices Sioux warriors in toe gloom. Bradbury .nrin. 186q brought some en- ! he was-confronted by a band of In-, with four companions subsequently _®P f to the few Inhabitants t dians, one of whom threw out his reached the settlements without fur- couragem Musselshell. General coup stick in order to "count coup ’ ------! Hancock! cMntnandtag the department The blow made the Frenchman reel, and perfect, never-fail baking! inf mkota In which Montana was in- but it roused him, and with a tie- ?hided directed toe survey of a niill- mendous bound he managed to leap IN GREAT FALLS IT'S I firvroad from0 Fort Ellis to the mouth outside the ring of Indians. He fled ■bs ää. mm m m Mii«ei