The Anaconda Standard from Anaconda, Montana • 29

THE ANACONDA STANDARD: SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1908. ESTLING in a valley Et the very summit of the Rocky mountains I the first of these stations which are shipping, and then come a number of n.UUl, is a little town of log cabins, which was at one time a prom- eiuis, tviiiv.ii die ucaigiiaicu Jll railroad's schedules as wood spurs No. 5 and 6, as well as other numbers. Every spur ships wood daily, and not only Is Great Falls, Helena and other towns in Northern Montana supplied from these spurs, but a considerablJ portion of the wood of Butte comes from the same locality. Like other fields which have been cut over, there is a considerable amount of dead timber scattered over the hillsides.

This timber will make good fuel, but it is scarcely of a commercial class, for it is not clean and bright, as is demanded by the consumer. It Is found inent factor In- the Industrial development of Butte It is only four miies from Butte, but it is in county, and it has a way that is distinct from the bustling activity on this side of the range; It Is a sleepy little kvn, Woodville, and the children play about the streets and gaze with curiosity at the occasicnal passerby, for nowadays the traffic along the great highway which was once the principal thoroughfare of the territory has dwindled until only a few rigs cross the main range, and pass Woodville by; very few ever stop there. LOG HOISES. Woodville is a town of log houses ex- clusivEly there is not a-frame building in the town, unless you want to dignify the little shelters which have been built over wells by that title. The community is a small one, but it is happy, just the same, and is prosper- and which can be seen so distinctly, new that the forests have been taken away to help build up Butte before the days of the railroad brought coal into the on every hillside, and it is somewhat difficult to secure, but all the same, many of the people of Butte who own th'iiv owi Karris are now vlbitatg ih-se sidehills, snak'ng down theso culled timbers to a point where they M.n be reached by a wagon and bring: the material to town, where it is being used.

IX STAGE DAYS. A story of Woodville would be incomplete without reference to Its early history. At one time, so the old-timers will tell you, it was on the principal thoroughfare between Salt Lake City and the head of navigation at Fort Benton, and between the western part of the state and the principal shipping point of the territory of Montana. All of the freight which came up the Missouri river destined for points on the western part of the range was sent through Woodville, which was then a change station for the stage coaches. The coaches from Salt Lake and other points passed through Woodville, although they crossed the main range three times in so doing, once at Pleasant Valley, once at Divide, and once at Woodville.

Later another road was selected down the Jefferson valley from Red Rock and across the the range at LIVELY DAYS, ous all of thevhile. The houses which still serve as homes are neatly kept, and the housewives sing at their work, while the husbands wrest a livelihood as well th.ey may from the remnants of he forest which once covered the hills upon every side or else from the dairies which are so necessary to Butte's food supply. There is nothing about Woodville that looks metropolitan, but still at one time there were over 1,000 people living in the little cluster of houses, and all were happy and prosperous. OLD TIMES. I Then there were a number of business houses in the town, some saloons and offices.

Then there was a long string of teams leaving the town every morning and every noon for Butte, and every wagon was loaded to the guards with cord wood for the Butte mines peared forever. Some of us have a few mines in the hills near by, and we are working them. Mayne they will turn out to be a big thing, and maybe they will prove worthless. If they do Woodville will lose its hopes of agf-in becoming permanent, and will fail down into the milk ranch ciass." RAILROADING. But the name of Woodville will be a permanent one, and for many years to come it will be upon the map of Montana.

It is virtually a division uolnt of the Great Northern road, and every day in the year the orfc trains which carry the ore from the Boston Montana mines in Butte to the Great Falls smelters are made up in the yards, JlSSLJ ill CSV i "Twenty-four years ago Woodville was a town of which the rest of Jefferson county felt proud. There were at least 1,000 people here or in the wood camps immediately surrounding us, the peopla all of the way to where Bernlce is now located being more or less dependent upon Woodville, for here the contracts were made and the wood-choppers dispatched into the hills, each party being given a particular part of the country to chop. As a general rule, the- wood was chopped at so much per cord, and the work was almost invariably performed in the winter time, when the sap had run down and when the frozen tree trunks could be handled to the best advantage. All of the pine timber was chopped with an axe, for the pine was soft and easy, and rapid 3 9 and mills and smelters and for private consumption, for the biggest wood camps of the district were located there, and thousands of cords were cut every month in Elk park and near-by pbihls and hauled into Butte, where it sold at prices ranging' from $5 to $9 per cord, it all depending upon Its scarcity and the condition of the roads leading into Butte. And this was the principal i Swdway was mstde.

One could chop a BSgSJ which are about a mile distant from the town of log cabins, and they present a busy scene nearly every hour In the day, especially when the mines are working to their full capacity. The ore is taken to Woodville, at the summit cf the range, in small trains. A single engine will take six cars up the heavy grade, while a double-header will take from 11 to 12, seldom, If ever, more, for the grade in the tunnel Is especially stiff, and one fatality at least has occurred from the trains getting stuck in the tunnel. Once in the yards, the switching crews, which always accompany the trains, make up the ore cars into long trains, and then return to Butte with the empties which have been brought in from Great Falls. The trains arrive from Clancy every few hours, and a double-header takes out as many as 40 cars of ore on its way io Great Falls, the single trains averaging about 20 cars.

In this manner there is always something doing at the station of Woodville. WOOD CAMPS. Within a few miles of Woodville, farther down on the Boulder side of the range, the greater part of the "wood used in Northern Montana is secured, there still being a number of wood camps established. Elk Park, eight Pipestone, and thence by the Boulder river, and into the Prickly Pear by way of Wlckes. HOLDIP TAILS.

During the stage coach days there were a number of holdups on the road, and the canyon leading into Woodvllls from the Butte side of the range was the scene of some of them, the last one occurring one winter night in 1884, Just after a hanging of an alleged outlaw. Con Murphy, had occurred near Helena. In fact, both incidents occurred the same night, and the holdup artists apparently read of the fate of their rival in crime and for from that day to this no stage has been held up in Woodville canyon. RECEXT CRIMES. Both other crimes have taken place, and only a few days ago a saloon keeper, whose place Is shown In one of the pictures on this page, was held up by a number of men and shot so sorely that he died a few weeks later while being brought to Butte for treatment.

His salopn has an unique position. It is square on the divide of th Rocky mountains, and staring his customers InThe face at all times is the sign erected by the Great Northern railway which announces tha.t the continental divide is crossed at that point at an altitude of (,230 feet. twk ot tree down within a few minutes, and when it was cut up in four-foot lengths, a single blow from an axe would split it as easily as a piece of kindling under ordinary circumstances. Work was faster under those circumstances, and it would not be long until a cord of wood would be upon the snow and the axemen would ba tackling other trees. With the fir, work was necessarily slower.

The trees were larger and filled with knots from butt to tip. Generally the firs were from two feet to three feet at their butt, and they were sawed off by a crosscut saw. The woodchopper, using a short single-handed saw, would make good progress and soon have the log in the snow. Then wedges and sledges would be employed, after the tree had been cut into lengths, cs much as three xtr four cords of wood being-secured from some of the trees which adorned the mountain sides near here. "Once this wood was corded, the contractor would along, look wise If the contractor were a tig one, the four horses which were used in hauling wood ta Butte would drag dcTwn four cords o- wood; if he were a small dealer and had little ponies, then two cords would ba a good load, but, anyhow, the woodhauler worked all of the time.

MIXING XOW. "This procedure was arr every-day one in Woodville for many years, and the town prospered. With the disappearance of the timber, the industry languished, and has now nearly disap 'go devil' a long rack, with its front end on a pair of sled runners and its rear end dragging on the ground, and with two good horses they would drag this contrivance to the top of the hill, or to where the wood had been corded. On this 'go devil' two or three cords of wood would be piled, as much as the rack would accommodate, and in this manner it would be hauled down the mountain toT. point where the regular teamsters could get at it with a wagon.

There it would be loaded for to Butte and the final step in the sale of the wood would be made. and measure the wood. Almost invariably he would dock the woodchoppers a certain per cent, for not piling it This soon became recognized as one of his perquisities, and the wood was piled accordingly, so it was not very often that the woodchoppers got the worst of it. When the wood was sufficiently seasoned, the teamsters were put to work. Some of the wood was xhopped on the sideof mountains so steep that a Rocky mountain sheep would go around rather than climb direct, but that made no difference to the woodhaulers.

They would rig up a I miles the other side of Woodville, is industry of the country, and every resident of Woodville and Us surrounding hills for miles away was denendent upon the wood business to give them the necessities of every-day life and its luxuries as HARD WORK. There are people who believe the life of a woodhauler or woodchopper is one of ease and comfort. This was more than ever believed In the days when the entire fuel supply of Butte was cut from the hills near town and hauled into Butte upon wagons and sold wherever the opportunity presented itself. But from a man who spent years in the hills as a chopper and hauler of cordwood the Standard is assured that it is not all pleasure, and the man who supplied wood In the good, old-fashioned way worked hard for every dollar he earned. SUPPLY SHORT.

"No one who does not understand the business has any idea of the work that Hs necessitated in getting a load of wood to the market," said one of these men a day or two ago. in the palmy days of the industry, when every hillside near town was covered by a forest, the work was strenuous. Now that the timber has all been chopped -away and-we -have 4o go-farther- back into the mountains and in inaccessible places, the work has become doubly hard. The creation of forest reserves has been a menace to the small dealer to the poor man, who has little save a team of horses, a family and a strong pair of arms, and he now has to go into competition with the big capitalists who are buying up all of the timber land the government sees fit to sell, and are keeping us from making a livelihood by selling cord wood to the people of Butte and other towns at a profit which will allow us a bare living. There isn't wages Jn the business any more, but there is a living, and for this we would be thankful if the government would only let us alone and let us sell the wood on the theory that it Is for home consumption and, that it means the greatest good to the greatest number.

OLD "WOODVILLE. equldistantly and longitudinally from one to six holes, big as knitting needles, depending upon the size of the grain. at all. It consists of a waxlike composition, the size of the "grains" varying according to the calibers of "the guns for which they are designed. For use in revolvers, rifles and sporting THE OLD BONE CABIN QUARRY has superseded the old-style black powder, even as electricity has super-! seded gas, and which Is used not only in the field for sporting purposes, but I is used exclusively for the shoulder arms-of the army and navy, as well theTapid-fire guns, the grains resemble the tiny per-I OKCE LECTURED HERB.

forated glass beads-of -the sort -used -in was I vided-in-to-spaces -1 2 ee -scj a rft bone- longer- than-a-man-of ordinar height. and one space after another was opened. It has taken over six years' "Bone Cabin Quarry," as it is now old-time needlework. For the machine guns, the rapid-fire guns and the heavy rifles of battle ships and forts, the grains are cylindrical in shape, varying in size from a third of an inch in diameter and half an inch in length to guns, and the huge rines on the aecKS of our battle ship3 and within the works of our fortifications. Practically it is nothing but a mixture of guncot-ton and alchohol and or acetone, or else acetone with guncotton and ni Prof.

Paul Milyoukov, the famous 'Russian liberal, upon whom he government has issued a sentence of death, delivered a series of lecture in Boston at the Lowell institute in 1905. He was connected with the (movement In Russia for a constitution, and. left this country suddenly last year In order confer with the leaders of the liberal movement. three-fourths of an inch In diameter and about two Inches in length ach grain, In order to increase the area exposed to ignition, being perforated A few years ago, says DayAllen Willey in an absorbing article in Apple-ton's, a party of adventurers were going over a portion of the bad lands of Wyoming, when they chanced upon a little hut, once the home of a sheea herder, but long since abanilene'J. Their curiosity was aroused by this, the only sign of human habitation they had come across, and, naturally, they peered about it.

One of th-? party noticed that the house did not rest directly upon the ground, but upon piles of what seemed to be dark-colored stones. In this part of the bad lands one seldom sees even a pebble, and th. stones aroused his interest. "I wonder where iht fellow, got" those stones," the man remarked he called the attention of his companions to them. With the explorers was a naturalist.

Pulling out one of the "stones" which had become loosened, he ive an explanation of surprise. "Looking at 1 1 known to scientists the world over, is by far ths greatest hunfng ground for these animals of the past that has yet been discovered, but it is only a small corner of the region where they lived. The story of the hill and valley, as read by the geologist, shows that this was once a fertile country, with its trees and grass and bushe3 nourished by rivers and lakes, so that it afforded abundant food for the biggest living things that inhabited the That they roamed over this part of the earth is shown by the of their gigantic skeletons many miles from the ruins of the little cabin; for since it was first via' ted on that spring day in the year the bad lands have been the gathering place for fossil hunters from both the old and the new world. The locality forms a vast graveyard for the monster lizardsknown as well as strange horses that lived in the troglycerin the two strongest explo- I sives known and, blended into a new compound which is at least double as strong as the common black powder, explodes without 'giving off smoke, and, once fin'shed, not merely loses the dangerous characteristics of its dreaded ingredients, but is so safe that you might give a hatful of the powder intended for the 16-inch Sandy Hook gun to a baby to play with. He might pound it with a hammer to his heart's content, or you yourself might place it on an anvjl and bring a 40-pound sledge down on It.

It I working -with the plow and shovel and spade to turn up oly about 7,500 square feet less than one-fifth of an acre of surface yet this small space formed the resting plac? of parts of 73 different of whom 44 belonged to the family of dinosaurs. The explorers believe that Ttght here fully 100 of thes; creatures have lain in the earth for 10,000,000 of years or more. The opening of the bad lands has made Western America a veritable treasure house for the fossil hunters, but before the discovery of the Bone Cabin quarry they had been securing such "game" as elephants, tigers and camels, although none of these were alive when the lizard giants roamed 'in their marshes. We think of the camel in connection with the deserts of Africa and Asia, but beasts far larger Than any whichhave'everformeortRe caravans of the Sahara wandered over Southwestern America, where their skeletons have been unearthed by the pick and shovel. Tigers, with teeth as sharp as 'the saber's edge, bigger and more ferocious than the dreaded Indian man-eater, preyed upon the inhabitants of the South American forests; while there was a period in the history of the world when elephants came all the way from Africa.

Martha Washington Comfort Siots are made for. genuine comfort It it a pleasure and relief to wear them. There ire io buttons to ihIIh or kecs But lromised toell you abouttheQingy-colored substance in lace. You iuit iIid them an and how we used to get the wood down to vxiHtf off i old days, crocodiles older than any that i he eiaitic at toe uaei expaaat ana I otroi- Arm tor! in the 'Mile flnrl mammoth contracts with the natural motion of tn he said, "This is a tiny part of one of the greatest creatures known to man. It 'is a fragment of a brontosaurus." A messenger carried the news to the nearest town.

Thence, it was given to the world by the electric current, and the wagon road in old Woodville and of the stirring times that used to be had there before the railroad reached Butte and before famous Elk park was penetrated by the Great Northern railroad. foot. Insuring eriect ease and coanrt Ca be worn all year round. Three itvles. loir, medium and hieh.

Tour dealer will In-the first, times were fossil hunters throughout America and You could not go through the old town lupply you. If not, write to ui. Look for the bum aad trade-mark on the aole. i We also make the popular "Western Lady aboet. would merely squash like so much soap or putty.

So concussion-proof is this powder that you might drop a house on a heap of 50 tons of It, and it would not explode. So proof is it against explosion fire that you might place a stick of cannon powder on a saucer In your bedroom, light 4t with a match, and go to bed by a flickering, sizzling light as if given off by burning fat. In short, you simply cannot explode this pojwder unless you go to the) trouble of confining it, and even then you can explode it only by using a fulminate of mercury detonator. The quickest way to picture smoke-less powder- ls-'to-dlsmlss -all- Ideas of 'the ordinary black gunpowder so familiar to every one. The color of the modern powder is not black at all, but has the shade of dark amber.

In the sense of a powder being a finely dlvld- turtles. The way in which these hunters of extinct animals and reptiles find their mighty "game" is In searching for it they bring to their aid geology and natural history. Their weapons are chiefly the pick, shovel and spade, but some of the places containing the skeletons are so large that they use plows and scrapers drawn by horses to remove the earth covering. EDPR lend the name of a dealer who toes Bt 1 lLls "Martha Wasbiogtoa" thoea and Europe received the intelligence. Walter Granger, the scientist who made the discovery, is connected with the Museum of Natural History in New York.

Realizing that the bones the sheep herder had thrown together to support his home had probably been like you have done to-day and slonly a few children playing in the snow of the streets and a few housewives looking out of the windows. Had you been here when the good times were on and when a forest clothed every one of the we will send you free, postpaid, a beautiful picture of "Martha Wasnington," size UxZU, 'I I A PERILOUS OCCUPATION ISTOWDERMANUFACTURT TrMayw Boot Shpe Co taken from the ground near by, he be Bone Cabin quarry itself is a revelation. After the cabin was torn down and the richness of the find was revealed, the explorers determined to discover ail 'that was to be discovered in this locality, if possible, so the around gan digging up the earth. After a few hours' work his shovel struck against a hard substance which It could not penetrate. Working around it he flnal- bare sidehills surrounding the old camp, you would have' seen a place of activity, with horses and men working upon every idehill, dodging here and there to avoid the bg granite bowlders which so plentifully adorn the sidehills What is this smokeless "powder? asks A.

W. Rolker in Appleton's Magazine, and proceeds to answer his question. It. is the modern hieh explosive which ly uncovered another piece a single I ed solid, smokeless xiowder Is no powder.