The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 January 1931 — Page 6

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Herewith are some excerpts from a letter written by Mrs. Mae H. Ross, a former resident of Syracuse, to Mr. and Mrs. Dolan; Rosalyn Ranch, Bison, Mont. Mr. and Mis. Dolan, ; Dear Friends: * May I, without the stigma of. undue boasting, tell you of our. financial accomplishments since coming to fte west, twenty yeara ago, our combined capital consisted o7 several hundred dolbu ambitio:. hope. I have often thought A dairy of those years would make inteiesting reading both from a social and historical standpoint covering they do, the growth of this portion of Montana from raw prairie f j-o---neer days to the standard of a ‘arming community it has since attained. To illustrate the contrast; as we drove along in the big farm wagon to our new home not yet roofed, that June day 20 years ago, we passed our neighbor plowing with a yoke of oxen, two Indian ponies and the milch cow. Last summer, two planes alighted in our field to give Darrel his lesson. The life between these two events has been very full and'we fee, as we look back that we have earned our possessions here, which consist of the following: 480 acres of land, fenced and cropper, 9 room house that compares favorably in- appearance, comfort and size with the average here, barn, two garages, three granaries, machine shed completely equipped shop two room hen house and two buildings on wheels used as bunk house and cook car in the days when we ran a threshing outfit before the time of combines. A Chevrolet coach truck, all necessary farm machinery, and I really don’t kn<*w how man' engines, some of which are not in repair. Two cows, calf, 60 chickens and 4 cats. Used t ■ h:>ve many horses, cattle and hogs but disposed of them. The last summer we had horses, they had harness on only twice, once to plow th- garden and <ni<e t > culti v ate so what was the use to keep them’ Last year, the men plowed the] garden with -the big tractor and i hooked the cydtivator behind the' bare chassis of an old car, to keep it clean. Truly, necessity is the mother of invention and most Especially m •this land. The 'ingenuity and ality that are displayed at times sj certainly interesting. Pioneer life seems to develop laten qualities‘and create new ones. I am sending you, dndfer separate cover, some pictures, taken from time to time which will reveal our life here better than I can describe it. 1 should like to have them return' ed some time but no hqrry. As I close my eyes. 1 can see y<"i two sitting together in the brick „h>»rise in the town of my childhood. Now will you try to visualize us? On i this winter eve, With Jay at. the| radio and me at the type writer, with a cheerful I de and mild weather without. We are located some 40i miles from Canada in a wide valley with the Sweet Grass, Bear Paw . and Rocky Mountains around us. The first named ranges are 40 miles away but plainly visible from the house and our eastern ranges are 40 miles away but visible from the house and our eastern company always amuse its by their suggestions to waalk to them before breakfast. It was in these Hills that James J. Hill made his stake mining gold and conceived his vision of a rich empire when he built the Great Northern Railroad, I have seen the remains of the sluice boxes and flumes. There is gold there now but the cost of mining is too high. Our towns, Chester and Joplin, are about midway between Harve and Shelby on this same R. R. These towns are 11 and 7 miles from our home so if you should have a map handy you could locate us. Since coming here, we have lived in. three counties without moving the house. First, Choteau, which was larger than Indiana, with its county seat some 80 miles from us at Fort Ben-

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T . . I i ton. It is a most picturesque town on i the swift flowing river and some of . the original stores and trading post,; from which the old time ox teams 1 and stage coaches pulled out, and the, fort for protection against the In- 1 dians, are still standing. This large was subdivided j and we were Hi Hill and now in Lib-! erty which contains only three rail-' toad towns but some that are inland. The county seat, Chester, being only .11 miles away affords us the opportunity to be personally acquainted ■ wtih each candidate and official and elections therefore possess added •zest.’ To the east we may and do seein wild and wooly but an Indian, cowboy, buffalo and the rest of the so called western atmosphere are almost as much of a novelty to us as they are to people farther east. Once a year, some localities hold rodeos to 1 revive tjie old time sports. Montana lives up to its name of the .Treasurer-State,'rn- more ways than' I can mention. Forests, game, vast fields of grain, horses, cattle sheep, silver, gold, gas. oil, copper, coal etc. Sparkles of gold are seen in the streets of Helena after a heavy rain, Samphires too soft for commercial use are common in the yard and gophers bring up coal in digging their holes. 8 Gas and oil represent our most immediate source of wealth and specuultion. You may have heard of the Kevin, Sunburst and Cat, Creek Districts where derricks ary too thick to count and villages spring, up in season.. We hope we have a potential region rich in these products near us but development is’slow. There are producing wells in the Sweet Grass Hills. We have given leases on our land some half dozen times, These were to cover drilling within a radious of 11 miles but for one reason or another they have alb failed so far. One got water only, two were dry holes and. two more never completed for lack of funds. The last,. P- miles away is in-the making now but closed during the winter. We received .10 per A when we signed the lease of $lB last July and every three months are to receive $l2O until the well is completed or abandoned. We keep in touch with home through the Journal and letters. Trust the length of this letter and its personal tone has - not tired your patience too sorely. For many months I have intended writing and hate I had the pictures collected since sprang house cleaning. With very best wishes for continued good health and a pleasant Holiday Season. 1 remain, , < Yours Sincerely; MAE H. ROSS. o r NOT IN INDIANA PHONE BUSINESS Smith Bend Samuel Insult, Jr., of i Chicago, president of the Midland j United company, in a statement pointed out that the group of public utility companies under the management of Samuel Insull is.not in thep telephone business in Indiana, . 4le said that the Associated Tele-• phone Utilities company and its sub-i sidary, the Indiana Commercial Telephone. corporation, have .no connection with the group of companies under Samuel Insull’s management. Mr. Insull, Jr’s., statement follows: “The parent institution for practically all of the public utilities in the state of Indiana under Samuel Insull’s' management, is the Midland United company, of which Mr. Insull is chairman. Neither the Midland United company nor any of its associated companies in the' so-called ‘lnsull group’ are interested in Indiana telephone companies. “A misapprehension has been current on this subject into which the public generally might fall. To prevent general misunderstanding this statement is made. —--——-o ' BATHE INTERNALLY Dr. Warner has installed a Colonic Irrigating outfit. Lady attendant. Phone 176, Goshen.

RUMOR FALSE. i Although it was rumored that Miss Bowman, teacher at North Webster had been kidnapped, when she did not return to her duties after Christmas vacation, it was learned that she ' had resigned her position to marry ' her fiance in Jeffersonville.

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THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL

Congressman will introduce present ly bills for road building, requiring $350,000,000 in 1931. If the states should pay an equSKamoiunt, it'woulc mean spending more'than $700,000,001 No wiser expenditure could b« made or better way found to pul money into circulation. The number employed, unfortuna-

t-1 tely, would be small, since modern g roadmaking is done by machinery, ® spreading out the path of cement as d! buckwheat batter is spread on a hot 9 griddle. e We have the money, the men and it the machines, and they ought to be kept moving. Russia’s government may fail and l- : czars come back, witlAgrand dukes to

t take from peasants the land they i , think they now own. ; But some things that the Russians : are doing, whether they fail or succeed, should stir up useful thought in other countries that think themselves . superior, including this country. Walter Sherman Gifford, head of • the gigantic American Telephone & |

i Telegraph company, expects good | times to drive out bad times, soon. His opinion is important, for the telephone company, reaching everywhere and everybody, is well informed. Mr. Gifford thinks we are going' to see such prosperity as never was, and we may enjoy a sort of Utopia, with the spirit of service and good (will governing big business. I 1 ■? ■