The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1930, Page 2

‘State W I HIGHWAY STAPFHAS PLAN 0 FINANGE CLEARING ROUTES On Important Sections of N. D. Road System Aid Will Be $25 to Mile COUNTIES BUY EQUIPMENT First Attempt to Keep Lines Open During Winter by State Machines Failed moval of snow from North Da-! kota ‘highways this Winter will be car out under a cooperative plan between the state highway depart: | ment and counties. On the mere important routes the department will assist counties to the extent of $25 a mile, and on the less important routes aid will be fur- nished to the extent of $10 a mile. “North Dakota has -a comparatively extensive state highway system, con- sidering the population served,” H. E. Fowler, assistant maintenance engi neer for the department, said in ex- plaining the plan. “Our system of 7,500 miles serves a population of less than 700,000. As| a result ttaffic is light. S re- | moval under. these cai sents somewhat of a nomic problem, in addition to that of the usual snow removal routine of or- ganization, methods and procedure, which is of primary importance on heavy-traffic routes. Snow removal is an expensive activity. It requires costly units maintained in first-class condition at all times. Heated garages and shop facilities for storage, servic- ing and repair work must be con- veniently located and maintained throughout the state. Wind-Swept Grades Solution “Unfortunately for » Snow re- moval costs do not vary in accord- ance with the traffic density. In other words, it costs nearly as much to} keep open a highway carrying a traf-j) fic of 50 vehicles per: day during the winter months in the snow belt as for a highway carrying 5,000 vehicles per day. However, in one respect the state is in a fortunate position. Our highways ‘are mostly of the low-cost! type, eerth-graded and gravel sur- faced. Very little has been spent in} the way of high-type, expensive sur-| facing. Therefore, to meet this com- paratively recent demand for year- around open roads we can reconstruct and relocate our roads to consist) largely of wind-swept grade lines which will maiiitain themselves free | of snow, at a very small loss of the| original investment. Older states in the snow belt are not so fortunate in this respect, and can only choose be- tween an expensive snow-reimoval program or reconstruction vific~ ing present cosily road surfaces. Winds Cause Packing | “As in all prairie states within the | snow-beit area, our problem in main- | taining open winter roads is not duej so much to the amount of snowfall, which averages some 32 inches annu- | ally, as to other governing factors and} conditions. North Dakota's topography | is largely gently rolling, with very little timbered lands other than small} groves planted at building si | “While tornadoes are practically | unknown, moderately strong winds conducive to crifling and to solidify- ing and packing the drifts. A road may be opened, and be completely blocked. within a few hours there-| after, Exceptionally strong equipment is required to cope with resultant} hard-packed drifts and ice-crusted | snow conditions. Equipment designed | and operating successfully in the tim- bered, hilly sections of the snow belt, where the volume of snow may be considerably larger but in a loose} condition, usually fails to meet the| rigid demands of our snow removal! operating conditions. { ‘Too Many Miles for State x | “Our first attempt at snow removal | work was undertaken during the 1928- 29 season. In the fall of 1928 several pieces of snow removal units (truck- plows and tractor-plows) were pur-! chased and distributed to the several maintenance districts throughout the state. Seeing this equipme: and knowing the expenditure therefor, the general public apparently felt that henceforth all our North Dakota state highways would be free of snow and open to uninterrupted traffic through- out the winter months. They failed to realize the large mileage of con- structed highway per unit purchased. Some districts tried to satisfy this unreasonable demand and public ex- Pectation. Obviously such an attempt could not succeed. Much good work ‘was accomplished, but all to frequent- ly expensive units did not receive proper attention. Necessary widening operations, too, were overlooked. “Such a procedure soon left the highways in worse condition than if no snow removal work had been at- tempted. However, it clearly demon- strated to our people the rigid require- ments of proper snow removal work. It paved the way for the formulation of a limited removal program consist- ent with our means, backed by general public sentiment. Operation of lim- ited snow removal equipment -under @ definite fixed program is absolutely necessary if service is to be rendered nd expenditure of funds justified. And this limited program must have the official sanction of the govern- ing board, and they in turn must be backed by the general public. New Plan Now Year Oid “There are approximately 7,500 miles of roads in our designated state highway system. Of this mileage 4,364 miles were constructed and trans- ferred to the maintenance depart- ment up to January 1, 1930. Mainte- mance funds are expended only on the constructed portions of the state highway system, other than that of marking all designated routes. At the beginning of the 1929-30 season the state highway commission adopted a definite snow removal program. The state-owned equipment was assigned to keep open, and its operations lim ited to, 1,205 miles of the most 1m- portant and heaviest traveled routes. On an additional 1,406 miles, next in junnt o _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930 Road Map of North Dakota Showing State-County Snow Removal Division importance, the commission offered to cooperate with the counties to, the extent of but not to exceed $25 per raile for snow removal work during the season, and on the remainder of the constructed portions of the state} highway system to the extent of but not to exceed $10 per mile. “On the highways subject to co- Article No. 50 By WM. E. MCKENNEY follows with the ten spot, declarer} with the five. ‘West continues with’ operation the counties were to fur-| (Secretary American Bridge League) 11. ace of clubs and then the four of nish the snow removal equipment. While operating on the’ state high- ways under this plan, it was-stipu-|times proves a liability rather than lated that this equipment was to be | an. asset. under the direction, control and juris-| * diction of the state highway depar ment, acting through its division or district engineers. The counties were to be paid for the use of their equip-_ ment on a fixed hourly rental rate basis-as worked, but in no case could the total amount to any county ex- ceed the maximum allotment to that county under.the $25- and.$10-per- | mile schedule.” Will Spur Counties ‘Two outstanding advantages of the ccunty cooperative plans were pointed | out by Mr. Fowler. He said it is) thought the plan will encourage the | counties to purchase snow removal | equipment, and will in some degree plece the burden and responsibilities for meeting demands for a more com- prehensive snow removal program on and within the local community mak- ing such demands. “While acceptance of this plan was, of course, optional with the coun- ties,” he said, “several took advantage of the program, which resulted in ad- ditional miles of the state highway system being opened to travel during the winter months. And this was ac- complished without an additional heavy equipment investment by the state. “While one year’s experience with | the county cooperative plan is hardly sufficient to judge definitely as to its merits, it is believed that therreasons for formulating the plan are being substantiated and justified.” La Moure Farmers Are Turning to Livestock La Moure, N. D., Nov. 13.—While| the Jow prices for farm grains is be- ing lamented from all sides by farm- ers and business men alike, enter- The desire on the part of the novice to cash high cards s@parately at|clubs, which East wins with the K4 souTH DEALER More:lambs and-cattle are being fed this year than ever before in ‘the his- queen. East. returns the. jack of spades, which the declarer allows to rife to the dummy’s king. A small: heart is led from dummy and the ten spot finesse is taken, West shows out, discarding the deuce of diamonds. The declarer already has lost three club tricks and in order to go game must pick the king of hearts. The only possible chance he has is to find ‘the queen of diamonds in the West hand, therefore the small diamond is led. When West plays the three, the jack finesse is taken, which holds the ‘trick. The five of hearts is returned and ‘the eight spot finesse taken. De- dealer, |clarer returns the king of diamonds, opens with one heart, West overcalls| overtaking in the dummy with the with two clubs, North chree hearts}ace and leads another heart, East and South takes the contract tu four) playing the nine, declarer the jack. hearts. The auction bidding would) East's king..can now be picked up be practically the same except that) with the declarer’s ace. not increase North’s| By treating the king. of diamonds asa small card, declarer has succeed- ed in making four odd and going West's correct opening is the fing game of clubs, dummy plays the deuce, East| (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) prising farmers in La Moure county |corn crop in the county, and the low ‘are seeking a better price for their|prices for feeder lambs and cattle is grains through the medium of steers, jambs, hogs, milk cows and poultry, jaccording to Neal B. Colt, county jtle and lambs have declined during probably responsible for this situa- tion. Though the prices for fat cat- the past year, the drop has not been as great as that experienced in erains, and the market for high quality cat- tory of La Moure county, he declares. |tle and market topping lambs is still “The low prices for grains, the good :comparatively good.” i | EG U.S. PAY. ofr. OH, SPEAK T ME QuicK! SAY YOU AINT— OOH, LT KNEW SOME TIME KNEW , GOIN’ AROUND With A STICK IN YOUR MOUTH, “CUD FALL DO OME TIME - eee THE WORRY wart. OUT OUR WAY By Williams | IT AwT FEL DOWN ATALL, Wrth A sTicw IN MY MouTH~ I 3S MADE A TENT OvT., OF THiS OL SWEATER AN IM ow «Tr. vu “et! Aa, ZA te test 22002.) i) ' + Mee ie Te » de fe ia ?. UL RL a nee vc Ay yyy TAU) F THe ic {the 1929 yield. The quality of the |tuated, considerably as the season {000 bushels above the 1929 crop. of ; pared with 82 per cent last year ut o + A Roads on which the Stote Highwo, emma Dept will Remove Snow. Roods on which the Stote will cece per ile for Show namoVe! Roads on which the Stote will poy corse: 510, per mile for Snow Removol. CORN CROP INCREASE: INSTATE DUE LATER ~ SEASON THIS FALL Flax Crop, However, Does Not ‘Measure Up to Earlier Ex- pectations in End A somewhat larger corn crop in North Dakota but smaller crops of flax, buckwheat, and potatoes than were estimated on October 1 is indi- cated by the November 1. ¢rop report of the federal agricultural statistician at Grand Forks. Though corn suffered some dam- age along with other late crops as a result of the dry, hot weather of July and August, the extended growing season brought a larger percentage of the crop along to maturity than was the case during the past few years and is the cause of a little less than 2,000,000 bushels increase in produc- tion as compared with the October 1 estimate. The present crop of 19,233,- 000 bushels is also 2,749,000 bushels larger than the 1929 crop, but some 4,500,000 bushels below tle five-year average production. Crop reporters estimate that 31 per cent of the crop is fit for seed compared with 1.5 per cent in 1°29. Silage yielded some- what better than last year, with an estimated yield of 2.9 tons per acre. Final yield estimates for flax indi- cate a crop 445,000 bushels less than was estimated on October 1. The average yield of 4.6 bushels per acre indicates a total production of 10,230,- 000 bushels compared with 6,876,000 bushels produced in 1929 and 10,307,- 000 bushels, the five-year.average pro- duction. A considerable acreag? of the 1930 flax crop was too poor to harvest and many fields that were cut failed to yield better than one and one-half to’two bushels per acre. The current yield estimate of 4.6 bushels, however, is only one-tenth of a bushel .below crop is somewhat below that of last year. wed Cold Nips Potatoes Potato prospects in the state fluc- progressed. The long-continued dry. weather of July and early August, together with abnormally tem- peratures during a part of this pe- riod, lowered the earlier prospects greatly, and production estimates in- dicated. @ crop somewhat less tha. that of 1929. However, with rains oc- curring in late August and early September, together with a longer than average growing season. the crop responded beyond expectations, so that the October 1 p-obable yield esti- mates indicated a crop of 1,250,000 bushels. Then occurred the unex- pected freezing weather of October 15, to 20, which because of the prolonged growing season, caught a portion of the crop still undug. So severe was this period of cold weather that a large part of the crop: still. in the ground was never harvested. This | accounts: in part for a November 1 production estimate of 250,000 bushels below that of October 1, but still 40,- 6,960,000 bushels. Quality of the crop ig estimated to be 85 per cent com- Milk and Eggs Drop Preliminary estimates of grass and clover seed yields are about equal to last’ year, except for sweet clover ard alfalfa seed which are somewhat be- low. The drouth beginning in July, checked the second growth of these crops and greatly reduced the stands. bushel of all spring wheat as reported this month is 57.4 pounds compared pounds. Milk production has dropped from 17.7 poands per cow «1 the first of November 1. A year ‘ago production per cow was estimated gt 16.8 pounds Figg production too has dropped be- MINNESOTA EGEND & year ago. ll Cooperate With Counties in Snow Removal From Roads | SHAFER LOST EDDY ONLY; HALL WINNER BY MORE THAN 8,000 Constitutional Amendment De- feated by About 24,000 on Nearly Final Vote GOVERNOR UP TO 129,110; Barrett, Communist Candidate | Against Shafer and Blew- ett, Shows 3,954 | votes. town, received 41,084. Democrat, 24,331. 78,588 in favor. Governor George F. Shafer carried all but on: of the state's 53 counties, most of them by overwhelming ma- jorities, in his race for reelection at the November 4 election, according to nearly complete unofficial returns | 1 Eddy county, which he lost by 34 Returhs from 2125 of the state’s 2228 precincts gave the governor @ vote of 129,110, while his Democratic opponent, Pierce Blewett, of James- Additional returns from the Second congressional district showed Con- gressman Thomas Hall with a sub- stantial lead on the basis of returns from 746 of the district's 777 precincts, These unofficial returns gave Mr. Hall 32,49: votes, and P. W. Lanier, The constitutional amendment to /§ extend terms of county and state offi- cers from two to four years went down to defeat by a margin of ap- proximately 24,000 votes, returns from 2114 precincts showed. The vote was 102,149 against the amendment, and cand:date for governor, received @ scattering of votes throughout the now laying, compared with 15 per cent state. Returns from 1359 precincts ‘The average weight per measured | with 58.7 pounds last year. Oats weighs 32.2 pounds and barley 4¢ last month to 16 pounds per cow on! * For the United States A favorable season in- creased the production of corn in the ‘United States 48,000,000 bushels above the October 1 estimate. The Novem- ber 1 estimate of 2,094,481,000 bushels compares with 2,614,307,000 bushels produced in 1929 and with 2,699,809,- 000 bushels, the five-year average production. ‘All late crops were favored by the extended growing season, and yields are generally above the expectations ® month ago, The preliminary esti- Ske Wen, os coment eee is is an increase of approximately 43 per cent on an acreage approxi- of 1929. Buckwheat production on November 1 is estimated to be 9,409, 000 bushels. In 1929,-22;520,000 bush- were better than expected in all of the important producing states, except Michigan and North Dakota. The ‘November 1 estimate of 368,444,000 larger than the October 1 estima production. - The world. production of wheat is likely to be & little larger than in the past season, but the world’s consump- season probably will exceed produc: tion. Conditions. reported to date in- dicate that the world wheat crop out- side of Russia and China will amount to about 3,650,000,00 bushels, about 160,000,000 bushels more than was harvested in 1929, but 320,000,000 bushels less than the 1928 crop. In production so that the stocks of old wheat on hand July were at least 100,000,000 bushels less than on hand at the beginning of the previous sea- son. Shorter feed grain crops and will result in the consumption of wheat being considerably larger than in the past season. Notwithstanding the continuation of high duties in some countries, Europe probably will feedstuffs with a larger number of livestock to be fed. The disappear- ance of wheat in the United States and in Europe together is likely to be about 250,000,000 bushels greater than in the past season. This would re- | duce, the world’s carryover of wheat at the end of the season to about a normal basis unless Russia contrib- utes a large amount of wheat for con- deficit countries, he give the first gui It . low that of last November Only 19 | per cent of the hens and pullets are out of 2228 gave him 3954 votes. following tables give complete, or nearly complete, returns from every county in the state in the contests for governor, second district congressman, and the constitutional in County 232 Precincts Heard From Shafer Blewett etoes ass mate of flax production is placed at | 16,844,000 bushels harvested in 1929. | P neniwnsens Precincts mately 47 per cent greater than that! Cass els were harvested. Potato ylelds| {2 HSASSSSASSLSSSennsae, by b erin titer Peet tha) 2 teenagns ns ca setsos 22 bushels is about 16,000,000 bushels and 8,500,000 bushels above the 1929! ee ee tl SSSSsrsSiesiagancsaansasseeS aes ant pt AQF Ize SK tion during the 1930-31 marketing | the past season consumption exceeded | § Rese S ose seasae e very low prices of wheat undoubtedly | \,. im octs Sere Congressional District consume more wheat than in the past | season because of smaller supplies of | ‘= Lanier atom om sesseas Pettitt STIC K LE Pp, S Excursion 1N order to get out of a certain apple orchard, a man had to ass through three fence gates, by three guards. He was al- lowed to take as apples as he wished, on condition that ard halt his apples and half an apple; the n second guard half his remaining apples and halt an apple, | the third guard half the apples he still had jeft plus half an apple. When he got out he had oné apple. How many did he take from the orchard? 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Exactly 300 resident hunting li- censes were issued this year and one non-resident permit. This total is exceeded only by that of 192, wien 321 resident licenses were issued in Sheridan county. The non-resident license here was isued to Lester Rake, * Rice Lake, Wis. Mr. Rake also + ; bought non-resident permits in Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota this Th ber permit e number of fishi: its to- tal 27 Hig The young men of the county are taking a greater interest in trapping, which is shown by the fact that al- ready 75 trapping licenses have been issued.The total amount received for licenses so far this year is $763, since $475 was paid for hunting licenses, $150 for trapping and $138 for fishing permits. i OKLA. FARMER KILLS os 172 RATS IN ONE NIGHT K-R-O (Kills Rats 0; i ” My <=, Hulbert, Obie brougee. this remarkable result. K-R-O is the original product made from squill, an ingredient recommended by U. S. leading rat exterminator in just a few years. 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