Milford News | 1944-08-17 | Page 5 | Stockman 'Bombs' Cattle with Salt from Airplane

Stockman 'Bombs' Cattle With Salt From Airplane CANYON CITY, ORE. - Clark Morris, Grant county stockman, would ' make a good bombardier, especially if livestock were the target. tar-get. Answering the problem ol how to salt stock in the high areas of the county. Morris dropped 50-pound blocks of salt from an airplane to his stock 1,000 feet below. Local stockmen had maintained that the salt blocks would break if dropped to the range from planes, but on riding into the area, Morris found that only one block had broken and that each block had fallen within 10 feet of its objective. Making two trips, 800 pounds of salt were distributed in 40 minutes. It would take at least four days by team and wagon to distribute that much salt, if they could make it at all. Proving that "precision bombing" bomb-ing" works, Morris has become the local hero.