When the service station industry was still in its infancy, businessman H. Earl Clack built a network of retail gasoline and bulk oil outlets from the northern plains into the Pacific Northwest. Headquartered in Havre, his company spread the orange and green Hi-Power logo through virtually every community along the Montana Hi-Line during the 1930s, and before World War II Clack outlets in Montana formed the state's most extensive network of retail stations marketing regionally produced petroleum products. Clack was an early advocate of functional gas station design and among the first retailers to adopt the modern flat roof that came into vogue in the early 1930s, while a rounded canopy over the pump island and three sets of raised chevrons gave the stations a distinctive corporate identity. This vintage station, first operated by Walter “Timber” Woods in the early 1930s, is one of few remaining in Montana. Husky Oil Company acquired Clack assets in 1955, the station stood vacant for several years after 1957, and in the early 1960s the Town of Saco leased the property, added a picnic shelter east of the office, and repaired the interior so the former station could serve as a rest stop for weary U.S. 2 travelers.