The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-13
.,aise for Hunters and Fisher
mcn-Big Game and
Big Fish.
r.u Notes Of II Trip Through
the Fiathead
Country.

=, fine scenery, hunting and fishing
4, the Pacific extension of the Great
.,bern road. / recently spent three
,,bs in the country through which
"vteusion runs and l will try to give
= few facts regarding that section of
state.
nft Great Falls on the afternoon
\, reaching Havre at 7 o'clock in the
nina. in time to catch the freight
4, going west that night. l was
+uDate enough to strike the train
E.o ont by that prince of conductors,
rhompson, who knows every curve,
) and river from Havre to Spokane.
[ss dark when we left Havre and it
on undressing ride until we ar
I'd at Blackfoot, about seven in the
I,Dioc, where, with good appetites, we
n turned over to the hospitable care
Mrs. r. ]. Hopkins, wife of the assist
/, road master. We stopped here
(s,,y all day. There were about sixty
tbe party and to pass time away some
h had guns went for Il duck hunt to a
h near by and returned ladened with
ese. brant and mallard ducks; others
ak rods and went sharing suckers with
eat success
At Mldyale the next big station east
Summit. ! met the roadmaster who
lok me off to spend a couple of days
mi him which I was glad to do. |
Innd the Midyale section house very
Imio-table and a jolly set of fellows DC
med il. The next morning | walked
Far tbe biz Two Medicine bridge, DIT
et high, a grand structure looking from
distance like a gigantic spider web. 1t
amazingly strong and able to with
and the wear and tear of the very
payies trains going owe it at all times
IN after day. The river flows out of
Z famous Two Medicine lake, the
sters of which are clear, cool and
barkling. In the river are found the
hest speckled trout in the world, and
80 the salmon trout.
At Midvale close to the section house
te two shacks occupied by a halfbreed
Id his squaw. He is a hunter. trapper,
C.. and is a man up in the sixties. His
ther is old Monroe, 105 years of age, a
tOtchman who has lived since boyhOod
lhe saws 80 years-in Montana. Non
bes a great talker and gives vivid dis
hptions Of all his great battles. fights,
bptures and escapes from the red
euls, as he calls them. He fondles with
Ire bis old Queen Anne, an old flint
bn, and scorns a modern Winchester.
ID Bess. he says, takes a round ball
kelye to the pound AMI will make a
ear very sick, make him cough,
Jake him lie down, and then ! just
Ee my knife and finish him." Here
produces a veritable Scottish dirk or
Fsean Dhee,' keen as a razor and
kayy enough to give the q~uietus to an
kphant. Poor, old Monroe! His eyes
Iry glistened as he recounts all his
teds and shoulders his old Queen Anne
I'd shows now past battles were won.
lis father was a Scotch soldier in the
[ngish and French wars in the last
entuary. He came out here 80 years
30 with the Hudson Bay fur traders
nd has been here ever since. He never
" a railroad Or heard the shrill
thistle Of a locomotive until the road
eaehed his lonely hut.
Nldvale is par excellence all that a
pOrtsman may imagine. You have all
efts Of birds, and game of every kind.
lh in the lakes, fish in the rivers.
pears mountain lions all in their
proper belt, and no snakes.
The country about Midvale is d sports
lans paradise. There are all sorts OF
game, birds, bears and mountain lions.
nd an abundance of fish. There are no
makes, not ever of the alcoholic variety,
s you are still on the reservation. The
gfazing land here is simply unsurpassed.
Two hours ride from Midvale, up
grade, is the summit. This is the lowest
PASS In the Rocky mountains. Here two
dreams have their sources, n flowing
ssl to the Atlantic, while the other, a
eS yards away, flows west to the Pa
E,ue' Fish in them? ! should say SO.
8 son as they get 200 yards Roadway
W are plenty and you must be a poor
Asaple of old Isaac Walton if you can
W MI a bag or basket. ] had with me
Jew dozen Irish trout flies and on July
! tired them. Half a mile from Sum
lil there is a little bridge. ] began
tn.re and between that bridge and a
tuVert at the milc-pOst caught up
Edrd OF fifty speckled trout, some SO big
Gouldn't land them for want OF Il net.
| nad a man with me and it gave us MS
Inuch as we wanted to do to get them
tohe' All hands had fresh trout Tor
breakfast on the Fourth. That day l
| |mso the eastern river. 1t was more
to fish in it but the trout we're
Xavier lcaught three and a half dozen
Iua they were beauties. For whipping
'.sse streams big flies should not be
sseu' A No. 10 hook is large enough
green body. brown hackle, yellow
"es.rldge, turkey brown, and black
suals are the best and surest killers.
od ! stayed some time at Bear creek with
s. "Iwo-Jinks- Ahead" the foreman OF
stA.ra gang No. .. He has a rich Mum
!, brogue and it is Il positive pleasure
= near him giving orders. There is
DeaInful timber here, SO straight II
make excellent masts for small
.,sIls. Here. too, is the finest mountain
Ssler 10 America. Mountain upon
J, rise here and in the midst Of
Ill 1T is a valley wherein lies the deserted
mage, the once famed McCarthyville
NV given over to the coyotes, save fol
. w.. ranchers. From indication place.