The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-09-30
rs FROM BELT.
Execrable Coalition Of County Reads
Personal aud Other Gossip,

Execrabie CO00lttOu " Souu'y N''"us-
Personal aud Other Gossip.
UPPER BELT, Sept. 24.-[Special Cor.
~respondence Of the TRIBUNE.l-Did you
ever experience the misery Of driving
through a region most fair to look upon
where every new point Of view disclosed
new beauty and yet found the roads in
such execrable condition that it was i'm
possible to think Of anything else?
This is for the benefit Of the now al
most extinct board Of county commits
%sioners. We have stretches of road here
90 rocky it is unsafe to venture over them
with a carriage; hills 80 steep that il the
roads are a little slippery horses can
with difficulty keep their footing and
can not possibly haul a load up them.
Old tracks have been fenced in, new
ones viewed and approved, but no work
done on them, and it is simply excruci-
ating to bump over them. Take the
road from Riceville to Monarch, which
three years ago, before the onward march
of civilization had struck us very heav
lily, was as direct as possible, a good,
smooth track all the way, and is now in
such condition that it is unsafe to drive
| off a walk full half of the distance, and
the distance has been heightened out up-
| til it Is about three miles further than
by the old track. Every hill on the route
now has to be climbed, every rocky ridge
is laid out for the wagon track, and you
are fenced right onto it with no way to
escape, and this on a road over which
there is continuous travel. Pessimistic
people remark that the roads are well
worked and in splendid condition over
which the three Cs have oftenest to
drive. Three cheers for them when they
have to step down and out. The roads
at Monarch are worse than those out Of
town. The one bridge over Dry Fork
was washed away In June, and the banks
at both crossings are 80 precipitous and
rocky that it is dangerous to drive down.
The Townsite company wants the county
to fix them, the county claims that the
Townsite company should take care OF
it's own streets, and again the suffering
public must continue to suffer.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Rice, of Riceville,
took the overland route to White Sui
phur Springs for a visit and were gone
several days.
News has just been received from
Portland, Oregon, that DR.. Fred Ed
wards, who spent the summer in this
section a year ago. was recently killed by
being thrown from his carriage while
driving a RUNAWAY horse. The doctor
was a brother Of Walter and Claude
Edwards. The latter has been living
with the doctor and attending school in
Portland. He has been spending bis
vacation with his brother here and ex-
pected to return and continue school
there. The blow is a heavy one to the
boys and they have the sympathy of the
community. The doctor made many
friends while here by whom his sudden
death will be sincerely mourned.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Thayer, Of Wan
san, Wis, have recently been visiting in
this neighborhood, the guests Of Mrs
C. A. Ogden.
Maud Ogden has been entertaining
Miss Mae Sutton of Neihart.
Horseback riding, hunting. fishing
and berrying parties are the chiei
amusements of the season. Game Is
plentiful and parties from Neihart and
other towns are taking advantage of il
and the beautiful weather, to camp out
a few days and enjoy the sport.
The Misses Ida and Mae Sutton leave
for Helena next week, where they vii,
enter the sisters school for the year.
w. ID. Delphey is at present the hap
piest man in Cascade county. 1t is
. boy, and came to stay early Thursday
morning the odd inst,