Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-14
AMONG sNow.cArpED MOUNTAINS.
Another Spicy Letter FROM the Happy
Elk Misunderstanding ON Trout.
Interesting Incidents.
On Big HORN MOUNTAINS y
So. Fork of Little Goose Creek,
Gonk O ronA

So. Fork of Little Goose Greek,
Sept. 8, 1894.
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@,.AMnOW OUR CAMP
Xxx 0NM is nearly deserted,
~aHISth the Elk and deer
@4&E{pAparty having left
SVM w ktoday for Cloud
EN(MXNNPeak In the party
&S1EGz are Geo. w. Town
A N1 send, of Big Horn,
@NeN who as guide is in
@N6e%lRk charge, Jonas Law
~S&ESa renee, of Mooretield
Neb., Robert Davidson, formerly of
Arkansas, 10Y of Sheridan, L. w. En-
cry, +. H. Folsom and Chas. G. Wilson,
of Lincoln, Philip Green, A. d. Welton,
and r. A. Miller, of Greenwood, Neb.
We are 10 miles from Cloud Peak range
of the Big Horn mountains. This range
marks the eastern boundary of the Big
Horn Basin; Yellowstone Park the
western. The Big Horn river runs
through the middle of the basin and
has an area as large as one-half the
New England states. 1t is the paradise
of ranchmen and hunter. AT the foot
of the Cloud peak range, but seven to
nine Thousand feet high, is a chain of
lakes through which run the waters
that make up the head waters of the
various Goose creeks that flow down
the mountains to the Big Horn valley
and on to Sheridan. There are springs
on the mountain sides all the way up
from the valley, and the mountain
trout swim and jump their way up to
the chain of lakes, in which there are
no fish. One of this chain of lakes is
Dome lake, owned by Omaha people,
who are building a fine driving road to
the lake, removing the dead timberand
preparing the ground for a summer
hotel. From this lake to the snow is a
walk of two hours. The hotel will be
the headquarters of hunting and fish
ing parties. 1t is hardly necessary to
say that the B. & NJ. railroad people
will accommodate the travelling public
with every facility for. reaching Dome
lake on the best terms, and will be
ready to do so next season. It is one
days ride with a team from Sheridan.
The Elk party packed four days ra-
lions and will not return then if the
hunting is good. The packing furnish
ed some fun for the boys. Mr.. Welton,
who is a banker, wanted to take his
kodak, and he did. Wilson, of the
postal service, wanted knives, spoons
and a skinner. The skinner raised a
, riot and did not go. Mr.. Green wanted
to take a camp clock, but did not, and
the old hunters Townsend, Davidson
and Lawrence-did not see what use
!. all these things could be on an elk
hunt, which had to be made mostly on
foot, and the camp itself reached by
horses must be barely accessible to the
best riders. The boys will know more
of elk hunting after their first expert
ment. It has been showing on the high
, ranges for several days and the snow
will make the hunting easy. There are
no dogs in the party. Two herds of elk
are between the chain of lakes and the
Cloud Peak range, and just now it is
safe to presume one herd is made by
the COWS and the other by the bulls.
The running season will begin about
!, the LIST of September. 1.-THE boys don't
get sick of the hard work and the
weather is not too awfully bad, the
chances favor them for a half dozen elk
horns just beneath the snow line.
r Broiled mountain trout, or fried in
rolled crackers, sailed slightly and fla
vored with lemon juice fresh from snow
, water, and eaten hot at this altitude,
6,7O0 feet above the sea, is a dish that
makes n glow with a rapture that is
unknown to the lowlander. Wilson
stops to shout between trouts, and goes
to bed singing 10 my trout" This fish
cannot be transported for the table; it
must be eaten near the spot it is caught
and it is not easy now to do this. The
whole catalogue of flies of the artistic
sort avails nothing in catchingthe wary
, trout at this season. The plain grass
hopper, and that of medium size, is his
only food. 1t may be, and doubtless,
this is not so in the spring season, and
in places in the streams not fished so
much. 1 have caught a few nine inch
, trout here but most of them are from
five to seven. But for the table 1 pre-
fer the smaller size.
Cattle Men Protest.
The STAR office was favored this
morning witha call from Frank McDow-
LIN Af,,, Doo.ua w., c.L,...