The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14

miles from the international boundary |
line. After flowing by a devious route |
through British Columbia. * finally |
finds its way into the reservation at |
Midway. and them describing a semi |
circle of about % miles in length, it
flows back into British Columbia at
Carson, a new town on Grand prairie
Here it parallels the boundary line for
another 20 miles, and then again enters
the reserve. flowing across the north
east corner of the reservation into the
Columbia about one mile below Mar
Gus.
The Kettle river valley also is set
tied by the Indians, and some of them
have been upon their land more years
than they can well recollect. But back
from the river, especially to the north,
there is open bench land which the In
dams have not touched, and here prob
ably the prospective white settler will
find his best opportunity for a farm.
This valley is shut in on the south and
west by high mountains which mate
rally lessen the length of the day and
shut out the warm sunlight so neces-
sary to growing grain and ripening
fruit. Consequently portions of the
valley are not adapted to diversified
farming, but the valley is a good hay
producer and the farmer, having suf1i-
cient hay to winter his stock, with the
fine range on the surrounding hills will
! find cattle raising in this section a prof
liable business. Where Kettle river
makes the circle into and out of the
reserve the government this past sum-
mer did not extend the survey north of
the river, consequently there is large
territory here-nearly 200 square miles
upon which the coming squatter can
exercise all his rights and cherished
prerogatives.
TERRODA CREEK.
After leaving Curlew creek, travelling
up Kettle river the first and last stream
of importance crossed before reaching
the boundary line is Terroda creek
This stream heads southeast of Mount
Bonaparte and flows north through a
narrow canyon shut in by high rugged
mountains. There are only two ranches
on the creek, one about four miles from
where it flows into Kettle river, and the
other about three miles farther up the
creek. These ranches are located on
the only part of the creek where there
is width enough to the canyon to per-
NIT of any sort of ranch and owing to
the fact that there is little sunlight i'm
the summer and less in the winter shin
ing into the canyon, they are only hay
ranches. But between Terroda and
Myers creek, on the south slope of the
mountains, there is open bench land,
warm and fertile, backed by a fine
bunchgrass range, where a few ranches
will no doubt be located.
Going up Terroda creek you clint
steadily by an easy grade until you
reach the summit of the last range OF
mountains between the Columbia an6
Okanogan. About 25 miles up the creek
and eight miles from the summit the
trail turns to the west up ii small can
yon, through which flows the west forl
of Terroda creek. Five miles up thi:
fork you come out into an open valley
three miles long by one-half to three
fourths of a mile wide. This valley il
known generally as Ingraham mead
ows, and will be known later on as on
of the finest stock ranches on the re
serve. At present no one is living il
the valley, although several rancho
, are staked off and a fence has beef
, built around part of it. Surrounding
: the valley and Immediately adjacent t
it are open bunchgrass hills, while far
Their back the timber is open, with tn
, exception of the north hillsides, whicl
are invariably densely wooded wit
! small tamaracks and black pine.
BONAPARTE CREEK.
I Leaving Ingraham meadows, the ira
e follows an open valley to Bonapart
creek. This valley is four miles Ions
but in it's widest part is not much owe
one-half mile in width. To the mort
of the valley there is series of ope
benches of good agricultural lane
South of the valley the mountains al
, heavily timbered with pine, fir and tan
= arack. No one is living in this vale!
= although it is excellent farming lant
: capable of producing a fine crop of ha!
:, in fact, wild hay is cut in it each yea
q by the Indians on Bonaparte creek, VIII
winter their stock here.
h Bonaparte creek, upon which is Il
a Gated the Tonasket boarding school fC
o. Indian children, is the principal cree
q on the Okanogan side of the reserv;
ton. 1t heads on the east side of M
10 Bonaparte and after flowing about 81
e miles along the eastern slope of IL
" mountain turns to the southwest ar
a finally finds its way through low buncl
Is grass hills into the Okanogan. TT
Is valley in which this creek flows is Sc
n, tied by a few white men with India
e, wives, half-breeds and Indians. Tit
L. have fine ranches and raise abunda1
ly crops of hay, grain and vegetable
e. They are as a rule now paying son
lie attention to fruit growing, and son
very fine orchards indeed can be SCI
w along this creek and the Okanog;
Id river. The summer is long, and it sc
r extremely hot in july and August