Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-08
Will Become a Permanent Fix
ture From Now On.
4 MOST ENJOYABLE VISIT
Of a Party of Young Men to the Clear
water Country Results in
This Determination.

n members of the Kangaroo club
VINO lately returned from the Clearwater
mountains after a so days outing, report
an excellent trip and will in all probable
lty become incorporated under the state
laws and establish a permanent summer
camp in that region. which is conceded to
be the best hunting grounds in Montana
If not in the Pacific northwest. This club
was organized a short time ago bv r..
deb. Smith and Marcus DAILY. Jr., of Ana
conda and Howard Welch of Deer Lodge,
the latter two being class mates in a we'll
known college of Connecticut. The object
OF the club is recreation, pleasure, hunt
nga and fishing. Mr.. Smith is a local adj
these sports and a personal friend
Oh MS younger associates with whom he
has spent more or less time among the
forests. fields and streams until a mutual
agreement to cultivate these pastimes
was agreed upon by the formation of the
nga club, which at first was only
used as a byWord. but after their trim
into the Clearwater resolved to perpetu-
ate the name and if need be will enlarge
the membership to one or two of their
other mutual friends. On their recent trip
AANC az l4Sy III 11dInllOn
with two guides, two packers, a cook.
eisht saddle horses and II pack horses,
with a complete camping outfit and 60
days rations fit for a king. They went
up the Bitter Root about IS miles to the
Lost Horse anyon and thence upwards
and southWesterly to a point knoWn as
Inree Forks on the east fork of the Clear
water river and about 20 miles from Ham
llton. While crossing over the divide into
Idaho they old snow banks.
winch, being prospected in certain places,
We're found to be 20 feet deep, but thew
crossed at a point where there was no
snow. The country is described as being
mountainous with few valleys
ana heavily timbered with large cedar
and other wood. Although far beyond
civilization they met a party of five men
among the mountains who came in from !,
GranserVille. Idaho. and claimed to have
been looking for a lost mine. This party :
growing short on provisions and the
Kangaroo club gave them several hum
bred pounds. Rain fell among the noun
am for IL days, and on August 20 it
showed a few inches deep. but it disap-
peared the next day. A few Indians were !
seen among the mountains who entered
from Idaho. These Indians call the mos
quitoS mo sees
The mountains abound In deer. elk.
moose, goat. martin and small
er game. The fishing is unsurpassed. The
Indians who penetrate these regions dis
like to see the whites enter these hunting
grounds Out of two Indians met among
the mountain recesses one was educated
at the Carlisle school, and he was the
most shabbily and savagely dressed and
the most sulky toward the members of
the kangaroo club. The other one was
civil, but was. so he thought. foxey enough
10 tell the boys about a certain kind of
big fish in the lake which poisoned the
ones, and made so much noise in
the water that the moose would not go to
the lakes any more to drink or eat moss.
Ihls Indian said heap bad fish. poor
moose His advice was not needed be-
cause one OF the guides made a trip to the
lakes and found plenty of moose tracks.
While in the mountains Marcus DAILY, Jr..
saw Is elk and deer and Howard WEIGH
"a of the same animals, besides a moun-
ain sheep. The pleasures of the trim
We're so great and invigorating that an
other trip will be made next summer and
a permanent camp to be called Camp
Kangaroo will be established