The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
LOCAL SUMMER RESORTS
Annual Exodus to the Country
Soon Begins.
FOR HUNTING AND FISHING
The Hills and Valleys of Western Mon
taua Have No Equal-They Are
Receiving Greater Patron
age Every Year.

Fourth has passed, the annual exodus
for the country will begin. The vaca-
tionists have held off. waiting for the
celebration in town, but when that is
over they will begin to hunt their ia
vorite summering places, and the city
will be minus a goodly portion of its
inhabitants for a few weeks. There
are few sections that present the ad-
vantages that Western Montana pos
sesses for the summer pleasureseeker,
and more people are finding this out
each year. The local summer resorts
have received a patronage during the
past two years that has been far in
excess of that of any previous sea-
son. The high water and the cool
spring have delayed the opening of the
season this year somewhat, but it will
be in full blast in a short time now.
Missoula people find pleasure in sum-
mering places that are near at hand
and enjoy their outing as well as if
they had Travelled a thousand miles to
find 1t and had paid more for it. Peo-
pie from other parts of Montana are
learning the advantages of the resorts
of this section and are bestowing more
of their patronage this way every
year. For a man whose family has
been in the high altitude of the mining
and smelling towns of the state all
winter and spring, there can be no bet
ter place for a summer jaunt than the
hills and valleys of Western Montana.
They are not so far from his home
and business that it is expensive get
ting to and from the place selected and
the distance is not so great that the
HOG of ha for M
wife and children in their summer re-
treat without sacrificing his business.
The resorts of Western Montana are
sufficiently varied in the attractions to
satisfy the most eXacting. There are
hunting and fishing regions that are
the best in the West: there are pleas
ant ranches, where the quies country
life enjoyed by many can be obtained;
there are hot springs that afford re-
lief to the weary and health to the
sick: there are places where the rough
est kind of camp life can be enjoyed
by those who like it; there are hotels
where the service is the best in the
land and the accommodations are I'M
excelled: there are cheap places and
there are expensive places. The man
who cannot find what he wants in this
list is hard to please. The hot springs
of this section of the state are espe-
cially attractive by reason of their To-
cation convenient to fishing and hunt
ing. Near the summit of the Lolo
pass are the Lolo springs and the
Granite springs, which each year at
tract hundreds of visitors, who are
seeking health or pleasure or both.
Farther up the Bitter Root valley are
the Sleeping Child springs and the
Wilder springs, and down on the West
End, near Plains, are the Paradise
Tay IN Out,
At all of these places there are com
Portable bathing facilities and good
living.
To enumerate the places that find
favor with the hunter and the fisher
man would require too long a time.
There are hundreds of them, and the
friends of each pronounce it the best
in the world. The mountain streams
all over Western Montana abound in
trout and the hills around them fur
nish game for those who want to hunt.
Some of these places are easily ac-
cessible by railway and others require
miles of hard packing. Between these
two extremes there are others. A man
can suit his fancy somewhere in this
part of Montana or he cannot be suit
ed this side of the pearly gates. From
the wilderness of the Clearwater just
across the Bitter Root range, to the
uulbl camp bil lIlt IldLlttSiiihVr IpL
two miles from the city, there can
certainly be something found that will
satisfy any taste.
For those who enjoy still water
rather than the swiftly running
streams, FIathead lake, Lake Como
and the splendid bodies of water in the
Upper Blackfoot country afford the
best possible means of recreation. Here
are boating facilities. combined with
the sport of hunting and fishing and
the scenery that surrounds the lakes
is unsurpassed.
Then there is the Bitter Root val
ley, with it's pleasant ranches and it's
streams filled with trout and its gar
dens of vegetables, its orchards of
fruit its dairies of milk and butter and
its pleasant, quiet homes. Here is
where many people from the city find
just the recreation that they want.
There are good roads for bicycling,
riding or driving, and there are oppor-
tunities enough for sport to prevent the
time from hanging heavily upon ones
hands. In these places a man can
come as near getting rested as he can
anywhere in this busy world. A man
who don't get rested in this region
either has a troublesome conscience or
else he was born tired.
For a short outing the Copper City
Limited, with its special Saturday
rates affords an opportunity for the
enjoyment of a quiet Sunday a Mis-
soula or at Hamilton. A man who
sends his family down from the upper
country to spend a few weeks is able
to spend each Sunday with them and
not miss the time taken from his bust
ness. The change from the rugged
mineral bearing hills to the green fields
and broad acres of these western val
leys is rest in itself. There is plenty
of room in Western Montana for all
these pleasure seekers. and it is hoped
that they will take advantage of the
opportunity this summer and learn for
themselves what a beautiful place
there is on this side Of the range.