The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-20
B|LLYS DREAM REALIZED
At Last the Great Promoter Has
Struck an Ideal Scheme.
BEAUTY IN LARGE GOBS
1dyllic Sylvan Woodland, Where All Is
Gladness and Care Is Not, to Be
the Site of Mr.. Woods
Mountain Villa.

After nine days in the wilderness
Billy Woods returns to Butte. Billy is
a schemer, a manufacture of great
things. He is called by some vision
airy, but Billy contends that he is not
visionary, but that he nolds his opin-
ions and expression in the adamant
die of logic
He has a new scheme. For months he
worked on the slender thread of dis
couraSement in an endeavor to create a
healthy sentiment favorable to ath-
letic sports in Butte" but after expend-
ing more energy than usually falls to
the portion of man. he dropped his
hoe, shouldered his axe and took to the
hills. He returns with broad smiles,
beaming countenance and a brand new
proposition. He sees in his plans
beautiful wooded mound resting at the
base of the snoW-capped ridge which,
like the star of old, led the sturdy pros
pector on to the glittering gold de-
posts of Highland gulch. This dream
of woodland is drained on two sides by
a continual flow of natures sparkling
nectar, which springs from the eternal
fountains of the cliffs, fed by the
mighty white drifts of snow. These
streams wind their way through beds
of moss, fringed by mountain maple
and rose bushes, in the Businesses of
which dwell the cute little chipmunk
family and blue birds, strawberries
sarvis berries and choke cherries and
some gooseberries abound in the hot
seasons I-m
On the summit of the wooded hill or
mound nature has cleared off a park
of tall grass, lovely to behold. From
this plateau the slope is gradual AMI
graceful down to the thiCket surround
ing il, as sometimes silver locks sur
round the dome of a bald pate. As
Stunning the majestic peaks of the High
land to be the view from the front door
of the proposed villa on the plateau,
assumption takes your friend Billy
through the backyard to a clearing or
park, connected with the villa grounds
by natural pathway over a sand
stone pavement. which curves around
around through the pines and moss. 1t
is upon this velvety spot Billy hopes 10
realize upon his dream of ages-it is
here the athletic park will be.
II have enlisted a number of good
solid men in this enterprise" said the
irrepressible yesterday. The grounds
are in the midst of about 600 acres If
located mining grounds. You go to a
point the other side of Homestake on
which we propose to build about two
and a half miles and You are on the
prettiest spot for recreation in this
mountainous region have seen many
pretty places. but this spot is far sur
passing in beauty. Many natural
springs furnish abundant water for all
purposes lit is .ouryintenton to build
a lake. From the lake to the villa will
be an elevator, run by water power
and visitors fatigued by long strols
through the wonderland and around
the lake may take the elevator Instead
of climbing the hill when they are al
ready so tired. ......-.
I'VE propose to build number of log
cottages-timber is plentiful-and finish
them in the interior with hard plaster
In time l think an electric railway will
be built from the railway station to the
villa.
1T is the biggest thing l have seen
in Montana"