The Elbert County tribune., 1900-06-14
BiiOu Basin Items,

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Such an elaborate description o
late events on lower Bijou suggest,
The feasibility OF word from tn,
head waters of the creek.
The latter part of March in thi,
district was exceedingly fin,
weather and called forth th,
slumbering ambitions of tn,
various ranchmen and the Bash
became a center of hustle anc
business activity. Thomas Kelly.
who is regarded as the most prac.
teal farmer of the vicinity
brought forth his farming tool,
and fat horses with full expecta
ton of putting in his crop with
out taking all summer. He Al
once initiated his Oldest son in th.
art of running sulky pillow prop
erly and mounting himself on a
proper two-wheeled pulverizer,
the amount of ground turned in 9
short time was surprising.
Hardy and Dowling began to
rustic and in view of an expected
rapid increase of their graded
herd, they leased the Corsan
pasture for term of five years
and proceeded to prepare such
broke land as tho place afforded
for crops.
The "enticing game of high
FIVE" was relegated to the back
ground and work was the watch
word passed all along the line.
Contrary to expectation the first
days of April were balmy and
warm, when almost without warn
ing a great atmospheric change
took place and the severest biiz-
zard of the century was on in the
strictest sense of the word.
Roads were blockaded, barns and
sheds broke in, and the ranchmen
taxed to the utmost. High-fye
failed to come to the front from
the fact that what time the ranch
men were not feeding their stock
it WAS necessary to shovel SNOW
in order to give them room to turn
around, and for time social
gatherings were thing of the
past. About the time the long,
dreary days of April we're coming
to close, several of the populace
thawed out some, and the subject
of school election was discussed to
a considerable extent. Contigu-
GUS to this Mr.. S. w. Dowling
and Mrs. Emma Phillips got their
heads together and decided that
school matters were not being con-
Quoted in accordance with their
standard, and also that they were
the proper persons to make up
the majority of the board; accord
ingly it was announced that their
candidacy was open for the con-
sideration of the voters. Mr.. j.
o. Phillips was appointed Cam
paign Chairman and Mr.. Farrell
Deninny as Chief Counselor. The
Kelleys, the Kellers, the John
sons, the Peteishers and the Ca
pells were consulted, and the time
of election was looked forward to
amid some dubious perplexities.
Mrs. Phillips put on one of her
benignest smiles and interviewed
the feminine voters and Mr..
Dowling like wise circulated among
the farmers and told how he
would be around to plant their
corn.
While local politics was in this
state of fermentation Mr.. Zepher
Holden, who had just recovered
from spell of the blues brought
on by the excesses of the storm,
concluded to put in bit of crop
and the first thing he did was TO
import one, Mr.. Kramer, from
Fondis to do his work. Almost
simultaneously with his arrival he
loomsd up in the broad expanse OF
Zopber's field with one of those
"Root hog or die" machines
which twenty-nine has raised such
a calamity howl about, and began
to make the ground look black
and mountainous, if not pulver-
ized. B. A. Banta was the next
to follow suit and started one OF
the disgraceful machines to tear
ing the turf on his place.
Mr.. Henry Jameson, the con
stable, served notice that he would
manipulate few acres with the