Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-09-27

| 1t is better practice, however, TO keep III
fattening stock and feed with hay, and
| found the people there all busy at hay.
| ing, and fairly good wild hay is secured
from the mountain meadows, but it pays
to irrigate and grow timothy and other
mesas during the summer in herds OF
several hundred head, and require nc
care.
Remunerative Business.
At the present price for beef this is O
1emunerative business, when capital can
be had 10 buy up yearlings and keep
| them two or three years-as the younp
| can be bought for so and the best fat
tened steers sell now for 500.
| Horses TOO are raised there to advan-
| tage. DairyiHg is not much practiced,
| ana there are no creameries in the park.
but 1t pays well to make butter in sum
mer for tourists demands, and a good
| article brings a high price. Cheese, too,
Is made, but only for home consumption
as yet :
rlpen IN the part OF the park l visited
not even pOtatoes-so the cost of living
| IS enhanced by the necessity of buying
| canned goods, and the big heaps of emp
ty cans around all the ranch houses tes-
tify to the extent of this practice.
| Game and fish abound and materially
help to supply the table. The streams
| formerly furnished an unlimited number
or mountain trout, but are getting fished
cut, and there is demand on the gov
eminent hateheries TO replenish them
with the larger rainbow trout of Califor-
| ma, yet my host is swch skillful angler
| that we had plenty of the speckled beau
ties for our table. Suckers, though soft
and HAT tasting when fresh, become pal
atable when lightly sailed and smoked
| they furnish a considerable source of win
| ter food. Grouse, sage hens and ducks
are shot in great numbers, and in that
] dry climate they keep for months simply
| hanging IN the open air. Deer are less
plenty than formerly, yet frequently shot
right about there, but hunters go some
distance in the fall for their winter sup
ply of meat, for jerked venison is count
| ed on as staple form of meat through
the year. This is prepared as follows:
INN strips Of the meat are soaked some
time i'll sweet pickle, and then dried in
the air. 1t becomes very hard and seems
very unattractive, but shaved off and
eaten with bread and butter it consti-
tutes an important item in their fare
| and is found to be extremely nutritious.
Poultry do not thriye-it is too cold and
dry-but with careful housing they can
be made to add something to the table,
and one or two pigs can be fattened on
Simple Fare Conducive to Health.
This simple rough fare is conducive to
health and strength and the bracing air
doubtless helps. People there have good
color and are strong and vigorous A
family, who had lived in my friends
neighborhood for eighteen years and
have six children, testify to the health
fulness of the climate. AS to the effect
of the altitude on visitors, there are
varying statements, but generally no in
convenience is experienced by those not
advanced in years-but persons with
weak hearts must not attempt visit
there, and old people generally find it
trying-but by keeping quiet for a week
or so the system accustomes itself to the
| rarified air and | found myself unusually
vigorous the last two weeks Of my visit.
The attractive spot to tourists in Mid
die Park is Grand lake, where a small
but deep mountain lake lies embraced
| among steep hills which descend with
heavily wooded sides steeply into the
water.
The Continental Divide.
At the east end a gap discloses a
charming view OF snow streaked noun
tains and the Continental Divide-some
twenty cottages and tents on the gravely
| moraine banks of two sides of the lake
are occupied during the summer months
by city jewellers, who here find all the
attractions of such an outing in perfec-
ton; boating, fishing. riding and tramp
ing, and, later in the season, there is
good shooting.
A more attractive summer resort l
have never visited. Its only drawback is
| its inaccessibility, but that adds to it's
charm by making it agreeably secluded.
Persons interested in botany find in this
wild country plenty of occupation. Wild
| flowers abound and OF species generally
i Il
| Guiding many Alpine varieties, l gathered
| and named over fifty Towering plants
| and left nearly as many untouched. The
| guide for flower naming of this region is
COulter's Manual of Rocky Mountain
Botany" 1t is old. but | am informed
| by the bOtanists of the agricultural de-
| partment at Washington that there is
| nothing more recent. except as scattered
| through the botanical journals, or the
publications OF the department.
| To those that may be tempted to visit
l this attractive region l will impart my
experience rs to the cost of getting there.
| Taking advantage of the summer eXcur-
1 sion rates from Chicago to Denver and
1 return, $50, | find the total cost of travel,
| including all minor expenditures, amount
| ed to ST5. Board at the hotel at Grand
I lake costs $40 Il week. Good accOmmo-
| dation can be had at some of the ranches
l for 81 less, with unstinted use of horses
| Mt 500 n week
| Thick clothes and warm underwear are
| essentials, as the nights are always cool,
! often disagreeably so. and frosts are not
| uncommon, even in July. | heartily COM
| mend this little freCuented region, there
| fore. to all seeking a new place for sum
mer outing.-DavenpOrt Fisher in the
| Evening Wisconsin.
| GILDED GAMBLING PALACE.