The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-11-05

pass from glacier shaped like a
new moon, about 5000 elevation. The
north fork comes from Glacier lake.
Ice can be found in the small lake
any month in the year. The wall of
rock to the west of the lake is nearly
900 feet above the lake. / saw
band of goats on it last summer. To
the west of Swift Current is the Nc
Donald creek range of mountains,
and East and West Flat Top They
were crowned with snow. We could
hear snow slides quite often. We
saw four snow grouse. They were
white Mr.. Haines took two different
snap shots with his camera at them.
They were very tame, in fact, SO
tame that a Kalispell night police
man could muster up courage to try
and capture them. Mr. Haines caught
one of them in his hand, but let it
go again.
Soon we were going down the wind
ing trail. 1t took us just one hour
to make the bottom, then our way
was easy. We saw two goats far
up the mountain side, too far away
to try to shoot.
We reached Allyn at Z p. m. Of
all the forsaken places on top of this
earth is Allyn. There are empty
houses galore. / saw three empty
saloons. There is good school,
think there are four scholars. / saw
two men, the rest of them are at
work in the numerous prospect holes
in the mountains. The Cracker mine
is not far from this place. Every one
connected with the Cracker expects
to be a millionaire some day. Hope
so, for it is worth a large fortune to
tempt any one to stay here when the
wind blows, which is most all the
time. Look out for outhouses on
every side coming toward you;
saw one house propped on four sides,
and if there had been any more sides,
they would have had props. Well,
we stayed all night and had the best
bed have slept in since left home.
Next morning we procured three
horses and went to st. Mary's. The
lake is fine, but the village, now lay
me down to sleep. No language will
touch the case. There is one white
woman, and one that is not. st.
Mary's was located for placer, or
some other sir, but in my mind there
is not gold enough to plate 10 cent
ring.
Next morning we pulled out for
Allyn On the way l was, as usual,
far in the rear, the confounded saddle
turned, and as l was on top of that
saddle | turned, too. | managed to
get one foot free, but the other
could not, and the result was that
the horse stepped all four feet on me
and went about rs feet, and took pity
on me and stopped. l put the saddle
on top of the horse. | expect | said
something about who wrote the Tai
mud, but the horse did not know well.
So that is all l know about the sad
die. In due time l arrived in Allyn,
and was mighty glad to get there.
| We met Ranger Claflin, stayed with
him, and next morning pulled out for
Lake Mcdonald. We went over the
pass and stayed in the Granite PARK
cabin, where we left our blankets
and grub. Next morning we went
north six miles, to the south fork OF
the Belly river. There is large gla-
cier. and a trail had to be cut In Or
der to pass over it. 1t is about sou
feet over the glacier. There were
fresh goat tracks over it, but as
there was a very hard wind blowing,
7 did not venture out on it very far.
You can see down the pass for miles,
there is one or two lakes in sight 10
the east. There is the we'll known
Garden Wall 1t is broken up into
huge cliffs. 1t reminded me of a WIS
consin search warrant or, in other
words. a fine tooth comb with every
other tooth broken off. Far to the
north is peak after peak, 1T called
to mind Volney's RUNS, or the rise and
fall of empires, but there is no use OF
anyone trying to describe any OF the
country north of Lake Mcdonald, no
two will agree on it. Just go over II
and any one can tell, or try to tell
about the beautiful country. We re-
turned to Granite Park and had
small lunch and then started for
Trapper camp, which we reached
about p. m. Our supper consisted
of rice and sugar, then we went tc
bed. Next morning we baked up oul
last flour into one of Liebig's cele
brated cakes of shew bread, which
was in old times only for the high
muck-a-mucks to eat; but will bel
that one dose of it would have
changed that law. We started FOL
home quite early, and we were al
glad when we reached our boat at the
head of the lake We had eight miles
to paddle to our home camp, but thai