The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-04-01
Letter From Idaho.
ATHoL, IDAHO, March, 10Th, 1904

EDITOR or Times.
AS have nothing to do but sit and
look at the snow will give little
DESCRIPTION Of this country. | have
been here five weeks and l think l
can truly say it has not missed one
day showing since | came here. The
snow was about three feet deep and
IL is low two fset deep in the timber.
All is timber here. Such large trees
six feet through with underground
50 thick a person cannot see ten feet
on either side of the road. just a
straight road cut for miles through
the dense woods.
Oh, the men think they have hard
time starting farm in Kansas, but
ii they could just see men here work
ing ia snow TO their waists all day
ong cutting and hauling cord wood
making ties and cutting saw logs they
would know something about work.
| never saw men work like they GO
here but some day this will be a fine
fIrming country. They grow fine
vegetables all hut tomatoes and
;ucumbers. But early vegetables,
'uch as potatoes and cabbage, do not
OF here like they do in Kansas.
1t SHOWS and rains here until about
JuLe AID then there is no mere rain
until late in the fall There are plenty
# wild animals here, deer, bear, lynx,
cougars and panthers. One of oul
leighbors killed lynx few days ago.
they are ugly looking animals,
A person would think it would be
terrible cold here with so much snow.
out it has never been below eight
tbOve zero this winter. Men work
without their coats on all day long in
he deep snow. The folks set their
neat out OF doors in barrel ia the
now and it does not freeze scarcely
me bit. One would imagine as far
lorth as this 1T would freeze hard.
1t is about forty miles to the
Cinada line. would love to go over
i0to Canada if | .could stay long
enough but some people can't stand
vhis climate and / am one OF them.
| want to take ride on the lake
t is about three miles from here and
& is never frozen over. 1t is sixty
niles long and they have never been
ible to find the bottom. 1t has bee
measured to the depth of seven
hundred feet but found no bottom.
t. is at the foot of range of
FOUNTAINS lying off to the northeast,
hey say it is fifty miles to the
summit. / don't think l will try to
Gale them this winter, but l would
love to. 1t looks grand up there.
rhe lake at the foot of them looks as
black as ink and for almost half a
mile from it there is no snow.
started down one day last week to
AXE boat rue but could get only
within about quarter ola mile of
the lake, it was raining down there
aud there was no snow. SO we did
not get out of the sleigh to walk down.
SO we will try it again one of these
days. There is fine summer resort
there with boats for pleasure and
accommodation for crossing the lake
AID steamtolts that carry three or
four hundred people back, and forth
all summer. 1t must be fine, tie
lake is two miles wide. The name of
the lake is Pendoraville pronounced
Pendora.
The timber, fir, hemlock, tamarac
pine and au odd kind Of cedar.
One peculiar thing about this
country is short nights in the sum.
mer. 1t is not dark until almost ten
-'clock and it begins to get day light
1t two o'clock in the morning so that
caves scarcely any night. 1t begins
10 get daylight now at half past
four O'Clock and real dark at half past
six in the evening.
Today is the 18th Of March and it is
moving hard, it hardly eyer stops
only to rain a shower. am thinking
of leaving this country. Too much
snow for me.
MRS. MILDRED RHoADEs.
Athol Idaho