The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-25


 co WEST. YOUNG GIRLS. Go wEsr'
 Horace oreeley's advice to young men to go West has been heard and needed to the glory of both tho men who took 1t and the country they have 
 Now 1t is woman's turn to emigrate to that wonderland and ind her op- A special from Spokane wash. to . St. Louis paper tells the following interesting human story.
 Much of the romantic and historic in conQuering a new country has us locale in the Spokane district. embrace ing Eastern Washington. Northern Idaho, Northeastern oregon. Western Montana and utheastern British Co., lumbia, where the homesteaders are building 6 veritable empire on the sagebrush flats and river benches ana in the virgin forests in outlying sec tions. The lure of the unknown. which has sent thousands to the Pacific Northwest, has been productive Of the lighting spirit. and those who have vim and energy and red blood in their veins are making successes.
 Most of them are from the congest- ed centers in the East. They came west to improve their conditions-to win and by persistency. perseverance and application they are gaining homes ana luoepcuoChScs oouO battles in the West, which. while the settlers are open-hearted and hospi- table, is no place for drones or for the easy.g going, who look to the winds to blow success in their pathway.
 Probably the most ambitious and plucky settlers in the district. called the Inland Empire of the Northwest' are fifteen young women school teacn CTS who are homesteadinE on tracks of land near Moses Lake. west of spokan, where they are gradually bringing under cultivation what was the stamping ground of the hardy buckaroos with their big herds of cat- tleless than a dozen years ago.
 It required lot of nerve to get down to grubbing the sagebush. IL isn't a game for a quitter. this pursuit of fortune in the wide expanse whe.e the coyotes flirt with the jack rapoits. It is a job for strong men. But hun dreds have made successes. and as many more are working with the same goal in view, Thousands more will have come into the Pacific Northwest before all the land available Tor set- clement under the homestead law IS taken up.
 Typical of the plucky young women in the new country. who have faith in themselves and confidence In the districts in which they live. Is Mrs, Margaret Cross, who is holding q homestead and teaching schoo1 twenty-fve miles south of wilson Creek, wash. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and was rear ed amid comforts. won by F. M. Cross, then studying law in Minnesota. After graduating he came West and sought fortune by the bomestead route. He located claim ana built A cabin, and when a school was opened near his placo. he was chosen to teach the youngsters Tn me neiKhborhood. Opportunity put on It's best smile when the second schooi was organized, and Cross despatched a long letter to the girl in the Gopher State, urging her to come to spokane where they were married.
 It was planned that both could teacb schooI and "prove up on the homestead. After passing few days at a nearby lake Cross fell sick ana died. Hundreds of miles rom horne and among strangers the young widow buried her dead, afterward look in1 over the homestead. Mrs. Cross took up the work where her husband had left 1t and now she Is teaching ms school and acquiring ownership To the claim. She will be rich in few years, for as soon as moisture is scientincaiiy applied to her holding the farm wiiI bring from s25o tod $500 an acre as orchard land. A, Boston, are proving up on 9oint claim of ago acres in the Sullivan Lake district in Stephens County. washing ton, where they are also teaching tne ranchers' children. These young wom- en pass much of their time In the open fishing and hunting. Both are experts with the rifle. Their parents are witn them two months in the summer and three months in the winter. Their cabin is more pretentious than those in Central Washington. being built of logs and chinked. They are on the line of communication with Spokane and Colville, and are frequent visitors in both places.
 Mrs. U. s. Anderson also has a home stead in the Sullivan Lake district This plucky young woman Is proncient with rod and gun, among the trophies of the chase being several bear and deer killed in the mountains in North ern Idaho and in Southern British Co., lumbia. Her shack is a substantial structure. built of seasoned logs, and equipped with a fireplace, a covered veranda and screened windows for light and ventilation. also Hume carrying water from a spring in the E. hours a day in the saddle. on her horse called U. S. A. with her dog Jack as her companion in the foothills and inI the timber. = '+
 Rebecca M. Henderson. a certifcated teacher of Iowa. formerly connected with the Spokane High School. Is lit- orally carving a home out of the for est. After building a shack in the forest of the Pend Oreille River district forty miles from the nearest railroad. she organized a school, her six pupils being children of neighboring ranch ers The settlement. called Blue Slide. is in the extreme northeastern part of Washington. where provisions and mail are delivered by pack horses and star route riders. Miss Tender son holds 160 acres of land, most of which Is heavily timbered. The saw logs alone will net her several thou sand dollars She is cultivating the land as rapidly as 1t Is cleared. and her life Is a happy and contented one.
 Miss Hester Palmer. 72 years old. has 200 acres of land in Wallows Val ley. Oregon. south of Spokane, in the heart of the yellow pine belt in the Blue Mountain district. She crossed the plains from Missouri 30 years ago with a mule team. Mrs. Kate Brill. formerly of Illinois. has q homestead in the same district. Mrs Winfred Brownie, formerly of Pennsylvania. who came West to regain her broken health, has checked the ravages of tu- berculosis by living in the open in the hills in the Motaline district, where she is housed in a tent. She has 154 acres of land, much of which is tim bered Like many of her pioneer sls- ters. Mrs. Brownie Is an enthusiastic