Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-09-23
FROM TYPO
In Journal Office To Dry Farmers
Wife on Colorad0'S Plains. That's
Our Bea. She's Quit Showing
Type Lice

uew home in Routt Co., Colo. Itmay
be of interes to former friends as we'll
as to those who are contemplating
going west to locate:
We have had q grand time ever
since we left Extra and are having a
better time now than ever. We
boarded for awhile at the hotel but
they asked us $50 month for our
board so now we have rented one
room Ia front room opening on to the
estreet.) 1t is about 12x1S and we have
furnished it just grand with the fol-
lowing list of pieces: Two trunks, q
small four-holed stove that stands on
legs Gt looks like an infant by the
side of my range and it just goes
booming. 1t cost SIT here, about 81
in Iowa. two dining room chairs, and
the rest is home made, very beautiful
and consists of small box nailed to
the wall for cupboard, larger box
sitting in the corner with shelves for
tinware, groceries, etc. and the top is
washstand,-a dressing table made
by turning large box upside down
and mailing q stake in each corner for
legs, and dining table made the
same way only more solid SO 1 can
iron on it. "Us fellers out to Craig"
never think of using carpets! But
say do you believe it, it looks cute?
We bought what we needed yesterday
and Just for fun I'll name them to
you: A tub and washboard, clothes
line, clothespins and bluing, dish
pan, slopbucket, teakettle, mirror,
washbowl and pitcher, broom and
mopstick, q kerosene can, a lamp, 8
plates, 8 cups and 3 saucers, l deep
dish, 6 tin spoons, water bucket
and that's all besides "eating." What
dye think O that? 1t cost US $4OO the
fret time and when we get our bed it
will be about $50 this time. That's
the difference between Colo. and Iowa
I wish you could step in and take
peep at US but of course you would be
impudent enough to laugh. My
dressing table is coversd all over with
nice clean paper and it has bowl
and pitcher with towel and on the
other side of the table is my diction=
ary and Bible. It looks cute with the
mirror above it. OF course, though,
that's our best and no one not even
company gets to use that.
The Journal came last night. Char
lie Curd gets the Advocate 30 we are
going to trade. l see Mr.. Repass
died. That shocked me as 1 thot he
was getting better.
We have track of horse we can
get and John has gone to look at it,.
Then we are going to get q harness
and buggy and drive to our ranch
each morning, eat dinner out there
and come home at night. The call
for lumber is 30 great that they can't
supply the demand just now 30 it
will probably be couple of weeks yet
before we can start building. You
would be surprised at the number Of
people coming here every day to look
for claims. IL is not unusual to have
to leave passengers at Steamboat
Springs as the stages are too full to
bring them on for a day. All you can
hear at the hotel is men talking about
their claims, or else wondering which
is the best direction to go. Every body
thinks we did fine and we receive lots
of encouragement from the old set
tiers. We will be about 4 of a mile
from our nearest neighbor and they
are fine, church people. They were
as tickled as could be when we told
them we were here to build and stay.
We aren'ta mile from Bear River and
they catch fine trout and catfish
there. They were telling us of an s.
lb. trout caught there recently.
John Just come home with some bed
springs and kitchen table, with
drawers in it, too. We had grapenuts
and fresh peaches and cream for
dinner yesterday and beefsteak, bread
butter, honey and peaches for supper;
We take break fast at the hotel. John
got crate of peaches from the fruit
wagon for rs cents. They sell for $l.25
but these were jammed some, grape
nuts zoe, butter 400 bread l0c, lard lSc
etc. but it beats hotel prices. 1 just
love it here but want to get on the
ranch.
Steamboat is celebrating this week.
Pioneer Days" and Craig is turning
out full force, They have building
there they call Craig Headquarters
and will have an exhibit of fruit, veg
etables, ect., grown here. They were
getting them together yesterday and
called us in to look at them. In Iowa