The Falls City tribune., 1910-04-01
journey to the Great Northwest
As Described by Mrs. c. j Crook


and great rashers of breakfast bacon.
How good taierythins seemed aud
how We ate Butter and meat keeps
perfectly firm for days in This high
altitude. 10 was the work Of Dick -
and another driver, Earl to care for
tho horses. 8efore breakfast was
ovar Earl reported that the horses
could not be found, so Dick was dis.
patched tozlook them up, There are
signs at every camping place, No
loose stock allowed. Carefully eX.
tinpuish camp fires. and should YOU
not heed, a 1oldier is soon on your
TRACK. l forgot 10 mention that VIC
had to registers SIX or seven times 50
th4re is no danger of II getting lost
or sif you should be 1elegraphcd for
yoh may be located soon. Two sad,
die poniss every kep III eampsaepe
had bfokerE loose bu Ind not Ia
mite and the teams had been left
hobbled and turned out 10 gfaze on
grAss. Hobbies are straps around
each front foot. then firmly strapped
together so they could 70 uo Great
distance. But The boss said BEARS
that was the reason q In n litud while
the ~inyincible Dick was heard on the
other side of the foaming river and
wd said how can those hobbied
horses CROSSE But soon thhy3 were
in tand over aud glad enough for
their oats, which were fed in nose
bags. Tho wagons were loaded and
va were soon on the road. Some
mornings we would start out ahead
of the teams to take in some sight
and walk perhaps three or four miles
before the teams came up. Here we
could not walk that far, fancy.
but in that bracing air it is different.
We began to believe that we had
been fooled about heavy wraps. but by
the third day We needed them all
and could have used more | be-
lieve. When we were on the highest
drive a high wind struck us and
faces were tanned as it was, We
passed many interesting objects. l
wish | was able TO describe them al
(eyen in my way ,abut could not take
the time or space.
There was Electric Peak, Apol-
lirlars Spring thaying great medical
qualities), Obadiah cliff. really "a
mountain of glass. mostly ,blackt
though some streaks are white, red
ara yellow,
eris said theeShadians used it for
arrow heads And9that this was neu-
trAl ground Tor afl4rlbes,e the same
as the famed PipeSStone deposits of
Dakota and Minrsesota." Beaver lake
With beavers lat work, and Norris
Gsyser Basin, which covers an area
of six miles, square, and has many
geysers. There Is a kissing, rumb-
ling. terrible. noise all the time. The
Monarch is the largest here. Then
we enter elk Park, u beautiful drive.
Elk and deef,i In abundance and the
beautiful 2cibbon River and Meadows
adjacent. The Gibbon Falls are very
beautiful and the forests are simply
wonderful to one raised in a prairie
country. The trees are all evergreen
except a few pine, cedar, fir and
spruce, but more pine than any
other, and they grow SO thick you
could hardly believe IL il. / Should
ten you, and there seems as much
upon the ground as there is standing
great long, straight logs from fiji.
~ 10 eighty feet -iH-AeiehtA and
from eight to eighteen iRches in dia-
meter. There Arc poles enough thSrs
To make or replace all The telegraph
and telephone poles in the United
States. if they could be utilized, but
they are in almost inaccessible places
and no railroads; no way OF get
ting them. They may have lain on
the ground for generations. hut they
won't rot in that altitude.
The hotels are electric lighted and
have telephone and telegraph com.
m%unications, and there ara steam
yachts ON Yellowstone lake, md the
roads are1 superb These ara TIL
only artificial things in the park
the rest are all natural. Ne automo
biles or motorcycles are allowed; they
would car the game. There is al
the small game there which we are
used to here. and bear, deer noun
tain sheep, elk antelope, moose, bpf
falo. panther, wolf, fox, beaver, otter
porcupine and badger. The buffalc
had been taken down to a lower al
titude aud We're herded aud corraleC
of nights at Gardiner. 1t was
novel sight to see SIXTY or seventy
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