The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-07-15
CONDITIONS ON THE POWELL
TRACT
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that rises in clouds when the wind
blows.
While applying some remedies to
the burnt spots on her body she
heard clatter of hoofs, and a neigh
Dor boy rode up on his pony to de-
liver couple of letters from Black
foot, one in a square envelope bearing
an invitation to attend a pink tea,
the other in long envelope giving
notice of contest filed against her
claim.
Over the one she shed a few hot
tears, but over the other she ponder
ed long and seriously and began to
gather evidence for the fight.
Another home afforded an example
of how mule will sometimes get
a person into perdicament in follow
ing the pursuits of peace as we'll as in
case of the army mule.
This was brother and sister too,
and she college graduate and teach
er of expression. The river was GO
ing dry opposite their claims, and
they built cistern, hauled cement a
days drive from Powell, plastered it
with their own labor, the sister using
the trowel. There are deep holes in
the river bed at places, and in one
of these was water on which they
relied to fill the cistern when COM
pleted. Cattle came and went and
waded in 1t at will, and when they
went with the tank wagon to get
their first load they drove into the
middle of the big pool to get the
purest water possible. They had a
fine span of mules and as most people
know, mules seldom pull well when
they are wanted to pull wagon out
OF water. The tank was loaded and
they refused to pull except in a half
hearted way and then quit altogether
The brother unhitched and took them
ashore but in the gathering shadows
OF the evening he was unable to get
his sister off of the tank and on drv
land without having her take to wa
ter which she decided not to do. The
other alternative was to wait until
horses could be secured, and this
took until after daylight the next
morning. In the meantime the COL
eye girl huddled in her scanty wraps
on the tank, slept few short shifts
between the coyote choruses that
sounded at intervals, and saw the
dawn and rising sun perform their
acts of magic on the distant peaks and
spread their glories over the great
plain, in the center of which was her
pool, her tank and her prison.
Teaching expression will have a
greater scope for her now, and she
and her chum who is pianist. will
take trip through Yellowstone park
this summer for the state land board
excuses SETTLERS from residence now.
AT one place the writer stopped in
front of a shack where woman came
to the door and responded cheerfully.
They had been there IS months. had
come on the promise of steady en- ,
ployment in the construction camps ,
Tor they had no money-just the I
team. The work lasted seven DAYS I
and was cut off. They have no wa
ter except in the cistern. Grain SOW
ed the first of May dried up, and the T
potatoes promise a partial crop. The {
husband had gone twenty-five miles i
for load of hay on Little Lost river i
and expected to get back that same i
night, But" she added, "if it were in 7
any other country he could not make a
such trip in day." Z
When asked if they were going to o
stay she said "Well, we are going to
stay just as long as we can. We came s
here poor. and we are poor yet, but y
we are here. We should probably be II
Just as poor If we had given up and b
gone somewhere else. l doubt if any b
big project has been completed with d
out disappointments and delays, and p
people who want to get good homes
must expect to face difficulties and 81
hold on through thick and thin We n
are going to rely upon the Good e
Lord and work right on. If we have b
to leave the claim we will leave, but y
we don't have to go yet" "
Some time ago preparations were B
made to start saloon at Powell and e
petition was prepared and signed n
~ every adult on the territory en- o
oraced in the county on that tract, =
except one, demanding that the IL b
'ense be denied, and the commission /,
rs of Blaine county granted the pray g
n of the settlers. 81
Some of these families will have to :;
cave the tract to get employment p
Ind do not want to go any farther
lwav than thov oro ohI;rod +o III e'