The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-09-01
WHERE MRS. HARTMAN
SPENDING HER VACATION
IN IDAHO


e people of moderate means, and some
: with scarcely any, find rest and pleas
ure and contentment every summer.
+ But these do live like princes No
scion of the Astors or the Wander
bits fares better. Trout for break
fast, grouse for lunch, Mauard for
dinner-why, similar spread as to
, its essential eatures at fashionable
New York restaurant would cost more
than any need spend for a weeks
; outing at matchless Island Park,
Transportation included.
There are several organizations
owning establishments in the Island
Park country, which, by the way,
equals the national park in point of
beauty, although having no geysers,
and is close second in point of area.
The Utida club has swagger club
house on the Snake few miles below
the Railroad ranch. 1t is owned by
Utah and Idaho men, mostly residents
of Salt Lake and Pocatello. The Alta
club house is another well equipped
and hospitable place, the summer
home of number of Utahans and
their friends. 3@
1t is at the more private country
places, however, that the spirit of
camaradie prevails in it's most sincere
form and where, with the comforts
and conveniences of home life, there
is still enough of real camping out"
to form the desired contrast. One of
these places is designated as Buffalo
Inn 1t nestles in the dense forest
on the edge of Buffalo river, than
which there is not more attractive
stream in the state.
1t is one of those sylvan retreats
one expects to see only in fantastic
dreams when one tumbles and tosses
on torrid bed and revels in fairy
land of vine-entwined trees and frag-
rant flowers, mirrored in a stream OF
surprising loveliness and soothing
tranquility-only to awaken with a
parched throat and a fevered body.
Buffalo Inn was established by five
residents of Pocatello-Wnliam Wal
lin, Brice Hicks, Dr. Wright, G. c.
Dietrich and Joe Danger. Mr.. Hicks
is deceased, but his name will ever
adorn the list above the portals Of
that rustic and CHEEKY mountain home
tucked away amid the everlasting
shadows Of the pines s
Buffalo Inn is dedicated to the,
pleasure of its owners and their
guests, as announced on the cover of
the log book that hangs by the front
door, and to the protection of any
wayfarers that may need it. One
reads that any traveller is welcome to
its comforts, but he Is admonished to
leave things in order and requested
to make an entry in the log. That
the invitation has been accepted many
times during the midwinter is evil
denced by the pages of the book.
One who found shelter there had
plainly: Seven feet OF
snow; cabin dirty" That. was in No
vember, when deer and elk abound
in that section and lure many hunters
to the solitudes-the deer and elk
poor Corbin sought when he met his
death only few miles from Buffalo
Inn.
1t is small wonder that those who
spend the heated period in that de-
llghtful part of Idaho love 1t as
child loves the protecting and nour-
ishing mother. Although 1t is only
one of innumerable sections Of Idaho
that form Fairgrounds for rich and
poor alike, it stands out distinctly
because of the combination it presents
Of forest and field, of river, creek and
AXE, of game both small and large,
If the best type of citizenry in a wild
srness in part as dense and untamed
Is the jungles of Africa.
The world is open to Mrs. Harri
nan, but she selected Island Park as
he place to spend her summer yaca-
ion in 1911; and it is an open secret
hat she will return next year and the
lext and Indefinitely. 81
She will learn to love it as have
III others who have felt its stimulat-
ng embrace; and she will learn to
owe Idaho because Island Park IL
within its borders.
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