, 1912-07-11
THE ELK MOUNTAIN CELEBRATION
kntsrprisinG Little Burg ON the Medicine Bow river pulls off .
Crsditable 9Th Of July-"The Gerdsn Spot Of Wyoming
Beautifully Located and Surrounded

If you have never been to Elk
Mountain, a small town at the
Old Emigrant crossing on the
Medicine Bow river, we advise you
TO take a couple of days of and
make it q visit You will be sur
prised, not only at the beautiful
little town you will find there,
but at the generous hospitality of
its people and the magnificent
mountain SCENERY that greets
you. 1t is not a large town but
it 10 q live one. It boasts Of the
best general store in Carbon
county, has two large and COM
Portable hotels and all the other
accessories of a wide awake little
burg that knew it YVES on the map
and was going to make everybody
else aware of the fact before it
got thru.
We had not been there for
nearly thirty years, when a friend
with a big roomy Olesmobile, sug-
gested that Elk Mountain would
be a nice place to spend the 4th.
80, with a we'll filed hamper and
6 veil filed car, we made the trip
and it will ever be a pleasant men,
ory in the days to come. With
Elk Mountain, that giant sentinel
of the Medicine Bow range, an
awe-inspiring and thrilling pre-
sence continuously in the fore
ground, we crossed Pass creek,
and wound along up the Rattle
snake and over into the Medicine
Bow valley, and found ourselves
looking over a broad expause of
prairie, dotted here and there with
prosperous looking ranch houses
and cultivated fields, showing
green and inviting in every direc-
ton.
Away over on the edge Of this
prairie was a green bank of trees,
with here and there q CLEAN of
white showing thru them and,
topping all, was Old Glory wav-
ing q welcome-and that was the
town of Elk Mountain, hidden
away in q perfect forest Of green
trees on the banks of the Medi-
cine Bow river. On every road
leading to the town could be seen
wagons and carriages, carrying
the country people to the town,
and DOW and then a gaily decorat-
cd auto made a pleasant picture
as it sped along, carrying its load
of pleasure seekers, all bound for
the same point.
We were met by Hon. Andrew
Olson, Hon. F. @. Hunter and j.
D.. Kilborn, the president of the
Elk Mountain Commercial Club,
aud made to feel at home at once
Elk Mountain is a surprising
place. 1t is built in the heavy
green timber and lies on both
sides of the Medicine Bow river, a
substantial bridge connecting the
two parts. We found inviting
looking cottages in the most I'M
expected places, tucked in among
the trees, at the end of little lanes
and crooks and corners and all as
spick and span as paint could
make them. We got the impress
sion hat the people there just re.
vel in paint, for the buildings all
look new and up-to-date.
We selected a place to eat lunch
and fell to with appetites that
worked like saw mills after our 40
mile ride. We satisfied our hun.
ger to delicious music furnished
by the Finnish band OF Hanna,
twenty pieces. which was holding
forth in the band stand in a near
by grove. That band is all right
They certainly do know how tc
make music and they looked like
birds Of paradise in their blue un-
iforms, trimmed in red and white
the National colors. When We