The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-07-05
THE VISIT OF THE EASTERN IDAHO PRESS CLUB
;. :. TO MACKAY, THE BUTTE OF IDAHO :. :.

corning the Mackay dam he is a truth
full sort of persOn-Dill says that or
Warm Springs creek, near George No
wacki's famous ranch, there is even
better fly fishing than below. 1t il
when dill" gets started talking
about Copper Basin, however, that he
unreels some tall tales about trout
The odd part of it is, all his stories
about Copper Basin are fact, be.
cause this writer took the pains tc
verify them. Not alone is Copper
Basin famous for its fishing waters
but it is the home Of sage hens ano
willow grouse, and dusgy grouse and
pintail grouse, according to Dilling-
ham. The chicken season opens on
July Is, and on that day the writer
is going up there, with two objects in
view;T To either make Dill out monu-
mental liar or to re-discovcr the
greatest chicken country ON earth.
1t is to Live.
Back in the Lost river hills there
are deer and mountain sheep, and
mountain goats and antelope, and
bear. Up where the skyline shows,
there are elk. And when one stands
on a peak top, with an azure arch of
sky above him and wondrous piano.
rama of mountain and plain, green
valleys and sheltering brown hills,
and rivers that are ribbons of silver
tracing serpentine pattern on field
of emerald about him and beneath
him and below -when he breathey
air so surchaEged with zone that
it is like drinking wine and feels
on his check the soft caress of a
mountain wird-a happy, glad little
wind that goes whispering through
the pines as though leaving be-
hind memory of past pain; when
one hears the audible silence Of
mountain solitude, with it's sense of
music in the air; when one stretches
outThis arms as though to embrace
the horizon, one feels like shouting:
"Oh, you Lost River! You're a per-
feet bear"
A Great Trip.
1t was good for the newspaper boys
to get out of the journalistic harness
for few days during the muggy sea-.
son and see what they saw at Mackay.
1t was good in more ways than one.
1t was good in that it tore the cob
webs from their brains. It was good
because it gave them a breath of pure
air, and took them above the rut-lev-
ell. 1t was good because it gave them
something else to think about than
cofnmonplaces of their limited
newspaper fields. 1t was good be-
cause it brought them in intimate
touch with bigger, broader and better
things, such as mile on mile of fer
tile farms, with waving fields and
shady orchards: tortuous canals, car
Tying water to thirsty acres, towering
peak-tops with untold wealth in their
bowels, and men and women who are
building better than they know, in
hat they are building for the love of
t and not merely for the profit of it.
All We who are weary and heavy |
alden; whose brains are tired and
'uscles soft; who work the treadmill |
If business during the dog days with |
10 more interest or pleasure in your
work than galley slave-cut loose |
or a couple of days and hit the trail |
or Mackay. Hop aboard the train at |
3lackfoot and 60 straight away, or
10 straight as the windings of the
Short Line will permit-until you
ONE to place where you recognize
IN accumulation of scenic beauties;
where you see scenic railroad hug
ing the brown breast of dizzy
where there ere lovablc
'eople like Leslie and Pearl Dilling-
lam and little Dud; where there are
hustling folk, full to the epiglottis
nth enthusiasm and faith and en-:
rgy; where there is scenery and eli
nate and opportunity and happiness
Keep your eye peeled for such a
pot. You won't need to ask the con-
uctor. This is Mackay. ..,.
WEDDING AT HALEY.