The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-08-22
GEN. SILNBY TELLS
O BITTER ROOT
Finds Fairy Tales About Irrigated Lands There to be True
Meets Number OF Prosperous and Contented
Mitchell People There
that garden.
Visit Ross Hole.

! that garden.
Visit Ross Hole.
We then visited the orchard that
DR.. Lamme is establishing, and great
ly admired the location, and general
evidence of thrift prevailing; also
saw forty acres Lee Wolgemuth is
having developed in the same locali-
ty. Later we visited Ross Hole,
nearly up to the source of the Bitter
Root river. +
This Hole" is unique. Entering
it through a narrow chasm between
the two ranges of mountains, with
barely room for the river. and a road
way cut out of a pile of rock humid
reds of feet high that is just wide
enough to permit of travel, and the
angry stream about sixty feet below,
We enter al immense ampitheatre
covering thousands of acres of rich,
fertile lands, hemmed in by the great
sentinels of the mountain ranges
On the return we stopped at Med
icine Springs" where we saw water
testing 120 degrees Fahrenheit, gush-
ing from the solid rocks, while only
a few feet distant, and apparently
from the same rock, came water al
lIlOSl y COtu. IL II Il GulIltItGl c
sort, with hotel, baths, plunges, cot
canon that offers nature worship in
a marked degree.
Later we visited the "Rose Gar
den," a beauty spot covering acres OF
beautiful roses; the n must be
something of a Burbank, as the va
riety presented is beyond the dream
OF man.
This days drive covered over SO
miles of travel, to say nothing OF the
pilgrimages made Oh foot to get near
Ell to some object OF interest. 1t in
cluded a visit and trip across the
mighty dam impoundipg water for
irrigation, and, after fully real
izing it's stupendousness were ready
to believ that by faith we can re-
nov mountains"
Grand View Ranch.
We next visited the "Grand View"
ranch, owned by Wolgemuth & Tay-
lor. This is the 'show orchard of
the valley, and comprises eighty ac-
res of fruit land, nearly all into fruit
trees, with a large portion of it bear
ing. With its 100000 house and
outbuildings TO match, it is ideal.
Peaches, pears, apples, plums and
cherries in front of them, and all
around them, rode the 400" but we
surrendered: 1t was the first time We
ever had enough: But when appetite
paled, the trees bore no evidence OF
the attack. And say: cherries?
Those big COX Hearts, sweeter than
honey, solid as beefsteak, and soul
satisfying. Next to be ready for
market come the C%entennials, and
later the pie cherry, the canning cher
ny and the all round cherry, the Eng
lish Murrillo," that ripens late in
August. Here we saw carloads of
cherries, and could not make an i'm
preston on them; but they did i'm
press us.
The 'Wolgy's" live on still anoth-
err eighty acres, two miles from Ham
ilton, and with their nifty eight room
bungalow cut some swath, and live
like kings. Electric lights and all
modern conveniences, with a view
that captivates; where snow-capped
mountains vie with the beauties OF
the field and orchard, and a stretch
up and down the valley for many
miles; sure there man can worship
his Creator, and praise the Lord
that his lines are cast in such a pleas
ant environment.
Seattle dazzled us with its scenic
beauty, it's push and energy; but the
Bitter Root valley enthralled us, and
we cannot imagine a more desirable
place for either the farmer or or
triculturalist than this garden spot OF
the world.
We stopped in Missoula on our re-
turn long enough to nave a brief Wis
it with r. ID. (Pap) Prescott, and his
family, Geo. Baumgartner and wife,
Crutchfield and wife (Nona), where
also we found Mrs. AL Walpole and
daughter of Mitchell. Pap is the
happiest mortal on earth; sitting
among the orchard trees, listening to
the fruit grow into SIS Is certainly a
situation to bring out the best in
man, and that is what Pap" is do
ing. We also called On Charles Fer
guson and wife, who think Missoula
was made for man. They, too, are
doing fine, happy and contented.
Wish we had time, and the paper
space to tell Of the mountain scenery
but must forego that feature.
A. T. O'Kad.
Mitchell, S. d., Aug, is, 1912.