Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-09-04
OXFORD. MONTANA

states | will send in a few lines from
Montana, as / have been here since
June 4th. / am almost surrounded
by mountains-the Snowy on the
northeast, west by the Little Belt and
southwest by the Crazy mountains, on
which there is plenty of snow today
and has been ever since | have been
in the state.On the 29th of July there
was heavy fall of snow on both the
Snowy and Crazy mountains and cold
enough on the plains to freeze lizards
/ if they had been here to freeze, but
they froze out long ago if they were
ever here at all.
think this is the finest country
to sleep in / was ever in in summer
time. have slept between two blan-
kets and under two heavy quilts ev-
cry night since have been here and
have not been the least smothery at
any time.
/ went with a crowd out on the
Snowy mountains to the ice cave the
10th of August 1t just took us three
hours and Is minutes to climb to the
top and the cave was in 100 yards of
the top of the mountain. There was
ice in the cave, seemingly no end to
it, and snow in the mouth of the cave,
just plenty of it, three feet deep. 1t
was fine scene and very refreshing
to the thirsty crowd for we had just
plenty of ice cold water and there
was demand for it after our long
and wearisome climb. The scenes
from the mouth of the cave down the
canyon, over the bluffs and pines was
just wonderful, and it looked to be
about three miles down to the plains.
Yes, and saw big timber wolf on
my trip. Four shots were fired at
him and shot two of them, all with
out effect, so he is still at large so
far as l know. I have shot over 1000
shots since have been in the state.
have had my gun and ammunition fur
nished, so you see l can afford to shoot
l have killed over 5000 gophers, one
curlew, several hawks, lots of jack
rabbits, one porcupine, three coyotes
and two badgers, for don't like badg-
ers much anyway, and never have
since l saw the dog dnbadger fight,
as some of the Herald readers know.
Well, Nichols, what about Montana
anyway? 1t seems to be fine health |
country and the wheat crop is surely
extra fine, and think the wheat will |
all be harvested by the first of Sep |
tember. / am in Meagher county and |
is thought yb the farmers that lots of |
1rops will make 40 bushels per acre.
| have never seen such wheat in my |
life. have helped put up about $500
shocks of wheat and 700 shocks of the
finest oats on my son, w. L. Nichols,
farm ever saw. What do ! think of
Montana as a place to make money?
think if man wants to make money
and don't care for anything but money
and don't care how he gets it, Mon
.ana is the place, and the very place,
'or him.
The altitude is very high and health
S good and it looks to me as If the
most of the people l have met have
ost sight of everything but money, h
'egardless of how it comes, so it does
,ome their way. OF course, there are
ome exceptions and but few that /,
lave met. .
AS / think / will write more of my
rip later on, as | aim to go through ..
he Yellowstone Park, when l leave !
his place for home, may see some !
hing that / would like to say to the
Herald and its many readers about it
hat may interest them, as lots of
hem are my old schoOlmates and !
riends that l have not met for some
ime Hoping that l may see some
nore letters from some of them, will