The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1913-01-17
OVERLAND TRIP
TO MONTANA
tUontinuc1 from last week.

Dut plenty or good grass ana lois or
new hay stacks. Rarchers live here.
We drove past l01 ranch aud camped.
The mosquitoes are fierce also the
needle grass. We did not see a school
house all day until we camped st
night. Saturday morning Verona.
our seven year old daughter, had a
headache and did not eat any break
fast. A man told us that every other
section of land around there was rail-
road land, which is sold at from So
to 81 an acre and requires that half
the tillable land be broken. They al
low ten years in which TO pay for the
land. Ten per cent to be paid down
and the remainder at 6 per cent inter-
est for ten years. Grass is quite good
but the crops are not and such dis
tanee from any railroad town, at
least thirty miles, butt. is nice look
ing country and not very rough.
We thought we were going to get
so far because we got an early start,
but we had not gone far when we had
to cross creek with steep banks and
quicksand in the bottom, there the
chain on the three horse equalizer
gave way and let the wagon back in
to the creek with ths hind wheels.
where they stuck and sank into the
quicksand. We were there two hours
trying to dig and pry the wagon out.
There was house just ahead Of Us,
| so the children and i went there and
| visited with the lady while her man
helped to get the wagon out. They
are having school near here now,
July 27th. Teachers wages in the
country are $50 per month. They
have to pay about $40 of it tor board.
In the last two days drive the fields
we saw were nearly all flax. We
stopped in Baker to get the equalizer
fixed and il took the old blacksmith
two hours to fix it. Prices we've high
in Baker 80 cents for can of peach
es and 10 for a small loaf of bread,
etc. We camped about 5 miles out
of Baker, the wind was blowing, 80
the mosquitoes did not bother So
much as usual. 1t is apnut so miles
on to Glendive.
We had lost so much time iii the
creek and at Baker that we wanted to
make up the time but stopped at MI.
Ed James place to inquire the way
and they insisted on visiting awhile
as they have relations living near
where we are going. We drove
through bad lands and hills. We
watered the horses from well under
some trees. there was a house near
but no one at home. Most of the
trees were choke cherry trees, full OF
fruit. but not ripe enough to eat.
Alkali lies thick and white on the
ground around there. Sage brush
and cactus were the chief products of
the land there. We saw large flocks
of what looked like prairie chickens
living in the sage. We followed Cabin
Creek for some distance and came to
two roads. We took the right hand
road and came to ranch, the bury
rancher told us we could water the
horses from his spring at the end OF
the flax field and camp in his pasture
for the night but we drove on about
FIVE miles and camped on the west
side of some hills. We passed about
80 acres of fine fax that day.
Verona was more sick than before
the next morning, and we stopped a
Bi2cs ranch and got some medicIn,
for her, which she could not retain
Then / gave her lemon in the wate
she drank and she felt better by noon
We filled our water can from sDrin!
at the ranch. The Young womai
there said she had only been ther,
since last fall, At noon we came t
Boovies' ranch and got more medicin'
for Verona. The girl that seemed tt
be mistress of the house had beer
superintendent of schools there. An
other girl. their father, mother ant
grandmother was there, the latte
was 101 years old. She was HELPLESS
After dinner drove while Mr.
Clarke tried to sleep, Near night W,
, came up to the wall of the Bad Land
, again and when | got out to walk AM
get rested from sitting so long, say
a rattlesnake, which Mr.. Clarke kill
ed, with ten rattlers. 1t was th
only rattiesnake VIZ saw on the trip
i We saw some good fields of graf
that day and some of no account
We camped on hill down the Ba
Land pass that night.
Z Tuesday morning we came to
fence and were undecided whether
go straight along it to the west or 6
4 through the gate near the peak of tn
Z Bad Lands. We went through tn
4 timber for some distance. In on