Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-08-19
Communication

papers ! notice you people in
Mo. Valley are having q little.
trouble with the heavy rains as
we'll as in the east and west;
and here what used to be c lied
dry mountains have had no use
Tor irrigation bitches until this
month. The rainfall has been
sufficient for all purposes. The
farmers have lost q great deal
of hay on account of the heavy
rains. The small grain does
not ripen here as early az there.
The prospect in the spring was
fine for q large fruit crop, hut
the weather was SO cold it has
hurt the apple crop A great
many have fallen from the
trees. | am speaking of course
from this locality, it may ROT
be 80 all over the state.
| must tell you of the fine
outing he'd last week, away
up among the pines. Will has
u cabin about 80 miles from
here where he and q number
of Others be upht several acres
Of land right among the pines
and built themselves log cabins
which are c ~ and comfortable
A beautiful little creek runs in
front of the houses, rustic foot
bridges cross the cree k in many
places and a great abundance
of wild flowers are to be had
for the picking. We certainly
kept our little room full Of
the m. YOU will ak how j
reached the mountains, l forgot
to say. Will sent The auto up
from the store and in company
with Mrs Mullins ard son Of
Nashville, Tenn, and Mics
Florence Tyler from this city,
myself and driver of the car
we started one morning at nine
a. m. Well filled baskets of
course went with US. wish il
were possible for you 10 see the
scenery az we saw it on the
way un there. As we wound
around the curves Of the luts
and rocks forming horse shoes
all the time. In some places
the rosd was just v ide enough
for an auto and on one side was
the beautiful Bitter Root river
and on the other side the large
irrigation ditch No matter if
we wanted to Jump the river
or ditch would catch US, and as
we have not learned the swim
ming act yet there would have
heen a lite trouble for us.
However our driver slowed
down a little to give us more
confidence in his driving and
that we might enjoy the lovely
scenery a little better. All is
we'll that ends well, so in due
time we arrived at our cottage,
took possession and was .'mon-
arch of-all we surveyed" We
we're 1900 feet up in-the mount
aims, not very high of course,
bit enough to make it enjoy
able After lunch we visited
many places of interest, wan
dered down by the river and
selected places we thought
would be fine fishing as trout
abound in abundance and we
were wondering what we would
do with all the fish we would
catch, just imagine our great
disapp ,lntment when we were
informed we would have to
wade out in the middle of the
stream and drag our fish line
on top Of the water, that settled
the fishing business with us as
the water is very cold, just
snow, so we concluded
we did not like fish very we'll
anv wav (SOur pranes
The old mountains thought
to introduce US to the different
spells of weather, so the first
night the lightning was terrific
and the thunder rolled and
bursted all around us Did il
rain? No, it simply poured
down in torrents and we did
not know but we would be wash.
ed down into the river before
morning. On awakening the
next morning "Old Sol" was
showing his bright and smiling
face over the mountain as much
as to saw, "were Won really
frightened last night?"
On the last dav but one be.
fore we broke camp an auto
load of friends came up from
Hamilton and spent the day
With US which we greatly en-
joyed for two reasons; one was.
we were glad to see them, the |
other to have our larder replen-