Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-08-06
n The Big
North Country.

country lies north of the Great
Northern Railway and between the
Reservation line and the Shelby
and Lethbridge railway. l have
been in the Ethridge and Meadow
Brook neighborhoods, and just late
ly had the pleasure of a trip from
Cut Bank to the Milk River Valley
in Alberta.
No man ever laid eyes on a more
beautiful sight than l beheld in
traversing the region designated.
If the district were quite as produc-
tive as it is lovely, even Auburn,
fairest village of the Plain" could
not boast a finer setting than your
own town.
But, alb, the hailI 1t seems that
every Eden has it's serpent and ev-
cry Caesar his Brutus. Certainly
nothing could surpass the fertile
fields / saw on my trip to and from
Brother Tom Harwood's ranch in
the far north. And speaking of Tom,
by the way, reminds me that he
and his better by-half, to say moth
ing of his eight boys and no girl
Oet Teddy take note)are hard to
beat for rural hospitality and the
milk of human affection. A d
mentioning milk recalls to mind the
the abundant supply of that nour-
lshing drink, together with the
splendid fresh butter. wild berries
and other good things to be found
out there in abundance.
Mr.. Harwood's boys took me to
Boundary Lake, part of which is in
Canada and part in our own coun-
try. A hike of four or five miles
due north In Alberta brought us to
a ridge above Milk River, from
which we had a good view of the
deep ridges it makes through a roll
the plain, and also a view over
the vast stretch of prairie beyond
the stream. One thing | noticed
which greatly impressed me was
the fact that the front range Of the
Rockies bends almost due west
soon after entering Canada. This was
quite a disappointment, as / wanted
to see them running straight north
in grand array, now that l was be-
yond the boundary line. / saw only
a few distant houses to the west
and the prospect spread out before
us dreary enough. The part of AL
berta we were in is included in the
great Mackie lease, the Mcintyre
lease lying just to the west of it.
Think of these leases holding a ter
ritory about the size of Belgium!
And again, when you place the map
of Alberta on that of Europe you
are astonished to find such tremen-
dous conflicts taking place in what
we in the west call such limited
areas. 1t only shows that, after all,
size is a relative term. An elephant
is big to a horse, and a horse is big
to a dog; and the elephant himself
is a mere gnat in our big world,
while our earth is a football when
compared with the planet Jupiter.
Absolute bigness and goodness are
found in Intinity alone. So there
are none great and none good but
God-ln the philosophical sense.
We-that is, all of us Harwoods
went over and took supper with
Riley Saffel and family one even
ing. We had an ample supply of
fresh vegetables from their splendid
garden, and had the pleasure of re.
joicing with them over their good
crop prospects. The grass in the
wide valleys and on the rolling
hills was rich and thick, and the
hay possibilities there were fine.
From h e Harwood butte we
could see MIR. Vausanden's house
twenty miles away, with a grand
sweep of the Rockies, the plain and