Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-30

We arrived at Kalispell about 3:3(
and had lunch after which we start.
ed northeast through the Kalispell
valley for Belton, the west entrance
of the Glacier National Park. AT
this point there is no auto road thru
the park and we were forced to ship
the car for GO miles to the east en-
trance of the park. We found box
car waiting at Belton for the trans
portation of autos which was loaded
on our arrival but we succeeded in
getting out at 9:40 the following day.
We took the train for the east en-.
trance. When we arrived it was
raining quite hard but it was only
local shower and soon after lunch
we started for Browning, Montana
IN Indian town on the Blackfoot re.
servation. We drove through the
reservation some 35 miles to Cut
Bank and from Cut Bank to Waller
and from there to Conrad, where we
remained over night. will say tha.
this section of the road is the bes!
that it has ever been my pleasure to
drive over. From Cut Bank to Con
rod the roads are splendid. The mex
morning we started for Brady, Mon
lana, where d. C. Edwards and fam
ily. formerly of Wilbur, reside. w
visited our relatives there for eigh
lays returning home via Great Fall
which is very fine city. We stage,
there one day and were very mucl
impressed with The progressivenes
IF the place. They have there tn,
largest sme!iers in the northwest
The snokestack Of the smelters i.
500 feet high and ! was Informed
hat ii is 81 feel across the top. The
gibration of the stack during 2
hours is about ten feet. Our son wa
examined by the Great Falls boart
and passed. While there we visite
our niece and then returned to Hell
ena Helena is city of about 2O,-
200 population and has the appear
ance of being an old city. The one
remarkable thing about the place
that attracted our attention was the
number of brick buildings. On thu
1rive over to Helena we passed a.
long Wolf Greek, which is very
beautiful stream. On the way W
passed large sheep ranch and W.
were Informed that the man WIN
)wns the sheep owns also 80 sec
ions of land Or over $4,000 acres
Most of it is very mountainous. w
left Helena about $50 A. M. for tn
city of Missoula. The drive fror
Helena to Missoula was quite noun
ainous. We arrived there the sam
'vening. On the way we saw yer
serious forest fire which did moi
however, interfere with the traffic
The following morning we starte,
Tor Wallace, Idaho. From Missoul;
west for about 35 miles the road i
excellent and from that point on t,
Wallace it is quite mountainous all
rough. Across the divide the road
are in excellent condition only bi
steep. While in Wallace we visite
Mrs. Griswold, formerly of this cit
Ne left the next morning for Sp
kane and found part of the Fourt
OF July Conyon road pretty rougl
There was nothing, however, tn;
could be considered rough. We a.
rived home Sunday evening, maxim
the trip from Spokane that after
noon. We found the roads betwee
Coulee City and Almira worse tha
any on the trip. We were fiv
grown people in our little Ford ca
with about 300 pounds of baggag
and we did not have a bit of troubl
getting over the mountains and w
only had one puncture on the entir
trip. We noticed that in all local
tiles where we visited that the DO
tato crop was very short and no
where did we see more than a hal
of normal wheat crop.