The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-05-28
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great many OF fife high schoo
graduates feel, as their diploma II
handed them. that with this educa
tionai equipment In hand iife's bat
ues VIII be easy TO win. This sta
ton along life's highway Is vel
named Commencement. =" after whici
comes really the hardships OF life.
The aveage gradute from any sta
ton along the route. might be liken
ed TO the young man who had beer
reared on the banks OF a deep. slow
moving river. The time comes when
he feels he would like To explore the
head waters. He reasons that the
water IL so deep, the current 80
slight that he can take light cam,
equipment and paddle n boat up the
course. For few days things
run along smoothly: he is enabled
10 pick nice level places for his
camp; then shortly he encounters.
sWiiter currents which makes work
more difficult and progress slower.
bouiders begin to appear cropping
from the water The land becomes
rolling and rocky. He has difficult,
in hnding a smooth place large
enough fo- his bed. and suddenly
without warning he meets n raplda
Too swim 10 navigate and he puts
ms duffei back into the boat ana
drifts down TO the still water again
He failed
a Few days later another young
man undertakes the trip. He. too
reaches the rapids, pitches camp,
and with AK on shoulder. follows I'M
the swift water on shore. and flnda
good boating water a half mile nm
ne spends the day cutting tran and
carrying equipment to the head of
me tails, after which he has many
miles OF good water Then he came
INTO water too swift for the paddle
whereupon he cut light pole and
forced the boat mile after mile yor
weeks. finally reaching the Mace
where the river divided into several
branches. each branch pounding II.
self into white foam an the water /,
tumbled down steep uneven rocky |
STAIRS. The bowling OF wolves and
.he screaming OF mountain lions rob
bed him OF several hours of needed
steep that night. but early I'm the
morning ne flRed Il knapsack and re-
Aufhsd MS Journey on foot, following
,he middle and larger fork. which IN
TURN branchcd as he followed upward
but he finally reached the main fork !,
once no was compelled To datour far
OUT OF MS course on account of a Il
perpendicular wall through which
me stream ran. He finally decidcd
That he had left about ratIona enough /,
10 last him back To the big falls I
where he had left the cache. bur up.
on reaching the place found that I
oeArs had eaten up everything, A Il
lew minutes thought however. dc.
cided him that his gun and limo must
furnish the food TO finish the explor.
alton, Tho more opposition that con.
Ironted this man. the more determln. =
va ne was To see the end, and nj !
ast az tho trees. on the higher moun.
ans We're taking on the autumnal
iinge. he arrived AT the extreme q
,tad waters. One day he became
hifsty while exploring draw at the n
bottom OF which small trlckle OF
water howed. After searching In ,
'ain Tor place deep enough to ,
ifnk from. he felfed saplIng and =
mapping a paddle dug u hole. As he :,
hrew out the gravel he noticed n !,
VAS yellow, and upon investigating
ound ne had dug into very rich plac.
= gold, HE chopped down Il good /
i<ed tree. followed Il out with the c
" INTO Hume, made troughs of L
matter trees. made himself a
wooden shovel and by the time the +
NOW grove him out had cleaned up {
en- thousand dollars In nuggets. +
All TING differences In IN. eauipmen,
u the TWO men, was. the nrst failed
o take sufficient supply OF deter. q
and he must have il In or. \
Ter 10 win. Il