The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-13

cherries grow on bushes ranging ii
all sizes from a few feet high tt
twenty-five or thirty feet high. TIL,
choke cherry is about the size of tn,
pea, ranging in sizes about like pea,
range. They are very good food ant
make delicious jellies. When mixed
with apples they make jelly that Ii
still more delicious. People who g,
to the hills for wild fruit are filling
kettles, baskets, boilers and tubs ant
get back with something of consid
cradle value. We want to urge upor
all berry pickers and pleasure seek
ers that they respect the rights oil
all the wild treasure they find. Dc
not tramp down the bushes nor split
off the limbs or twigs, but leave them
In their present condition SO they
will be there from year to year.
A Circuit Of the Reservation
The editor and his wife and some
friends made a big circuit of Mt
Putnam last Sunday going by way OF
the Lincoln Creek summit, Black
foot river, Chesterfield, Lava Hot
Springs and Pocatello making a cir
cult of 14S miles. The party started
from Blackfoot at 8 o'clock in the
morning and arrived home at 9 in
the evening.
Reports are being circulated about
construction work in the Portneuf
canyon between McCammon and
nixon and that one has to make a
detour over very bad roads. This
is only partly correct. One has to
make detour, but the detour is a
perfectly good road altho it is
crooked and one can not make high
speed on it. The Portneuf canyon is
forty miles long and with the ex-
ception Of the detour one can make
as high speed as he want to. It rides
like boulevard all the way. Nearly
the whole days trip is on the reser-
walton making a great circuit keep
ing near the borders of the reserva-
ton. Leaving Blackfoot one goes
east on the Rich lane to the foothills
then turns to the right and follows
along the edge of the hills and up
Lincoln Creek to the summit twenty
miles distant from Blackfoot. From
there the road leads south and east
ward to the Blackfoot river with a
branch turning to the right going
direct to Chesterfield. Following two
or three miles up the Blackfoot river
one can turn off on Grave creek.
Following up Grave creek a mile or
two one finds a road leading to the
right or westward back to the Port
neuf valley. On the little summit
between Grave creek and Portneuf
valley is creek on which are grow
ing many service berries and choke
cherries. They will be much thinned
out when you get there because set
tiers have gathered in from different
places with ladders and kettles,
buckets, boilers and tubs and are
carrying away the fruit in triumph.
But wherever one goes in the can
yons or on the creeks he can find
some choke cherries. The country is
very beautiful everywhere. The
vegetation varies from the brown,
,arched' grass on the dry slopes up
% the luxuriant verdure and quaking
aspen groves on the shady slopes
where the snow lodges deep in win
er and keeps it irrigated until mid
The southern and western
slopes Of the mountains are the
partly barren side. The northern |
md eastern slopes are what we speak
# as the shady slopes where the |
NOW lies deep in springtime. There |
ire places where one can look over
10000 or 100000 acres of these
'lopes that are broken up into all |
shapes and covered with verdure.