The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-08

very good to eat. When you get up
among them, if you get excited over
the tremendous yield, you can pick
until you are satisfied, pick until you
are tired, pick until you are full of
service berries, pick until you have
all your kettles full and then you can
go home and sleep and dream about
them in the night; you will see a
world of service berries everywhere.
You can see them falling into your
buckets; you can see the bucket
rounded up and running over and
service berries running down over
the edges. There will be a world of
service berries if you plan it SO.
Choke cherries are not so plentiful,
but there are enough.
Did you go out that way on Labor
Day? If you did you saw a storm
coming up in the afternoon. After
you had got done admiring the
beauty of the great valley, there be-
gan to come a blue haze upon the
horizon. 1t resolved itself into long
ribbons and strips and different lay
ers and it travelled toward tie range
On which you stood. Your party on
climbing the peaks and admiring the
different views, had a bunch that it
would be we'll to assemble down by
the jitney and assemble they did.
The storm resolved itself into several
layers and cloud banks and moved
eastward toward the mountains. 1t
did not look like storm but people
pulled on their coats and got into
the car, ready to start home. There
was a dash Of big raindrops that
turned quickly into downpour mid
a rush of winds. 1t roared and
rained about you as you sat on the
summit, looking over the situation.
The downpour turned into lombard
ment of rain and hail, and little
streams began to assemble in the
wagon tracks as you started down
the mountain. 1t is easy going
down the mountain; there is no
trouble about descending, but you
meet a car coming up. They are on
the steepest part of the hill. Slower
and slower climbs the victim and
finally they come to a standstill. You
get out of the road and get by them
safely and you wonder If they have
chains for the drive wheels, for II
they have not you know they are
stuck until the storm is over and the
roads dry up. Anyone going out on
q mountain trip on a beautiful day
without chains, is taking a serious
risk of having to camp on the job.
1t is part of the divine plan to have
little storms come up and wash the |
hillside and catch the unwary trav-
elers and show that their jitneys, |
tho all right on dry road, do q lot Of |
in the mud and get them |
Nowhere. II you want to 60 out and
gather wild fruit in any other can
ron, you have our permission, and it |
doesn't matter much what canyon
'ou 60 into, just so you go up on
What is called the shady slopes, you
will find wild fruit. There are TO-
700 acres Of them upon the hills
waiting for you. We have not meas
lred them exactly, but newspaper
men have q way Of saying things as
I they knew, and It is q part Of our
professional camoufage. Ten thou
and acres of service berries waiting
or you upon those hills and you can
rave them for the picking. Go to
EN-.
But remember, kind sir and
il you cross the Blackfoot
iver, you are on the domains Of the
ed man, and it is his berries you
lick; his scenery you admire; his
'ushes you tramp down II you tramp
hem. He prefers to. keep every
hing as nature made it. So con-
ider yourself only a guest, and not
be owner, and do not destroy what
on cannot replace.