The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-10-13
EXCURSION Will. CARRY TEACHERS
T0BlC INDIAN CATTLE ROUNDUP
ONH. HALL BOTTOMS NEXT SUNDAY
Will Picnic and Hold 'Weenie Roast While Visit
ing Historical Site Return Will Be Made
:. By Way Of Tilden Bridge and
Springfield Lakes

Ft. Hall bottoms will start on Friday
morning, Oct. II, and will continue
for five days. The cattle. have al.
ready come down from the summel
range and are scattered out over the
bottoms fattening on the rich herb.
age. ~ IN !,
There are about 5000 Of these
Indian cattle, and buyers are coming
to purchase about 1000, the date oi
the sale being October 20, and the
place of receiving them the upper
end of the bottoms opposite the
cedar point.
The principal owners of these
herds are Thomas Cosgrova and
Joseph Thorpe of Lincoln valley,
Charles Diggie, Ralph Dixie and
others who live near Blackfoot, and
smaller owners scattered about the
reservation. They have been, using
we'll bred males for several years,
and last year they shipped in three
carloads Of pure bred Hereford
males. The cattle are considered
very good, and those that were sum-
mered high up in the mountains are
in good condition. Those that
grazed on the lower levels were thin
when they reached the bottoms, the
drought affecting the grass on the
lower. hills. All of them have had
abundant forage since they reached
the bottoms, enjoying the rich green
grass and the cold springs.
1t is likely that good many of
the teachers will come to Blackfoot
on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
and will wish to take advantage of
this opportunity to see a rean
roundup of range cattle, and to ses
something of the reservation and itA
people. The committee In charge OF
drives and transportation are arr
ranging to take all teachers Who
wish to make the trip on Sunday
Oct. 16. On that day the roundup
will be on the only part of the bot
toms that can be safely reached with
aastomobfles, and 1t will be within a
mile or two of old Fort Hall, so both
places will be visited, first the round
up, then the old fort, and the return
trip made via Springfield lakes,
Pingree, Rockford and Riverside.
The excursion will leave in two
divisions, one at 1890 In the morn
Ing, carrying those who want to take
a picnic dinner and spend the day.
The other division leaving at l
o'clock and making the round trip
before nightfall. The distance via |
The new Fort Hall to the roundup !
Is about twenty-five miles, and the |
return trip thirty miles via Tilden |
bridge.
The committee will provide a
Dutch lunch consisting of cheese
sandwiches, red apples, fresh cider
ind coffee with trimmings, just
enough to whet their appetite for
supper. It will probably be served
rom about 1-30 till 4, SO all strag-
,lers can connect with it. This will
,e at the monument at old Fort Hall,
lot the railroad station, but fifteen
niles west of 1t on the banks of
snake river. ..,
The way to get there is to take the
oocatello road to the turn in the
Dad west Of the government school
'elow new Fort Hall, turn west
cross the railroad tracks. parallel
he track three or four miles south
yard and turn at the first road lead
ng west, and follow 1T to and down
he dugroad into the bottoms, keep
he main road northwest to the big
ridge over Spring creek, then go
lorth mile or two to the roundup,
r three miles north to old Fort Hall.
flden bridge is three miles down
tream from the old fort and monu-
1ent.
An effort will be made to placard
he road from new rort Hall to the
Id site. !
0. b. Bills, manager Of the Bing-
am Motor company at Blackfoot,
hone 15, is manager of transporta- {,