Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-07-13
Travel In Dodge s. lomobils
From BarabOO y s. .arwater,
Montana, To W : IN
EXPERIENCE GOOD ROADS
AND ALSO BAD ONES
Spend Night In Tourists Camping
Grounds Along the Way---En-
joy Trip

Mrs. WilDer Cahoon'S letter con
tinued:
We camped at Bozeman, popular
bion $500, terrible roads there and
dangerous Lots of irrigation done
around there and everything looks
fine Wednesday morning was fine
but it rained making the roads slip
perry.
We stopped at garage at Jeffer.
son Island during the worst OF the
storm and across ths road on the
side of hotel was this odd advertise
ment, Don't Divorce Your Wife IL
She Can't Cook. Eat Here and Keep
Her For a Pet" We drove up the
mountains and crossed the Conin-
entail divide, elevation $3.50 feet, and
arrived at the Butte camping grounds
for the night Butte is built upon a
side Hill and has a population of
$1,000 people. 1t rained all night
there. We went through some terri
BILE roads, some places covered with
water. one place they said we could
not get through. On our way we came
TO a big Buick down in the ditch
which We stopped and pulled out. We
kept looking for the bad place but got
through II without knowing where
IL was. When we met a car we had to
dig a rut in order TO turnout. Any
one would know we were Badgers,
because we dig as we go. After the
bad roads we had fine ones into Mis-
soula and good ones to Clearwater.
The scenery is beautiful here. / wish
had counted the deserted homes on
the g.ay Out, tkE0ugh the Dakotas and
Eastern Montana. There is lots OF
waste land but good crops of wild
mustard and quack Another strange
chinery out with no perfection from
the weather. We saw lots of cars
without tops and some put a piece
OF canvas over for shade. I suppose
we would have had a fine trip in a
dry time.
Some do not travel the Yellow
stone trail but take the best and
shortest road from town to town.
In great many small places there
was misleading signs similar to the
Yellowstone which takes one through
the town and maybe or miles Off
the trail. They have spent a lot Of
money and done a great amount of
filling but there IS still great deal
to do before 1t viii be a traA Of
Joy TO the weary Traveller. A great
many times the road from our place
TO Second avenue would have seem
ed like a boulevard TO what we had.
although hope they will be all Level
by the time we get home. We expect
TO go through the Yellowstone park
on our way hore and then strike
the Lincoln highway. On trail a
season Is enough. The scenery about
Clearwater is called the Alps OF
America and is surely grand.
The beautiful mountains and the
streams which abound in all kinds
Of trout.
We are between 40 and SO miles TO
a railroad. Sam Abbey, a brother of
Mrs. jerks Higgins OF Baraboo. lives
seven miles from here. His mother.
Mrs. Cora Armstrong Abbey. acted as
nurse and was here when We arrived.
Il cost us s36.24 for gasoline and oil
on our trip out here and travelled
l,700 miles. We had a slow leak In a
tire one afternoon but did not stop
to pump it up but changed tires. That
is tho only time we had any trouble
with the car and we were surely
pleased with the record since leaving
Wisconsin. | often think of the song,
MY Home Town Is A One Horse
Town But Its Good Enough For Me-"
I know we could raise more on one
acre of our Wisconsin soil than some
can raise on a whole farm In the
dry farming country and II Is very
expensive 20 irrigate- We bought our
gas at the filing stations except
twice and got poor stuff. We paid
as high as 35c per gallon and from
10 TO Is cents q quart for milk. Well,
| guests / had better stop or every
one will be tired
I remain as ever.
Yours truly,
MRS. WILBUR CAH0ON