Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-03-16

Falks, arriving in early afternoon
We were met by Mr.. and Mrs. Sal
mon, who kept a hotel, they showed
us great kindness, that type of kind
ness, that type of kindness which
makes an impression that lasts. The
next day Saturday l, and the little
boys, put in the time sight seeing
while their mother, well nigh worn
out from the weary journey rested
One the Ito u.s. marvellous sights,
was Dog Salmon, which seemed to
literally fill the river. 1t was our
first experience with salt water fish.
So numerous were they, that the
water seemed to seeth and boil. By
means of a long willow stick thrust
into the gills of one weighing per-
haps ten pounds, we landed one. Did
ever Indian brave, bear his trophy
of war more proudly than l, when 1
took my first fish caught on the
Pacific Coast, and presented it to
our landlady, only to be laughed at,
and told, at isn't it to eat" We
thot them beautiful to look at, but
later we saw them to our utter dis
gustJ Sunday morning a man drove
up to the hotel in a spring hack,
drawn by pair of buckskin ponies,
he was of stout stocky build, medi-
UNI height, full beard, approaching
me he said, well, You are our new
Preacher, 1 am Peter Pence, and this
is Your Wife, and these are the kids,
glad to see you all, climb in, it will
be time for preaching SOON. We
climbed in, and in response to a
keen whistle, Peanut and his mate
struck out at lively gate and soon
we were at the Pence School House
where, on the 30th day of Sept,
1888, preached nv first sermon on
the Pacific Coast. More Anon.
After holding my first service at
the Pence School house, my wife ano
l were taken by Mr. Pence and his
good wife to their home, while Cal.
Johnson took our two little boys I'M
til we could get settled, Monday
morning Mr.. Pence in his practical
way began to plan ways and means
for our future. He had little
shack that sttod beside the buildings
used by the cowboys, that was va
cant into which he proposed to stow
us away. There was just room for
two beds, with space of two feet
between, and room at the foot of
one bed for small cook stove, two
chairs and stool. Our goods had
failed to keep up with us, and Mrs.
Pence and Mrs. Johnson loaned lis
enough to start us going. Mr.. Pence
took me to the barn where he point
ed out a Bucgskin mare, saddle and
bride and said: ''These are for you
exclusively, 1 have told the boys to
keep their hands off. You have a
large circuit to travel and we expect
yOu W ~ IL ao L WllIG ILLS
can feel the thrill that l experienced
that day. Not only my circuit but
every thing else was large. My
birth, childhood, and young man
hood, was spent in a new country.
When l entered the ministry it was
in the Ozark mountains, country of
magnificent distance, I had always
been pushed westward. Here, so
many things were as it seemed to me
they should be. The country being
so tremendously large, the people
were large in proportion, large in
their plans, large in their hearts of
kindness and sympathy. Their faith
in Idaho, and its possibilities, bound
less. The last few years of my min
istry had been in a country where
there were more or less malaria. We
had not been on the Payette river a
week before feeling the good effects,
| could inhale my lungs full of the
purest air l had ever breathed. \ The
distance from the Pence home to
Weiser, as l remember it, was 24I
miles, perhaps l am mistaken, those
of you who live there now know. II
was going to Weiser, I decided to
go on foot, l left the Pence ranch at
Just 6 o'clock in the morning, and
arrived at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. /
Cooper at Weiser, at noon, / was not
tired as had oten been when having
walked Five miles and inhaled ma
lariaI l was expected to preach at |
Falk,s, Fences School House, at a |
school house near Mrs. McKinney's,
Weiser, Utley's twas it on Mann's
Creek?) anyway E. e. Utley's was
my home when in that valley, and
what faculty they had for making
one feel at home. Then into Jordan
Valley, Zone appointment in Mr..
Canary's house) l cannot recall the
name of the other, then into Sulu-
'ria, there were but few people in
he latter valley at that time, and we