The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-28
sleeve over the size of the tax bill
the drillers have struck oil.

sleeve over the size OF the tax Dill
the drillers have struck oil.
Back in the Indian Territory an6
Oklahoma, the Indians and tbs
'sooners' who held on to their lands
are sitting back now in the shade
of the "gushers'' or the luxury
bought by the gushers. and can buy
closed cars by the flock. To the man
who sold his lands and bought q
jitney, these modern ROckefellers
say, You've got nothing on me, ETC.
But to get back to the home
steader in the pines she is neither
stockman nor a dry farmer and
goes on making improvements on her
lands that are stood on end in some
places and are tipped up on slant
and studded with pines in others,
and yielding cold spring water and
trout and water cress at the foot of
slopes, and wild strawberries In the
glades and rich cream in the COW pas
lures, what's to hinder the city folks
from falling in love with the environ
ment or whatever you call it, and
paying out good money for the privi-
Iege OF tenting on the place and
throwing their tin cans and fish
bones around the camping spot.
Some fellow who has been expert
menting with strawberry plants in
his dry farm garden has expressed
the opinion that the squirrels would
starve to death on Strawberries, and
even the stockmen are hoping that
raising strawberries and cream will
become contagious If the squirrels
lyiI az CT uyho foe
the stockman will take chance on
the rest.
The girl we speak of is filling her
niche and waiting for what comes,
be it oil or tourists. When she went
in this spring to do residence on her
claim, she and her sister rode over
the range, thinking the snow would
be off of the exposed ridges so they
could zig-zag and go to the home
stead by the short cut instead of
riding an extra thirty miles around
the range. But last winter the snow
drifted in different directions from
what it usually does, and it filled in
deep gulches that are generally
swept clean. Three-fourths of the
way over, they found they had to
turn back or risk wallOwing their |
saddle horses thru the gulches where
the snow was of unknown depts BY
the animals they could
give them more liberty to plunge and
follow on while the owner also
plunged ahead at the end of the
bride reins. Resting and plunging
by turns they could cross a gulch:
then the girls would go back and
bring up the second horse and then
drag the saddles over, saddle the
and ride again till they came
10 another snow-filled gorge that had
% be crossed to get to ridge lead
ng in the direction of the home
stead that lay behind the range.
Each time they put one of these
sorges behind them they realized
hey were one gorge nearer destin-
ltion if they could get thru at all,
md one gorge further to retreat if
hey had finally to give 1t up and
tart back in the increasing chill of
he high attitudes with the sun
linking, and their clothes wet to the
waist Once over the range they
lad more gulches to cross on the
Iown trip. Wet, worn out and
Inable to climb back over the range,
hey had to make it across whatever
till lay between them and the home
tead. But another homesteader-
tie had been at her cabin some time
nd had fire and food and comforts,