The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-26

United States, locate the "Fish
Straight" placer claim from rim to
rim and up and down Lees creek
from He'll to breakfast. Signed, c. L.
EmmOns. Sam EmmOns."
o. Experience of EmmOns Boys
About the time that Shelby was
making it's bid for fame in the world
of fistiana-in other words, about
the time that Tom Gibbons conceived
the idea that he could knock the
block Off'n Jack Dempsey if the
bout could be staged out
I'm our wild, WOOlly land,
OF cactus, sagebrush and sand,
Where the coyotes howl and the
silvertips prOwl,
And the horse is too small for his
brand"
Kalispell-Kevin Oil company, and
well-knOwn %geOlogist, was intro
duced to Mr.. Hepler. Said the lat
ter: Your name is familiar. It
seems to me I saw it at the bottom of
a location notice on Lee creek"
Charley had no difficulty in remem-
bering the location notice. Among
the "SOOners" wOh invaded the ced-
ed strip when it was opened to the
public were this same Charley En-
mons and his brother, Sam. They
had heard of the lost placer mine
and determined to search for it. They
became enmeshed in an extensive
thicket of second growth lodge pole
pine on the north side of the noun
tain. The young trees were growing
so close together it was with the
greatest difficulty that the prOspec-
tors were unable to make their way.
Evening found them so far from
their camp that they were compelled
to spend the night on the bank of
Lees creek. They had no food with
them and it began to look like a "A.
hour fast for Charley ard his broth
er. The latter, however, found
among his effects a piece Of string
and a fishhOOk. With these, he sue
ceeded in catching a sufficient num-
Der of trout for supper. While Sam
endeavOred to r|eplenish the commits.
sary, Charley tested the banks OF the
creek with a gold pan. He had no
ticed a number of old stumps and OF
closer examination found axe marks
that in his judgment, had been made
80 Or 40 years before. With his gOlC
pan he found much black sand, bu.
no gold. Before leaving camp
Charley squared a lodge pole pin,
and wrote thereon the notice of 10
cation above quoted, giving the claim
the name Of "Fish Straight in com
-memOratiOn of the fact that Will
they were in camp fish straight with
out ven salt constituted their diet.
, The EmmOns boys never returne,
to their prospect, and the field i
still open to the ambitious treasur
seeker. Biologists a that the ere
~taceOus formation of Chief Noun
tain is unfavOrable from a gold min
I ing standpoint. Still, biologists ar
Z not necessarily Oracles. The pick an
, shovel, the hammer and drill, and tn
: jUdiciOus application of giant pow
u der have more than once explode
the most carefully worked out geolC
: gical thesis and exemplified the oil
saying that Gold is where you fin
it."
Copyright 1926 by Sidney n. Logan
The Thunder Bird of Chief MOuntai
The Blackfeet held Chief MOuntai
in superstitiOus awe because they b.
lieved that a great cavern near il
summit was the home OF the THU
der Bird, which caused the thund,
and lightning. In this respect, Il
story by Mrs. Martha E. PlassmaU
on another page Of this issue, emit
led, 1.-TWO Medicine, is of more thu
usual interest. The Blackfeet ha7
a legend that the Thunder Bird WI
once overcome by a snowstorm al
that he descended into their camp.
was taken to the lodge of the he;
lchief, where many of the tribe a
lsembled. It's feathers had many &c
Ors like the rainbow and its clay
were long and green. When it su
denly flew from the lodge, the L
dams rushed out and saw it disa
pearing among the storm clouds. TT