We got off at 7:45 a.m. From Goff to a few miles past Pollock we had the old road about 15 miles, found them working on the highway then. We struck the Little Salmon at Gouge Eye (Riggins). It was very beautiful, growing more wooded and picturesque toward the summit and broadening into meadows which looked to me nearly ½ mile wide in places. The river curved and flowed slowly and with low wooded mountains surrounding was wonderfully beautiful. What surprised us was to find little ranches in pockets along the river, or on benches, some dreadfully burned-out looking. Some had run irrigating ditches and had gardens and we passed a place or two with lovely green lawns!
Just before reaching New Meadows we passed a beautiful field of grain. They were cutting it. We took two pictures of those lovely meadows. They seem to raise hay mostly. New Meadows is small but up and coming in quite a large valley, in fact from there the landscape began to be Southern Idaho. Bertha, one stretch of road looked like the old Slash. There was a distant range of timber mountains to make it seem more natural and the country on both sides looked just the same as slash.
We didn’t strike any more surfaced highway till after we left Cambridge, but the roads are wide and smooth and look almost as though surfaced. The country was rough and sagebrushy. I got out and got some for a fire and will put in a piece of the leaves for you to smell. It was awful hot at Cambridge and the countryside depressing. Our next town was Midvale (small), then to Weiser, which is a nice town but we couldn’t get lettuce there and no hamburger, which caused us to be disgruntly. We ate lunch “1000 feet” from the Starkey Hot Springs Hotel – bread, butter, cheese, jam, cookies, hardtack. [To be continued . . . ]
Just before reaching New Meadows we passed a beautiful field of grain. They were cutting it. We took two pictures of those lovely meadows. They seem to raise hay mostly. New Meadows is small but up and coming in quite a large valley, in fact from there the landscape began to be Southern Idaho. Bertha, one stretch of road looked like the old Slash. There was a distant range of timber mountains to make it seem more natural and the country on both sides looked just the same as slash.
We didn’t strike any more surfaced highway till after we left Cambridge, but the roads are wide and smooth and look almost as though surfaced. The country was rough and sagebrushy. I got out and got some for a fire and will put in a piece of the leaves for you to smell. It was awful hot at Cambridge and the countryside depressing. Our next town was Midvale (small), then to Weiser, which is a nice town but we couldn’t get lettuce there and no hamburger, which caused us to be disgruntly. We ate lunch “1000 feet” from the Starkey Hot Springs Hotel – bread, butter, cheese, jam, cookies, hardtack. [To be continued . . . ]
[I couldn't find pictures of the meadows she mentions. They probably didn't turn out. The photo above is of Vance in the 1920s.]
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