CHAPTER XXIV 



MY BROTHER FILES A CLAIM 



Before I close the account of our experiences in 

 Idaho I want to mention a little experience my 

 brother had there. 



After we had been in the state four or five 

 weeks he became so enamoured of the beautiful 

 climate and the success of dry-farming that he 

 decided to take up a claim and make Idaho his 

 permanent abode. 



He made inquiries among the natives regard- 

 ing the location of land still open to settlement 

 and after looking over a number of tracts he 

 decided on a quarter section of plateau land 

 located near a place called Pebble. It was a 

 most beautiful piece of land, and a small stream 

 bounded it on one side. 



The government land office was located in 

 Blackfoot, and to that place my brother went to 

 file' on the land. When he got to Blackfoot and 

 pointed out the location on the land-map, he dis- 

 covered that the piece was in the forest reserve 

 and not subject to claim. 



He then picked out a quarter section near what 

 is known as Ten Mile Pass ; both of us had driven 

 over every foot of the country around Ten Mile 

 Pass and we were acquainted with the nature of 

 the land there. Some of it was ideally situated. 



So my brother filed on a quarter section, 

 pocketed the papers, and came back. The next 



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