168 THE ITINERANT HORSE PHYSICIAN 



morning we hired a team and drove out to look 

 at his "claim." 



When we got our bearings and measured off 

 the tract by counting the revolutions of a wheel 

 on our buggy, it turned out to be a tract of solid 

 rock, resembling asphalt; not over ten acres was 

 tillable land. A few miles from Ten Miles Pass 

 there is an extinct volcano, which in past ages 

 paved a great section of the country with lava, 

 resembling now a solid covering of asphalt. 



Taking it all in all, we got considerably the 

 worst of it in Idaho. First, the "double-cross" at 

 the dam-site; second, the filing on 160 acres of 

 stone; third, the "double-cross" bv the store- 

 keeper. But, — we got a nice wad of their cash, 

 more than we could have gotten for the same 

 amount of work in any other part of the United 

 States. 



We carry no grudge against the region or its 

 people ; we got good pay for what we did. 



