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Rh from the many fruit trees then in bloom. I will always have a warm feeling and pleasant memories for the happy time and many friends I have made in Kalispell. Fifteen miles northeast is Columbia Falls, where is located the Soldiers' Home of the state, which cares for the infirm who once defended our country.

One bright sunny morning in August, 1901, I drove three miles before 6 A. M. to Demarsville, the head of navigation of the Flathead river, took the steamer Klondike and sailed down twenty-eight miles to the lake, passing Big Fork on the way, where a number of eastern excursionists left our boat to go camping. Then sailed thirty-five miles to the foot of the Lake. Arriving there, we were met by a four-horse stage coach to drive thirty-five miles over the Flathead Reservation, so called