Show BITTER ROOT MOUNTAINS J L mcbride of missoula Mis BOula mont who has baa bad many experiences at all F seasons of the your year in the wild bit bitter ter riot mountains where general carlian arlian lin ld son eon and party darty milre now lost makes a statement ca tjawan san francisco chronicle rc re regarding gardine re that region mr hir mcbride has just arrived from lout lost hore hor e river in the bitter roots boots where he was wae on a beer hunting expedition he nays tile the snow near there is over five feet deep in many places and it was snowing und and storming violently everada eve every ryda da he has little hope or young carlin carlia and party beilig no ne thinks they may have ve a very bard time and not improbably lose their lives there are a great many different lerent dif parties out oui hunting bunting for them now be said eaid when ewhen I 1 left missoula eoula many men organized into parties had gone out in various directions these were in addition to the government parties the mountains mointa ins there are full of wild wila game there Is ig an abundance of wild sheep gusts deer dear and bear although I 1 was waa bunting lor for deer aud and paid almost no at ai edition to getting anything else I 1 got a magnificent black bear his hie skin akin was big enough to make you an overcoat I 1 have rarely seen eleu a bear 6 big I 1 could have not got many mure more hears bears there is in also alno elk there a d some gome moose thou then mere are pheuy oi 01 grouse and other birds of like sort eon souse Howe owe game in most moat abundance la Is the deer and near role might make it look as though carlin and party bad baa little to fear so far as fod is concerned but this is not so BO the storm has baa been howling aud raking raging sa long up there iu in the bilter roots and snow nas has buu been falling su no nowhere is in scarcely lees jens than seven leet feet uee jeep ana in many places 1 to vastly more rue game has been driven down largely lar ely or lies quiet and it is in those mountain t pt hard bard to got get at besides Bo sides the ot 01 the party did not expect to be caught in such weather br an are rather thinly dreamed aeed it will be extremely hard work for any ot of the searching parties to find them the search searchers ars go within twenty reef feet ot of thoi lost jost men and not fl faud ad ahem tor weir their tracks are constantly buried deeper aud deeper from view uy ty the ilver falling snow mr mcbride thinks thinka it win will be a miracle if the men are found alive lie idle says few can the awfulness awful nesa of the bitter root mou ulai us in winter and that now that he la ii out ot of them he is satisfied satia nedi to stay out |