The Montana post., 1868-02-22
ABOUT THE COUNTRY.
Kx ROUTE.

II Messrs Wells, Fargo & Co., who have an
t-5ress Office at this place, kindly placed at
or disposal an elegant coach, furnished ac-
k.,modatinC and expert drivers, and ordered
El.rs of sleek groomed, mettled steeds everv
- miles along the one hundred and turn-
q miles of route. that their journey might
"A speedy and pleasant. All this through dis
E,srssted motives, for our comfort, and tuen-
I .sye dollars In the legal tender of the realm.
Sonny Clark took the lines for the first
ytv miles, and rs he drew them taut on the
L,nnie Crays, the canvas back coach pitched
80 like an oyster boat in a white squall
{ [d the institution went gaiIy down the road,
Isle the wheels, that wered TIRED before they
I.rted grew CHEEKY In a moment and piped
1 full duaTtette pean to the Frost King
tbose Jewels sparkled in every sun-tipped
HoW-drift, until passing Nevada, Central and
f-nction cities, and leading out of Alder
-.Icb that still clings to its millions like
User, we entered the broad valley of the Pas
mari with that exquisite miniature range,
II Ruoy mountains, whose chameleon-like
EoIors, ever varying from the deep sable blue
right royal purple, rendering it the most
ksautifuI of Montana mountains, looming up
t-ardly on the left, across a dozen miles of
sId and prarie- To the right the very uninter-
ktipg, unpretentious and broken foot hills
Ebat growing bolder and burlier as they recede
I-ouu the olden haunts of Road Agents and
aIf breeds, culminate in the huge, irregular
|roxy mountains that intervene between Vir-
1 ;ris and the valley of the Jefferson. At
falv's the sOrrels were in waiting, and bid
r.. an inarticulate farewell to the numerous,
"a We hope, happy Pcrtugese family. whose
mall sized representatives protruded in aston
khing umbersfrom inside the Salt Lake coach;
nj hour or two's travelling ended at Sheridan
post Office and Brandon Station, only
kparated by Mill creek and the slight
Political differences between the name
Il the former and the predictions of the
lhliCing host of the latter. Three miles to the
tght, where Mill creek debouches from the alb
fupt foot hills, is the " city of Brandon" re-
Ioicing in dreams of unlimited wealth; the
Prospects of n furnace soon to be erected by
Governor Smith Co., the Pioneer Tannery
II Snyder, Wlngert d Co., now in successful
fpeation; a rich and well developed quartz
sad, for which Ira Philips is now in Helena
Negotiating for the erection of mill; pro-
Pective Croesus, good natured but garrulous,
Who has fifty thousand feet Of quartz, and in
reduces himself as Dutch Frank" and last
ut not least, finely engraved st. Louis lith-
tgraph representing the city with a hundred
tluareS, score of streets and in the centre a
'hagnifcent park, with the we'll proportioned
trees elegantly and judiciously printed green,
Ind in the centre building of colossal pro-
PORTIONS ard Ephesian dome, very modestly
fesignated STATE HOUSE. That's the BRAND
LOS. Dinner at the Station, dollar and
falf at the bar, toiling twelve mile up the
bleak drear benches, and winding steadily to
DE right around the mountains, striking the
Nope to the Jefferson, and n road the natural
krade of which facilitates the speediest transit,
be coach bowled along into the valley, with
! 6 luxuriant and nutritious grasses, on which
thousands of cattle Craze all the long winter,
] 6 extensive ranches fenced, Systematically
Irrigated, and the neat houses bearing evidence
bf thrift, good husbandry and an indus
fnous people. The Jefferson is reached "a
talf dozen buildings stand on the southern
bank, and across it stretches Parsons Bridge,
. SIX thousand dollar structure, spanning a
little stream that rolls onward joining its
forces with Others until thousands of miles to-
fard the tropical south il sweeps a mighty
farrent, through fertile States and past great
bites, bearing the commerce of n continent
tpOn Its buoynnt bosom till Its now frozen wat
hrs lave the land of the Astec and Castilian
bnd ripple amid the orange groves of the An
tilles. Along the valley, the broad smooth
thoroughfare level as though in olden days
the giants had their race tracks there across
Rpestone, by the six-feet mounds that mark
the resting place of SPaulding and Wilson,
while the busy wheels stirred a cloud of dust,
30 shut out the CHASTITY sight and the remem-
brance of the last tragic Sceae in their alb
fuptly terminated lives. The dusky shadows
had crept up from the low wales, through deep
mountain gorges and psrched on the top
most peaks when the coach came TO a halt
in front of the neatly built Station House at
White Tail Deer; and chilled with the night
wind, bumped, shaken, and glad to use our
own powers of locomotion, the trio crossed
the threshold of Mrs. Thwing's pleasant home,
aud heaped the office with the varied outfit of
blankets, boots, robes, trunks and other para
phernalia Of travellers. The day was ended,
an excellent supper heartily enjoyed, when
he Hala nxhH ali a fr,ur
ellers, and around coy fires In comfortable
country inn, In pleasant converse, the hours
logged speedily on till the eyelids grew heavy,
and our last remembrance is of downy pillows,
Morpheus breathing dreamy confusion into
our thoughts, and the Doctor In the midst of
8 very interesting "reminiscences, saying, "well
as / said before, my roommate had gone to
sleep, and so he had.
EARLY rising has its many champions. It is
popular to advocate it, but its practice is un-
pleasant-and those who talk so glowingly of
the glories of morning, sunrise, fragrant, in
SPRING breath of Aurora, and all that, are too
frequently and suspiciously seen In the neigh
borhood Of unprotected hen-roosts or a cor
nsT groggery, by later risers. Occasionally
however il is a necessity. For instancs-Rap
Rapl. Rapii! on the door" Half past i've, Hell
ena coach leaves at six" You turn out with
tyr is r.auired to exhibit at the stake peer
at the stars that are swapping with cold brill
lAncy; gulph down a cup of scalding hot cot
tssI pay your respects 70 steak IN r-s.., s..,
much the same style as would hungry she
NolI; bid an enviouE mental goodbye to ""ir
Elnia bound fellow-Iudgefs, who are maLipc
all up stairs meIodeous with full note nasal
Ism, and bundle into a coach that has beer
left out doors all night and got cold cles
through, We did il. Bid good bye to the bss
sapon on the road, q landlady whose lif
1mid the Elorentine studios in earlier an
happier years has begotten or improved tast
for the hne arts, that manifests itself in wall
adorned with many of Prof. Toft's finest waite
color sketches of mountain scenery, and cor
Versation that fingers and oft returns TO theme
more to be expected In fashionxble salons cha
an isolated, mountain Stage Station. Ii WI
dark in the coach, but while the eyes wel
useless, ears and tongues were fortGnatel
available. We had passed, to the nOrthWai