The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-05-07
MONTANA.
The New City at the Confluence of the
Muscleshell and Missouri Rivers.

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From the Helena Herald April s.
Of late and almost by mutual consent, the
mouth of the MuscleshelI is deemed the
nearest and most feasible point from which
to transport merchandise and convey pas
sengers to the interior and more populous
portions of our Territory. Even now an
enterprising town IS fast growing up at the
mouth of the Musciashell, river. Messrs.
Brewer, Jonkerson, Whitson & Co., have
just completed two large warehouses, and
several other large and substantial build
ings are in process of erection for the ac-
comodation of those who make that their
landing place.
Oar Diamond City Road Companies are
also alive to the Importance Of making this
route success for this season, and not only
for this year, but for all time to come. They
are determined by their capital and labor,
to prove to the st. Louis, Chicago and
Pittsburgh shippers alike with the mer-
chant, tue mechanic, and the family, the
capitalist, and the mines, and indeed all
who desire to visit our remote rich fields of
wealth by the way of the Upper Missouri,
that this is the most practicable route from
the boats, and that from this point the set
Elements can be reached in much shorter
distance, with less expense and greater ease
Messrs. Nandelburgh, Tyler & Co., owners
of the toll road leading into Diamond
City from the Missouri river, have already
broke ground for a new wagon road across
the Belt Range Their surveys are made
up ''Greenhorn GuIch," and from there to
the summit. The grade will be light and
easily travelled by the heaviest trains.
The mountains once crossed, the country
lying east in the valleys of the Cammas
Elk and Deep Creeks, and along. the branch
es of the Muscleshel, is already prepared
by nature for great ''main highway"
stretching from the eastern base of the
Belt Range in direct line TO Musesshell
river. Fifty men will be at work upon the
road by the 10th of April and by the 25th
of May, trains can pass from the mouth Of
the Muscleshell to Helena, within distance
of 1856 miles, and over one If the best gra-
ded, grazing, timbered and watered roads
that any of the Territories afford. No
pains or expense will be spared, we are as
sured, and no rough points neglected, to
make this route one of the most desirable
in all the mountains for quick transit to the
metropolitan points of our Territory. The
first trains will be passed over the roads and
ferries free of any charge
1t is indeed true that very many of our
citizens have never seen that beautiful re-
gion of Montana, lying east Of the Belt
Range, and extending down through those
Respondent valleys flowing in all of earth g
richest harvests, and crowded with the gar
lands of primeyal Paradise, stretching far
out toward the Missouri The rich gar
nered fields of wealth which lie hidden in
those vast and unexplored regions, the most
accessible to navigation and by far the
most beautiful and arabic of all our noun
tain valleys, while they are yet the least
cared for, Astounding in all the wild game
that the great Northwest affords decked
with the finest mountain timber; and
made green by never-failihg mountain
streams with climate never very cold
nor ever hot and sultry rich and gushing
in all its vast field of wealth sel6shne IS
in nothing; muniicent IN ali that gladdens
the human heart or nurtures and gives life
and strength to every product OF the noun
tain and prairie, we must concede that the
verdant hills and smooth, grassy plateaus
that so gracefully border and adorn the
Muscleshell and its tributaries, render that
region one of the most interesting IN all the
mountains. Through this fertile and lux
uriant valley the Northern Pacific Railroad
must find its way and the locomotive,
which has ever been the taisman of fast
increasing wealth and enterprise, will whirl
on from the head of Missouri navigation
around orr hills over our pastoral fields
and through oar mountain gorges, convey
ing it's human freight of every nationality,
and its merchandise from every cline.
New States will spring into existence, gilt
teriug with gold and radiant with the
wealth of Oriental Empires. The march of
American civilization, teemiug with all
the wealth, power and influence of a vast
continent, will tear into shreds those old
fettered ideas, that nation cannot exist
and flourish without mondrchial interfer-
ence, or grow great and powerful except by
imperial dictation.