The Montana post., 1868-09-11
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tain EXeur5ionistS-
We found By practical test. that
Montanian can spend three days pleas
antly beneath the shade trees in hear
ing of the ripping waters; enjoying
good C -mpany. luscious fruits anG frag-
rant Hayanas in Salt Lake City. We
found also that tor 1856 one could get a
ticket To Omaha. aud, by wav OF change.
procured ous. and IT : o'clock on the
evening of a sunday 80 quiet and hernet-
ically sealed. we presume, BY Brigham =
sealing process. that IL was perfectly in
tOlerable, paid our board and boarded
the coach. giving thr driver new pa
per collar 20 induce linn To De a little
careful how he drove the six Dit>bitlnE
BAYS OF the Overland.
One does not see much. travelling al
ter night. in a stage coach, with the cur
tains down and no moon M. especially
when .hey aTp asleep. So Don Quixotr
was spared tlls sight Of four or FIVE fond
mothers peeping on: trom windows and
doors, while a brood OF children. from
eight TO twelve in number. apparently
all about seven Years old and universal
ly wearing tow heads range themselves
in front OF the house as evidences of
family prosperity. This is one o: the
funny and frequent sights in Utah. Don
Quixote once. in Virginia. came across
large family of little red headed, half
clad darkeys, and laughed until he be-
thought him it was unbecoming the
Knight Of La Mancha, but the six red
headed darkeys were a melancholy sight
compared to a seven year old, tow-head a
ed Mormon family of sixteen, and noth-
ing but a cOmmendable feeling of COM
miseration for their father, when the
first green apples make havoc with the
bowels of his darlings, could have re-
strained the gentle little German~silvery
laugh with which he is wont TO aeknowl-
edge appreciation OF good thing.
Neither were visible the numerous beds,
Which limited sized and numbers OF
rooms. and a rapidly increasing
number of dodgers, has compelled all
along the northern settlements 20 be put
~ outside the houses with cover of
canvass or carpet stretched over them to
protect them nfrOm-grasshopper proba-
Lly In fact, il was not until the
rumbling wheels walked the echoes of
Echo canyon, at daylight, that an eye
opener from hagon of spirits, with
VIII ch 10 keep our spirits from tagging,
and which Mr.. Lincoln did thoughttully
link on his outfit, enabled US TO dis
tinguish surrounding objects by the gray
dawn and ourselves. by climbing the red
ARENAS Wards Mormon show. Through
ths canyon. and, in fact from there
WI erever the stage road approached the
projected line of railroad, for the three
hundred miles to the crossing of the
North Platte we found men by the
scores and hundreds grading the road
for the iron horse. There is some diff
serence of opinion as to when the road
will be completed TO Salt Lake The
rsilrOaders say by January let
salt Lakers think not until next spring,
owing to the tunneling in some places
and the heavy falls Ui snow in the vicin-
ity of Bridger and Bear River. General
Bulord, one of the Government Commits
sic aers, has accepted an invitation from
NJ kiskadden 10 dine with him in Salt
Lake on New Years day,an come to the
lake by rail, but Mr.. X says he does not
intend TO lay plate for several months
Ihr reatter tor his Military Commissions
crr1ip. IL is the general Impression that
The road will not get farther than Bear
River, before the heavy SHOWS cause
discontinance of work.
There is nothing on she route TO Ben
Ton City worthy of notice. Ii is a sue
cession OF high plateaus, hill country,
sage brush, alkali, and monotony, and
tt. feed tor both man and beast is
sGn l0lEeE NUan OIrCalL Lake
lireen River City has perhaps seventy
Or eighty adobe houses, built up in a
fortnight. Ii is located where the stage
road crosses Green river. Il is q hard
town. given 10 much fighting, full of
rum shops and gambling houses, and
men with double heads On them, with a
few stores and the Office of the Frontier
fFieT as a saving feature from utter
condemnation. Probably not less tram
STORY than its predecessors. Julesburg
and Benton. it is built more substantially
than the latter merely because the cold
weather, now coming. necessitates it.
Benton is q city Of canvas-scarce a
house in it. IL looks more like mill
tary camp than q town, and its inhabi-
tants have just located TO remain until
the-next town is established, and then
Fold up theis tents TIE ,le Arabs.
Aud silently steal away"
Even now the road is lined with them.
iourneying on TO Green river. The cars
will be running 20 that point, 1s0 miles
vest of Benton, by October lst, making
ne cay and two nights staging east
,ovn Salt Lake. At Benton. 693 miles
r,n Omaha, we took the cars, after a
tLree days coach ride, and in thirty FIVE
hours were in Omaha. Having paid our
fare in advance, we bear testimony cor
roborative OF Dana's. whose was suspi-
ciOned as ID. II" by some papers,
that the Union Pacific Railroad is good
one-the smoothest. steadiest new road
we were ever on Tue Company also
use splendid locomotives and hrst.class
cars in every sense of the word the
Pullman Palace Sleeping cars being the
finest specimens of the superb in the
way OF cars we have ever seen. We are
-rfN .aH avrf ekas sl.
cars In use on the Eastern roads arr faT
inferior TO them, and can well believe
Il. They are perfectly gorgeous with
upholstery, silver plates, marbles, mir.
-rors, and artistic painting. The Com
ranK are entitled 10 credit and Caesa