Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-01-30
tFrom Croiutt's Western World.l
MARVELLOUS MONTANA.
Thirteen Hundred Miles Of Steam Nari
!, gation 'cith Water PoDer for the
World.
THE WATER COURSES.

Iron Samuel Wi!kinson's unpublished Notes q
Montana.
/ THE WATER COURSES.
Montana has within her own boun
baries 1860 miles Of rivers nayigabl,
by steam, and on which steamboat.
are now running. OF streams in which
the specklcd trout rise to the fly.
really believe she has over one hun
dred thousand miles, for the protec
ton OF which | invoke the passage Of
game laws without further delay.
The junction Of the Madison, Gala
tin and Jefferson rivers
FORMS THE MISSOURI.
A little below this junction com.
mences the famed valley of the Mis-
souri,. For nearly a straight stretch
OF sixty miles, It is from six to ten
miles in width. On this land lib l 9
bushels Of barley per acre, have been
ralsed-and there was not drop of
Yankee blood in the fellows that sowcd
or gathered the crop.
The water power Of the
FALLS OF THE MISSOURI.
suggest a manufacturing city Of which
Lowell would not be much more than
4 police station. It is eighteen miles
long; ut the lowest and main fall the
river is 800 yards wide, and the fall
eighty feet. For five miles up the ri
Yer is a continuous rapid, including
three cascades, from three to four feet
high. These cascades are formed by
solid lodges Of rock crossing the whole
width Of the river. A little further
up, the entire flow of the Missouri is
caught by wall Of rock az straight
from bank to bank as rifle barrel.
In an even, smooth sheet, o quarter of
= mile wide, without nick or break.
the river cn:vas and lazily makes q
plunge of fifty pcrDendi-
cular feet. Half mile higher up is
another cascade, quarter Of mile
wide from bank to bank, and falling
six feet straight and fourteen feet in
all. Two and a half miles further up
y another cascade of twenty-six feet
all, the river there being 1900 feet
vide. Above this is yet another fall
i've feet high. Eighteen miles Of fall.
ng water quarter Of mile in width.
hat some day will be sold by the Gu.
nc inch! What a city will vet be
'uilt round this vast heart OF indus
ry and life!
FLOOD
J the Mowkawk, Susquehanna. Ohio. {
abasll, Connecticut, Hudson-in !
'ct, in any and every river east OF
,e Rocky mountains, is thief The !
u0ay color Is the proof of the rob- !
Try. 1t is soil, agricultural wealth.
lrriedaawa.y to the Atlantic and the :
cxican gull, to the enormous loss Of I
e nation. When the snow on the
ountains Of Montana melt and her r
ooks and rivers run trimming, YOU I
n see the gold and silver trout gilt
r as clearly rs II un2y were III glass r
Obes. MOntana's streams never run 4
r'id-that il, they never steal her
u never "hOOkr her salts of ma +,
llt. -
THE TWO GREAT RIVERS,
9 Missouri and the Columbia, may G
rye to measure the greatness OF this
rritory in all things. From the d.
If of Mexico to the Falls of the Mis-. A
mi, a steamer can paddle five thou
nd miles. The Columbia is u sea j.
Dnsand miles from the sea, and E,
ives to drain large part of British
lnmbia as well as the Northwestern A.
lited States. Only Montana could II
'e birth to two such mighty rivers
once. g.