The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-11-10
provided for at the hospitals or by gener-

provided for at the hospitals or by gener-
Gus contribution, and not one itiuerant
b9ggar is to be found within the length
and breadth of the Territory. Thesinvalid
may here in the invigorating air where no
malaria turks to poison its sweetness, have
reasonable hope of restoration. Geology,
botany, and the allied sciences may here be
studied to advantage. The artist and
lover Of nature may ind fruitful field for
exploration and employment where the
richest endowment of beauty and grandeur
are profusely given. Could we but remove
one of the many geysers from the Fire
Hole River, in the Great National Park on
our southern border, to Fairmount Park
and enable you to behold one of those mar
velous eruptions wherein for the space of
several minutes to several hours a column
of boiling water several feet in diameter
is thrown violently and held steadily up to
the height of 300 to 250 feet, accompanied
with violent pulsations of the earth, and
Kissing volumes of steam which ascend in
turbulent convolutions thousands of feet
heavenward, the water descending in bro
ken drops like shower of diamonds
through the matchless colors of refracted
light, such scene of mysterious dynamics
and magic beauty would excite much adj
miration and astonishnent in the midst of
the great spectacle here presented which
has laid under contribution the greatest
ingenuity of the world to devise and the
most skiliful art to adorn. In that region
of wonders where the forces of Nature
seem to be struggling in inharmonious con-
fusion, are to be seen the most extraordin-
airy phenomena. There are lakes and caul-
drons of boiling water, mud volcanoes,
| sulphur fumeroles, lakes of seething mud,
alum springs and petrified forests. There
| also is the great and beautiful Yellowstone
Lake, and last and greater than all, the
Grand Canon of the Yellowstone, tkous-
| and to twelve hundred feet in depth and
| Yellowstone River by successive falls, the
| lowest and greatest of which is about
| 400 feet in perpendicular height. Ian
guage from the most gifted tongue and
seconded by the most vivid ideallty is
wholly inadequate to convey a picture of
this wonderful creation. A century hence,
when grateful nation shall again gather
at this shrine, those strange scenes shall
be as familiar as Niagara and Yosemite,
whose fame they shall eclipse. America
hundred years later! What prophetic Wis
ion can catch even a glimpse of its possible
greatness? Whatever may be achieved of
renown, of wealth unfolded, science ex-
tended, education diffused, patriotism i'm
planted, and manhood ennobled, Montana
will have made a loyal contribution. Now
in the freshness of youth, not yet entered
her teens, her valleys sparsely settled, her
soil almost virgin, her mineral treasures
not half revealed, buffalo darkening her
| plains and the Indian trail yet fresh on her
mountain passes; then in the imperial dig
nifty of statehood, on the trans-continenta
highway of the worlds commerce, her
valleys threaded with railways and teeming
with life, the smoke of thousand furnaces
rising up to mingle with the pure air that
earth.