Daily globe., 1880-07-17

Countless springs of pure, frosty water rise
in the foothills and hurry across the bottoms
with much babbling and gurgle to add their
mites to the great river below, any one of
which could be conducted through cream
cry with little trouble and expense; and the
native grasses are unsurpassed for the color
and flavor they impart to the butter. At
the present time butter is scarce and high,
as very little is produced. An occasional in
voice is shipped in from the States that would
bring tears to the eyes of an Esquimaux
and such butter undoubtedly has preju-
dicial effect; as right minded man would
hesitate long before placing himself in po-
sition where, by chain of unfortuitous cir
cumstances, he might augment the supply
of such compound. It is questionable,
however. if the territory is old enough to pro-
6uce butter of the composite order, such as
the commission merchants send here.
The raising of horses and sheep is at
tended with as little trouble, and.by many is
deemed more profitable than cattle growing.
Sheep were ahead last year on account of the
high price obtained for the wool, but the
net results of series of years would prob
ably show but little difference in favor of
either.
The climate of eastern Montana is
very fine, the winters being neither so cold
nor so long as in Minnesota and Wisconsin,
and the signal service bureau reports more
feir days for this section than for any other
in the United States. An old farmer from
Livingston county, Ill, who has been
here about year, and is cultivating twenty
acres this season, informs the writer that
cattle do not suffer during storms in winter
as they do in Illinois. The winter of
1872 80 was the most severe ever known,
and cattle continued their grazing, day in
and day out, as though it were common.
"They never" to use this gentleman's
words, "threw their backs into half-moon
shape and looked as though they regretted
their existence" He said further that he
had ten acres of corn, three of potatoes, one
and half of onions, and various sized
patches of other vegetables, that he thought
could not be excelled, and the vegetables he
is selling every day bear witness to the
truthfulness of his statements.
The topography of the valley is peculiar
and argues the employment of forces in the
adjustment of valley, hill and plain that are
beyond our ken.
The valley proper is divided into lesser
valleys by ranges of foot hills that extend
from the table landslide highest lands in
the valley-to the river. These little valleys
contain all the way from six to thirty square
miles, and some of them are as beautiful as
poets dream of heaven. As there are 80
many of them, and all similBr, description
of one will suffice. On the river side of our
specimen valley there is a natural park of
grand old cottonwoods, three feet in diam
e.er many of them, whose shade falls upon
lawn too soft and velvety, one would think,
to be the work of nature alone. Leaving
the park and ascending terrace five or six
feet in height the whole valley, with its en-
circling chain of hills, is in sight. Off to
the right the valley breaks into swells that,
as they recede from the river, grow larger
and higher, until the last grass covered bill
low becomes merged in the ia BILE 200 feet
above.
To the left the domes and spires of
great city meet the eye; great masses of
color more vivid and yet more delicate than
the paint on autumn leaves: and struo-
lures so grand in outline, so intricate in de-
tail that Angeles noblest conceptions are
dwarfed by comparison are the bad
lands. Clay, wrought upon by fire, flood and
volcano. 10 this wealth of color and
grandeur of outline add the glitter and flash
of diamonds in countless numbers, and the
beauty of the scene rises above the powers
of description; the beholder can only gaze
and wonder in silence. Pieces of talc-a
very brilliant substance, resembling mica
from the size of q mans hand, down to
fish scale, are strewn all over these clay
buildings, and the sunlight sets them all
ablaze.
The table land, out of which our valley,
and its surrounding foot hills and bad lands,
were carved, is level plateau that extends
from one tributary of the Yellowstone to
another and back from the latter stream for
many miles. 1t is covered with splendid
growth of buffalo grass, and not a bush,
stick or stone is there on it to mar it's even
surface. Game abounds everywhere, and of
buffalo, antelope and deer there seems to be
no end. Above the mouth of the Big Horn
the Yellowstone is alive wi b
mountain trout, and many of its
tributaries lower down are splendid trout
streams This valley is the natural breeding
grounds for all kinds of Aquatic fowls, and
the air is vocal with their bigh-keyed calls at
most hours of night and day.
To all who need homes the valleys of the
Yellowstone and its tributaries offer grand
opportunities. The owner of little band
of stock has only to stay by it, and in d very
few years he will be the possessor of a COM
petance. There is no such thing az failure,
for the precedent has never been established.
good home anywhere is too good to leave,
bat for those who have accumulated few
hundred dollars by working other mems
farms, or indeed in any other way, there are
opportunities here to change the hundreds
into thousands, and ct the same time &C
quire title to a portion of this grand do
main. E. L. BAILEY.
Duluth Marine News.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
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