The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-30
SUPERIOR NEWS.
A Government Exile Heard From.

From Our Sent-Infrequeat Correspondent
SUPERIOR CITy VI. r., December 26, 1881
Ghosts Of departed opportunities rise mp be.
fore me and stare me ont of countenance
last letter appeared in your paper. But many
changes ito mel have occurred I'm the last few
months-principal of which waS my removal
from New Chicago. " Uncle SAM requested
me TO leave that place Il. e., he sald :. You
soiH proceed without delay"). Consequently
on the sixth Of the current month started
for my present abode,
TRAVELLING BY STAGE
Over the most varied and beautiful mountain
country on the American Continent. Hal /
the descriptive ability of "Sand Barr /
would intercs: your readers with few of the
many wonderful and picturesque sights saw
while en- route.
The Northern Pacific graders are doing
some fine work on the Missoula river There
engineers, surveyors, and graders are max
ing roadbed where itseems nearly impossible
for mountain sheep to climb. Ere long the
whistle of the iron horse will be heard in the
States without being forced TO the painful
necessity of travelling two or three hundred
miles in stage coach, which at this season
Of the year IN doubly disagreeable on account
of the miserable condition of the roads Six
teen hours after leaving New Chicago / ar
rived
IN MIssoULA,
IN very nrpftv faun hint ,uuah IN xnxy Suruptx.,
found ii not ~ large as Deer Lodge Bust
ness of NIL kinds seems to be good there. The
men are enferpriSing and Industrious, and
are looking forward to the completion Of the
railroad to that place, believing it will be- the
center Of a great trade Eddy, Hammond a.
90. and Caplice, Smith & Co. are doing a
rushing business. With the latter / found
my friend Fred. Capiice. Every one knows
Fred and every one tkes him-the men be-
cause he is "a good fellow the girls be-
cause he IN "good looking"
also visited the Fort. Everything there
presents wars magnificent stern array"
found the officers military and magnanimous,
the soldiers obedient and obligng. Jones
il the operator there. He has lately been
promoted He puts his feet on the mantel-
piece when he smokes, measures sixty inches
around the chest, and puts his hat on with a
rhoe-horn. He isa boss knight of the key
and has meritrd tins recognition of his worth.
IN THE PINE WOODS
From the Fort / came by Government
- transportation" The remainder of the dis
lance will never be forgotten a. long AZ mem
DRY holds sway. 1t took just four days to
come sixty-one miles. Our first disaster was
the overturning of the sleigh on Seven Mile
grade. In coming down a ravine at an angle
of sixty-fve degrees, the box slipped off of
the runners. Self-preservation Is the first
law of pature, and the way jumped clear of
everything would put TO blush many profess
~ional tumblcrS. We had nothing aboard
that was perlshahlc, except four empty bot
ties lin which had been axle-grease); hence
no loss TO any one. / tarricd some time at
til" Widow McCabe's. Now every one that
ever Travelled the Mullan road knows the
Widow, for she sets the best table and has
everything nicer around her than any other
stopping place between New Chicago and
Superior City. BY the by, there il at present
with her a young lady whose adventurous
and romantic life would cause her TO be the
heroine Of song and her name to be trans
mitted TO posterity were the incidents of her
life known In detail to some gifted genius
SUPERIOR CITY.
After spending u night each at Moose
Creek and . thr Milk Ranch" | arrived iu
Superior This IL large place-iust a. large
n. New York-but the absence of houses il
very conspicuous. In 1870 mining up Cedar
creek caused the place to become quite a
town, but since the abandonment of said
mines only the memory of other days clings
to 1T and by that 1t still retains its name. One
house, one stable, two cattle sheds, are here,
and lately il has acquired another landmark
in the shape of a telegraph operator
Charles Southern, poet of the sixteenth
century. says "pity Is akin to love" Now,
Mr.. Editor, do not want love. / tried that
once and it went back on me. But pity and
in my desolate and forlorn home is
what stand in need of The contrast he
tween this and New Chicago is very striking,
for whilst the latter is not a city, the few that
are located there are noted for their broad
shouldered hospitality and double breasted
generosity. Why, sir, to my personal knowi-
edge, one gentlemen at that place gave away
seventeen pairs of blankets this fall to one
needy individual. and it was no strain or
drainage on his exchequer. NoTNUH