The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-16
TO BUTTE.
The Little Giant Railroads.&c.
Mining Metropolis OF Montana.
BUTTE, Oct. u.
Editors Herald

The attention which this lively
camp is attracting drove your hum
BILE servant to seek pastures new
in this direction. Leaving Salt
Lake at $40, on the very pleasant
coaches of the Utah Central, half an
hour at Ogden for supper, and 1 find
myself very comfortably seated in a
palace sleeper On the Utah and
Northern, bound for that section of
which it is said "the gold of that
land is good,'-Montana! The re-
cent addition of Pullman sleepers is
appreciated by those who travel,
you may be sure. Rapidly passing
comfortable homes in the valley
towering grand mountains rise to
view on the right, with grain fields
lower down on the left, make mag
nificent picture. The TetOns, way
off on the right, almost in the Vel
lOwStone country, are looked for
hours ahead; POrtneuf canyon,
where many way-fareTs have met
their death at the hands of the muir
derous Blackfoot, on the Fort Hall
reserve, are all points of interest.
On this reserve is the well known
chief, Pocatello who was with the
Indians at the fight on Bear River,
one of the remarkable Indian fights
of the early history of Utah. This
savage is six feet ten, raw bOned,
has only one eye, and with all true
specimen of the scalp-lOving Black
feet. The Utah and Northern
traverses the best part Of Utah and
rapidly advances for the great
stOckraising and mining fields of
Montana, the present terminus
being at Lakeside, eight miles from
Butte. At Lakeside [ had a pleas
ant handshake with the genial
ticket agent, Captain Hulaniski,
who is a standby with the road,
having been with the company sew
eral years. Our freight still comes
from MelrOse, nearly all being for
Warded through Sebree, Ferris 81
White, who handle hundreds of tons
monthly. And now only one and
half hours staging to Butte; this
shows what the railroad is doing
for Montana. Butte is truly the
great mining and commercial centre
OF this wonderful territory, the
mines showing up handsomely as
developments advance, and the bull
lion shipments keep up with re-
markable regularity. Several new
mills and powerful hosting works
have been ordered, and l firmly be-
lieve that the lode will lie dotted
with hosting works ere this time
next year. People are flocking here
from the east, west, north and
south. A camp after We olden style
is before us, and let him who will
come and drink of the waters of
life" The song of the river: "Men
may come and men may go, but l go
on for ever" is applicable to the
mines Of this district, for the deeper.
the richer. Every stage is crowded
with live freight; from the sunny
south" as well as the bleak regions
of Alaska, and it is common when
the stage arrives with from twenty
to twenty-seVen on board, for some
one to ask: Did any get away?'
1t is something new for an old
timer like myself to see large brick
and stOne-stOres, well finished inside
and out, and handsome private
residences, in new camp like this,
yet such is the case, and many CT
them. [ cannot state positively, but
think there are 1900 people here.
At any rate there are SIX first-claSS
hotels all full: Centennial, st.
Nicholas, Grand Central, City and
GertOn. The crowd at the first
named is SO great that when a
traveller has been in week, he is
asked TO look up a place to sleep, as
traRscient5 must or shall be accom-
mOdated, and those acquainted must
shift for themselves. There ale
three daily papers: I72teT-UOI12tGjp
Miner and Freeman; and the
Pacific Mining Age, Il journal de-
voted exclusively to the mining
and issued monthly. /
have heard men pray to be delivered
from lawyers and doctors. but here
they should ask to be freed from
SHEEPEATER.