The Owosso times., 1881-09-02
A HONE AMONG THE ROCKIES.
Butte, Montana Territory.
nY MRS. cLARIBEL LEaaETT:

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am really getting quite in love will
thus country. find great deal to like
and admire in the people, and still more II
this beautiful country and these grand
mysterious mountains. was disappointed
in them at first. as people usually are. but
they grow on one. Every time open the
front door / look out upon the "Main
Range" of the Rockies, only three or four
miles east of us when sit by my favorite
south window can look down over the
beautiful Butte valley, covered now with
grass, beyond which rise mountains and
mountains for thirty or forty miles till, you
come to the Highland mountains, the
highest of any in this REGION. They tower
far above the timber line, and are GOV, red
with snow nearly the year round Even to-
day, July 18th, when the mercury must
be at least 100 in the shade" see patches
of snow on their brown sides. To the west
of us are the Big hole and Cable ranges.
to the north any number OF mountains
with no particular name. In whatever
direction too that we go, the drives are so
beautiful. There are good natural roads
all through these mountains. rocky though
they truly are. might go on for long
time telling you things new and strange"
about this Wonderland" for that 1t GER
tainly is. You ask if we like it
well enough to be willing 10 live here. al
so if we are going to make our home here,
To the former can truly say, 1--WE do"
To the latter, II do not know, certain it is
we will be obliged to stay here some time.
y This is just as good place to
live in-in fact better-as any Of its size l
know of. Lack of water is the chief draw
back Butte has, there is a waterman in
the city, but the idea of buying water does
not agree with me at all. There is also
company making preparations for bringing
water from some of the mountain streams
near by, as rapidly as possible, but ii will
take some time yet. There are n good
many wells in town, but many of them
are drained by the neighboring mines"that
is the case in this part of the town and
in many places every foot of the way has
To be blasted out of the solid rock, which
makes great expense for the people. "
I never saw East such dry-goods and gro
Gerry stores as they have here. 1t seems as
if they have ecerytting, and few other
things besides. There is more business
done here in one day, l do believe than
there is in Owosso in six months. This
day, there is transaction taking place
which involves a round millioR of dollars.
Judge Davis sells to-day, his Lexington"
mine to European company for that
sum. The parties negotiating for this com
pany are said to be a French Count, a
French Baron, a German Count, and II
German Baron. and an English Lord. Just
think of that And all this nobility re-
sides in little house just back of us! Of
course such sales do not occur every day,
or month, but it shows what there is here.
There are any number of just as valuable
mines here, but not many so well develop
ed 1t certainly is pleasanter to
live in town where there is so much life,
and it seems to me / could not think of
settling either in Owosso or Grand Haven.
though I should like to. srend part of
each year in both places, especially Owosso.