The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-29

part goes to the Gulf of Mexico and
part TO the Columbia, and finally
into the Pacific. Here you leave
Idaho and enter Montana. The hills
are covered with grass and there is
| plenty of timber on the SUBMITS.
The country Is very sparsely settled
up, and tens of thousands will yet
live and thrive where at present no
one thinks of stopping. The scenic
beauty of the Utah and Northern to
this point and beyond is not
startling for majestic grandeur.
It is, however, agreeably diversified
with rivers, mountains and plains,
so that at no time it can be called
tedious or disagreeable, and as we
near its northern terminus the
mountains become loftier, more
densely wooded and pleasing to the
eye. At Beaverhead Canyon is a
beautiful cascade from some warm
springs charged with lime, whose
water covers all objects with stony
encrustatiOn. Corn is growing here,
and even tomatoes. The enterpriS-
ing proprietor has planted out fruit
trees also, from which he has gath
cred fruit. The temperature of the
water is 750 and very pleasant for
bathing, as [ can testify from eX-
perience. RattlrSnake Rock is seen
at a distance-the point where
Lewis and Clarke reached in 1903.
The rock was thus named from the
circumstance that Clarke was bitten
by rattleSnake near by. The rlV-
.ers of Montana are full of fish. 1t
is a we'll watered country.
Dillon is soon reached. 1t looks
like a town that will live. 1t is the
outlet for Helena and other points
of Montana. From Dillon thence
over a ridge the road skirts the Big
Hole River to MelroSe, through a
fine grassy bottom. 1t is an i'm
portant railroad town of Spasm0dic
growth, that will soon be numbered
among the things that were. 1t is,
however, the outlet for Glendale, a
mining camp near by.
Butte is reached by stage from
Melrose, and one of the sights IS to
take in the loading of the coaches
for that thriving city. Just how
much you can get on a coach has
never vet been determined, no more
than how much hungry boy OF 10
can eat. AS many as twenty-fOur
persons have been piled on one OF
these with eleven trunks, mail, ex-
press valises and bedding. 1t is
beginning TO look as though the
festive stage driver was driven to
! the wall. His innocent Swag9er,
his immense fob chain will soon be
things of the past. He will either
degenerate into the proprietor of a
Job wagon or keep a livery stable, or
maybe run q hack. For swearing,
the Montana stage driver takes the
cake. likewise the cake basket, as
the wit of Laramie City would put
lit. Once on his seat and started he
| is business, and as polite as a uanc-
| ing master, but you must handle
him gently. Trusted with human
life and immense wealth, he is
is generally conceded to be strictly
reliable, and to the credit of the
profession, no lady travelling alone
has ever been inSulted when cross
ing the dreary plains years ago.
Possibly by this time the railroad is
finished to Silver Bow, about thirty
miles from MelrOse. To reach this
point an expensive roadway had to
be made through the Big Hole can
yon, which is fine and picturesque
through its entire length. Another
summit is then reached and we de-
Scend to Silver Bow. The noun
tainS all around are black with tim
Der, and the plains covered with
! fine growth of rich grass. The
smoke of Butte City is rising into
space to our right as we descend the
fridge, and evidences are accumulat
ing that we are nearing a great cen
| tire Of activity. The construction
train of Kicks 81 Hendricks that has
built the road from Cache Valley is
seen as we descend. Through cold
| and heat the awful MOrmens have
been making the iron roadway for
the benefit of future generations.
Their work will soon be done. The
road ends for the present at Silver
Bow, six miles from Butte.
Silver Bow is an accumulation Of
stables and saloons that will have
to move to the railroad Silver Bow,
or die out. This is in the vicinity Of
placer diggings, and the stoppage of
! the road at this point is owing to
the fact that different owners of
such claims were too eXorbitant in
their demands. Owners Of teams
and coaches are not fretting about
the circumstance; l suppose it will
not affect the cost Of shipping goods
to Butte, for the company will
charge as much 10 Silver Bow as to
the other point.
Some idea of the activity Of bust
ness may be had by the fact thab
nearly all the saw-mills are bonded
to the mining companies, so that
lumber can hardly be had ut any
price, as much as S4S per thousand
being asked for the article, and i'm
mense forests hard by. Butte slopes
to the south. The population is es-
timated at 5000 persons. By the
end Of 1882, the number will be
almost doubled. Mines in the local
ity pay from the grass roots down.
l never heard of poor mine yet
on paper. l did not learn of a
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