Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-19
EDITORIAL COMMANDMENTS.
GLENDIvE, MONTANA TER, !
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BY the nearest and best route Of travel
il is between 800 and 100 miles from
Wheeling: and the time necessarily
consumed in the trip is five days. This
seems like slow travelling, but it IS not
except after leaving the States. Through
the Territories no trains are run after
night.
For the benefit of any of the readers
ofthe REGISTER who may entertain the
idea of visiting Montana, will briefly
sketch the route hither. Leaving
Wheeling on the 80 p. NJ. train on the
b. & o. railroad, you arrive in Chicago
at $50 next morning; transfer to the
depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road, about eight blocks away,
and taking a seat in one of the elegant
ears of that company, you are whirled
Offat 80 and carried over smooth
track laid with steel rails across the
broad prairies and through thrifty
towns, arriving at st. Paul the follow
ing morning at :. After thirty minutes
for breakfast in the Union depot you
may step over TO the cars Of the North
ern Pacific railroad. which are awaiting
YOU in the same building, and by night
fall you are safely landed in Fargo, just
across the line in Dakota Territory.
This days ride the traveller cannot
fail to enjoy. The track is solid,
smooth, laid with steel rails and free
from dust. The country, for sixty miles
above St. Paul, is As handsome As the
eye of man ever rested upOn-brOad,
rolling prairies, dotted with highly cul-
tivated farms, improved with handsome
buildings and fences, and interSperSed
with the clearest and most romantic lit
tie lakes. Thence on for many miles
the country is not so pleasing, but it Is
not without intereSt---sOme farms, many
lakes, and a good deal of an inferior
timber are seen. Before reaching Fargo
YOU come on To the famous flats of the
Red River of the North. These flats are
composed of a black calcariOus loan,
which contains i'm an eminent degree all
the elements for the profitable produc-
ton Of wheat. This loan is Of great
depth, and when wet has a clay-like adj
-hesiveness about it. The sub-soil is
rich in mineral salts and lime phos-
pilates, which supply the constituents TO
make the hard white wheat for which
Dakota and Northern Minnesota are
famous. One popularity about this soil
which will strike my farmer readers as
being curious, is the fact that il may be
plOwed and sOwed in the mud without
making it bake" Reputable farmers
assure me that all you need guard
against in getting your crops in during a
rainy Spring, is to see that your horses
don't swamp, for the mud is very tena-
cious.
But to resume the trip: We are now
st Fargo, having dined yesterday at
Brainerd, about halfway between st.
Paul and this place, at a bOuntifully
spread and well prepared meal for fifty
cents. Our ride has been q delightful
one in the eaSy-riding cane-seated chairs
of the parlor car, and we are carried in
a free omnibus to the Continental Hotel,
very good hosiery. You get we'll
lighted room, clean beds with wire mat
tresses, table as we'll supplied as the
average i'm much larger cities, and care
ful attention-supper, bed and breakfast
for 81. Fargo is young Chicago-in
energy, aspirations and pluck. | shall
Say more about it in another letter.
At $50 next morning We resumed
our journey toward the setting sun. The
cars are comfortable but not so elegant
as those in the States. Now you have
before you and on both sides boundless
prairie so far as the eye can see. For
nearly one hundred miles you speed
through country grand in
beauty and sOil-getting birds
eye view of the greatest
wheat farms in the world. OF the Dali
RYMPLE farm, the readers of the REG
lister have all heard, a. it has hereto
fore been fully described in these
columns At jamestown, on the James
river, amid broad fertile valley, and
surrounded by rolling and well matured
praries, you dine to-day, where the bill
of fare quite as long as your arm, is call
ed off by the light-face1 dining room
girls. You get good meal at either of
the hOuses-one for 30 cents and the
other for %. During the afternoon a
part of the country traversed is not so
good, nevertheless you will pass the
famous CLARKE, STEELE and other
great wheat farms. In the evening you
stop at the Sheridan House, Bismark,
ON the east bank of the Missouri river.
Here the railroad company is building a
two million dollar bridge; but at present
asieam boat carries whole trains of ears
across. lfynu prefer crossing tonight,
instead of stopping at the Sheridan
House, you will find on the other side
an elegant new hotel, just opened, which
is highly spoken of. Paying $2.25 for
nights lodging-and pretty good fare
you resume your journey next morning.
But few settlements will be seen to-day
and no towns. There is much good
land in sight and much that does not
favorably strike a farmer. Near
o'clock you viii arrive at
the dinner station, Dickinson, where
/ got my first poor meal. am told,
however, that the meals at this place
are usually good. But, yesterday, the
oleomargarine was miserably bad and
it had been used in preparing all the
dishes. Your passage from Dickinson
IN Glepdiye il mainly through the bad