The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-07-20
NOTES OF NORTHWESTERN TRAVEL.
From ihr Upper Missouri across the Main
divide Of the R"rkirs.
nv. Smaliey In v. Y. Worth, West.

letter appears it will hav" passed Helena,
and advanced well up the slope Of the Main
Divide Of the Rocky Mountains. 1t Is al
sight TO see the forward movement
Of he steel rails pushing steadily ahead,
every day a mile or two, over hill aud val
leg. through somhrr Gallons, acr"ss green
plains and over sWtt rivers, never hating,
never rcsting-a type If the steady and pow
elful movement Of civilization into he TIE"
regions of the Far West. The construction
train Is lodgngh0use aud clearinghouse, shop
and store, for the workiugmcn"at the front"
IL Is a long row of uncouth, Two story struc-
lures Oh wheels, pushed forward by loco
motive as fast as the track advances. In this
singular caravan there are kitchens and din
lug rooms, a shop for repairing tools, store
where clothing, shoes and tobacco are sold,
aud sleeping hunks for perhaps two.score
men. Behind the track Grain comes the tie
train The ties are hauled by teams along
the side Of the grad" 70 the track gang that
keep about a quarter Of a mile in advance Of
the tyackmen. At the front Of the track
train there are cars loaded with steel rails.
\ small nat-car, drawn by two horses, con-
veys the rails forward to the track gang, aud
the business Of placing them on the ties,
sinking them down. and fasteuIu. the fish
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the mru wel" parts Of machine. These
brOnIed. rrd.shirl"d fellows pF"hab'F see
nothing "a their wuik bat wages. aud til"
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hat there is to notice mainly in The way Of
good dwellings errc,od by men who have
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Approached from the east Tue hocA9
MouhtAins seem wen 70 deserve their name
"isahtIc c'liis anu O"IIresseo oi granite aP
pear W par Ihe way, anu 10 iofold tue lfa'eI
efs IurtheI progress Inc aspect OF ha'u'e
ID ihoIose ahu threatening Eve" Inc Tough
pines, "nien ge1 ioothoiu Wherever mere
- hahu'ul o. eaLth' eahhot mount lar up
the steep uecilFlties' ana the SUBMITS OF the
MOUNTAINS are Uare cfass anu pinhacies o'
. "esolaIe locA' lheIe are Impressions III Tue
range however, WheFe Ta'iIes run up the
Slopes anu IoIIe-ls come leapihs down. leu
Ny nietihs SLOWS oyer one ., tuese ue
presslohs Lieutenant Johh Muiiah quit
wagon ioau scole VI years ago, 10 serve Inc
neeus o' army transportation between inc
mead OF Navigation AZ the Great falis OF the
missouri ahu Tue posts ihofegoh. Muiiah
name, was endorsed "heh the railroad eh'
glheets iouhu IL 10 oe the most favorable on
the Northern racine ilhe' Inc ROAD Is ear
req up raVihes anu across Tue races OF ioo''
hills 10 steep wall, where IL diFeS ihto the
nSuIda ,b,onah ,,,,'aI ,i 'i' VI t"e
mile long. and comes out upon smilInr green
and flowery meadows, TO follow clear trout
stream down TO a river whose waters seek
the mighty Columbia. The contrast be.
tween the western and eastern sides OF The
Main DIVIDE of the Rockies is remarkable,
On the eastern SLOPE the landscanes are mag
nifcently savage and sombre: on the western
slope they have a pleasant. nastoral baauty
and one might think himself In the hill conn
try of western Pennsylvania instead of birl
IN on the side of the great watershed of l1t
continent. The forest tracts Iook like GROVE.
planted by A handsome gardener In som,
stately mark. and the grassy stones and val
leys covered with blne and yellow Gawers
and trayersed by swift. cIear brooks. add I,
the pleasure.proupd appearanre of the conn
try. What a. qloriotIs place This wouid a,
for Summer csmning tront Gshirg .n[
Shooting ia the thought of every Traveller a.
he descends from The summit, win hi,
hands fnlI Of flowers nicLad close n = s,ow,
hank SNOW shoe Maintain rises ins, !,
front, across a lovely yerdant valley. Pow
ellis Peak. a massive wbI,o nvrsmis chi.
the clear sky with lie sbarn ontIipas an IN,
further horIzon. and a cool hreeza hta",
STRAIGHT from The Pacific Oraa,
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DEER lsbbbE AND MlssDII LA.