The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-29
BUTTE.
It's Attractions and Surround.
ingS.
A Trip From Here There Graph.
ically Described


After the traveller leaves the
pretty little town of Franklin, Idaho
the northern limit of Cache Valley
there is littl to interest the eye as
he speeds along by the force of the
iron horse until
BEAVER CANYON.
appears in sight. Here view looms
up like the dawning of a new day :;
everything is fresh and beautiful.
After a ride of nearly 200 miles,
through a country conspicuous for
lava beds and otherwise unintereSt-
ing things, the train suddenly enters
Beaver Canyon and soon is
environed by green mountains,
presenting a striking contrast from
the wide and wild waste left below.
The scenery is picturesque and
would be delightful place for an
artist with a sketch book to amuse
himself in. The mountains are
verdant with grass, and beset with
lofty Epines and sweet flowers of
various hues, and crowned with
clouds Of pure snow.
A few miles from the canyons
mouth is the starting point of Bas-
sett Bros stage line for the Yellow
stone Park, which is a distance of
100 miles west. The Park which is
one of the greatest natural attrac-
lions in the world, and of which so
much has been said and written,
can now easily be reached by the
accommodated furnished by the
gentlemen just mentioned, who are
prepared to make daily trips and
carry all the Park hunters that
travel that way. They keep in con-
slant use twenty vehicles and seven
ty-fve horses, which find their feed
on the surrounding hills, thus saw
ing the expense of hay till as late
as August. The attention that
Bassett Bros. have given their bust
ness has secured tho confidence of
the public and the result is they
are doing a good trade. From
this station the train continues to
climb the everlasting hills till a
height of over 1000 feet above the
sea is reached, then, rapidly descend
ing, in a few hours draws up at
BUTTE CITY.
One is too apt to form contrary
opinion Of persons and places from
hearsay. / had supposed Butte to
be what other mining camps have
seen. area lot of lumber ShantieS
thrown hastily up for temporary
use. Imagine my surprise to awake
one morning, having arrived the
previous evening, and behold 8
clean and misunderstanding city OF
about 5000 people, the site covered
with residences, stores, saloons
hotels, banks and other places OF
business, and surrounded by min
ing works of various kinds.
Butte is located on the sunny
slopes Of a spur Of the Rocky
Mountains, at the northern extrem
ity of Summit Valley, and is the
greatest mining centre of the north
west; not mere struggling mining
camp, but prosperous town, where
industry, perseverance and capita
have reared on enduring founda
tons of solid stone, homes an(
houses in which the people livO
and carry on the daily transaction
connected with their mighty enter
prises. There are blocks here tina
cost
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
| Some of the frame buildings ar
worth $4,000. There are now il
course of erection many fine build
ings among which is q new count,
court house, which will be one o
the finest structures in all the grea
west Silver Bow county can easil.
| afford such a building, being fire.
| from debt and having an assessment
list'of nearly $4,500,000 for last year
The merchants here do an immens
trade, and the transactions over tn
counters of the three bankini
houses for last year reached $87, 600
900. There are operated in Butt
the largest and best order of mimi
mills and hosting works to be fOun
on earth, many of them having bee
built within a year or so.
There is in st. Johns Episcopa
church a memorial window of beat
tiful design and execution, havin
been made in England. the freigh
and duty costing $1,000.
THE SOCIAL LIFE
of Butte is something after tn
pattern of San Francisco. Will
there are great many heightened
moral people here there are hundred
whose lives are dissipated b
gambling, liquor and the sirer
Nearly every night in tn
week, and especially Sunda
nights, from sunset till down
can be heard in the beer halls merry
careusers, dancing to music an
spending their hard earnings wit
those who are divorced from respect
able society. Sunday is the grea
day for recreation, the saloons an
public places of resort doing NOR
business then than on any other da
of the week. If time would permi
and you could allow the space,
might attempt to describe life i
Park street, and tell some of you
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