Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-29

q name now it would likely be some
hing yeyy different, and in view Oh
rbaI fact Il becomes interesting 70 ih-
ouire how it was that they came 70 De
inown by such y term. 1t Was brought
.hout i'm this way. The Indians IN
nassinp from one rolling prairie 70 an
other found these lands q
Dimeult Country 20 Pass over
with their ponies and travels. From
this thew spoke OF these places as BAD
country to travel over" aud the French
vovapeurs and trappers, who were the
AT men TO 90 into this country, hear
inc the Indians 81 speak ofthem, TERM
ed the lands "Adnuetses terreS pos'
tro,,erser," which was gradually snort'
ened into "MdnuciSes torres" WHEN
words were literally translated oy the
Americans into "Bad Lands" mean,
ing which the original term never han
aud which as descriptive ofthelr valuels
false.
ne Northern Pacific n. r. In Montana
Leaving the BAD Lands OF the
Little Missouri near the eastern bound
ary line of Montana, the Northern
Pacific Railroad bearing west crosses
broad valley and rolling prsirie country
.orfIe thirty miles in width and again
enters a broken country, less rugged
than Pyramid Park, at or near Gien-
dive Creek. Following the course Oh
the creek in q north westwardly dlrec'
ton for about twenty-five miles, the
railroad continues through broken,
but good grazing country until the broad
plain is reached upon which the town
of Glendive is located. Thee the rail-
road first strikes the great Yellowstone
river, whose course its route follows ior
over three hundred miles on Its way
westward, or over one half Of the length
of the railroads main line in Montana:
The road is being operated westward
from st. Paul 1850 miles, and from
Portland eastward $50 miles, leaving q
gap of about go miles which is nearly
all graded and force Of $4,000 men are
vigorously pushing its completion,
which will doubtless be accomplished
before the end Of the present summer.
Bozeman, Montana, $50 miles west of
Glendive, is at present the western
terminus Of the eastern portion OF the
railroad.
GIendiye.
Glendive is about fifty miles west OF
the eastern boundary line OF Montana.
1t il town of about twelve hundred in
habitants and it and Miles City, about
eighty miles west Of it, are the only
fair sized towns at present IN Eastern
Montana. Glendive is the county seat
of Dawson county and has a fair class
of stores and other buildings, a weekly
newspaper r'The Glendlve Times'O,
railroad shops and three hotels, the
largest Of which, the Merrill House,
cost $4,000 and would be credit to
much larger town. The site OF Glen
dive is a plain which rises with an easy
slope from the river bank to the foot OF
the bluffs, which lie about half a mile
back from the river, and rise abruptly
and with pleasing picturesqueness to
height of about three hundred feet above
it. The ownership of the town site
was, before the sale of any lots, about
equally divided between the Northern
Pac flee r. r. Go. and the Yellowstone
Land and Colonization Co. Glendive
was founded in 1881 and has grown
very well during the short time 1t has
been in existence. The place has
An Excellent Glass OF Citizens,
people who are orderly, intelligent, In.
dustrious and enterprising, the best
kind of Western people. Besides that
point, the town has other advantages
which are favorable to its growth and
increased importance, One OF these Is
the railroad company's still owning
large number of lots in the town,-an
advantage in more ways than can he
readily enumerated another considera-
ton is the Typography Of the country
with reference to the cattle trails and
wagon routes which makes this the
natural shipping point of cattle, sheep,
hides and other products of an immense
area of the finest grazing country OF
the West. The grades on the railroad
for over one hundred miles east OF
Glendive are so heavy that trains COM
ing to that town from the west must, II
full trains, be divided into two, or re-
ceive the assistance of another lOcomO-
tive as far as Dickinson, l06 miles dis
tant. This state Of affairs makes 1t
necessary for the railroad company to
keep extra locomotives at Glendive
and, as a consequence, railroad shops.
These shops are being enlarged in
anticipation OF
which will follow the early completion
of the road to the Pacific and will re-
quire force of three hundred men for
their operation. Being the'first point
where the y. p. r. r., reaches the
Yellowstone, the steamboat interests OF
Glendive will doubtless become import
ant in the future. Arrangements have
been made to ship this year from Glen
dive by river to Fort Benton and other
points on the Upper Missouri river
much of class of freight from the
East which has heretofore been shipped
by river from Bismarck. Glendive
is 23l miles further from the East by rail
than Bismarck, but Fort Buford on the
Missouri river, where the re-
speclive water routes to sthe
Upper Missouri from GlendiVe
and Bismarck interest, is only eight
hours distant from Glendive over good
channel, while 1t il five days from
Bismarck over a part of the Missouri
very difficult to navigate. The Yellow
stone river is navigable in season IA far
as Billings, 225 miles west Of Glendive,
and the Big Horn river, the largest OF
its tributaries, Is navigab.e during q
part OF the year as far as Fort Custer,
some forty miles from its mouth, and
at times steamers can go considerably
further up.
was pleased to learn that number
of
Our Wheeling People
had interests In Glendive, and to find
that some Of them had selected it a. a
place of residence. i met while there
George r. Tingle, Esq, once a promi.
nent citizen of our State, and now real
estate dealer In Glendive. Mr.. Tingle's
excellent qualities of mind and heart
have earned for him much influence
nnS h6IIj,a .:iv in bis new home, and