The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25
ARAMBLER'S RAMBLES.
And a Rambling Account Of
Them.
Tho chicago and Northwestern
Railroad.
IT'S 5plendidly Equipped Passen-
ger, Sleeping and Dining Cars.
The Country Through Which It
Passes.

Passes.
The Great Industries of the North
!; ga west, Etc,
Special Correspondence Of the MINER.
. M1LwAUKEE, April IA, 1888.
Crossing over from Omaha to
Council Bluffs your correspondent
boalded one Of tie palace cars on the
line of the Chicago and Northwest
ern. This is the Oldest, shortest and
one of the most substantial lines run
ming from Omaha to Chicago. Com
fort, luxury, and safety are combined
in the parlor sleeping cars with
which the line is thoroughly equip
ped. They are so constructed as to
combine the convenience and ele-
gance of a modern parlor by day, and
the comforts of well-furnished bed
chamber by night. Clean bedding,
thick hair mattresses and thorough
ventilation-objects of prime inn
portance to the traveller-are OBJ
tanned in them. The. celebrated
Northwestern Dining cars are also
run on it's trains between Council
Bluffs and Chicago and from the lat
ter place to st. Paul. The cuisine
is unexceptionable and every delica-
cy fthe season is found upon their
tables, so it may be seen that all the
comforts and luxuries of well pro-
vided home may be found upon their
trains. All these together with
obliging, attentive and thoroughly
competent conductors; engineers and
other employees not only rob travel
ling upon this road of all discomforts
but make it delightful. The distance
between the two places-492 miles
is made in less than twenty-five
hours, showing an average rate of
speed of a little over twenty-five
miles an hour-winter schedule.
About the first thing the mount
aineer notices after crossing the Mis-
souri, river is the rawness and damp
ness of the aires If cold it is piercing,
and a moments exposure. to the
blasts which sweep over the prairies
| of Iowa and contiguous States sends
him in search of hot stove. And
then again the absence of the grand
old mountains whose cloud piercing
crests have so long been his land
marks in many prospecting town,
and whose verdure offers pleas
ing relief to the eye during
the autumn and winter months,
disagreeably impress him. But he
finds some compensation in viewing
his surroundings. Every village,
town and city-in the aggregate their
name is legion-is the center OF a
swarm of human beings whose only
object in life seems to be to make
money. Every branch Of industry
is carried on from the making of pins
to the manufacture Of colossal en-
gints. With the people, as a mass,
life is Il race for the Almighty dollar,
and lie who outdistances his fellow
men is crowned with the greater
honors. In the strife the people seem
to become selfish, sordid,. grasping
and narrow-minded. They have no
time to look up, nor for thoughts
for the beyond. The magnificent
mountains and picturesque scenery
of the Far West would be in their
way and unless each could be sold at
profit by the piece or the yard
would be unnoticed. It is business,
business. money, money, and in the
pursuit of the one for the other the
perceptives become sharpened at the
expense of the generous impulses of
the heart, the nature becomes cold
and calculating and the man trans
formed into mere money making
machine. This is not said in spirit
of fault finding or to disparage the
people of the East but is recorded as
the impressions Of one who has lived
long in different social atmosphere
and who is free to confess he would
sooner live in a humble cabin in
his mountain home, surrounded
by the whole-souled. generous
natures in the west, than in any one
of the palatial residences Of which
| nearly every town or city in the
prairie States boasts Of a score or
| more
| But the influence which are at
work in society there. while they
draw the line sharply between the
rich and the poor and are calculated
to dwarf the mind and soul of the
latter, are not without their compen-
sating good. They produce competi-
tion, which may be called the father,
as necessity is called the mother OF
invention, and its fruit is found in
the multitude of manufactures estab-
lished in all the larger towns and
cities. They are marvels of invent
| i've genius and enterprise and their
capacity for turning out nearly every
known implement used by the agri-
| culturist and mechanic is limited
only by the demand for the same.
! Steam threshers, harvesting and
| moving machines, wagons, plows,
tanning mills and all the almost
innumerable smaller implements
used by the husbandman are daily
turned out of their respective facto-
ries by the dozens and hundreds. J.
I. Case & Co., of Racine, complete
eight steam threshers each working
day in the year. Mitchell & Lewis
of the same city, roll out 80 wagons