The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-06
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THE NEW NORTH WEST.

Special correspondence.
Mules City, nj. T., Oct. /, 1888.
As one Journeys westward from Bis
marck there is little of novelty to attract
his attention outside of the vast reaches
OF prairie which seem like the ocean, so
unobstructed is the view from zenith to
horizon. Yet we do pass through few
rather extensive grove 8 Of timber near
Richardson, Dakota, where we also had n
view of Cnstcr's lookout, place rendered
memorable rs ht ing The unfortunate gen
erals last camping ground There are
also in this vicinity, on the line Of Heart
river, some exceedingly valuable veins Of
Ignite coal, which are hciDg worked with
profit, the coal being shipped 10 every
available point within circuit of sixty
miles, though The most OF it finds ready
markeLat the two new and pretty little
towns of Dickson. in Pleasant valley. and
Gladstone, SiXtern miles further rast on
the Green river. The former has already
secured permanent prosperity in having
the machine shops Of the Northern Pacific
railroad, which will demand employment
for several hundred men within the
next twelve months. Fifty miles west
of here We cross the boundary that sep
arates Dakota from Montana, entering at
once into the beautiful conglomera-
ton of mounds sbuttes, pyramids, pin
nacles, forts, currents miniature gothic
churches and what not, and better known
as Pyramid park. Old Nature must have
had an interminahle series of convulsions
to have brought forth such n strange
medley of curious architecture in which
we discover without any great stretch OF
Imagination elegant blocks of brown
stone fronts. bay Widowed and even
curtained. Then again, We see the
Coliseum at Rome, the fiuted columns
rising to the height of hundreds of feet,
and resting upon them huge galleries in
which the mind can easily imagine the
presence of thousands of people watching
the sports in the arena two hundred feet
below There are many miles of thess
formations, all lying between Glendivt
and Miles City, and form, with thu
fantastic carvings in the park proper, the
most interesting geological study to bC
found anywhere.
Glendive is the connecting link between
the railroad and tho steamers that ply
on the Yellowstone, and is the CONNER
cial and shipping point for a region
comprising not less that 5 700 square
miles, and quarter of million of farms
are still waiting here for the advent Of the
husbandman. For the purposes of graz
ing and the production of grgin this region
has not its superiority in the Northwest
while its facilities for the outlet of its
products are altogether Unsurpassed The
location of Glendive will evidently make
it one of the largest inland towns of the
region, though no extravagant eulogies
upon the enterprise of its present popu-
lation would now be in order. Situated
on the bank of Tongue River at its iunct
ion with the Yellowstone, is Miles City
which runs fearfully to saloons and whis-
KY though the morals of the place are i'm
proving under the influence of new
church and Jealous pastor. who has al
ready thinned out the crowd whose Sun
days were mainly devoted to faro, r0u.
lette, and stud poker in the saloons
What is characteristic of ali frontier town
that are in any sense trading points, ha
no exception in the case of Miles City
The buffalo hunter here disipates unit
the avails of his winters hard work arr
gone. He is never in inck at the gamin!
table, and consequently his career is shnr
er while IN town than bis philosophy, ant
long purse had figured upon. In Othe
words, he gets strapped-inside of montl
and is compelled to resort 10 such mean
as are at hand for an existence until tn
time arrives for the pursuit of his calling
II is sight at once sad and amusing, t,
see one OF these rough uneOuth denizen
of the prairie seated at the gambling tabl
in his unsightly and greasy apparel, play
ing his hand at poker with some profes
siOnal who has been selected on purpos
to fleece him to the epidemis. For hour
does he. sit there with no perceptible NOV
ment of muscle of his bronzed face
constantly losing and never winning, Blu
bound to stick so long as there is "a sho
in the locker. The town has two livel
newspapers and another on the way; twI
banks, good, / might say an excelleu
school, and a population of somethin
more than 1900.
Two miles from here, on the other sid
OF Fongne River, is Fort Keogh for whic
there promises to be no use in the nea
future, the Indian having given way com
pletely to the rapid advance of produc
tive people and the Pullman car of civil
zation. q put the Pullman" in becans
ten of them are this moment side tracke
here.) Forty six miles from here is III
mouth of the Big Horn, stream mad
historic by the horrible massacre of Ger
Custer and his command by the Sioux III
DER Sitting Bull. Up this rivera shor
distance from its mouth is Fort Custer. a
important military post built upon III
reservation. The Big Horn is the large.
tributary of the Yellowstone, and steam
ers of three hundred tons burden arriy
and depart at point only few miles b
low the mouth, at any time during Ope
navigation. The traffic in freight b
steamers to this point is simply enormou
from May to November and the remain
der of the year the railroad realizes th
bonanza. From this point to Billings
sixty miies, making a distance of a ilul
dred and forty miles from here to Billing
which 1 can transverse by rail in for
hours, exactly the number of days that
consumed IN getting over the same groun
1870. DON PEDRO.
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