Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-16

"A Ih1H III IdG IhhAI fAbLo.
Montana is great country with
great, great big G., and since the
railroad has brought us, so to speak,
into the United States, we have be-
gun to s'catch on or the boom has
began to catch on to us. Where can
you find any one country, of like
area, that has as many, and such a
variety of natural resources natures
gifts-as valuable as are found in
Montana? Great mines; great min
eral springs; great pastures, which
for fairness of cattle and sheep would |
put to shame even the famous blue |
grass region of Kentucky. Great |
navigable rivers, to hold railroad |
monopolists in check; great noun
tains great geysers and waterfalls,
where the tourist can be fully salts
fed in his search for the grand in
nature. The old saying that .sdis-
lance lends enchantment to the view"
strikes me as being the essence of
truth in regard to the Great Falls of
the Missouri. Every one in this
vicinity knows that they are only
forty miles from Benton, very
short trip in this country of great
distance, yet there are but few who
have ever taken few days time to
see this great cataract. Men who
have lived within days journey of
the Falls all their lives and yet have
never seen them. Gentlemen who
have come all the way from England
to see the Great Falls were astonish-
ed to find that so few people in and
about Benton had visited the Falls.
From Benton it is no trouble for
any one, though not Stanley, to
find his way via. the now deserted
eight mile spring and Bulls Head to
the famous twenty-eight mile spring.
If you will only remember the simple
directions given you there by that
accommodating landlord, Mr.. Evans,
you will never 90 astray. Still an
occasional party who have been duly
instructed, will persist in leaving the
straight and narrow path which leads
to the Falls and go wandering around
on the prairie. The whole prairie at
this time of year is covered with
green bunch-grass and flowers, fine
grass every where. A paradise fol
cattle, proven by the fat COWS with
frisky calves by their sides, scattered
about in herds. 1t would make ar
eastern stock-man's eyes glow will
surprise if told that these cattle fount
; their own feed the year around
marked with branding iron an(
captured by q lariat. While thu
: Missouri at the mouth of the SUI
river flows between low grassy banks
t In the next twelve miles the rive
makes descent by means of rapid
d through a gorge of rocks, making
quite difficult to get down to the riv
u Ell. There is, fortunately, a leve
: tract of about forty acres, right be
low the Great Falls, and this has jus
enough of cliffs and crags in it t
make as romantic looking retreat q
S any one would wish to see. MI
!" Charles Roth was shrewd enough t
- settle on this tract, two years age
and its value is shown by an Englis
Ii company represented by Mr.. Chate
a negotiating for it for $1,000. Wit
o. railroad built along the river, i
% value as pleasure resort would |
i immense, that is if the improvement
IS. of the water power and the buildIr
he of a manufacturing town did III
IS spoil it for sight seeing. Mr.. Greg,
IS of the Fargo paper mill, was take
~ there few days since. He expires
an ed himself as much pleased with Il
er water power and thought it could
of easily made available. The prime
I'M pie falls are four in number. T.
NJ first or upper fall is known as Bla
~ Eagle Falls. The entire river has
no vertical fall of twenty-six feet.
to mid-river is an island where resid
nr- that ancient Rocky Mountain eagl
'n- now subject of history. The b
~ is described by Louis and Clark
Dts the only occupant of the island
len 1905. The same one crippled
yht age is noticed in 1860 by Gen. Re