The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-04-21
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
New Route Opened Up, and An
other Soon TO BE.
Idaho Stasman.l

Idaho Stasman.l
The completion of The Denver & Rio
Railroad adds another attractive fea-
ture TO the westward traveller. This
road is now finished from Denver to
to Salt Lake. and will soon be extend
ed to Ogden. Between Denver and
Salt Lake the road passes through
veritable wonder land, rich in the
rugged grandeur of the huge Rocky
mountain system, and affords an
other means OF rapid transit between
the East and West. To say nothing
OF the vastly increased commercial
advantages, this route across the con-
tinent opens another charming vista
to the eye Of the tourist, and for the
most prosy OF business travellers will
contribute to soften the impotence
which finds the time spent in travel
ing, however rapidly, as SO many pre-
eious hours lost to the work which
may be waiting at the end of the jour
ney. Whatever may be said of the
management OF the railroads, or of
the partial evil which they bring in
their tram, this means of travel and
transportation is one of the necessities
| OF our advancing civilization, and
must be accepted and made the most
Of. Railroads Will soon penetrate
every section of the Great West and
Northwest, opening up new beauties
as well as adyatages in all of what
have hitherto been called the
waste places of this continent. For
the tourist and pleasure seeker soon
there will be = real embarrassment of
In the choice of several interesting
routes through the long hidden mar
vels OF the great interior. Choosing
any point OF the departure, the lover
Of nature will be presented with an
ever shifting panorama of the grand
and beautiful. From st. Paul west
ward the Northern Pacific will bring
| to view in rapid succession the vast
wheat-growing plains OF Dakota,
framed in at intervals by the gro-
tesque outline OF what the old Cana
dian yoyaguers called the "mauyaise
| terres,n or '.bad lands,n next the
beauulsl valleys, plains aud uplands
OF Montana, when crossing hy grades
almost imperceptible the back bone of
VIZ 'RAftAtAA1Af hh1 N1RA EibdS HitnAiN
OF Clark's Fork, with It's rugged
mountains, dark green forests and
sleeping lakes, will introduce him To
the farfamed glories OF the great
Columbia. Returning, a choice OF
routes is presented. The traveller
may return through California, choos-
ing sea or land to san Francisco,
thence eastward by the Central Paci-
fie through the Sierras To Ogden,
Utah, where he will again have to let
the fates decide whether his further
progress homeward shall be through
the shade embowered City of the
Saints and over the great "Denver
and Rio Grande,n or along the Union
Pacific and the wonders of Weber
Canon, the tortuous windings of Green
river, the broad and fertile of plains
Kansas and Nebraska, across the
"Big Muddy" and through the wav-
ing fields and flourishing cities and
towns of Iowa back to the sullen
murmuring of the great "Father of
Waters" Should the traveller elect,
either coming or returning, the route
through Eastern Oregon and Idaho,
he can feast his eyes upon the de-
| lightful scenery OF the Blue Noun
tains, the picturesque cliffs and giddy
heights of the Snake river eailon, the
charming valleys and growing towns
of the "gem OF the Mountains" and
pausing awhile at the insipient city of
Shoshone, he may visit the great falls
on Snake river, when a single days
ramble will amply repay him for
whatever fatigue or discomfort he
may have experience d during any.pait
OF his journey. Everywhere he will
see the evidences OF growing great
ness and "hear the tramp of nations
yet to be-"