Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-13


to change our minds. What would people
in New York state think of large Spanish
onions growing 903 (nine hundred and
three) bushels to the acre! And yet such
were shown to us and the grower avered
solemnly that his farm yielded such crop
OF which the exhibit was a part. Flour
from Bozeman, wheat heads from Boze-
man, -four, oats, canary seed, barley, malt,
corn, besides the vegetables were shown
and
SPLENDID BREW OF BEER
which the guests pronounced better than
anything we have on board, although our
stock includes Bohemian and the Best
Milwaukee brands. Bozeman is not new
town. 1t has lived twenty years but the
road has given immense stimulus to it.
That cattle and sheep and horses can live
during winter in this high altitude is
beyond dispute for they do live and thrive
here, And that grains and vegetables
will grow is also fact.
Winter wheat is raised here,
and yields fifty, sixty and even sometimes
by irrigation seventy bushels per acre.
The mineral show too is good, including
sulphate of silver, free gold, galena yield
ing seventy-fve per cent silver and twenty
five lead. The copper ore is very rich and
| the coal of excellent quality, and costing
but two dollars per ton. DR.. Foster says
the only thing about Bozeman is that it is
| too healthy, and people want DO other
| medicine than the pure mountain air and
| the sparkling mountain water. From
Bozeman we passed through lovely val
| leg some forty miles wide
THE GA1LAToN VALLEY,
in which cattle and horses were seen in
hui, lreds, and on the slopes of the distant
mo ntains countless sheep could be seen
with powerful glass. There was thick
hazo over the mountain SUBMITS, almost
hiding them from view, and completely
| obscuring their snowy covering. After
passing the valley the train for miles crept
along at the side of a precipitous wall of
rock, meandering and twisting in a man
ner a tonish1ng to those accustomed to
the blending straight line roads of
Europe.
Al I 1wnsend, sixty-six miles from Boze-
man, va halted for short time, and many
ladies 90 the platform were anxious to see
real i've lord, and the GLOBE had the
honor Of introducing to them the Earl OF
Onslow, who held quite gossip with them
to their immense delight; but one lady, a
handsome, fascinating lady, whispered to
the GLOBE: SIS he really an earl? Well 1
| don't thu TX nobleman is any different
from other folks and l am sure this one is
not so handsome as my husband"
Arriving at
we were taken to the town-a mile and q
quarter from the depot-the buses and
wagons provided by the citizens. We ar
rived late and consequently tho pro-
gramme was completely abandoned. Hell
ena was holding her fair and there was a
special series of events upon the turf for our
benefit, but alas for our sporting men, and
for the pride of the good citizens of Hell
ena, we could not witness it. We remained
at Helena all night, some of the guests
staying in the city and stalking the whole
city in" Hotels however were full, it being
leave till our return, when, believe, we are
to remain here for week; but
I cannot go on without stating that the
city is the queerest combination of sub
stantial commercial city, morning camp
and frontier rancher's town. Gambling
saloons, as extensive as those at Denver or
Deadwood, where faro, poker and other
games go on in open day and all night,
dance houses of the lowest class, Chinese
joss houses and quasi laundry cribs, hand
some and glittering dens of the demi-
mond, large and we'll furnished dry goods
and provision stores and extensive whole
sale houses. Three theaters in the town
of the mining camp stamp and one opera
house. The streets are crowded with re-
spectacle citizens, profigate women of all
shades of color, and people generally of all
shades of character. But I will
proceed now and return to Helena on our
way back. If the trip from Livingston to
Bozeman was grand and from Bozeman to
Helena was beautiful, picturesque, and of
the whole was beyond power of description
what can be said of the journey from
Helena up to the summit of the Rockies.
It was Just repetition of the other ex-
cepting that it was grander, more impos-
ing, more awe inspiring, more everything.
The incline was greater, 280 feet in the
mile; the curves were more abrupt-sone-
times the road would cure right round
into itself again but at what appeared
half a mile above then it would coil round
in the opposite direction senucting like
the quick and sudden sinuosities of snake,
giving the travellers the most delightful
views of the ravines and gorges and pine
covered slopes, the giddy trestle bridges,
the mining gulches with their straight
running sluices, the cold looking inviting
trout streams which give brilliant YER
dure to the ''draw" through which they pass
in contrast to the dry whitened surface on
either side, and last the railroad track
itself which follows Us around and around
upon its terrible inclined plane. What if
coupler should break! and our train is a
heavy one-seven large ponderous coaches,
which take three powerful engines to haul
them over the divide.
I must now conclude, as we are nearing
the eventful spot where
THE FINAL STROKE
is to be given; but before doing so there
is matter which I must allude to. 1t will
be remembeTod that I stated that
some; .of tbs guests allowed their
exhuberant spirits to get away with their
judgment and I'VE an alfesco perform
ance of the In an war dance at midnight
upon the train. correspondent from the
east hearing the shouts thought it was a
veritable raid by Indians, and wrote up
sensational article which he forwarded to
a Helena paper, and on our arrival at Hell
ena we were surprised to find the people