The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-10-13
THE NEW NORTH WEST.
MILES CITY, NJ. T. Oct. 8, 1888.
Special Correspondence.

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Special Correspondence.
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 groves of timber near
Richardtop, Dakota, where We also had
view of Casters lookout, place r n
dered memorable as being the uufortun-
ate Generals last camping ground. There
are also in this vicinity, on the line OF
Heart River, some exceedingly valuable
veins of Ignite coal. which are being
worked with profit, the coal being shipped
to every available point within a circuit
of sixty miles, though the most of it finds
ready market at the two new and pref
ty little towns of Dickinson, in Pleasant
Valley, and Gladstone, sixteen miles
further east 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 separates Da-
kota from Montana, entering at once IN
to the beautiful onglomeration of
mounds, buttes, pyramids, pinnacles,
forts, turrets, miniature gothic churches
and what not, and better known as Pyra-
mid Park. Old nature must have had an
interminGble series of commissions to have
brought forth such a strange medley OF
curious architecture, in which we dis
cover without any great stretch of i'm
agination elegant blocks of brown-stone
fronts, bay-windowed and even curtained.
Then again, we see the Coliseum at Rome,
the fluted columns rising 10 the height
of hundreds of feet, and resting upon
them huge galleries in which the mind
can easily imagine the presence OF thous.
auds of people watching the sportsin the
arena two hundred feet below. There
are many miles of these formations, al
lying between Glendive and Miles City
and form, with the fantastic carvings il
the park proper. the most interesting
geological study 10 be found anywhere.
GlendiYe is the connecting link be
tween the railroad aud the steamers tha
ply upon the Yellowstone, aud is tn,
commercial and shipping point for
+ region comprising not less than 1901
square miles, and quarter of million
OF farms are still waiting here for the ad
vent OF the husbNndman. For purpose
of grazing and the production of grail
this region has not its superior in tn
! Northwest, while its facilities for the out
let of its products are altogether unsur
passed. The location OF Glendive will
| eventually make it one of the largest in
! land towns of the region, though no ex
trayagant eulogies upon the enterpris
5 of its present population would now b
S in order. Situated on the bank of th
Tongue River at it's junction with III
Yellowstone. is Miles City, which run
fearfully 10 saloons and bad whisky
though the morals Of the place are i'm
proving under the influence of a ne,
church and Jealous pastor. who has a.
! ready thinned out the crowd whose Sun
+ days were mainly devoted to faro, roul
: ette and stud-poker in the saloons. Wh0
r is characteristic of all frontier towns tha
: are in any sense trading points, has n
= exception in the case of Miles City. Th
g buffalo hunter here dissipates until tn
t. avails of his winters hard work are gon,
k He is never in luck at the gaming table
II aud consequently his career is shorte
d while in town than his philosophy and
70 long purse had figured upon. In 9th,
Is words, be gets strapped inside of montl
@ and is compelled to resort to such mean
e as are at hand for an existence until III
Il time arrives for the pursuit of his callinl
70 II is sight at once sad and amusing, /
d see one of these rough, uneouth denizeu
}, OF The prairie seated at the gambling.t ii
Il bic, IN his unsightly and greasy oppare
e playing his hand at poker with som
= professional who has been selected o
o purpose to fleece him to the epidermi,
j. For hours does he sit there with no PEI