The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-15
LIFE In MONTANA.
The Comforts of a First
Class" Railroad Hotel.
THE BOSS CITY OF AMERICA.
improvements I'm Butte-Dramatic
Notes-A Ride Through Deer
Lodge Valley, Etc.
BUTTE. NJ. T., Nov. 9Th. 1884

Editors Herald:
Expecting in few days to bid good
bye to Montana and leave behind the
scenes and associations of the past yeal
and "a half, felt that could not do 50
in justice to myself without first revi,-
iting this city. Accordingly took the
evening train at Helena last Wednesday
and started on my journey. On accoun;
of the U. P. schedule time, what other
wise would be a pleasant and pictur
esque ride, the distance from Helena t.
Garrison junction is dreary and monot-
onous. But it is bliss to what follows.
MODERN RAILROAD HOTEL.
The train arrives at Garrison at mid
night, passengers have to wait six
hours for the Utah & Northern, and the
only thing they can do to escape the cold
comfort of a freleSs station is
to hire fireless room in what the pro
EprietOr has the cheek to call first-class
hotel. L presume he does so in thi,
wise: The place must be claSsed as n
hotel, and being the only one, the choice
must be first-and so it Is called frs :
| class hotel. Ii there is a point on the
road at which the travelling public has
! to endure such InSuffeTable and agOniZ-
ing accommodations, Fate favor ME
| never to find it After registering,
| grutf, smileless clerk, his physiog-
nomlcal expression and contour showing
signs of ancestral relationship according
| to the Darwin theory, takes your dollar
without the slightest computation OF
the inner monitor, then, with a
most economical piece of tallOw candle,
uShers you into an apartment rude
enough to shock an aristOcratic ances-
tor OF, the race from which the
great scientist maintained we des-
cended. In this paTtitiOned space
- 1t would be violation OF
the dictionary to call il q room. when
there is scarcely room sufficient to turn
around in it's a tin wash dish. three
pints of water in handleless pitcher.
the corner piece OF bar of common
washing soap and ragged, unhemmed
piece OF toweling, all elevated upon an
appended dry goods box; a broken mir
ror, hung askew and the illustrated side
of Police Gazette Tor q splaSher con-
stitute the toilet paraphernalia for
whoever ofelther sex has the misfortune
to pass night at this place. As for the
Oed, the least said of it the better-for
the bed; there was so little of it that
nothing could hardly be remarked I'M
less III tact that it was very hard and not
striklngly conspicuous for cleanl-
ness. With good eyesight and by aid of
the aforesaid economical glim, diligent
search would discover one tenpenny
nail upon which to hang hat, wraps ami
whatever else the occupant may wear.
not desirable TO sleep in. No blinds are
up at the windows, but on the walls are
u cartoon from Puck, an opera boutfe
Autograph and picture of Barrett as
Richelieu. Apartments of this style and
reserved especially for lady guests
When shown where | should sleep, |
| believed him, but pitied the ladies. My
room lacked many of the embelhsh-
ments just mentioned To cap the
climax of the whole thing, there IS fire.
! quentlya tumultuOus noise from retiring
/ time till O'Clock in the morning, at
which hour guests are aroused TO get
ready for the outgoing U. & n. train.
! These are facts, and it is useless for
| travellers to complain. They must grin
| and bear it. The concern is a monopoly
with which the railway companies stand
! in, at least in a neutral sense, or else
why don't they see to it that their
patrons are decently entertained at such
place?
hope you will mark and mail copy
of this issue TO the Garrison Hotel, that
the managers may know some one has
publicly declared against the indignitieS
inflicted upon those who are obliged to
put up at 1t.
After confinement in such an estab-
lishment for six hours, what a glad
sound to hear "all aboard, and the
Shrill foot of the little narrow gauge
engine. The grey rays of day dawn,
breaking through the floating clouds,
seem never so welcome as after night
of discontinue. Soon after the train
enters the Deer Lodge Valley. The
sun rose majeStically over the eastern
hills, now faded to deeper hues Here
an artist would find less difficulty in
selecting a spot to sketch than en-
deavoring to initiate the shadows and
shades and colorings made by the
changing seasons and the shining sun
DEER LODGE VALLEY.
The Deer Lodge Valley is beautiful
and fertile region. thousands of acres of
it being cultivated by the farmer and
ranchman. Through it runs the main
fork Of the Columbia River. In sag
of the mountains to the southwest is
the famous mining camp of Anaconda.
Though unable to see the town, by the
great lowering cloud of smoke, the
traveller can locate the scene OF activity
and estimate, on a general principle,
what is being done in that region.
In less than an hour after the ira
makes its exit from the Deer Lode
valley, Butte, with its piles of un
earthed ore and rock, its mammoth
mills and hosting works, is diuly visi
bic through the rising fog of smoke
chilly hours of the night Compared
with other towns in the Territory,
Rntte Is all life and business, and ac
cording to the genial Bob Grix, who has
inst returned from the east: is the
"Boss CITY or AMERICA"
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