The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-11-01

down to Ogden and Salt Lake City by an
other road, AMI to adjacent points by still
other lines. The city is also building an in
cline on what is called the 'sSwitch-back"
principle to the summit Of tho Rocky noun
tains only few miles away. Ten miles west
Of the city are the great baths, supplied from
hot springs IN the mountains, and ut these
baths Col. Broadwater has lately opened one
Of the finest hotels in tho west. Tho main
swimming tank at the baths is 800 feet long
and l2O feet wi1e-a sort of popular fun-and-
froic bath
The Montanians have agreed that Helena
shall be the capital until 1850, and then the
people shall decide by vote on permanent
capital. During this time tho Lewis and
Clarke county court hous. will be used as
state capitol-it is sort of miniature state
house, and ample for present pu,'poses-and
il the people decide on Helena as the perma-
nent capital they expect to expend 81, ,O0O, 600
on Il building that will be their capitol and
their pride for all time to come The city is
well supplied with hotels, street cars, branch
railroads to mining camps and other appli-
ances for q state capital. and, aside from
what nature has done, the legislators will find
plenty OF amusement in the lively city.
Olympia never professed to be the first
among tho cities of the new state Of Wash
ington, and makes no e1trayagant promises
Of being permanently even the fourth or
fifth; but it is an exceedingly lively town,
and was certainly the best choice for the cap
ital. The streets afe broad and the shade
trees have had time to grow, the point on
which the town Is builtis attractive from
the near vicinity of Budd's inlet of Puget,s
sound, and tho climate is almost perfection,
while not far away are thu falls where the
Des Chutes river descends eighty-five feet In
800 yards, making an abundant water power
It is asserted That no other place in America
Is SO conveniently near both fishing and
hunting grounds Of the very best, and Is at
the same time SO lavishly supplied with agri-
cultural products.
The sound affords oysters, CLANS and fish
all the year round, the adjacent woods still
abound in grouse and pheasants, while in the
mountains, not more than twenty-five miles
away, bear, deer, elk, and mountain sheep
are still found in winter. The many prongs
of Puget's sound give the interior navigation
of Washington such peculiar geography
that tie nonresident could not divine by any
amount Of study the natural place for the
coming great city, and Seattle and Tacoma
are active in attempting to decide 1t, but it
seems to be agreed by all that it is not to be
at Olympia. The anchorage is not first
class, and large vessels can reach the wharf
only at high tide. The variation between
highest and lowest tides is often as much as
twenty-four feet, and there are times when
even the smallest craft cannot pass in over
the enud fat.
The first white settlement at Olympia was
made in 1916; the town was laid out in 1851
and incorporated as city in 1859, and it has
been growing very deliberately ever since,
its interests aside from the fisheries being al
most entirely gricultural. Congress appro-
priated $4,000 to build territorial capitol
at Olympia, and it will serve the needs Of the
state for some years; but the new state Is
fortunate in still owning school landso Of value
sufficient to pay for all needed public build
ings. and that ct the very anest. The rapid