Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-04
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5 uresque appearance: bluffs of what
e called bad Landr inclosing it, show
It ing their precipitous faces against th
9 stream, first on one side and then o
the other, as the river winds from blu
| to bluff, leaving always opposite tn
bluff considerable valley on eithe
t side of the stream.
Glendive is situated on the sout
5 bend of the Yellowstone river, and oc
: cupies plain which slopes toward th
river, is sheltered by range of cur
Iously shaped mountains about hal
mile from the stream and rising ab
ruptly to height of nearly 800 fee
above it's level.
= The scenery beyond Glendive il
: grand; the railroad skirts the river an(
} bluffs tower several hundred feet above
} the track. Eagle Cliff is especially
noticeable for its height.
Iron Bluff is sight worth seeing
and one that will MAKE lasting i'm
preston on the observers mental facul
ties. The bluffs tower thousands O.
feet above the river $500, believe, is
what they are estimated att and at the
foot of this high bluff and SO feet above
the water is the railroad, meande ling
through the narrow causeway at the
rate of fifty miles an hour.
Big Horn is a pretty little town sit
uated on the bank of the Yellowstone.
After leaving this place we cross the
Big Horn river; passing over the mar
row intervening valley, it penetrates
the bluffs which hem in the Yellow
stone, by means of a tunnel 1000 feet
long, and emerges into the comparative
ly small Yellowstone valley beyond.
Pompey's Pillar is mass of yellow
sandstone rising abruptly to height
of over 400 feet, it's base covering near
ly an acre of ground.
Billings is pretty place built on the
west bank Of the Yellowstone river. To
the east is the great valley of the Big
Horn river, while on the other is a
broad expanse of fertile prairie. In
PaSoihS up LAC olIibSo
there is prospect from the cars which
combines more striking features of
beauty and grandeur than could hardly
be found elsewhere nearer than Switz-
erland. Beyond the smiling valley
and the winding, glistening river, to
the westward and southwark rise
white, gigantic masses of mountains.
These snow ranges are so lofty and in
some conditions of the atmosphere, SO
ethereal, that it seems almost impossi-
ble to think them anything but clouds,
their height being so great, and in the
far distance, to those unaccustomed to
seeing them, seem a marvel of ma ture,
which indeed they are. Covered, win
ter, and summer, just the same pure
white, cleaning peaks thousands of
feet high and apparently so near, but
really so great distance away. makes
scene not easily forgotten. Even the
foot hills of the Rockies here are as
large and as high as the hills that sur
round the beautiful little Arcadia Val
ley, that we consider too tiresome to
climb.
Livingston is ,032 miles west of st.
Paul, and ,912 miles from IronIon (by
the route [ came.) 1t was founded in
1882, a place Of only a few hundred peo-
pie, now booming city with as bright
a future before it as any city in the
West. One to 60 out into the streets |
and see the large displays of goods of
would imagine he was in Chicago or
st. Louis; in truth the stores are IS
trimmed as any you will see
in cities in the East.
At this place the railroad makes its
third and last crossing of the Yellow
stone river, leaving the valley along
which it has run a distance of $40
miles westward from GleDdive. The
turn, flowing from its source in the
far to the southwark through
the world-renowned region of the Yel-
owstone National Park, 81 miles dis
rail is via Livingston, there being a
branch road to the park from the main
inc, over which a train runs every
lay to and from the park.
AS we enter the large valley sur
LivIngston,at point little
east of northeast we see range Of
called the Crazy Mountains,
which are covered with snow the year
ound. East of southeast is very
high mountain (Bald Mountain) the
highest in this section and for miles
IrouLd. My first inquiry on stepping
1T of the train (this being my destina-
ion) was"How far is it to those noun
ains?" L was asked to give a guess,
nd supposing [ was pretty good at
said one AMI half miles; to
ny astonishment Twas told they were
line miles distant. Distance being SO
deceptive as that thought" Well L had
etter get out of this country, as it
night possibly be three or four over to
he hotel" Livingston is indeed beau
iful place, many thousands of acres of
and surrounding the town, of immense
alue for cattle range. Buildings are
DING up all the time; a courthouse is
D be erected right away to cost twenty
We or fifty thousand dollars. Many
f the buildings in town are of brick !
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