Telegram-herald., 1890-09-18
BACKWARD
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TRIP forward.
II any OF our readers wish u see the
greatest mines ca earth, they shoAld
VISIT Butte. See il by day and by night
uader rs natural and artificial hglt.
on top Of the ground and under the
ground.
Pays can be proftably spent in Butte
the greatest underbuilt city on EARTH
amid its great smeiters and mines. The
mountain upon which Il IS built, SO
feet above the sea, IS hOneycombed by
hundreds OF tunnels and drifts, reach
.ng the levels from which precious ores
are extracted 70 the amount OF thous-
ands OF tons daily. Here there is no
Sunday, no night. Work from Us very
nature is continued twenty-four hours
in the day. N eight hour shifts, and
seven days in the week. The heavy
clouds of smoke do incessantiv arse.
belching forth from the hundreds Of
smoke stacks Of her many smelters and
relineues. Nearly 81 600 900 is paid a
month 20 her wageworkers, and the
streets are almost as lively during any
hour OF night as they are during the
same hour Of day. The doors of the
business houses are open day and night
the year through, while cable roads and
motor lines run to all parts of this city
of mineral wealth. The annual pro-
duct amounts in value to about $780,
coo 1000. an average !ncomeOf 81, 900 for
every man, woman and child IN this
strange Alladin city.
We must now leave marvellous Butte
and return to Golden Helena, by way
of the Montana Central, a most substan-
tally constructed mountain road. The
line surmounts two high mountain
divides in a distance of seventy-fye
miles, and presents to the bewildering
gaze every feature of romantic grand
eur IN succession. Passing up the
Prckly Bear Valley. the Boulder Divide
is pierced by means OF tunnel over
one and one-fourth miles in length.
There we descend down to the smiling
Boulder Valley, where ranches and
farms are placed amid sittngs OF forest
covered snow-capped mountains, and
thence up again through the Boulder
Canyon, around gigantic rocks, and up
up-up To the summit of the Rockies, an
elevation of $500 feet above the blue
sen level.
Upon our return to Helena we imme-
diately proceeded 10 the Aquatic Sani-
tarium Theatre, the Helena Hot
Springs, which lie uncer the very shsd-
ows of the Rockies. No tourist should
miss seeing this great hot plunge bath,
spouting ont from tho rocks 1900 feet
above the sea, surrounded by mountain
peaks and blessed with bracng. balmy
air and brilliant sunshine. There is
nothing finer in this Western world.
Here are many objects which are inter
/ esting and Instructive to the Young and
| old alike. Helena, the present capital
/ and commercial center Of Montana,
! lies on this side of the Continental Di-
| vide. 1t is entirely cut of from view
| OF the world, especially from the west
/ approach, until one enters the city.
/ Helena has placed nature under tribute
| by means of ranch and mine, until her
banks contain SO 200, 600. lis accumu-
/ lated wealth makes this mining and
ranching community the richest for It's
population in the world.
We leave this renowned little city
/ and move onward and eastward, end
! soon again reach other canyons, where.
| followed out by centuries of time,
! sholes and states offer n different vet
| equally interesting series of canyon
views. We are now entering n region
of cedar. pine and hcmlock forests
which, with their evergreen foliage, sci
| off beautifully the bright red. green,
dark and yellow of the shOlcs compos-
/ ing these mighty. towering, rocky walls
The train Is winding around the grace
ful curves, hther and thither, and
nearer and nearer the cliffs we cling
seeming as though the way was barred
by the beyond. Again the train rushes
INTO a tunnel Of dark despair and again
breaks forth upon Missouri's river rock
/ bound bank. One Of the strangest and
| most ptiful sights about here was the
! witnessing OF drove OF mules loaded
with wood and railroad ties, led by
mouutaineers, winding their way down
| ward into the valleys. They seemed
like mere specks. Each one had strap.
ped to Is back. lengthvise, auout sax
ties. three on each side. This seemed
ike hard way of serving their masters
and we are quite sure they earn more
than their allotted rations while or
earth. What Joy on earth for animal
/ and master
We now pass through the gate. The
. mountain walls rise higher and higher
towards the sky until the train abruptly
plunges into the heart Of the frowning
mass, where the N ssoun break,
through the "Big Belt Uplft," range
quite "a vastand loftyas are the Rockies
/ themselves. It would seem as though
some past cOnvuision Of Nature had
/ opened a nav through this giant gate
along which the pent-up waters Of tho
+ renowned Missouri. the long and
n ghfv stream had found and forced
the way 20 meet the oceans guf ~
low. The scene becomes Crander end
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Until aEa'n VIC dash nto utter darkness
coming from the walls within. onc'
through we fnd sgsfn Oh one SIDE
u ssorr wsters dash against opposlus
cllffs. reaching - dry height. whl'
on tie other sde the canyon walls r
which tac ralls closely Z. NJ, bcud II.
fhs wsv then that Thus re move anf
wlnds TO mountains lofty he'zht
CIfs, pinrscles. ard spIrv pes Ks
shirt ouf TIE vcN from a. direct ous
wbiis scrsggy precip ipices overhsng RI.
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