The Dickinson press., 1890-07-05
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
A Trip From Dickinson t, Spokane
Falls.

A Trip From Dickinson t, SPOKANE
Falls.
SPOKANE FALLS, WASll..
June 80, 1890.
Leaving Dickinson at 5 O'Clock Il. m.
Monday, June %, we soon speed
ing westward OH the Northern Pacific
fast train and entered the Bad Lands
about daylight in n of the heaviest
rain storms ever experienced in that
section. AS we travelled west evi.
dences of rain diminished until Glen.
dive was reached, where all traces
disappeared. From Glendive to Miles
City the grass and vegetation showed
plainly that that section was suffer.
ing to some extent from lack of
moisture. The grass was not so
green and rank as in Stark aud Bill.
lings counties and we We're soon con.
WINGED that the stockmen and farmers
of those two counties were more for.
tunate than their neighbors to the
west.
Glendive has a number of fine brick
business blocks, standing as monu.
ments to the enterprise of her citi.
zens. At this point the Northern
Pacific strikes the Yellowstone river
and follows its winding banks to
Livingston, Il distance of $40 miles.
The ride through this valley is tire
some and uninteresting on account of
its sameness, and travellers are very
apt to form IN erroneous opinion of
the country Oh that account, not
knowing that the fine range country
lies back from the river. Miles City
is prosperous, if IL is to Judge from
the number of new buildings being
erected. Fort Keogh, the next sta.
ton, has ten companies of soldiers
and makes quite lively looking
place. especially at the time we passed
there, as the soldiers had hardly got
settled after the recent Indian scare,
which caused them to polish up theil
bayonets and fill their cartridge boxes
in anticipation of a scalping matinee
Billings was the next important
town on our route. Here the farm.
ers resort to irrigation and the crops
show it's practiced benefits, being the
best we had seen 81 far OH the trip.
Shortly after leaving here we came
in sight Of the snow capped noun.
tains, which doomed up in the south.
west. Billings is another good town,
1t has electric lights, water works,
daily papers and puts on metropoli.
tan airs IN more ways than one Liv'
ingston, Nesting in the foot hills OF
the mountains, has many fine brick
and stone business blocks and is at
the last crossing of the Yellowstone
river. Here two large engines were
attached to the train to pull it up the
heavy mountain grades and as dark,
ness is coming on we must drop oul
description of the trip until Tuesday
morning which finds us at Missoula
where we found Elisha Newman,
Thomas Drury and other former
Dickinson boys, all working for the
company. l.. w. Granteer is also
located here. From Missoula to this
place the road passes through granl
mountain scenery, with tall peaks
deep canyons, clear mountain streams
high trestles and bridges. In one
place the train is winding along the
banks of a stream and in u short
time it is climbing the mountain
side with the road bed cut in solil
rock and the stream hundreds of fee
below. This changing panorama o.
nature, as II glides along over til,
smooth track of the Northern Pacific
is one that will impress itself upol
the traveller.
At Hope, Idaho, we met II. NJ
Jorgens, who is doing a prosperous
drug business, and Jack %Stonchocker
j. II. Hanley's old partner, and wei
known to most Of the earlier settler.
in Dickinson. Hope is located OF
Lake Pend d'Oreille, a beautiful sheet
of water, and is quite Il summer re
sort. Spokane Falls was reached al
S O'Clock, but as a description of the
city would make this article toe
lengthy we will omit that until nex1
week when we will give the PRES,
readers q pen picture of. the coming
great city of eastern Washington.