Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1890-09-25
OUR TRIP
The West as We Sdw IT.
CContinued from Lnst week.l

| CCOntinued from Last W eek.J
In our last issue we carried our
readers. in their minds, from Han
nibal via st. Paul TO Livingston,
Montana, and from there through
Yellowstone park.
1t would perhaps not be out of
place to give q brief description Of
the country traversed between St.
Paul and Livingston, as We failed to
do so IN our write up OF last week.
Minnesota has an abundance OF
fine farming lands, and the hay and
wheat harvests were IN full blast.
The corn raised IN that state is small,
being of rather q dwarf variety, on
account Of the shortness of the sea-
son.
In North Dakota we passed through
some good farming country, where
the golden grain was falling before
the reapers sickle, and, judging
from what we could see as we rolled
along at the rate OF thirty miles an
hour, the wheat was Of a good quail
ity. In going across Dakota we
passed through the Dalrymple farm,
which contains $4,000 acres, and is
the largest farm in the world. 1t is
operated by "old man" Dalrymple
and his boy and several hundred
other hands. 1t is said that this
large landed estate, owing to the
low prices of farm products for the
past few years, has been run at an
actual less to Its owners. Wheat Is
the principal product Of this large
farm, and is of the spring variety,
the winter being too cold for fall
wheat.
At about o'clock on the morn
ing of Aug. 25th we were awakened
to see the "bad lands" in North Da-
kota, which were reached at that
hidcous hour of the morning. As to
what these lands were made for, the
Creator, in bis wisdom, only knows.
As far as the eye can reach there is
nothing but desolatc waste of worth
less lands which have the appearance
of being Gods country turned wrong
side out. The products of these bad
lands are sage.brush, tin cans and
beer bottles, the latter, unfortunate
ly, being empty. The soil is kind
of alkali, and as we rolled along, this
alkali dust got up our nose and made
it so sore that we heartily wished we
had left our "smeller" at home.
Notwithstanding the barrcnness oi
these bad lands The scenery Is mos'
picturesque. The hills are so thrown
together as TO present the appear
ance of tumbled-down walls of build
iDgs, ranging all the way in siz'
from a small house to large castle
and sometimes have the appearance
of an entire row of buildings in
state of ruins.
After crossing the Montana lin
we passed several good towns, Mile
City, Fl. Keogh, Billings and othe
places, all of which seemed to b.
prosperous towns kept up by tn
patronage of ranchmen. At Ft
Keogh a company Of soldiers wer
out drilling. Here We saw our frs
Indians on the trip, about whom Col
J. /. Nichols, of the Fulton Gazette
tells the following lie:
"The squaw was dressed in
Mother Hubbard made out Of
blanket. She was chewing Tobacco
and spit like st. Louis barkecper
THIS so disgustcd the ladies tha
they gave her a piece of chewing
gum. She tasted it, threw her fac
into the shape of badly froste'
pumpkin, and threw the gum away
She then pulled from under he
Mother Hubbard plug Of navy an'
offered the ladies a chew. The girl
went back into the vcstibule and lef
, the noble red man and his gIrl. Til
man had on an old brOadbrim stray
hat with a piece OF blanket tied yer.
tight around his legs, blanke
around his shoulders, and NIGEL.
! beaded moccasins. They belong I
the Crow tribe. l asked him IL tb
: Crow Indians were the oldest sci
: tiers in this country, and he lauGhe
: and SAID, Vow! vow !"
After ARRIVING at Livingston, Nor
tsna, and going from there u fe
/. lowstone park, where we spent fiV
days, an account Of which We CAV
!, last wcck, VIC returned u Livingston
which is q prosperous town of $50
people. Livingston has two Rcpu'
lican newspapers and twenty 81
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