Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-03
TO the Pacific Coast and Back Again.
LBY THE EDITOR.
Confined fromsiast week.

About 4 o'clock P. NJ, we babe
farewell to the land OF the Dacothas,
and entered the ranch country" of
eastern Montana. The railroad
winds it's way for many miles along
Glendiye Creek with it's attractive
scenery and then up the picturesque
valley OF the Yellowstone from Glen
dive to livingstone, a distance OF
$40 miles. BY the way, the railroad
during it's entire length from Bis
marck to the Coast seems to follow
some river valley, so that the rivers,
during the lapse OF ages, have really
levelled the way for the railroad.
fho little insignificant drop OF water
has been the first engineer in build
ing the Northern Pacific Railroad;
it has surveyed the time, it has re-
moved distractions and pierced
mountains, and has made this
gigantic enterprise possibility.
During the evening I kept constantly
pcering out from the car window at
the ever changing scenery, OF gray
bluff margined banks which retain.
somewhat the type OF the Bad Lands.
Sometimes what would appear rs Il
Il In, l., l,,tp
towers and turrcts, bursts upon the
vision, then an old temple with it's
towers and spires, and presently the
ruins OF an ancient fortified city with
it's crumbled walls and fallen
temples. gaze upon this scene I'M
til darkness hidesit from view. Miles
City, Custer and Billings are three
important towns that were passed
by during the night.
On rising in the morning novel
sight greeted our vision, viz, ranges
Of mountains covered with snow.
TO the left We're seen the white
crested Snow mountains While on the
right hand doomed up the everchang-
ing form and dazzling white peaks OF
the Crazy mountains. had never
before seen any mountain scenery,
and the first view | had was sufficient
to inspire me with their grandeur.
'rheirIoity white tops Glittered in the
sunlight ut times and at times We're
rtveloped in Il thick haze; and so
AGAR did they appear in the rarefied
morning MI, that they seemed but Il
stones throw from tile platform OF
-Four car, yet, was told, that they
| were more than forty miles away.
At s O'Clock we are in Livingstone,
where Il branch road leads off to the
National Park. Here the train stops
| for 10 Or Is minutes, and nearly all
passengers get outside TO inhaie the
cool, clear and invigorating noun
tain air
| After leaving Livingstone, the rail
road ascends an mp grade, about
liz feet to the mile. The breakmen
light the lamps in the car and i'll a
moment we rush into a tunnel $500
| feet in length, at IN elevation OF
5,5T2 feetsabove tile level of the sea,
called the Bozeman Tunnel. Emerg.
ing on the other side, wild mountain
scenery and pleasant valleys pass
before the eye like a panorama. The
| City OF Bozeman has & romantic
situation and is Il hourishing town.
/ AT this point an interesting incident
occurred. Some one had discovered
that q German woman and her two
children in the Colonist's car, had
/ been without food for some time.
She was on the way to her husband
in Portland. AS soon us her starY-
ing condition was known the pas
sehgers in the different coaches came
to her relief, some contributing from
their well filled lunch baskets and
Others gave her money. The tears
strealned down the woman's cheeks
when She received the gifts, and
though she could speak not one word
Iof English, her gratitude found
expression in other ways.
At 1:35 r. NJ, on time. we arrived
at the walled City Of Helena, the
capital and metropolis Of Montana.
4 Mrs. Woods journey was now at an
end. Her son w j and her daughter
/ Miss KATE met her at the depot,
DESTROYS Of seeing" Helena also
decided to stop over till the next
8Ilay. The city is situated il q
ssgnlch or narrow valley SUR
grounded onsall sides W lofty noun.