The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-30

Incidents of tho Closing Day of the
Meeting Of Montana Californian
Enjoyable Trip to Neihart and a
Sumptuous Suppr.

the Helena Herald, witnessed the
close of the Press Association meet
ing at Great Falls. The browning
events were the Neihart excursion
occupying the day, and the granC
banquet, consuming at least half the
night. The ride of sixty miles to
the mountains and return was one O.
unmixed delight and enjoyment te
the journalists and the hundred OF
guests, ladies and gentlemen
who accompanied the party from
Great Falls. The country traversed
new to nearly every one, appeared
in its most charming dress. Coulee
and bluff and valley were clothed in
brightest green and ornamented
with radient blooms. The four
coached train, pulled by a stout en-
CINE, curved gracefully up the bend
ing roadway, crossing the interven-
ing bench and Belt creek, and up
that meandering, rollicking, cascad-
ing stream to Neihart, an elevation
above the starting point at Great
Falls of 0 than 1000 feet. Stops
of some minutes each were made at
Belt, Arlington, Riceville, Monarch,
industrial towns, whose coal and
and lime rock and iron ore 90 down
in train loads daily to the Missouri.
At moo the mountain destination
is reached. Here the two hundred
debark and in procession, to the
music OF a we'll trained, handsomely
uniformed brass band of a dozen
pieces, march to the principal hotel.
The reception committee, composed
OF prominent citizens, have arranged
in advance for every want of the
visitors. Bountiful refreshments
await n and all the excursionists-
their APPETITE equal to a fasting Coxey
army. Then there was an hour for
many, two hours for others, to look
about the hill-environed mining
town. High up on the mile or more
rocky steep are strung the Neihart
bonanzas--big ones they are, too,
with any show for the restoration of
the white metal.
Abbott and Westgard, of the HER
AID, and Wright of the Times, tell
the visitors all the particulars of the
camp and it's resources. Business
houses and residences are of the best
class, and numbers of homes perched
upon the hills are adornments in do
mestic life. The water works are of
the best in the state. Streams from
the hydrants are easily tossed over
the highest buildings, and the supply
is the purest and coolest that any
where blesses a Montana community.
From a mining standpoint, Mel
hart occapies a front place, and the
future is bright with promise for the
Hospitable, indeed, were
the citizens to the guests who tarried
with them part of Saturday, and a
good impression only was brought
away by the visitors.
The return in the afternoon was a
pleasant slide down grade through
the canyons, along side the leaping
waters, the deep gorges and the
"sluice-boxes," past meadows,
gardens, coal groupings, cottonwood
SioNCo anu HdilllotS. lit WnOle was
a revelation to the press people, and
their enthusiasm over the scenic as
the mining, agriculture, stock
and other unfolding resources
Of a region before relatively un-
to them was unbounded.
At Great Falls, when evening
closed in, the journalists and their
friends of the Magic City were
gathered about the banquet table at
the Park Potel. No spread was ever
more tempting-more enjoyed. 1t
was a feast of reason and a flow of
soul in the hours that fitted past all
too Dor President Rolfe, of the
association, was at his best as toast
master, and happier responses never
from the speakers, whose elo-
luence enthralled and whose wit
,onvulsed the banqueters to the end
Of the protracted sitting. Great
Falls never heard so many words of
praise spoken by guests within her
Thus ended one of the
argos attended in all respects the
most enjoyable and profitable meet
nos of the Press association IF Mon