St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-30
OPPORTUNITY OF
n Lifetime.

yet. discovered. 1t is a perfect SYM
phony in form and color.
For $40 miles-Glendive to Livings-
! ton-the railroad runs through the
valley of the Yellowstone river.
Then comes the crossing of the Rock
les. In long spirals, the train winds
about the granite hills, jumps the
ravines on strong trestles and finally
plunges into the blackness of the
! Mullan tunnel, 5,54S feet above sea
level, and comes out into daylight on
| the western side of the main range.
Through He'll Gate canyon for a
hundred miles and another spur of
the Rockies is crossed. Then comes
the Jocko river and the long valley
of Clark fork. Great bluffs and beau
tiful clearings are passed in alterna-
ton, and Lake Pend d'Oreille is
reached. This is beautiful noun
tain lake, one of the Western sum-
mer resorts. High mountains sur
round it, and it is an ideal spot.
After descending to the valley of
the Columbia, crossing that stream,
a mighty river, and winding through
the noted Yakima valley, comes the
crossing of the Cascades. This
range is radically different from the
| Rockies. The slopes are heavily
timbered with mighty pines and
spruces; the gulches are great
abysses; the peaks, giant mountains.
From the Yakima valley Mt. Adams,
one of the magnificent peaks of the
range, is constantly in sight. Mt.
Rainier or Tacoma is also visible,
and, after the range is crossed, the
| volcanic mountain looms up in all it's
glorious majesty.
| The railroad follows Green river out
! from the range into the sound country.
This stream is wild and beautiful and
| full of trout. AS the train works out
| of the mountains and draws near Ia
| coma. the city is seen on the bluffs at
| the right hand. On the left, towering
almost into the skies, growing grander
| and more beautiful as its naughty.
! whitened cone comes more and mora
| into the realms of vision, is Mount
! Rainier. The traveller says: Here is
a mountain''-and it is true.
| Leaving Tacoma the train shoots
away for the valley of the Columbia,
which it crosses the second time on a
| mammoth ferry boat-locomotive,
| baggage car day coaches, Pullmans
| and all at one time. Once on the OPP
posite shore the Columbia is followed
! to the Willamette, and the later TO
Portland. En- route Mt. st. Helens is
seen. This is another of the Cascade
range giants. These high peaks are all
/ old volcanoes. Between St. Paul and
Portland, many cities have been seen.
Minneapolis, Fargo, Bismarck, Miles
J City, Billings, Helena, Missoula, Spo-
| kane, North Yakima and Tacoma, and
others have been passed, While Butte
| and Seattle were within easy reach by
means of short branch lines.
| THE YELLOWSTONE TRIP.
| The greatest scenic feature to be
| found along the Northern Pacific rail-
road Is the Yellowstone park. 1t is as
we'll 'the greatest thing in the world,
certainly, of its kind. Indeed, there is
nothing of its kind to found elsewhere.
| This wonderful region is one of those
rare spots with which the Creator in
| His divine economy has dotted the
| globe Why it is that He has, as here.
concentrated within so limited an area
! so many and diverse phenomena we
may not know.
Waterfalls; wonderful canyons; cliffs
of natural glass; intensely hot springs
| that reflect the varying hues OF the
| armament; geysers of scalding water
| hurled to great heights in the air; beau
tifuI rivers; tangled forests; bewitcn-
| ing lakes; beaver ponds; caldrons OF
red, pearl blue and pink clay; vistas or
wonderful beauty; magnificent mount
aims: hills of sulphur; volcanoes or
mud; these are a few of the category
| of wonders that await the sightseer.
They are distributed over a region or
about 1850 square miles, and, winding
through this wonderland, are between
| $50 and 200 miles of first-class roads.
These roads are constructed and main
/ tanned by the United States govern
ment, who have expended more than
half million dollars on them.
| From Livingston the point on the
main line at which the park branch
diyerges, the regularly scheduled park
| tour takes five and one-half days.
At the important stopping places,
Mammoth Hot Springs, the Geyser
Basins, Yellowstone Lake and the re-
nowned Grand Canyon, many hours
are spent, so that thorougn eXamlha-
ton of these spots can be made.
Should the tourist desire to prolong
his visit beyond the scheduled time,
ARRANGEMENTS to this end can be made
at reasonable rates with the proper
officials at Mammoth Hot Springs.
The phenomena found in Yellow
stone Park invariably impress the
great travellers of the world as being
beyond compare. "Cavendish," the
great authority on whist, after trip
through the Park in 1894, said "The
wonders of the Yellowstone Park are
beyond my power to describe. They
must be seen to be realized, and ey-
erybody ought to see them. What in
terested me most were the geysers
1--WE fortunately saw Grotto and Castle
at work. and the Grand Canyon.
They are so different that l can hardly
choose between the two. Indeed one
of the features of the Park is that you
come across totally different scenery
and totally different natural marveli
each day.
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