The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-09
The Sunrise View at Hamilton
Battles Description.
INCOMPATIBLE IN BEAUTY
A Grand Panorama Fits by the Passen-
gers on the Copper City Limited.
Through the Missoula Valley to
Anaconda and Butte.

a late breakfast, and when the traveller
who intends to leave Hamilton on the
Copper City limited is informed that
he will be called at that hour he is apt
to rebel. When. however, he has sue
ceeded in getting the sleep out of his
eyes and gets down from his comfort
able room to the broad veranda of the
Ravalli hotel, he is glad that he was
called early. There may be places where
the morning view is grander and more
beautiful than is the one at Hamilton,
at sunrise. but II there are the have
not yet been placed upon the map. The
scene is one that battles description.
West of the town rise the rugged. rock
ribbed Bitter Root mountains. with
their deep-riven canyons and precipit-
Gus walls, every detail standing out
clear and sharp in the bright light of
the morning SUM-. At their base flows
the magnificent river hat gives life
and verdure to the Incompatible val
ley that stretches for miles and miles
along the base of these rough old hills,
whose tops store h eternal nov that
supply the thousand streams that de-
scend into the lowlands. Everything Is
bright and fresh and green. All around
are splendid ranches. their well ap-
pointed buildings and their orchards
and groves adding pleasant variety to
the picture that offers itself for the ad-
miration of the beholder. If a man has
any appreciation of the beautiful. he
cannot fail to admire the prospect, and
IL more than half fnclines him to a
resolution to rise early all the time.
hat is the beginning of the trip down
the valley on the Copper City Limited,
and il is a fitting one. 1t is a start that
cannot be surpassed anywhere. and the
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better than any that can be taken else
where in the west. AS the traveller,
after his breakfast. reaches the plat
form at the station. the copper and
green cars of the Copper City Limited
dash down the valley. coming past the
dense groves that skirt the Skalkaho
and between the orchards and grain
fields that line the track i'm the upper
valley. These are the colors that are
popular i'm the Bitter Root, and the
train seems quite in keeping with its
magnificent surroundings. The travel
err enters. comfortably establishes him
self i'm the elegantly appointed chair
car of the Limited and is ready for the
rush down the valley. There is no time
lost. The Copper City Limited has none
Of hat precious article to- spare. There
are 200 miles between Hamilton and the
trains destination-the busy, smoky.
bustling city of Butte. 1t is Al
aboard'' in a moment and down the
valley dashes the train. 1t Is such a
ride as amazes the stranger and de-
lights the traveller who is familiar with
the country. The panorama that fits
past as the cars fly down the Bitter
Root Is a constant pleasure. There are
always the rough. snow-topped noun
tains in the west. their rocks ond for
ests and streams furnishing a back
ground that would delight the eye of an
artist. and in the foreground is the
e~ver-changing succession of ranch
scenes. Orchard and garden. fields of
grain and stretches of meadow. coy
farm cottages and pretentious resi-
dences-all combine to make the traV-
eler happy as he watches them from his
comfortable post of observation As
each successive station is reached, there
is a big pile of fruit and produce wait
ing to be taken aboard for t%ransporta-
tion from these fields and farms to the
busy cities at the other end Of the run
of the Limited. So. on past Lost horse,
st. Mary's, and finally grim Lou Lou
peak. the traveller speeds along the
course of the beautiful Bitter Root
river, crossing II for the last time at
Fort Missoula, and leaving II with a
last look of enjoyment as the train
puffs up the grade past the fort and
into the Missoula valley. The Bitter
Root is left behind. but the broad ex-
panse of the Missoula valley lies be-
fore.
Away in the west rises the sharp
peak of the sentinel mountains that
overlooks the Mission valley beyond.
In the north opens the fertile valley of
the Rattlesnake, and TO the east the
famous canyon of Hell Gate. the per-
feet passage through the mountain
wall. Amid these scenes the Limited
draws up in front of the station at Mis-
soula. IL has been a quick run. The
fifty miles seem IKE so many rods. so
fast has passed the time and the dis
lance. At Missoula there is always a
crowd 20 see the Limited come I'm.
There are many to get aboard. and
many others to meet friend who have
come down the valley. There are more
berries and vegetables TO load here. and
a small mountain OF baggage to ham
die. For five minutes all is hurry and
stir, and then 1t is "AIl aboard!" again.
The Limited is off for the run up the
canyon. This is always a pleasant ride
and II Is more than usually so this
month. 1t is an up grade pull along
the Mlssoula river. but the train moves
so easily and at such a rate that IL does
not seem as IL were an ascent. Be
tween the mountains walls. now skirt
ing one side of the canyon. and then
running along close to the other. speeds
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the Big Blackfoot. fifty feet above the
swift stream; past Bonner. with its
busy mills; on through the timber. in
terspersed with thrifty looking ranches:
stopping for a moment at the camps of
Clinton and Bonita; close to the river
TO the historic town OF B~earmouth,
where waiting coaches and a crowd on
the platform tell OF the activity Of the
mining camps up the famous old gulch
OF the Bear; into the widening stretch
OF valley that opens where Flint creek
comes down: a pause at Drummond.
with Granite Mountain and its silver
lodges on the right: then on with an
other rush to Gold creek and then TO
Garrison. where the Deer Lodge valley
sends its waters down to swell the
river. whose course has been followed
through the canyon.
All the terror and dread that once
lurked In hat name, Garrison, have