The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
BUTTE IS A REVELATION
Editor Wallin of Pocatello Is
Much Impressed.
ROAD FOR YOUR WHISPERS
But 1t Is Not Uphill Work to Get Along
Smoothly in Butte Pocatello
Is Growing VERY
Rapidly

William Wallin, publisher of the Po
catello Tribune, who came up to root
for the baseball club from his town.
was struck with the magnitude and
magnifcence of Butte.
why, I never saw anything. like If
and never expect to see the like of it
again. Butte is a wonder. 1t is a
revelation. remarkable place. Its a
oeaut. Why, think of a city of its size
with not shade tree, not a blade of
grass, not even sign of vegetation.
Ihey tell me this city stands on ground
tnat used to grow a luxuriant wealth
OF grass. Well, it doesn't look it,
>, nevertheless, l am impressed with
the grandeur of Butte Just as it stands.
! nave Knocked about over This coun-
try good deal, but l haven't seen any
thing in the west to compare with that
Dig giant up there, the Hennessy build
ing. Why, your big stores must sell
mllllons OF dollars worth of goods in
year. This is certainly rich city. I
have heard lots about Butte, but l had
never imagined anything to compare
with the real Butte.
one thing that strikes me as being
very queer, and that is whichever d.
hill-its a climb from the time YOU
leave the depot till you get back again.
L went up to Centerville to-day on the
crookedest and at the same time the
smoothest road / ever read about
There's road for your whiskers We
walked around the hills to the Ana
conda mine and back to the city from
the direction of Meaderville, and by
Hockey we walked up hill all the way
from Centerville here, and 1 know the
cars go up hill to Centerville. Still they
tell me that 1t Is not uphill work to get
along smoothly in Butte.
IF we had won the last game OF
baseball with the B. & NJ. | believe |
would have bought Butte and taken it
back to Pocatello with me. 1t is my
first visit to a mining town of any i'm
portance. I am glad / came. | will
never forget the trip, for it has made
an impression upon me-"
Mr.. Wallin reported his city in a
prosperous condition, and predicted a
healthy and steady growth for the rail-
road center of Idaho. I'VE are prac-
tically dependent upon the railroads."
said he, but it is the aim of our enter
prising citizens to expand. That is, we
propose to enlarge the limits of our
agricultural and mineral possibilities.
AS we stand to-day we are on a two
mile square plot of ground in the mid
die OF the Fort Hall Indian reservation.
This reservation embraces a vast area
of agricultural land, which could be
made prolific under the direction of
white men. Then we would be in the
center of as productive a tract of land
as can be found anywhere. Besides
there is mineral in the reservation
which, under civil supervision, could be
made to yield it's quota to the country's
output. All these things we hope and
% Sc 1s,,rr in,
congress a bill providing for the open
ing of the reservation to white settle
ment. For years the citizens have
treated with the Indians, but so far
have secured nothing more than en-
fragment to try again. 1t is believed
that the bill will be considered early
in the forthcoming congress"
Mr. Walin and the other Pocatello
visitors returned home on yesterday
mornings o. S. l.. regular