Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1899-10-25
health and prosperity.

SomeJnlng over SIX montns ago
| left my valley home, in Idaho, the
Gem of the Rockies, bidding fare
we'll to birth and kin, / wendell my
weary way eastward to the great
Mississippi valley, which half a
century ago was lavishly robed in
the beauties and Injuries of nature
It would seem as though nature had
omitted nothing which would tend
to make the enchantment more com
plete. The rolling landscape was
thickly covered with rich grasses,
furnishing luxuriantpast to the
countless herds of wild deer and buff
falo; the many lakes and rivers
teemed with the funny tribes, while
the dense forests of hardy maple
and sturdy oak, were thronged with
the gaily plumed birds, which
comes here, with the melting of each
winters snow, to mingle their warbl-
ings in the one general chorus max
ing all nature to rejoice with them,
thus furnishing happy, and you
may say, undisturbed home to the
thousands of semi-savage Indians,
who were found roaming the track
less plains of our country at the
time it was discovered by Christie
pher Columbus in 1892, and subse-
quently explored by the explorers
and navigators of the day. 1t is
really no wonder that this richly
cmbellished spot of earth should
form the ''Ideal Heaven" of the
remnants of the once happy and in
telligent Aborigines of this the
American continent, but who
through transgression have, as the
poet has said, ''Dwindled away to
idle Indian hearts," II was here
that Colonel Cody, Buffalo Bill,
distinguished himself as a scout and
hunter. 1t was here the cattle
kings of the west amassed their
great fortune and it was while trav.
ersing this spot of ground that the
great Poet Longfellow, immortal
lied his name by writing his world
famed ''Hiawatha.
a little over forty years ago :
small band of weary home seekers
pushing their way to the ives
sighted the northern part Of thi
valley and founded what has sine
grown to be the city of Minneapoli
with its 200, 900 inhabitants maxim,
it the largest city in the state o
Minnesota. 1t is situated on tn
banks Of the Mississippi river an,
is beautifully, although not syn
metrically, laid out with man
private and public parks and parl
ways, the most beautiful of which
Lorin Park, which is situated nea
the center of the city. Near til
center of this park are two smal
lakes with broad gravel walks leac
ing to them from all parts of tn
park. The grounds are beautiful
LAID out and covered with greel
: lawns, interspersed with beds {
most beautiful plants and flower
ornamental trees and shrubs, as we
as the large shade trees, whic
q thrive in this northern cline. ]
the northern part of the park stanC
: monument of the famous violinis
e Ole Bull, overlooking, as it wer,
+, a very unique band stand built Fl
4 the convenience of the various eli
8 bands, and on very warm summer
c evening, after the daily task is dor
o thousands of people may be see
o within the limits Of the park, son
l. amusing themselves by feeding Il
e ducks, geese, swans and fishes whit
), are kept in the lakes, others wande
e ing listlessly about, gazing upc
IT the beauties of nature, while mar
go there to listen to to strains
IS sweet music as they float out ov
it the stiffness of the evening al
# Usually the very best of order pl
:. uails throughout the parks and cit
y Aside from this park there are otf
D places of resort, as the Como Pal
a Minnahaha Falls; Lake Harri
Lake Calhoun, and many otl
small places of interest. With