Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-26
THE OVERLAND TRAIN.

AND TRAIN.
and roses That lawn is the greenest
green ever saw. I can not tell you
what relief 1t was to the eye and
mind, after those hours of dust and des-
olation. Under the magic touch OF Wa
ter that coil. resembling in appearance
wood ashes mixed with gravel, responds
as no black loan in Iowa can. Not only
the trees flourish, but all kinds of yege-
tation respond quickly and unfailingly,
and the alfalfa green sparkles and
dances in the sunlight like an emerald.
1t rests the eye and soothes the irritat-
ed nerves. The journey would be
pleasanter We're there more such rest
full GASES. 1t is only suggestion of
what is In the future, when the genera!
shall turn its attention to
irrigation, when the primitive bitches
now in use shall give way to scientific
methods under the supervision of COM
petent engineers Western capital and
western enterprise have so far been
expended in mines and cattle. A small
part of the foolish waste on rivers that
can never be navigable would utilize
the waters Of these western rivers and
turn a part of that desert into gar
den.
At Glendive again one is rested by the
sight OF the little glittering green lawns
that surround the depot and are cared
for by the railway employees Here just
as the sun is. hiding behind the hills, the
waters of the Yellowstone burst upon
our view. All night we follow this
swift flowing stream toward its source,
and crossing it at daylight. stop at Liv-
ingston, the gateway to the national
park. AT Livingston the Northern Pa
cific has another system of beautiful
little emerald parks. bordering the right
of way thru the business part of the
city.
But we are not ready to enter the
park. After all the park tourists going
and coming are disposed of we push in
to Logan. Here a short train of day
coaches is made UP FOR those who want
to go via Butte City, while the regular
train follows the Gallatin and Madison
rivers via Helena.
The Gallatin Valley is certainly one
of the most beautiful and fertile in the
world. There is little of interest at Hell
ena. The city proper is almost hidden
behind the hills. It is famous only be-
cause 1t Is the home Of the great min
ing kings. Their palaces are in Helena.
Their club houses are said to be magni-
ficent and they have a hotel SO large and
costly that no one con be found with
money enough to run 1t, 50 it is kept
closed.
AT Garrison the Butte train Joins us.
There is more of interest at Butte, If it
is bleak and bad. We creep into the
city along the sides of the mountains,
skirting lodges so high and so narrow
that 1t requires courage to- sit quietly
and look down into the valleys below.
Butte is a repelling place to the strang-
er, but the wheels of industry ravolve
day and night. The city lies on. the side
Of mountain. rocky and bare. II ever
a tree or blade of grass should spring
forth from q crevisse the pale gray Stag
and the fumes from the shelters would
destroy it. So there Is not a single green
thing to be seen. Even the canary birds
HE, but in those great mines under the
,ity and in those great smelters that are
strung along the brow of the hill, are
The millions, and this is why men toll
N Butte. When they have accumulated
they go away and buy
piece of Gods green earth. Butte is as
busy az 1t is wicked.
There are forty-fiye labor unions in
Butte. Thei. rule is absolute. NJ la
oorer can work for less than s. a day
md many get $3.50.
Leaving Garrison at 1880 p. m. noun
aims and valleys alternate. mostly
and sage brush cattle ranges,
tut out of 1t spring wonderfully pros
porous and pretty little cities like Mis-
Joula. One wonders what sustains
hem. but the fact is before us. Mis-
'oula is thrifty and 1t is growing, and
here are other places like 1t, but not
10 large. There are surely wonderful
'eSources that the tourist can not see.
At Clark's Fork we stick another pin.
We are now in Idaho and have ira
yersed 7S3 miles in crossing Montana.
We turn our watches back another
lour. One gets used to large things.
We go on, up up. climbing the great
Mountains by winding in and out and
Then down we go into the great wheat
ields of Washington and pass thru the
,ity of Spokane In the night. Early in
he morning we cross the mighty Co
umbia at Paseo, and after traversing
niles and miles of table lands and VAL
eys that will some day come under Gull
iyation, we begin the ascent of the last
ange of mountains between US and the