Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-21

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Talliaferro conceled his business
engagements and showed many
courtesies to us contributing much
towards making the stay pleas
ant one in the city.
Section number one will pull out
tlIs morning for Modida, Mont, tie
entrance to the Park, which will be
reached tonight.
Mountain Scenery.
Dwelle, Mont, July 16.-The trip
to this place from Salk Lake City
covered a distance of 291 miles by
the Oregon Short Line railroad and
20 miles yesterday in stage coaches.
The journey by rail was not event
full. Mountain scenery after time
gets somewhat monotonous. -Oeca-
sionally a pretty little mountain
town would DE passed and at Poca-
tello, Idaho, stop of one hour was
made to wait for connecting train.
We had ample time to go up town
and see the place, buy lunches, etc.
1t claims a population of 1000 and
uestles in the valley of Snake river
with high mountains on both sides.
Here l met Mr.. d. w. Standard,
who taught school at Crofton in
1882 and left soon afterwards for
Idaho, He is now prominent and
wealthy lawyer and banker. had
a pleasant talk with him. He ran
for Governor on the Republican
ticket few years ago and came
within a few hundred votes of being
elected He says he is trying TO
get out of politics, his business
matters occupying all his time.
The trip mp the valley of Snake
river to Monida, Mont, afforded an
opportunity to see Idaho Falls and
other towns in one of the best val
legs in Idaho. 1t is a pretty fair
agricultural region and we saw a
good many fields Of hay and wheat
and a few fruit trees. The wheat
is just about ready to be cut. Mo
uida is nothing but a station with
hotel and the stables of the Mont
da and Yellowstone coach line. We
slept in our cars and after an early
breakfast started for this place at
8 o'clock. The writer bad the good
fortune to travel in the first coach,
a big twelve passenger affair
drawn by four horses. It's occu-
pants who will make the entire trip
together are:, Chas. NJ. Meacham
and wife, and NJ. r. Conley and
wife, KY: w. B. Frost and wife,
h. l.. G. p. Linn and wife, Ia; e.
Lesser and Sister, Ala, aud J. w.
Buchanan, Miss
At ICON We reached an eating
station and found waiting for us
one of the best meals have eaten
in the West. The mountains that
fanked the Centennial valley
through which we travelled in the
forenoon were bare of timber and |
now and then patches of snow were
visible. The valleys were green
with luXuriant grass and every |
now and then little streams of mel
ted snow wound their way through
The grassy landscape on their way
to the larger streams that forms
the headwaters of the Missouri
river, The largest stream in the
world when measured with the
Mississippi to the gulf. In these
valleys were vast herds of cattle,
sheep and horses, all fat and sleek
from grazing on the native pastures.
In the afternoon the mountain be-
came higher and the scenery more
magnificent and more attractive to
the eye. We crossed the continent
tai divide into Idaho at one place,
but soon wound around another
peak, back into Montana. We
were 5000 feet above sea level at
this point. The mountains we're
covered with great forests of white |
pine in many places and the valleys
and foothills were green with grass
or carpeted with mountain flowers
with almost every hue. Many of
them were very beautiful and whole
fields of them were encountered all
along the last half of the trip. We
passed some peaks that were al
most entirely covered with snow.
The valley all along was inhabited
and much of the land fenced in.
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