The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-01-29
ENROU1E TO SEATTLE.
Fascinating Pen Picture OF Panoramic
Natural Scenery Across the Plains
and Through the Rockies.

nave tnelf IebpeCtife pIopoIhon
Of arid lande and div ersifed seen.
cry, west OF the one hundred and
hfth meridian. But with the aid
OF irrigation and the advance OF
persistent cultivation, a constant
evolution is going on and the des.
srts are gradually being converted
Into fields Of alfalfa and groves Of
fruit trees, while the mountains in
their original sublimity, beauty
and barrennsss, remain unchanged
and unchangeable with the epochs
Of time.
The homogeneous plains OF
western Nebraska and the hetero.
ganeous hills of Wyoming and
South Dakota, on the Burlington
route, correspond with that part
OF the Santa Fe in eastern Colo
RADIO and New Mexico, and reminds
one OF some far.away country that
is unfamiliar aud not favorably
impressive.
From Billings TO Spokane, six
hundred and twenty five miles, is
one continuous panoramic chain OF
the most interesting scenery that
exhaustless nature can present.
Across the clear, swift Yellow
stone opposite Big Timber, stands
a series of rugged peaks that hide
their hoary heads in the black,
threatening clouds that suggest the
home and origin OF those biting
billiards that sweep down to the
Texas line.
At Livingston the Yellowstone
river disappears in it's wandering
course through the canons and
gorgss that lead to its remote
source in Yellowstone Park. AT
Bozeman the train passes through
q tremendous tunnel, then emerges
into the great Gallatin valley,
where great herds Of cattle and
fine fields Of barley are seen. Forty
or fifty miles OF these fertile fields,
then into a gorge Of granite, With
towering mountains, precipices,
promontories, slupendous rocks
and immense boulders that extend
almost TO the barren bluffs Of
Butte.
This is not a detailed descrip.
ton Of this picturesque place, but
9 mere kaleidoscopicsview OF the
country az the vision gathers IN
passing by. | have left the spark
ling Yellowstone aud lie ramifying
tributaries that flow eastward and
find their egress to the Gulf,
through the long wanderings OF
the Missouri and the Mississippi.
The Northern Pacific practically
crosses the great backbone OF the
continent, through The otherwise
inaccessible avenues Of the Yellow
stone on east and Clark's Fork OF
the Columbia on the west. But
the scenery 3 much more beautl.
ful, picturesque snd divirslhed
through that continuous pansrama
mountains. rivers, valleys, hills
and lakes that have MT that d..
vested, barren characteristic to be
seen in Utah aud Arizons; but
preponderance Of pine and tir that
amsliorates and beauties the
mountains above, az the luxurious
grass aud clsar watefs beauties
the valleys bellows. Il isa yising
picture o, unsnding sublimity and
Typographical grandeur for hun
dreds aud hundreds Of miles. II
is 80 vast, so varied aud lonely, |
scarcely know where TO brgin, or
where conclude my drscriptinon.
Blu, come With me now and i'm.
agine we are ia that great natural
ampbitheaire where the sun shines
after It has set and the mountains
meet the sky Il is real it il 70.
mantle; II IL infinitely rich With
The Tapturous beauty Of earth and
the harmonious blending Of the
heavens. llis evening twilight;
the sun has long since disappeared
beyond the bills about u. The
train is ascending the esrpentine