The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-23
ENR0uTE TO SEATTLE.
Fascinating Pen Picture Of PanarsmIc
natural Scenery Across the Plains
and Through the Rockies.

All trans. continental lines IRON
The Mississippi river TO the coas
have their respective proportion
of arid lands and diversified seen
ery, west Of the one hundred ant
6fth meridian. But with the ai(
pf irrigation and the advance 9
persistent cultivation, constant
evolution is going on and the des
Rte are gradually being converted
into fields Of alfalfa and groves Of
butt trees, while the mountains in
heir original sublimity,.. beauty
md barrenness. remain unchanged
md unchangeable with the epochs
NJ time.
The homogeneous plains Of
4 q'estern Nebraska and the hetero-
geneons hills Of Wyoming and
South Dakota, on the Burlington
route, correspond with that part
pf the Santa Fe in eastern Colo.
RADIO and New N Msxico, and reminds
bne Of some far-away country that
Is unfamiliar and not favorably
Impressive.
FROM Billings to Spokane, six
hundred and twenty five miles, ID
ne continuous panoramic chain Of
40 most interesting scenery that
xhaustless nature can present.
ACROSS the clear, swift Yellow
tone opposite Big Timber, stands
series Of rugged peaks that hide
heir hoary heads in the black.
threatening clouds that suggest the
ome and origin Of those biting
lissards that sweep down TO the
exas line.
At Livingston the Yellowstone
p disappears in it's wandering
I }tse through the canons and
kes that lead TO its remote
rce in Yellowstone Park. Al
ozeman the train passes through |
tremendous tunnel, then emerges
pto the great Gallatin valley, |
there great herds Of cattle and
,;ne fields Of barley are seen. Forty |
fity miles Of these fertile fields,
ben into . gorge Of granite, with
pwesing mountains, precipices,
Fomontories, stupendous rocks
hd immense boulders that extend
)most to the barren bluffs oil
lutte.
This is not q detailed descrip-
pm Of this picturesque place, but
mere kalsidoscopics Of the
buntry 90 the vision gathers 10
hssing BY. have left the spark
ps Ysllowstone and ite ramifyine
(butarirs that dow eastward and
"a their egrsss 70 the Gulf. L
rough tbs long wsnderinss Of
Missouri and the Mississippi.
rhe Northern Pacific practically ,
ssss The great backbone Of the
ntinent, through the otherwise I
ccsssible avenues Of tho Yellow
|6ne on east and Clark's Fork OF
y Columbia on the west. But
y scenery is much more beauti-
picturesque end divirsified q
rough that continuous panarama t
mountains. rivers, valleys, hills .
a lakes that have not th 1t di. |.
,oted, barren characteristic to be :
n in Utah and :Arizons; but a Q
of pine and FL. that 4
neliorates and beauties the v
above, as the luxurious o
Is and clear waters beautiiie Q D
cyalleys bellows. 1t is vieing !.
o|ure Of unending sublimity and /,
biographical grandeur for hun ii
- and hundreds Of miles. It tiI
c vast, so varied and lonely, o.
n1cely know where to begin, or q
! Ire conclude my descriptinon. .
1pt come With me now and i'm :, =
Q We are in that great natural n
phitheatre where the sun shines n
1t has set and the monntains B
4 the sky. It is real; it is ro-
ptic; II Is infinitely rich with .
rapturous beauty Of earth and
harmonious blending OF the
kns. 1t Is evening twilight; p'
& oun has louo oinco dfooDnooxad u