The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
A Trip To The Northwest.

Mr.. + litor:

Mr.. f litor
Myself, wife and son have inst re,
turned from visit and pleasure trip
through the northwest. Some of the
points we made may interest son
of your readers. | will give a brief
description oi some o, the places We
were. We LIT Kansas City on the
hall past ak O'Clock train; until too
dark to see we saw many fields Of
good corn. The next morning soon
after day break we passed through
Broken Bow, Nrh., soon after pass
ing that place, we left the farming
land and that more adapted to
grazing we passed through the Black
Hill country, saw nothing that was
pleasing to the eye, only scenery.
We arrived at Billings the next
morning about seven O'Clock, then
we took the North Pacific Tor Logan.
arrived there about three O'Clock
changed cars Tor llclcna, Mont, ar
rived there about seven in the ave.
ming, rather tired, stayed over there
two nights and one day looked over
old grounds | was familiar with in
the early seventies, also met an aged
uncle there from Boulder that | had
not seen for over thirty years, had q
good visit talking over the old days.
The next morning we started on for
Ravalli, there took the stage for
Flat Head lake, which was IA forty
mile ride, there took the boat for
Somers "a distance OF sixty miles, we
arrived there about I O'Clock and
took short car ride Of II miles for
KAlispelL The air WAS thick with
smoke so we could not see the
mountains as well as we might. We
stopped all night with Win Dickerson
and estimable lady, then on near
Sedan where my wife had a sister
that she had not seen for nearly
thirty years, we stayed there few
days. 1t rained while we we're there
and cleared the air some. On our
return to Rsvalli we saw the Mission
mountains all along on the east OF
Flat Head lake, and stage ride they
loomed up high and imposing. We
could see snow on the south end OF
them; we iourned on to North Yak.
ina Wsshinton to see a sister OF
mine for few days.
We saw irrigsting in all OF it's
phases. Saw many nice orchards
loaded with fruit, also saw sage
brush growing in its native state,
thousands OF acres which was not a
very imposing sight to US Mis-
sourians. Then we started on for
Seattle after travelling for one day
and night through grand mountain
scenery, then barren plains through
the state Of Washington, we arrived
at the great sea port OF the United
States; we could not see much of the
city for the smoke, we got up before
sunrise the next morning and went
up to the top OF the hills where we
thought we could see the sound at
an advantage, but 1t was so smoky
we could not see much SO we come
down and got bres kfast and went
down to the warts and saw some
ships OF different siz 8 come and 20.
Then we took the train for Portland
arrived there near night, crossed the
Columbia river On a ferry boat, run
the cars all on at once, which was
quite sight.
The next morning being Sunday
we scarcely knew what to do to put
in the day, 80 we went to the city
park, which was one OF the prettiest
we ever saw, all kinds of evergreen
trees growing in their native state
and great many other kinds have
been set there, and SO we put in the
forenoon there. and we heard we
could get in the fair, 80 we walked
down and found a great many build.
ings was closed, but We seen all We
cared to see. 1t was very pretty