The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1909-07-24
Montana
INTERESTS
Mrs. G. w. Lee of Gladstone
Writes Interesting Letter of;Trip
Through the West. Butte has
Many Points Worth Seeing.

Editor PRESS:
Leaving Gladstone July 18th for
Portland. our party decided to travel
daytimes and rest nights wherever night
overlook US. Miles City was our first
stop, very pretty city. Leaving there
the morning of the 18th. we stopped at
all the larger towns. Billings and Liv-
ingston are ideal cities. Livingston
being the entrance to the great national
park.
We rode through six tunnels before
reaching the city of Butte The one
just at the divide was very long and we
suffered somewhat with the gas, but as
we ascended the mountains the scenery
being so different from anything any of
us had ever experienced. we almost for
got the danger and when we reached the
highest point felt the difference in the
altitude and as we reached Butte our
very careful not to exert ourselves.
Staying there over night with friends
who treated us royalty. taking us the
following day in the observation car
to see the sights of the city, visiting
the copper mines and all places of in
terest, lastly looking over the Columbus
gardens. Senator Clark, as we know
him, has spent millions getting this
garden into shape. Now it is very
beautiful. All the animals which ran
wild in Montana are there from
buffalo to a gopher. Then there are
different games for children from a
merrygo-round to a swing. On Thursday
of every week all the children of the
city are taken on the car out to this
place free Of charge to spend the day.
The most interesting thing to me was
our national flag in flowers on a hill
of green grass. 1t was very beautiful
but with all this how people can live
in Butte cannot see. asked where
the COWS got their living and was
told, ''Oh! on the bread which the
miners throw away but really there
are cows and horses in Butte that have
never seen spear of green grass since
they were brought there. The poor
horses in the mines only live eight
years at the most and when they bring
them up they are green from the copper.
A story they tell is they put them
through the smelter and they come out
forty percent copper. The power they
use in one of these mines is brought
20 miles. from the Missouri river, being
transmitted from there on to Anaconda.
The water used for drinking is delicious
being brought two miles and half
from spring. 1t was the only water
we have liked since leaving home.
The guide in the observation car told
us nearly everything of interest; how
many saloons Butte had. they number
210, licensed saloons; many fine schools {.
AZ churches, etc. wanted to visit
the city of the dead. it looked so
strange up on the hill and sorry TO say
the only thing it looked like to me was
cabbage patch. The dead were buried
in rows and not green thing only
grass on the top and paths between
each.
Leaving Butte early the morning of
the 10th, we journeyed on getting off
the main line at Drummond taking
the short line to Philipsbure to visit
friends who live on horse ranch and
down the valley from Drummond to nv
eye is the better part of Montana but
they only raise arass here. The people
claim to be too lazy to farm but a few
are experimenting with wheat this
year. This far the crops are not so far
advanced as at home. Through western
North Dakota and eastern Montana the
crops look very promising to the eyes
of the wheat buyer. We leave here
Monday morning, the 10Th, for Mis-
soula where we stop for day.
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