The Republican journal., 1918-10-24
Letter From the West.

DEAR JOURNAL. In my last letter l
was about ready to leave Anoka, to re-
sumo my westward trip. | took North
ern Pacific train via Staples, Mimi, for
Bozeman, and | wish to bear testimony
to my appreciation of these trains. The
cars are fine, the road rides as smooth as
any eastern road and the service is ex-
cellent
Leaving Anoka at 10 a. m. | arrived at
Bozeman, Montana, at p. m. the follow
ing day, where | received a most cordial
welcome from Prof. and Mrs. William F..
Schoppe and their two fine boys, and
during my stay there of about a week
they did everything to make my visit
pleasant
Prof. Schoppe is a University of Maine
graduate and holds a professorship in the
Montana State College there. He and his
wife formerly Miss Marjorie Pilsbury)
and their two boys are held in the highest
esteem by all their acGuaintances.
Bohemian is a nice well built city of
about 5000 people, and is surrounded by
arge farming and ranching community,
which contributes very largely to the
prosperity of the city. The State col
lege is very prosperous, and it brings
many Young men and young women there.
After leaving Bozeman went to Emil
grant, where | visited Daniel w. Trip,
former Freedom man, who came west
about 1880. Emigrant is on the line of
the railroad from Livingston to Gardiner
and after remaining there a few days
entrance to the Yellowstone Park. Ar
irving there at noon, about thirty passen-
gers and the writer, took seats in the fine
twelve passenger auto car of the Yellow
stone Transportation Co., for Mammoth
Hot Springs, about five miles from Gardi-
ner where are located the fine camps of
registering and paying our transportation
and camping charges which were forty
three dollars for the five days trip, each
person was assigned camp, and after
these preliminaries we sat down to good
dinner.
About mile from these camps are To-
Gated the nice permanent houses of the
U. S. Soldiers, who are located here, and
everything has an air of neatness about
the place.
The next morning we all left the NAM
mouth Camp by these fine Transportation
Company cars for the Old Faithful Camp,
distance of fifty miles, arriving there
at noon, passing on the way the Roaring
Mountains, the Boiling Springs, the NAM
mouth Paint Pots, the Vapor Lakes and
when about two miles from Old Faithful
Camps we could see Old Faithful Geyser
in action. This Old Faithful has kept
up its regular performance of throwing
a stream of hot water and steam into
the air distance of about four hundred
feet every seventy minutes, and l pre-
sumo it will do SO to the end of time.
Remaining at these camps until one
thirty the following day the same party
started for the Grand Canyon camps,
about sixty miles. and arrived there at
six p. M, passing on the way more mud
pots and a roaring spring. These mud
pots remind me of Mike Collins shaking
lime. The trip along the Yellowstone
Lake and Yellowstone River is fine. The
principal attraction at the Grand Canyon
is the Canyon. l did not 60 down into
it, as l was satisfied to look down from
on top.
The party broke up at these camps
after staying here nearly two days, and
quite number started for the Cody en-
trance, distance of eighty-four miles,
and the balance came back to Monmouth
camp. In going to Grand Canyon the
distance is ITO miles, and in coming back
the distance is only thirty-five miles.
After supper at the Monmouth camps
we went to Gardiner to take the train.
From Emigrant l went to the Chico
Springs, about three miles from the depot,
and remained there three days to take
the baths. The baths are supplied from
the mountains, with hot and cold water
and you can have almost any tempera-
ture. They are medicinal baths, and there
is hospital connected with the hotel,
and it is full of patients all the time, and
the hotel also is well patronized. Twas
surprised to find so large and well kept
hotel up in the mountains
wish to ray here that owing to the re-