Great Falls tribune., 1922-03-12

Bainville, follows the Great Northern
westward through the Milk River val
ley touching Glasgow. Malta, Dodson,
Chinook and Havre, then on to Shelby
and Cut Bank. through the Blackfeet
Indian reservation to Glacier National
park The automobile must be
shipped by rail from Glacier Park sta
ton over the continental divide to
Belton. the western entrance to
Glacier. The Roosevelt highway
then goes through one of the most
beautiful parts of the state, touch
ing Kalispell, Marion. Libby and Troy
into Idaho by way of Bonner's Ferry
and thence westward to Spokane and
the coast.
Tourists from st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, Chicago and points east
ward have their choice of two routes,
the National Parks highway or the
Yellowstone trail. The National
Parks highway goes from Chicago by
way of Milwaukee, through Lacrosse
to the Twin Cities, and thence through
st. Cloud and Fargo into Montana by
way of Yates. Wibaux and Glen
dive. The Yellowstone trail comes
westward from Chicago by way of
Milwaukee through Oshkosh and Eau
Claire to the Twin Cities and thence
through Montevideo, Milbank and
Aberdeen into Montana by way OF
Baker, Ismay and Fallon. From
Fallon these two trails follow the
same highway through Montana. wind
ing westward up the fertile Yellow,
stone to Livingston, where the road
branches southwark to Gardiner. the
main entrance to the Yellowstone
National park. Snow-capped noun
tains rim the rich and irrigated val
lev of the Gallatin as the main road
continues west from Livingston
through Bozeman. Belgrade and Man
haitian to the three forks of the Mis-
souri,. discovered and named Three
Forks bv Lewis and Clark on the
memorable expedition that opened to
the United States the northwestern
country. Here the road forks. the
southern fork going by way of Whlte-
hall. Butte, Anaconda and Deer Lodge,
over the main range to Garrison. and
the northern fork going by way OF
either Townsend or Boulder through
Helena to Garrison. 1t was snort
distance west OF Garrison that gold
was first discovered in 1852 in what
;s now Montana. The highway darts
westward " to Missoula through the
CANYON Of the Hellgate river. and
short distance beyond Missoula again
forks the southern fork following the
St. Regis river through Superior and
St Regis to Wallace. Ida, and thence
to Spokane and points west Inc
northern fork follows the Clarks iorI
of the Columbia through Ravalli and
THOMPSON Falls to Sand Point, lda''
and thence to Spokane.
From Omaha and Sioux Falls
Another highway from the east OF
increasing Importance IS the Custe.
Battlefield highway which. starting at
Omaha. runs north to Sioux rams
thence due west across South Dakota,
northwesterly through the picturesque
Rlack Hills. and across Wyoming into
Montana at Wyola. 1t traverses the
Crow Indian reservation, passes the
Custer Battlefield where Custer and
his entire command were wiped out by
the Indians in s1S76, and intersects
the Yellowstone land National Parks
highway at Billings. From Billings 1t
goes northward to Roundup, the scene
of the first oil activity in Montana,
and than to Grass Range. where
road runs east few miles to the Cat
Greek oil field. Lewistown. the cen
ter of the prosperous Judith Basin
country, is the largest town on the
route between Billings and Great
Falls. The road continues northwes-
terly out of Lewistown through the