The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-12

the Union Pacific The "Corrine
| Trail extended from Salt Lake City
to Alder Gulch near Dillon, where
early mining activities made a busy
city that passed away with the mines
Between Idaho Falls, now a recla-
! nation and hydro-electric power
/ center, and Dillon is stretch of the
road that was the scene of many
! stage hold-ups by road agents back
in ga and IS.
Magnificent scenery marks the
highway from Yellowstone to Glacier
thru western Montana Leaving the
western gateway of the Yellowstone,
the highway enters a beautiful
wilderness, where rise the extreme
headwaters of the Mississippi river.
Deer and elk abound in the hills;
fishing is well rewarded.
The road follows the famous
Centennial Valley along the Bitter
Root mountains into Monida, where
the Oregon Short Line and the prin-
cipal road to Salt Lake City are met.
The line of the railroad is kept to
Armstead, where the beautiful
memorial to Sacajawea, built by
Montana women in honor of the
squaw, who piloted Lewis and Clark
is situated.
From Armstead the way leads to
Dillon, a beautiful little city in the
heart of a fat country. Here is the
State Normal College. Bannack, the
first capital of Montana, the scene of
early gold discoveries and of many
of the most important events in the
states history, lies just beyond.
Hangman's Gulch, where the Vigil
lantes rid the state Of bandits, is near
Bannack and on the highway.
Here begins the fertile Big Hole
valley, rich in soil and blessed with
wonderful natural charms. At Jack
son are excellent natural hot baths.
Farther on is Wisdom, near which
is the Gibbons battle field, where a
little army of regular troops and
Montana settlers defeated Chief
Joseph and his Nez Perez Indians
when they took the warpath in 1877. |
From Wisdom across the Cont |
mental Divide into the beautiful Bit
ter Root valley, the local govern |
ments and the United States Forest |
Service built a magnificent scenic
road. 1t follows an easy grade thru
the wonderful beauties of the
and. leads into the Bitter
Root at Medicine Hot Springs, where
are a good plunge and a comfortable
hotel.
Thence the highway runs straight
down the famous valley, rich with
grain and wide orchards, thru Ham
ilton and Stevensville and a dozen
beautiful small towns, to Missoula.
10 Sc ~ !
and the most charming city
ated in wide valley walled with
The state university is
here, also the headquarters of United
States Forest District No. l..
From Missoula the road runs1
straight north across the Flathead
indian reservation. 1t skirts the
great bison reserve, where buffalo
'till range and penetrates the land of
he Selfish, peace-loving Indians, who
still live in native picturesqueness.
rhe Flathead's wide praries have
,een thrown open to settlement and
white farmers have made the land
blossom beside the tepee villages of
he red men.
Flathead Lake, the largest and !
most beautiful body of fresh water {
n the United States, excepting the
treat Lakes, lies in the northern en- I
# the reservation, steamboat lines q
I'm across it, and splendid road
uns along the west shore, facing the /
parking waters and the stupendOus I
Mountains beyond. There is also a $
God road on the east side of the I
axe. There is no mountain range '
4 the country to compare with I
inyalemin, whose fantastic, snow I
v