Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-14 | Page 13 | Railroads Kill Romance

II RAILROADS KILL ROMANCE CE TI 1 By FAUNCE ROCHESTER 1 For a score of years years many thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of hardy men had dared the dangers s of the plains and round round- the-Cape the voyaging to reach the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- and find gold Many thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands responded to the Pikes Pike's Peak discoveries and filled the canyons and gulches of what Is now Colo Cob rado Settlements were well es established established es- es from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific coast Nevada was invaded by gold All this was before the rich placer diggings In Montana far more easily accessible accessible sible sibbe were discovered The miners In the Northwest worked from the coast ea east t. t Idah was yas exploited before Alder Aider Gulch blazed into to fame The Civil war smothered all commerce on the lower bower Missouri Up to 1864 only si six steamboats arrived a at lonely Fort Benton Seventy such craft arrived during 1866 During the latter year there were from thirty to forty steamboats plying between Fort Benton and the mouth of oC the Yel Yel- On May 20 lS 6 the Deer Lodge left Denton Benton and on ot her way down met three thirty boats bound up river In this year ear 12 cents a n pound was the general freight rate Cabin passengers paid fare The captain received a month His clerk got Mate and engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer each drew v down And the pilot named his own figure and often received the astounding salary of or 1200 a a a. month Those were wore the halcyon days on the tho Missouri but l let t. t no one think steamboat tra travel el was fast anc and safe Perils Penis be beg bet the lower river The Sam Gat Ga s boarded by Hicks Hicks' guerilla ba bader bant bani der del the high wooded bank nea neal Ie ley Mo 10 Some negroes and 12 pa a Union soldiers were vere taken nf and shot All aboard were In the upper river the Indians on the boats bonts The pilot hou house protected by iron plates ai alii boats anchored in midstream gold rush contained exact same elements of danger a ato ait aitto as asto to the Montana fields andis and andis is enough of romance and violence to fill umes The commercial glor glory river was doomed wh hen n the roads rea reached hed Union Ogden I. I nion ftc fie 1869 and 1869 and Not No No Pacific 1872 and 1572 and and Montana i ithe If It the Utah NorthErn 1 and sSU-and ano the deathblow In l ISs Sj Vb Great Northern reached Heu lief Ad Adventure Magazine 1