Bingham News | 1923-11-17 | Page 5 | On the Great Divide

On the Great Divide. The Greut Divide Is a high ridge of land In the United States where occurs the parting of the waters which flow to the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. The nume, "The Great Divide," Di-vide," is now commonly applied to a greater extent of country than the "Continental Divide," or watershed proper, says the Detroit News. It comprises thut region In Montana und Wyoming wherein so many of the large rivers of the United States have their source and which possesses within with-in itself all the characteristics of a continent. The arrangement of the elevated lnnd masses In relation to the valleys and plateaus is continental. Its waters How to the Gulf, the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans and streams rise on Its eastern borderland whose waters How to the Arctic ocean. It Is the natural geographical center of North America.