Show NORTHERN NOTES from front eagle rock Kock past billon dillon and silver bow to butte EDITOR HERALD of the country lying between eagle rock and the mii 1 of the rocky mountains above beaver be aver canyon some t tiling I 1 will bensaid be said hereafter FROM THE SUMMIT TO DILLON montana the road passes through a narrow valley dotted hero here and there with ran ranch ch houses the hills bills to the cast and the portions of the valleys that are not used for baying aford excellent grazing grounds for the large number of cattle that are the support of the ranchers and and their families the mountains to the west are covered with dense forest of pine which contrast favorably with the now dry hills of the east AT DILLON nearly miles from the sum summit mit t tle ue ravine opens into a large valley which is occupied by prosperous ranchers dillon is having a second growth due mostly to the trade of these ranchers in this part af the country a few fields of wheat and oats have been cultivated but it is a question whether the w wheat hiat will ripen before the fall frosts the city has a number of of prosperous business houses bouses which are doing a good trade the dilion dillon ion tribune a creditable paper lately enlarged is published here the valley va ley again narrows as we follow the course of big hole river until silver bow is reached cached here jbranch a branchi road of the U N leads from the main line to garrison seven miles northeast into the mountains to I 1 BUTTE TITI CITY OP OF MIXES this is the liveliest business city in the country all along the railway the land has been washed in search for gold and a few are yet profitably engaged in in placer mining in in this region about a mile north irom the depot up tip the mountain the city is situated facing a small valley occupied by a few ranc ranchers bers the a large number of first class buildings the courthouse is as fine a structure e as can be found in the west it is remarkable to a person used to a quiet city to eee see such bustle and flurry it is safe to say that last sunday in butte was livelier than any day ogden has seen for two years except it be circus day and I 1 venture that ogden did not do AS MUCH BUSINESS on that day as butte did last sunday had it not been that the banks bank were closed and the church bells rang the day could not have been distinguished from any other day as only few of the business houses closed until the afternoon and find the saloons and sporting 0 places w were r in full blast the streets were alive with men and the saloons were crowded to their full capacities and they are quite capacious with men who were drinking gambling and carousing thee places are tire open night and day lay the year round there are four fine churches in the city the writer visited one there were twenty five persons in attendance and this was a fair average of the number who attended the other places of worship considering that the city has a population of it is safe to r estimate that the people are not no all church members and that there is an all excellent field for the christian minister who I 1 might night I 1 much easier be spared in reli religious gio us utah tha than n 1 ast 1st boisterous BUTTE there arc two newspapers news papers the dally daily inter mountain and the daily miner nei both of which are doing a thriving business this is especially the case with the intermountain inter mountain which has lately enlarged its capacities for fur printing by adding a steam paper cutter a binder and a ruling mac machine bi in e besides much new type to its already alread T large stock of material surrounding tho city on all sides bide are the ponderous mills hoisting and reduction works that elevate from the bowels of the earth and prepare for u use so the riches of the world I 1 had the pleasure of avia a visit to the parrot and anaconda copper minea mines also to the famous alice and 11 moulton oulton mines and others in the tile neighborhood burrou surrounding the city may be seen men delving del ving in the earth sinking shafts 1 and hunting for strikes some sonic have grown millionaires IN A DAY at this busija s but the majority must livo live on hope I 1 coder conversed sed with one young man who had bad left iowa iowa more than 1 eight years aboon a search for a fortune he lie acknowledged he had nut not found it yet but was in hopes lio lie would aa them that keep at it generally succeed at last as he lie expressed it he works for others t hers anul he jie has some money and then he be spends it while prospecting spec ting with b hopes es that he lie may someday borne day find we he said 1 I dont like to go home cast until I 1 am richer than when I 1 left but its awful discouraging I 1 thus he continues his round no home no family no god his bis only desire money money his only ambition a a sat strike let us hope he may find that for which lio lie is is arching tear ce ebing that be may change ins his ie ife and spend his older days in nobler pursuits which will bring GREATER AND AIND DEARER RI REWARDS WARDS there are a great number of respectable spec table people in butte but a greater part of the lie population is made up of a class of individuals about whose morals there is such an air of inconvenient indefiniteness definiteness iu that the subject must be left for others to discuss E H A I 1 BUTTE Mon montana tapa aug 1884 |