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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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romantic dells and gorges,where the cottonwood and the alder hang over deep, shady pools, in whichhundreds of trout await their destiny in the shape of the man with a bamboorod and book of flies. This canon, with hotel accommodation at each endof it, is accessible by carriages, as well as by a stage line of palacejerkies, which passes through it three times a week for Fort Benton.The Gates of the Rocky Mountains are reached either by carriages tothe upper end of the canon or by boat through the canon itself. Among the other attractions of Helena are the Hot Springs, situatedin a romantic glen, four miles west of the city, which are much resorted toby persons afflicted with rheumatism. The temperature of the water as itbubbles up from the earth varies from 110° to 140° Fahrenheit. About four miles southwest, at the head of Grizzly Gulch, is a groupof rich quartz mines, and also some placer diggings, both of which havebeen extensively worked. There are here many quartz mills, and the
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The Gates of the Rocky Mountains, Missouri River, near Helena,Mont. Rocky Mountain Division. 187 drive from the city is through pleasant mountain scenery. Twenty milesto the northwest, over a fine road, are several mining districts, in whichare some of the richest gold and silver mines in the Territory. These areworked by a number of large quartz mills, around which have grown uppicturesque mountain villages that will amply repay the trouble of a visit.Twenty-eight miles to the southeast are the mining towns of Jefferson City,Wickes and Clancy, in the vicinity of which are a great number of rich andextensive silver mines, which are worked by the smelting process, and giveemployment to many men and teams. Fifteen miles west, at the head ofTen-Mile Creek, is a rich belt of silver mines. Thus Helena is surroundedon all sides by rich mining districts, which are in a great measure tributaryto her. Making Pemmican and Buffalo Kobes.—The great fall hunt of theIndians is the most important

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