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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : 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: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of the new county of Yellow-stone. The town was founded in the spring of 1882. Amongthe noticeable buildings are the handsome brick churchedifice, the gift of Mrs. Billings; a large bank building, con-structed in part of stone quarried in the neighboring cliffs;and a number of substantial brick business blocks. There aresix hotels, three churches, two banks, two public halls, two brickyards, a brick and stone court-house, two daily and weeklynewspapers, a flouring mill, and numerous stores of all branchesof trade. The public school-house is a large two-story brickedifice. This is the terminus of the Yellowstone Division, andthe beginning of the Montana Division, of the raihoad. Thecompany has built a substantial round-house, shops, etc., forthe jnirpose of a division terminus. The Clarks Fork Bottomditch, thirty-nine miles long, terminating at Billings, isdesigned to irrigate 100,000 acres of fertile soil. The valleyin which lies Clarks Pork Bottom, contains over 125,000 acres II III
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220 The Northern Paeific Railroad, of excellent land, capable of producing all kinds of cereals andvegetables. Billings has tributary to it the Barker and Magin-nis gold mining region, situated about loo miles to the north-ward (reached by stage), and the Rocky Fork coal mines to thesoutheast, which have recently been rendered accessible by arailroad built from Laurel, a station three miles west of Billings.On one side, to the westward, are the great Musselshell andJudith valleys; and on the other, to the eastward, are the Littleand Big Horn valleys. Billings is a supply and trading postfor a large extent of farming and grazing country within aradius of over loo miles. It also receives the trade of theStinking Water District, Wyoming Territory, a large and pros-perous tract of country. The town pos ^esses extensive cattleyards, and is one of the principal cattle-shipping points inMontana, great numbers of cattle being driven here for ship-ment from the Musselshell and Judith ranges. T

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