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Title: Wonderland, or, Alaska and the inland passage
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892 Hyde, John, 1848-1929. From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: St. Paul : Northern Pacific Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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companies,may be mentioned the Montana, owning some of the richest and most steadilyproductive mining property in process of development ; Clarks Colusa, saidto have in sight, above the 300-foot level, at least 150,000 tons of valuableore ; and the Bell and Colorado, two of the richest copper-silver mines inthe district. So much for the mines and smelting works of Butte. What of the cityitself ? Briefly, it may be said to be a typical Western town, as seen in flushtimes ; nothing too big for it, nothing too good ; its quivering energy findingexpression, now in the erection of a $150,000 court house, and now in that ofthe finest opera house on the Pacific slope, outside of San Francisco ; its busi-ness enterprise filling magnificent stores with costly goods, suited to the tastes,pocket-books and spending proclivities of a community that on last Christmaseve spent $6,000 in presents in a single one of its stores.. There are several good trout .streams in the vicinity of Butte, and it is
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FALLS OF THE GIBBON RIVER, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. (27) 28 THROUGH WONDERLAND. pleasant to know that, in a city whose amusements are mainly of a very differ-ent character, there are those who know how to handle the rod. Proceeding westward from Garrison, the traveler will have some fine viewsof mountain scenery, including the snow-clad peaks of Mount Powell. Drum-mond, twenty-one miles west, is the station from which a branch line is nowbeing constructed to the rich mining districts of New Chicago and Phillipsburg.Granite Mountain mine, near the latter place, is exceedingly rich. A vein ofore, six feet wide, and assaying from 125 to 2,000 ounces of silver to the ton,is now being worked, ihe output reaching $120,000 per month. Soon the train enters Hell Gate Canon, at first a beautiful valley, from twoto three miles in width, but narrowing as we go westward, until from betweenits stupendous walls we suddenly emerge upon a broad plateau, where standsthe city of Missoula. Formerly a r

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