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N 1800 ve did not bava a, foot ot
rails west ot th MUalsBlppl
river. W had a tunny llttl
pur ot ralU running between
I Naples and tjprlngflcld. 111., and
J a still funnier link running east
ot ttitinplils, a whimsical attempt between
Vlcksburs and liranuon. Down In Alabama
then was a short strip which begun and
ended nowhere. Another streak of Iron
wandered acrous another corner of Ala
bama and thero was a little building In
Georgia and tiie Carol. nua. The southern
states, strangely enough, then led in rail
way construction, although there were a
number of lines In the northeast that were
wonderful la their way. There was a
broken road from Detroit to Chicago, with
a wistful Jerkwater from Chicago to St.
Charles. Then. In InUiuna, lhee was a
pleco of rail running trom Kushvllle to tha day of denser population.
Madison If you know where these points
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the Standing Rock Indian reservation, !
T 'v nearly completed. Through pnssenger
t. .n service is offered between the Twin
Cities and Butto. and local passenner ser
vko between llutte, Seattle and Taeoma.
r riirough limited trains between Chicago,
Eeuttle and Tacoma will probably ba
;J started n the fall of 1910. Through freight
Service has been offered between Chicago
and north Pacific coast points since July,
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A most remarkuble text of the .facilities
i) for bundling freight on a new railroad
ii line was made In November. ll. A cargo
of Japanese silk, valued at $.",'.0,OHt, was
taken from the Httamnhlp Tacomu Maru,
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this latter point wa reach tha majestic coma, loaded on a fast freight tram ot the to go more Oian ten miles to net It ami ka
and historic Columbia river. Great Dritnin St. I'aul exten.slon to the coast, ami Ueliv- went by wagon. But this sort of ex pan
wanted this river to be the northern lit. ered In New York within five yiys. The slon ended about In a half dozen
of the States, but. as I have mention' fi eight was received in New York ahead years the Dakotas saw 10,0u0 people move
our farmers thought otherwise Th n w of the bills of lading which came from Into towns and villages, and 300.000 farmers
line croHses ibis river on a great ste.O the Orient on the same steamer and were lake up liome?t"i'H. The pre. s for more
brklK". with fifteen sunns of steel trusses, sent east by mull. This is probably the land in 1107 be ame so great t: at a new rall
mpportcd bv massive concrete piers, the tm,y tlmo 1,1 the I'istory of American way to the coa:t becanu. u national ne
channel span being placed so high that a rai-oads where a freight train has beaten oesslty. It kouihIs simple, but it was a
draw is necessary. It cost the St Tanl the mal1 acr"ss ,ne continent Inc identally great and fascinating teisk and one .leallng1 '
It provea mat me new iruiiHcontineniai in enormous root Doumls of clvilizat'on.
line hadvbei il pretty well built. Thus the One may figure thut the Ft. I'aul road
St. Paul road has rediscovered a vast has added, by its extension to the coast,-to '
new world of America and Is able (o the causa of abundant and permanent
give the American people a glimpse of a homes something like fcj.uM) square miles of-
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road nearly a million dollars to bridge the
Columbia river at Beverly, Wash.
Not far beyond the Columbia Is the fa
mous Kittitas valley, a groat grain and
.-......i..! , ,,Ktl.r-u ii cut uir iniii. a country which few of them ever saw be- noun try an area greater than thut of
many of the eastern states. In four years
strated not only aa regards tha bottom divide, near "WTiltehall, fifty-three miles
The latest transcontinental railway, tha land, but the bench land adjoining. Tha from Lombard. It will be Been that tho
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-..i"0' "r"'P!! ...:"! 100 .1 w f AVo m. a carried on by tha modem method of "dry paralleled part, ot tha ancient trail of river. This district. s splendid for ad-man- fore.
euga ui Illinois. m j- i ... " , ,.. ,. T r ner or fruits and land Is being developed c,. i .i,r. ti, ttotn. l.-.t-.lr ..r u h. mur, int., .,... i..
o..r v,.u i,u .1 thu mm, J-.uw tiv f ten Dri'Ue, reguraeu oy engineers "....(,. j-nris unit v ii - tun vtuDa.ua - - - - - - - . uuuuj tu o.i.ir
awo. now tooa m nm ma... greatest railroad bridges In One of the most promising districts opened Rockies, of course. Is not the same as the ,n ten-acre tracts which bid fair to rival iwai Nebraska and Minnesota had a rag- a hundred thousand settlers. How muoh
Theru was not a foot of canal built west Amt,rca The LrldKe consists of three to the ambitious American farmer, by the ones they employed. Kor a long time it ln Productiveness the best of tha Washing- Ked fringe of farms, which halted at the does that mean to the aggregate of Amerl-
of the. Mississippi mer sixty years ago, ppan! of 423 fpi,t earh wlth a stei trestle building of the extension of the St. Paul wa8 thought that tlie great backbone of tho ton ttnd Oregon districts. There is one edge of the buffalo and Indian country. If tan wealth? It is beyond the computation
although Maine had a Utile canal; as well a,,proucn te wet' aide 1,0 feet long, railroad is found in central eastern Mon. continent could be crossed In only one or niore hiounta'n range to pass the Cns- a man wanted more land, ho did not have oven of men who dt-al In figures.
Massachusetts and Connecticut, while Tlui ,,...,. for foundation of three ,ana- bordering the Musselshell river, and two iaceil. The horrible story of Pre- cades. The new steel trail to th Pacific
of the piers wis made by pneumatic pro- om mat name Known as the "Musselshell monfs lost expeditions offered to the publlo ascends tnese timbered slopes and gets
cets to a depth of from seventy to ninety Country." On the bench land for miles nilnd the impression of a vast forbidden Sno'iualmie pass at 3.01(1 f.-et. Tli
feet. The grr.de of the track Is about btti;k on either side of the stream Is found. waI1 between the middle west and the Pa- "ne follows the .noiiialmie river down
slxtv feet above high-water mark. From rolling, well-grassed prairie, with rtcn cUl coltHt. Thn engineers of tho St. Paul through "some of the heaviest timber in
the Missouri river the line plunges Into the o11 and flne climate, adapted to the pro- rolJ however, found the Pipestone puss a the state. At North Bend it takes th
read of the old buffalo ranee. It follows "uulu" ol 'niaii grain, wucn ot tne land ,ierffcctiy feasible one, at an elevation of Cedar river valley, and from the town of
Mew York had several, Pennsylvania one
clear across the state, Maryland one of
considerable lungih and Virginia a very
famous one that which George Washing
ton planned to extend from the Jan.cs river
across the Alleghuuie. About this time the
Quaint Features of Life
westbound rails wiped out all the theories the valley of Ouk creek and Its tributaries ln the district belongs to the I'nited States on)y e fM,t It r(,(Ivl,.t.a thirty-eight Maple Valley the run Into Si-uttle und Ta
ct Ueore Washington and everybody else. for about forty miles, from which point it vernment and may be homesteaded. No nUle. from Whltehall to Butte, to get over
nhl,i )itil a runtl tvili'in cl innm mlvnl l.o. ..lr.., 11.. , oruiw.lu . Sonlh Dakota- "H"" ru tiiot. ionic, tiroi
served.
practically
wMdn lha lnkM unit thu tihiu rivtir. lniiunu v.irtti liul-ntii s-t:itn liliA ml the tilateau
had one running Horn Toledo to Louivill between CansioiiliiHl and Grand rivers for lhd --l.mle of the Musselshell vallev Is
and Illinois had ono from Chicago to I.a about fifty miles, from which latter point ol,e r " beat features. Mild, clear
6ull. But all these were wiped out by advantage taken of the natural drainage '",ther usually extends beyond Christ-
rails. How absolutely antluuated all that to the crossing of tl-e Uttle Missouri river. " time. The winter climate is tempered
aort of thing seems today. Look at the The first eighty-eight mile, lie entirely hV the warm Chinook winds. The sum-
map for the sake of curiosity. It aoems within the Standing Hock Indian reserve- " aro hoi, but the n.ghls are cool.
.mi,eii..vi.l lu.w k.,,ii w. thut tlon. recently ol ened to settU-me.it by one Mock winters in tho open with no shelter
the continental divide. There are two tun
nels. 2.:iW and 1.1W feet In length, and
three steel trestles, 40 to 6)0 feet In length,
used in negotiating some of this bold moun
tain scenery.
Having topped the Hockles and reached
the f ii moils city of I'.iitle, the road Swings
coma Is easy. The Tacoma branch crosses
the Puyaihip rlv r, just above the interur
ran bridire at Tacoma. The deseent from
Montana to the Pacific coast has been
eminently practical, the maximum grades
being l.T per cent, the balance of the line
.4 per cent. These unemotional details
from the new railway sound prosaic, but
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Kip Van Winkle Uutelamril, culty In convincing the courts that $75,000
OHN WILLIAM KX LINK of Ken- worm t,r property la her own, and was not
ton. O.. 72 years old. is awake given H her by her husband, John Mackler,
alter a sleep of tnli ty viai s. t,J di fraud hU creditors. Until Jesse W.
Just ten years lunger than Hip -siKes. trustee in bankruptcy, of the estate
Vun Winkle s, and is face to of John Mucklcr, filed suit to recover tills
face with the wonders that Property and caused her story to ba draggsd
science and Invention have accomplished to the courts, she was known only as an
sine an lllfated day in lsst). when a boiler "dinary housewife, doing her own work
explosion blusted his memory. nJ receiving small spending money from
Before he received this Injury be was her busband. Year after year aha lived as
u studious workman and Uiouglif ot the ,f Hlle wore having the same hard struggle
possibility of men flying like birds, and llh )tfe " her neighbors,
even had a di.K'Uslon with his fellow-work-
tnun H- mil. a t tnlniite. h..f.-a CorOOOb IttfluStrr OrOWl.
Tlils is a country rich u-nri.i ti.. rirt t-i,,.i ,.,(i. . ... i . Pre corn and a hltr in r.r -.,i ,.
sulU. and already many of those who won "trenuly fertile. Analysis show, it to be tlmlr. fruit and agriculture, much of A,ril P,.. The rai, wa, ,Bd nfiar '''. Rw Zt day" said Mr Kxline bl tur P'P" to com, about it
farm. In the drawing at Aberdeen on rich in al the elements of plant food. ,he v.iley being under Irrigation. The Missoula. Mon,.. on March . 10. The Brl,nly and uw fhey teU n.e tha men the cb Tories continue to Pes tow
i,t, ,),..,- -it !'. are beKinnlng to develop Mm lar soil in the llliln v..i Vn. .. n... i. ,n.. ..a t.. . griuii, ana, now mey ten me inai men . ... . " luw
tlnental lines went across one by one to the ,hlllr ' fa..nl! Hetweeir the Indian the oldest s.t,ll rP,. m P ., . ., h V . , V i T "tension ot more than 1.4-JO miles, the out- can fly without waiting for somebody to ru wnu aa lavisn a hand ae la bein,
... . their HJ-acre rauns. ittiwtrir too iiiuimi ine oiaesi sillied region. In Molilalia, lias fivo inl'es. where tie heavily tiniberel mi- i,.t r.,ii...... .. i... . . . dona now.
tiirto ,,n ,..i h l.lUlo Missouri river, a nroduceil wlu -ti fv... fr.r.i.. .. ...i... ; .. ... i ., i . ...... ...r .. ... -e- , - - - . b --
- j. j . ui n vriLiutit nun ill wcninii :.iijiii,iii.i i ciun.'iurirn.
dlsiance of gtsiut It') miles, the enure coun- allowing any decrease in the yb Id. The
west to. Uarrisun, following down' the Deer they cover a great country and a great
Lodge vnllty. long i-cunied by acrlcultui e rtory.
-rt f oltl America so lona tluiuabt .aL-i-l. of I nclo Sum':i land lotteries. The line und usually no feed except the nutritoiu un,i P-i:.g. ' Next .m '.- the alfey -f the Tl. h..-., .,t .i. tnUM....i....
Eight-tenths of our crop-raising country nlei s North i taivoia us it e...e: n ...... r ...c on uio gioimo
then lay undiscovered. Kiglil-tenthj ot
America and the best part of America
Wu out of the picture undiscovered.
After the civil war the great transcon-
ni-ervatiou. This portion of the r. serva- The soil of the bench land is a loam with
tlon is well udapted to agricultural pur- a clay subsoil. U is free from stones and lint, r Hoot valley
Hcllgalv river, on t MisMinla, ('ie metrepo- the St. I'aul rullway represents the fastest
Us of n intern Moi:l:ma. at the mmitn of buildlnar time ever known In the nllvtv
Puclfic. Kach time one wus built
came ths outcry that It was all folly, be
causa it crossed a part of the country that
could not support a rallroud. The first
try, w nu n tour j eui u ""'j wemtrn so is or oleanic origin at e all
occa.-loiial ranch. Is now dotted with the ric, At Walla Walla. Wi. ih
government experiii cni out t explore inn houses of homesteaders ana otner seiners. that liav
west unanimously reiKirted mat it wa That la what the railroad does.
The corn Is now neuring tha maturing
.iu....-i..i. stage and the shucks will ha fiuir.. .
through this timbered country and soon (w cublc yiut,a of muU.rHl had been ex- and other Inventions that have taken nlace A ct"'"L'b factory at Washington. D. V
Ihd v ... ria In nil. In Milter llitnt . ... u......u.. . . ...
cific coast, was built In less than Ihr.. ,i...,i t, i;.in
i ne course oi me m. iicsis river is u-ra years. Durlnit thi oerlnn mn ihn ck,,.,
He discussed the wcnit.rsi
grown whtat for sixty years
and produce as much n,.w uu ihAi
wholly a hoptkss country. Major Long T1)e towns o( Mcintosh. Lemmon. Scran- did. The west, as a rule, la a country of
Utterly condemned the whole of Nebraska. lon uowman and Marmarth, on the St. light ra nfall. and as a result tile soils
Dakota was then not thought worth men- 1uu extension, are striking examples of have never been leach-d and contain all
tlonlng. Yet. one by one, the rails crept or wextern enterprise In the number and tl,elr oril,nil Htrength and fertriit. Tiie
rather rushed west. At lat th continental nubstantlal character of the buildings and crt,lg t adapted to the Muss lshill ,il-
lines did not pause. Kverybody bclioveit business undertakings already under way. ity are all W,eat r,-e oats and hull-le-"
there were railroads enough across tho where only recently there was nothing but Parley. With fanning m-tt ods aduptedto
continent. Kverybody alwa s has dreunud. bare prulrie. Lignite coal and excellent the soil and climate, these lands will pro
and then other bodks have found that drinking water are obtained in abundance. d(Jce lhe folow)ng yied,.
everybooy old not uream nig enough, inow toe iou ot iriuiiu, umiio. . ..u..tr
the transcontinental extension of Alary ar.ci .-wanna, at ine nine aussoun winter wheat
comes
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- rier. is a M. Paul railroad division point- Outs .
,v known as the Chicago. Milwaukee & and the territory naturally tributary mat l.Tie
Puget Sound railway. Its western terml- fcivr. u.o.... ... o... -
Bus Is at the foot of Puget sound, without tlal growth vhich cliaracterites the towns
above mentionta. r rom siarmouiu to
Per Acre.
M to 4.t bu.
tho rjud begins to climb the Bitter Boot c-avated
range.. The latter is crossed at St. Paul
Pass a 6r0-foot tunnel lying at an eleva
tion i f i.lW above sea level. Theme the
new line drop, down the west slope by
way of the ea.'t and north folks, until the
beautiful St. Jce river of Idtiho Is reached.
Now comes the largest existing white pine
district In the I'nited States
is the he.td of sU.-k-water navigation of
the St. Joe river, leading to Lake Coeur
d'Alene, reached by stearie-tiip piytng on
Coeur d'Alene lake; thence across thu
Cceur d'Alene Indian I ef rvatlun. which
yards of tunnel driven, in thirty vears.
twenty miles of bridges erected and over q
irua.fow tons of elghty-flve-pound rails laid. nt Svnrrm Uurlr,
The total cost of building this-extension A WOIIltt buritlur, drM1WMl , a ,,,aa
was ma,ly WKM. On some days more ilk g0WBf ,.,. fuc,. v(ed an,,
than five mile, of new railroad a day. over eompanied by a man. n BCared ai:y
all sorts of country, were built. In early from tha hllUKW , aI. u a niu.
times a mile M tluv W.ta ninular.il ul.n ...
At St. Joe , , , ....t,ai ,-oal deaJei. living In the Clifton Parii sec-
.....ttv.t uuun in n iiiubi tavoraoie condi
tions. But this line was built in sections
and seems almost to rise from the ground
simultaneously throughout its whole ex-
tion of We h;iw ken, x. J., by a tvrvant
coming dowri triirs to li t In th iiiit.
The burglars had n:ered 'ry a front
window, which tl.ey ' --i n ,'tli a Jimmy,
a question dest ned to be the c nter of af
fairs on the Pacific sloe. Its eastern
terminus lies at the foot of the great lakes.
As the Hudson Bay company lonf pro
claim! u that Canada could only te a fox
farm, so the western cow n.en declared
Teriy. on the Yellowstone river, eighty
five miles, the line fitllows Corral, Sand
stone and O' Fallon creeks, adjacent to
which there Is much good laruung land.
The enih-e basin is underlaid with semi
bituminous coal, with outcrops along the
river. The railway company operates mines
at Roundup and these mines give employ
ment to about J.K)0 mlneis. Coal at the
mine costs U a ton retail. The bills near
60 to xo bu. was opened for b.-ltlenient in July. .
o bu. Washington the lines literally fall In
20 to .10 bu. C. , , ,.......
tent ac ross the conrin-,nt. From St. Paul- and iitd pacRvd up aPthe silverware, table
linen and jt glass ready for removal, when
supplied tho agrlculturlats with tha aead
with the proviso that they ralae tha corn!
shell the urn and furnish' tha factory !
with the cobs. . i
To show that there Is nothing amall about
that factory they have agreed to give the '
farmer 25 cents a hundred tor coba shipped
to the factory.
Cnder these condition tha farmer has
free seed, retain hi shelled corn and will
then have about a carload of cob to con- '
vert Into tho coin of the realm.
it is expected there will be general '
movement of the farmer. In the com atBtea
to try the new corn. .
jiiuntapous ine om line had been pre
viously built to Aberdeen, 8. U. The Sine the servant girl heard the cat crying out
was finished to Marmarth. 2s8 miles west aide the kitchen door. As . ran,. d,,.
ning through a fertile and well-settled ' ""u-.ii, "uuwr m, iw,, ana to lerry, stairs to let the cat ln she heard the swish Ueei ctu ( DlrM.
country to Palisade. All eastern scenery Munt- 371 miles west of Aberdeen, Feb- of a woman's silk gown. Turning up a Almost every lmaglnabla excuse ha Leei
pales into in.ujsiiifleance compared with rllurv 11 reached Miles City March light she found the packed bundle ready presented as a plea for severing tha marital
that of the wettern mountains, and one l!'K' Bnd l"nbard. 72.' miles west of to be taken away. She ran to the front tie, but tho Italian backer of v i-
Aberdeen, .March 1.,. From Harlowton to door and saw a man and woman running whose wife has left i.im !.....- .7
Lombard. Mont., the l,nt ,.t m, ., ,h- ....... f.. .i... ... . .
hardly need ay that the Palisades here far
excel In b.tutv the far-fuincJ Palisades of
which up to the present time has been the river are covered with pine timber, as the Hudson. West of Bock lake the Hue 'allroad. already constructed, was uaed.
1 merely for stock ranttliiE. The stale 'o me mountains to tne north. Al- r,.nE iy,r,,.,t, . M,min onr,.i,iA r .,..,,-i,.
.o ... . - lne totween North imkota and Montana nmuer on toe government land ng grain, but hitherto undeveloped. The
Missouri r.ver was fit for anything else rrtsisi where the town of Montllne has included in the forest reserve, the gov- new town
bur cows. ine arrow neau ot our west-
and the opening of train service to Lom-
iurd, on Murcn 15, linn, gave through serv-
fers tlm hIiuiiIm 11 t.i .
t ,Ilaru(,on BoeUiB
to be defending tiie only case In which such
a plea has been made.
J he city or Butte was reached In May,
a name "u 'an ran i.nu near .Missoula,
dy unde
l orlane in ller Hostle.
When I.UHiluii went out of style, Mis. Many a woman leaves her husband tie
Ollle Mackler of St. Ijouis who had carried cause be Is poor. leaving blni because of
tuau ti.-'i in iiiii.i ot i,u uenomiua- t--eu. at nrst glance ridlciiluj
Italston Is ln an excellent' ic'e ,u Moore, Mont., and Ixwiston, Mont
he. n built. From Melstoue. named in ernment permits settlers to cut it for do- farn.inc .luirt.-t
bound rails pU reed this last of the absurd honr cf Melville K. Stone, of the Asso- mestlo puroses. Including buildings. At Just beyond RalsVon is Llnd
traditions. When It crussed outh Ia- ejatod I'ress. to Harlow ton. Mont.. 1'j4 Lombard, Mont., the new line crosses th r.r.ii. v, ..tA ,.f t nf ti, , i.,. Mont . on March Si. limn
acta, it changed the old order of wide n,llegi tllo ijna iiea In the valley of the Missouri river for the second time, thence one of the largest grain shipping point in Several branch lines are aire;
Musseisueii rter, tu, wnuunun., wi- .out,.,,,, a.,s,ur, anu jerierson river, the stale of Washington. It is seventy- construction, and the. Cannon Ball line in In consequence of the effective corn eal- U' i'e of a rich man i,,tol...P i ..
Urmcr. the small cattle raiser; in short. biUlles of which are rapklly- being demon- to tha east alope of tha Transcontinental fu ,iie. from Und to iwiv. h. -t tuutii Uakot. and N...th iv.. , . . . , P ' ... "'tollable. Ilai.
' ' ' v... v . w , auv ta uavtllg UilU- i-vufiwuiuu to loll CaUUOt bl ouk iliii
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other way ta dispose of the money, in- wis has a logiial argument. Born a peas
Vetted It in ital estate and coal mines. ant, slit finds the artlllcialilliM ..r i.r
I i