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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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Rocky Mountain Division. 271 east, with a valley eighty miles long and varying from half amile to twelve miles in width, considered one of the finestgrazing and agricultural sections in Montana. Many goodquartz and galena leads have been discovered in the mountains,and the Wallace district, near Baker station, is especiallypromising. There are several large saw-mills in the Hell Gate Canon,which obtain their logs from the canon itself and from theneighboring mountains. The principal market for the lumberis in Butte, where it is in demand, not only for building pur-poses, but in large quantities for supports to roofs of themines. Carlan, Bonita, and Wallace (1)247, 1,255, ^^^^ ^^^^?>miles, respectively, from St. Paul) are unimportant stations. Bonner (1,273 niiles from St. Paul; population, 150) is asaw-mill village near the crossing of the Big Blackfoot river.The mills at this place are the most important in western Mon-tana. Logs are floated down the Big Blackfoot river from thesl

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