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 (14735862496)

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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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ude east of the Rocky Mountains, and the soil produces readily a greatvariety of cereals, fruits and vegetables. The country surrounding Missoula has been the scene of many fierceconflicts between the Indians. Before the whites inhabited the Ter-ritory the Blackfeet Indians ambushed Cltief Coriacan of the Flatheads in a defile, fourteen miles north of the city, with a portionof his tribe, and massacred nearly every man. A few years later the Flat-heads avenged their chiefs death by killing a like number of Blackfeet inthe same defile which now bears Coriacans name. Missoula County embraces the large and fertile valleys of the BitterRoot and Jocko. Its assessed valuation in 1882 was $2,000,000. Its areaof surveyed lands at that date was 600,000 acres, of which one-fourth wasunder cultivation. The county is heavily timbered, and is rich in min-eral and grazing lands. It contains also many beautiful lakes, well stockedwith fish and frequented by water fowl. Good trout fishing, as well as
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o Rocky Mountain Division. 197 various other kinds, is obtained in the Missoula, the Bitter Root, Jocko,Lo-Lo, Flathead, Big Blackfoot and Pend dOreille rivers, and in Stony andAshley creeks. The mountain goat is in abundance and can be found inthe vicinity. Fort Missoula, a garrison of the U. S. troops, is pleasantly situatedabout half an hours drive from the town in the Bitter Root Yalley. Leaving Missoula, the railroad passes westward across the northernedge of the plain, over a low and well timbered divide, which separates thewaters of the Missoula River (the continuation of the Hell Gate) from thosewhich drain into the Flathead. Fourteen miles from Missoula the roadenters the Coriacan Defile, and crosses the Marent Gulch by means of atrestle bridge 8Q6 feet in length and 226 feet in height, the construction ofwhich required 1,000,000 feet of lumber. The track follows no valley, butproceeds along the faces of hills, which are covered with fir, pine andtamarack, down into the valle