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methods and with the completion of the Lower Yellowstone irriga- 
tion project by the United States Reclamation Service,’ settlers have 
flocked in, and the country which 10 years ago was an open range is 
now almost all cut up into small farms. This change has removed 
from this region one of the picturesque types of western life—the 
“‘cow-puncher” of the early days. The traveler may still see a few 
poor imitations or caricatures, but the real article—the fearless, dare- 
devil rider who was an equally fearless ‘booze fighter” when he came 
to town—is no more. The big herds are gone, and with them the 
men who tended them. 
At Glendive the railway route again touches the trail of Lewis and 
Clark, for in their homeward journey Capt. Clark with a small party 
descended Yellowstone River.2. As nearly as can be determined, they 
passed the site of Glendive on August 1, 1806. 
South of Glendive there can be seen on the left (east) badland 
bluffs and on the right the muddy river, which, ashort distance above 
the town, is crossed by the new branch railway leading to Intake and 
other towns established under the Lower Yellowstone irrigation project. 
Still farther south the railway passes through deep cuts in massive 
white sandstone and skirts a prominent pinnacle of the same rock, 
‘In the Yellowstone Valley in eastern | from 30° below to 100° above zero. The 
Montana, tributary to the Northern Pa- 
cific and Great Northern railways, the 
Government has built an irrigation sys- 
tem to cover a strip of land 70 miles long 
lying on both sides of the river and ex- 
tending over the boundary line into 
North Dakota. The irrigable area con- 
sists of about 60,000 acres of land lying in 
the midst of one of the best and largest 
grazing areas in the United States, 
The soil is a deep sandy loam and when 
properly cultivated produces abundant 
crops of hay and grain. -Alfalfa, the great 
forage crop of the West, grows to perfec- 
tion here, and dairying and the winter 
feeding and fattening of stock are profit- 
able industries. 
The towns of Intake, Burns, Savage, 
Crane, and Sidney are located at short in- 
tervals through the middle of the area 
covered by the project. 
easy terms and at reasonable prices. The 
cost of water right is $45 an acre, payable 
The general elevation is 1,900 feet above 
sea level, and the temperature ranges 
locations in the Northwest. 
? The name Yellowstone was doubtless 
given to the river because of some outcrop 
of yellow rocks along its banks; but where 
do such rocks occur? The traveler in 
passing up the valley sees no distinctly 
yellow rocks between Glendive and Liv- 
ingston, and if he goes to Yellowstone 
Park he will see none as far as Gardiner, 
the northern entrance to the park. With- 
in the park the conditions are different. 
dominating tint is 
yellow. Here is the only place on the 
river where the rocks are so distinctly 
yellow as to have suggested a name for 
the stream, and the conclusion seems 
inevitable that here the name originated. 
the evidence available seems to 
indicate that the name did not originate 
with the English explorers, it must have 
been given by some early French traveler 
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