364 GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



LIVINGSTON TO THE SNAKE PLAINS. 

 ITINERARY. 



Station. 



Livingston .... 



Coal Spur 



Hoppers 



Miiir 



'runnel 



Sum. above tun 



nel 



West End 



Timberline 



Mountainside .. 



Fort Kills 



Bozeman 



Storey 



Belgrade 



Centra] Park ... 



Moreland 



Logan 



Three Forks 



Distanoe 



Miles. 



11 



Kilo- 

 meters 



Elevation. 



Feet 



. ... 4,487 



8 -1, 786 



14 6,176 



19 6, 600 



.... 6,666 



Meters 



23 



it; 



22 

 25 

 80 



:;;. 

 41 

 4. r ) 

 49 

 55 



2C 

 85 



41 



48 . 

 56 



72 1 

 79 

 89 I 



5, 835 

 5, 540 

 5, 600 

 5, 275 

 4, 860 

 4, 762 



4. 435 



4,240 



4,094 

 4. 053 



1,368 

 1, 448 

 1,677 

 1,670 

 1,606 



1 . 778 

 1,689 

 1,676 



1 . cos 

 L481 

 1,448 



1, 352 



1.292 

 1,248 

 1,236 



Station. 



Distance. 

 Miles 



Willow Creek , 



Sappington 



Whitehall 



Pipestone 



Someslake 



Homes t&fce Ton- 

 ne! 



Sum. above tun- 

 nel 



Butte 1 



Silver l!o\v 



Melrose 



Dillon 



Beaver < !anyon , 



Eagle Rook 



Ross Fork 



I'ocatello 



68 

 87 

 94 

 110 



Kilo 

 meters 



1119 

 140 

 151 

 177 



120 



127 

 159 

 1S9 



L't;;. 

 832 

 371 

 383 



193 

 •Jill 

 266 

 304 

 426 

 534 

 597 

 616 



Elevation. 



Feet. Meters, 



4. 132 

 4. 178 

 4,313 

 4, 690 

 6, 310 



1 . 259 

 1,273 

 1,324 



1,429 

 1,923 



6,880 1,945 



0.435 

 5,570 



5,314 



6, 0! 



4,468 



1,961 

 1,098 



1, 629 



1,886 



1,362 



Population, 10,723. 



[By Walter H. Weed.] 



At Livingston the railroad leaves the valley of the Yellowstone and 

 passes due west up the valley ol Billman Creek over Livingston beds, 

 whose somber sandstones form the ridges on either side. At Coal Spur 

 a branch line runs up Coke creek to the mines and ovens of Cokedale, 

 where the Laramie eoal seams are extensively worked, 44 a plaee 

 where the relations of the Laramie and underlying Cretaeeous to the 

 Livingston beds are splendidly exposed. A dike of analcite basalt 

 may be seen cutting the Livingston beds in a hill north of the railroad, 

 a short distanee beyond Coal Spur. From this point westward the 

 ascent is very steep, 1,000 feet (305 m.) in L2 miles (18 km.), to the Muir 

 tunnel, by which the iailroad crosses the, divide between the waters of 

 the Yellowstone and the Missouri. Emerging from the tunnel, cut 

 through the Livingston rocks, the railroad enters a mountain valley, 

 passing the station of Timberline, where a narrow-gauge road runs to 

 eoal mines in Laramie rooks, two miles to the southward, that supply 



