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Main Red, Washita, Canadian, Cimaron, Arkansas, 

 Smoky Hill, Saline, Salmon Fork, Republican, North 

 and South Plattes, Loup Fork, Niobrara, White Earth, 

 Big Cheyenne, Little Missouri, Powder River, Tongue, 

 Rosebud, Big Horn, Wind Rivers, Yellowstone, Milk 

 River, Musselshell, Marias, Jefferson, and Missouri. 

 The length of these streams is over twenty thousand 

 miles. The small streams on the eastern slope of the 

 Rocky Mountains are the Blue Water, Cold Water, 

 Hill Creek, Raw Hide, Muddy Willow, Shawnee, Slate, 

 Sweet Water, Ash, Pumpkin, Laramie, Carter, Cotton- 

 wood, Horseshoe, Elkhorn, Deer Creek, Medicine 

 Bow, Rock Creek, Douglas, Lodge Pole, Big Laramie, 

 Little Laramie, and north-south forks of Platte, Horse 

 Creek, Beaver, Pawnee, Crow, Lone Tree, Big Beaver, 

 Bijou, Kiowa, and Bear Creeks, and Cache-la-Poudre. 

 The Plattes are the best grazing- grounds east of Mon* 

 tana, and the Cache-la-Poudre and Big Thompson rank 

 next. The grazing-lands on these two streams alone 

 are put as high as 12,000,000 acres. The Cache-la- 

 Poudre is famous for its fine vegetables as well as its 

 grazing. I have myself seen cabbage-heads raised there 

 that weighed fifty pounds each, turnips twelve pounds, 

 and potatoes three pounds. The climate in the grazing- 

 country I have described is fine, the temperature in 

 summer averaging from 45 to 75 and 90 degrees, and 

 in winter 30 to 32 degrees. The mean temperature for 

 the year is 50 to 55 degrees. Out of the 365 days in 

 the year 275 are clear. The snow-line in the east, on 

 the White Mountains, is fixed at an elevation of 7000 

 feet ; on the Alleghanies at 7200 ; and on the Rocky 



