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THROUGH WONDERLAND. 
pleasant to know that, in a city whose amusements are mainly of a very differ¬ 
ent character, there are those who know how to handle the rod. 
Proceeding westward from Garrison, the traveler will have some fine views 
of mountain scenery, including the snow-clad peaks of Mount Powell. Drum¬ 
mond, twenty-one miles west, is the station for the rich mining districts of New 
Chicago and Phillipsburg. Granite Mountain mine, near the latter place, is 
exceedingly rich. A vein of ore, six feet wide, and assaying from 125 to 2,000 
ounces of silver to the ton, is now being worked, the output reaching $120,000 
per month. 
Soon the train enters Hell Gate Canon, at first a beautiful valley, from two 
to three miles in width, but narrowing as we go westward, until from between 
its stupendous walls we suddenly emerge upon a broad plateau, where stands 
the city of Missoula. Formerly a remote and isolated frontier post, Missoula is 
now a place of considerable importance. Extending southward for ninety 
miles is the valley of the Bitter Root river, well watered, exceedingly fertile 
and thickly settled. Here are raised fine crops of wheat and oats, as well as 
vegetables, apples and strawberries. 
The tourist has now entered the finest game country in the Northwest. 
At any point along the line, for a distance of nearly three hundred miles, he 
will find deer, elk and bear in great abundance. Let him but place himself on 
their trail, and he will certainly soon have them within gunshot. Even in the 
vicinity of Missoula there is excellent sport, one local trapper obtaining $160 
bounty for bear last season. Ducks and prairie chickens are also plentiful, 
and various species of trout abound in the mountain streams. 
The most interesting, as it is the most accessible, of the Indian reservations 
contiguous to the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, is that of the Flathead 
tribe, through which the line runs for many miles in the course of its north¬ 
westward sweep from Missoula. At Arlee station, the visitor is within five 
miles of the agency, and at Ravalli a like distance from St. Ignatius mission. 
For a full account of the excellent work carried on among the Indians by the 
Jesuit Fathers, together with an exceedingly interesting description of the Flat- 
head country generally, the reader is referred to an article in the Century 
Magazine for October, 1882, from the accomplished pen of Mr. E. V. Smalley, 
as well as to sundry articles in that gentleman’s own magazine, The Northwest. 
From a point about 500 feet from the summit of Macdonald’s Peak, a few miles 
north of Ravalli, there is a remarkable view of a deep mountain gorge known 
as Pumpelly Canon, which has many of the striking features of the Yosemite 
valley, in California. Two waterfalls, having an apparent height of about 800 
feet, leap into this profound rocky canon, and form a small circular lake of a 
dark blue color. This lake falls, by another cataract, into a second lake of 
exactly the same size and shape as the first, while still another cataract leaps 
from the lower lake into a deep ravine filled with magnificent forest trees. An 
excursion to Macdonald’s Peak may be made from the mission in a single day. 
Tourists are, however, recommended to take blankets and provisions, and 
