The official Northern Pacific Railway guide - for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches - containing descriptions of states, cities, towns (14574291080)

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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railway Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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r vapor baihs are also accommodated; the medicated va-^pors coming up freshly from the steaming waters, are regu-lated to any degree of temperature by cold-air jets. Livingston (1.007 miles from St. Paul; population,2,000).—This place is an important passenger division andbranch railroad terminus. It was founded in 1882. Herethe main line makes its third and last crossing of the Yel-lowstone river, leaving the valley, along which it has run adistance of 340 miles westward from Glendive, and pass-ing through the Bozeman tunnel, in the Belt range ofmountains, to the Gallatin valley beyond. The river atthis point makes an abrupt turn^ flowing from its sourcesin the mountains far to the southward, through the worldrenowned region of the Yellowstone National Park. Threemiles from Livingston the high mountains of the Yellow-stone or Snow range open their portals just wide enoughto allow the river an outlet, and through the canon thuscut by the stream the branch railroad to the Yellowstone
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172 The Northei^n Pacific Railroad, National Park is laid. Livingston is situated on a broad,sloping plateau on the left bank of the Yellowstone river,directly at the foot of the Belt range. Large enginehouses^ machine and repairing shops, and other buildingsfor the use of the railroad are situated here, on a scale onlysecond in magnitude to those at Brainerd. Veins of finebituminous coal have been opened eight miles distant,from which coke is made for the smelters at Helena andButte, and ledges of good limestone are in the immediateneighborhood. The Clarks Fork silver mines lie directlysouth, and the surrounding hills are occupied by cattleranches. There is also much valuable mining territory onthe Yellowstone river between Livingston and the northernboundary of the National Park. Travel to the YellowstoneNational Park passes through Livingston, and a largebusiness is done in furnishing supplies to tourists, Liv-ingston is one of the most convenient places from which toleave for the