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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad 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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cottageresidences for officers and their families. The fort draws itssupply of water from the Yellow^stone, and feeds a pretty foun-tain in the square, about which the residences are arranged. Hortonand Hathaway (distant respectively from St. Paul782 and 791 miles) are stations established for the convenienceof ranchmen in the fine grazing country southward. Rosebud (802 miles from St. Paul; population, 150) is situ-ated at the mouth of the Rosebud river. Th^ extensive valleyof this stream is admirably adapted to cattle-raising, and itsplains are dotted with settlements. Forsythe (815 miles from St. Paul; population, 500),—Theplace is named in honor of Gen. James W. Forsythe, whowas the first officer to land by steamer at the present site of thetown, and for a long time it was known as Forsythes Fand-ing. It is situated in a delightful valley immediately on thebanks of the Yellowstone river, and is surrounded by trees andimmense bluffs rising abruptly on the south and west, Forsythe
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210 The Northeni Pacific Railroad. is the end of a freight trahi division, and the supply point forthe settlers of the Rosebud bottom, on the south side, and theBig and Little Porcupine rivers, on the north side, of the Yel-lowstone. The town has five general merchandise stores.The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has a round-houseand repair shops here. Stock yards have been laid out tomeet the needs of large cattle shipments from this point.Some land near Forsythe is under cultivation, yielding faircrops of grain and vegetables. Howard, Sanders and Myers (distant respectively 826,Z:iy() and 847 miles from St. Paul) are unimportant stations,serving to supply the needs of the settlers of the surroundingcountry. Big Horn (858 miles from St. Paul, at the mouth of theBig Horn river) is the diverging point for a country welladapted to stock-raising. The valley of the Big Horn isfertile, and its inclosing hills are covered with excellentgrazing. The railroad crosses the turbulent waters of

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