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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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Tlie New lercliits HELENA, MONTANA. EUROPEANHOTEL RECENTLY REBUILT,REMODELED AND REFURNISHED.CONTAINS 135 ROOMS. -Ea-tes, TSc- to ^1.25- THE MERCHANTS HOTEL GO. C. L. Vawter, President. J. G. Vawter, Manager,
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Rocky Mountain Division, 247 ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION. Helena to Hope.—Distance, 298 Miles. Helena (1,155 i^iles from St. Paul; population, 18,000).—This is the terminus of the Montana Division, and the beginningof the Rocky Mountain Division, of the railroad. Helena, thecapital of Montana, is pleasantly situated at the eastern foot ofthe main chain of the Rocky Mountains, in latitude 46 30 N.,and longitude 112^ 4 west of Greenwich, on both sides of thefamous Last Chance Gulch, from which at least ten millions ofdollars worth of nuggets and gold dust have been taken, andwhich still yields annually a considerable amount of the pre-cious metal. So large was the influx of miners at this point in1864, that the United States Government felt compelled to es-tablish a postofflce for their accommodation. Until then thecamp had been known as Crab Town; but a meeting wascalled for the purpose of selecting a better name, and themajority of those assembled decided upon christening it afterHele

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