. 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 . tive term was carelesslytranslated and shortened into ^^ bad lands/and thus hasresulted a wholly false impression of the agricultural valueof the country. The entire region^ geologists tell us
. 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 . tive term was carelesslytranslated and shortened into ^^ bad lands/and thus hasresulted a wholly false impression of the agricultural valueof the country. The entire region^ geologists tell us, was once the bedof a great lake, on the bottom of which were deposited,for ages, the rich clays and loams which the rain-s carrieddown into its waters. This deposit of soil was arrestedfrom time to time sufficiently long to allow the growth ofluxuriant vegetation, which subsequently decayed, andwas consolidated by the pressure of succeeding deposits,transforming itself into those vast beds of lignite coalwhich abundantly meet the need of the country for various strata thus deposited are all of recent origin,and, being without cementing ingredients, remain soft,and easily washed by the rains. When at last this vastlake found an outlet in the Missouri, the wear and wash ofthese strata, under the action of rain and frost, were verygreat. Hence the water-courses, especially the minor In The Bad Lands, ^ 113 where the wash has not had time enough to make broadvalleys/have precipitous banks, and high inclosing bluffs,with curiously furrowed and corrugated sides usually bareof vegetation, and showing only the naked edges of therich soils of which they are composed. The tops of thesebluffs and buttes are on the general level of the wholecountry, and are equally as fertile. This is shown by thehotel garden at the Little Missouri, where, in the very heartof the Bad Lan-ds, and on the summit of the highestbluff, a level spot was chosen and planted, which annuallyyields h
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