. 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 . iiiijii!. ^5 286 The Northern Pacific Railroad. Thompsons Falls (1,382 miles from St. Paul; population,300) is beautifully located at the falls of the Clarks Fork river,has tw
. 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 . iiiijii!. ^5 286 The Northern Pacific Railroad. Thompsons Falls (1,382 miles from St. Paul; population,300) is beautifully located at the falls of the Clarks Fork river,has two hotels, a livery stable and a number of mercantilehouses. The river furnishes a remarkable water-power, whichhas not yet been utilized. Grand Scenery.—Everywhere along the Clarks Fork ofthe Columbia there is magnificent scenery. Cottonwoodgrows close to the river, and firs and pines clothe the benchesand mountain-sides, except where the latter are so nearly ver-tical that forests can not grow. Magnificent vistas are pre-sented as the train moves along, changing and wearing newforms at every turn. The mountains are conical, and some-times vertical, as where the river has cut through them withtremendous force. The constant succession of towering hills,grouped in wild array, is never wearying, and is sometimesstartling in effect, as when some tributary from the north orsouth tears its way to the greater stream, and offers
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