9U THE WEST SHOBE.
t!)e possible advantage that might ensue to peo- is over fifteen feet in diameter and ia circular
pie whom he represented, by migrating from very much resembling the Brimstone Bowl at
their homes in New Foundland and Labrador Sulphur mountain in all but the color, which in
to the Tacific coast, has completed his examin- this one is jet black, with ragged edges, while
ation and makes the following statement : " I the Brimstone Bowl has a polished golden wall
vwited Victoria, Vancouver island, and thence of crystalized sulphur. G. L. Henderson in
went to every point of advantage by steamer Bozeman Chronicle.
and sailing craft. The points which I have Be-
lected for the location of future villages are the Montana Assessment Roll. The property
Queen Charlotte islands. Hie group consists of assessment in Montana approximates $60,000
Graham, Moresby and Provost islands. Their 000.00, an increase during the year of about
coafit line has numerous inlets which afford $5,000,000.00. In view of the fact that the loss
abundant shelter, and I consider the group a on cattle during the year amounted to $4,000
pplendid place for our men. The main point 000.00, the increased assessment is a most cred
which engaged my attention was the fishing itable showing of the growing wealth of the tcr
prof pects, and I was fairly astonished at the ritory. The heaviest loss in cattle was in Cus
quantity of fish; the waters fairly teem with ter county, the returns showing the number of
them, and although my investigations were cattle assessed this year to be ninety thousand
confined to the east side of Queen Charlotte six hundred and seventy-one, with a valuation
islands, I am informed that on their west coast of $1,815,440.05, a decrease from last year of
the fish are just as abundant." ninety-seven thousand twenty-four head, with a
valuation of $1,101,486.00. Dawson county comes
New Geysers b the National PARK.-Stop- n1ext' th etu?8 this year Bhowin
ping to cat a lunch and feed our horses at a tnd five hnndred m twenty-seven head
point about midway between the canyon and of cattle, havmg a value of $569,000.00, the de
the lower geyser basin, our party started, lunch crea8e from la8t year thirty-seven thou
in hand, to visit a place seldom seen by tour- ?and mne hundred and thirty-sight head, hav
iHts. It has been named Glen Africa on ac- mga value of 1534,003.00. In Choteau coun
count of the intense heat felt in passing through ty there are ten thousand nine hundred and
the glen on a hot summer day. Mrs. Smith twenty-two fewer cattle than last year, worth
thought the glen looked like a rift in a great t542'011-00, or at least the assessment is that
cloud with a clear sky beyond, the cloud being mnc.h leB8, total number of cattle b the
a range of hills through which a multitude of trritoi7 " hundred and seventy-one thou
active geyBers had gnawed their way to an open Band one hundred and seventy-eight, worth
valley, leaving the ragged rocks half consumed 9491807.00, the decrease from last year being
on each side of the narrow valley. The creek one tundre(J and ninety-two thousand five hun
that flows through Glen Africa is boiling hot, ,dred and thirty-eight, valued at $3,846,003.00.
and in many places the falls and cascades are The fiheep in the territory, on the, contrary,
surprisingly beautiful, the walls and bottom have mcrea8ed, the number at present being
U'ing colored with those superb yellow and one mon sixty-two thousand one hundred
brown tints that accompany geyser action. an( forty-one, with a valuation of $2,148,551.00,
There are numerous small creeks flowing into e i101"8 over last year being ninety-three
tho main one from either side. At the head of thousand eight hundred and forty-three, worth
each ono of thcHe there is an active geyser at 5,823.00.
work widening and deepening the glen with a
iwlrfence and vigor that is truly amazing. Idaho's IiEsouBCES.-The following extract is
One named Bomb fchell geyser is well worth a from Gov. Stevenson's exhaustive report on the
paragraph or two. It is situated on tho west condition of Idaho :-The great natural resources
S TV? at U north d of of Idaho are today practically undeveloped.
1 tX ! ni lVohcartof We, Within her boundaries are large amounts of
t . bIacbmUic tha good agricultural and grazing lands belonging
Sdri .lSS ? mammth ex the government that are now open to settle-
Sttdelrr ,??'le f ".andparticularlyinthecountiesofAlturas,
U Zf!VMnMkh Washington, Bingham, Boise, Idaho and
KuZ?a?iha Ca88ia' more or lci in a11 the othcr
teWlS C0Untie8' The great mineral belt of Idaho b
ing Uir teeth nth demoniac fury. The crater hardly prospected, and our mining entciprfci