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16_82 Bozeman, Montana - Well-built town in the flourishing irrigated and therefore very green Gallatin Valley. Recvd [received] here by my old time college-botanical friend Victor K. Chesnut, Professor of Chemistry in Montana Agricultural College. Met nearly all of the faculty: President Hamilton who appears to be a good man and capable; Cooley the entomology man and old-time college friend of R. E. Smith, now plant disease man at U.C.; engineering man; horticultural man, etc. Also met Waters, bright you instructor of San Luis Technical School under Anderson. |
16_83 July 2, 1906 Next day west. Butte, a huge treeless mining camp of 70000 or roundabout; a hideous monster with smoke-belching chimneys or smelters and mines and all the loose paraphenalia and waste rubbish of a mining camp. The train runs slowly through the heart of it so one sees Butte. Next morning Spokane, a progressive town. Pasco, on the sage-brush in heat and desolation; a long as the train halted we sought the open but hot air of the station platform with its usual coterie of dirty workmen one of them drunk and facetious and ready to spot the |
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