at its water's edge and gazed at the beautiful lilies growing beneath its surface. The city is in an agricultural section surrounded by coal and quartz mines. Here are the shops of the Great Northern Railway, and large elevators and flour mills. From here a branch line extends to Lethbridge, Alberta, Northwest Territory, connecting with the Canadian Pacific, crossing the main line of the Great Northern at Shelby, as well as its connections at Havre. There is also a branch line running to Neihart and Barker. Neihart was once a very prosperous silver mining town, prior to the drop in silver in 1893. I made my first trip here in April, of 1890, before the advent of the railroad. I find some of the same people with the same high expectations there now that I found on my first visit, and I verily believe they will yet realize to the fullest
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