name) is the center and distributing point of an extensive stock country.
Livingston, the division headquarters of the Northern Pacific Railway, is where the branch extends to the Yellowstone National Park, a distance by rail of fifty-four miles to Gardner, the entrance to the park.
At Bozeman, my next stop, is located the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Here are the rich farms of the Gallatin valley, which are noted for their production of barley, rye and wheat. The barley makes a superior quality of malt which is used in making beer. Here are also large flour mills, and at Belgrade and still further west are the mills of Manhattan where straw is manufactured into paper. At the head of the valley is Logan, the division of the roads going either to Butte or Helena. A few miles
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