ing wheat, or let you moisten your lips with the delicious growing fruit, or view the shade trees. But take the electric car and go four miles to Columbia Gardens, where the atmosphere is highly purified, joyous and clear. Surrounded by this unseen influence the cares of life press less heavily upon the brain, and the severest toil or exposure finds increased capacity to bear it. This is not only a most delightful park, with a fine museum, but includes all kinds of sports, band concerts, baseball and numerous other amusements. There is also a large dancing hall, with shade trees and flowers galore. Between here and the city are the horse racing and coursing tracks.
The prosperity of Butte is under the city proper and its suburbs, Centerville, Walkerville, Meaderville and South Butte. The greater quantites of
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