These People Bring Nothing Whatever With Them For Camp, But Depend Entirely Upon The Quartermaster Here To Fit Them Out As Luxuriously As Possible With Tents And Commissaries - Even To Experienced Camp Cooks!

The railroad has been laid straight through the post, and it looks very strange to see the cars running directly back of the company quarters.

The long tunnel - it is to be called the Bozeman tunnel - that has been cut through a large mountain is not quite finished, and the cars are still run up over the mountain upon a track that was laid only for temporary use. It requires two engines to pull even the passenger trains up, and when the divide is reached the "pilot" is uncoupled and run down ahead, sometimes at terrific speed. One day, since we came, the engineer lost control, and the big black thing seemed almost to drop down the grade, and the shrieking of the continuous whistle was awful to listen to; it seemed as if it was the wailing of the souls of the two men being rushed on - perhaps to their death. The thing came on and went screaming through the post and on through Bozeman, and how much farther we do not know. Some of the enlisted men got a glimpse of the engineer as he passed and say that his face was like chalk. We will not be settled for some time, as Faye is to take a set of vacant quarters on the hill until one of the officers goes on leave, when we will move to that house, as it is nicer and nearer the offices.

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