The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-02-29
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Letter from Mon tana Territory


EDITOR CECIL WING hear that Mon
,ana stock is bouyant in the Eastern markets.
Two financial missionaries who went down the
Missouri last Fall are to return this Spring with
capita TO the amount Of five hundred thousand
dollars. invested in machinery, and all the APP
plianrrs for working quartz. Many other com
pauicS, with smaller capital, will he here in the
summer.
Had Montana held ocepire with which 10
uIr the attain, of our country, she could not, by
the welding of it, have shaped matter, to suit
her own interests any better than has already
been done by the unseen hands Of Providence.
The prosperity ot ON young mountain territory,
of itself sufficient to attract population, is aided
hv the unfortunate state "t affairs nov existing
in the East. Tho fifty thousand unemployed
persons in New York City, and the millions Of
starving human being III the south hear "i the
laud Of gold, and contrast lis hrigh, hopes with
the owrul dependency at present surround
inc them, and long for clmnor Of base. The
following clip from The Heic"0 D"iiv Hrr"id
OF Yesterday:
BIG QUANTITY or StINEE.--Tho ls.rmee
quantity of eiscr that We ever saw in this city
Mt one limo, sc npliced Yesterday, al tue First
National Inul Assay office. Ii is Irom the
san' Louis & Montana Mining Company 8
Iuill Film; Creek. l. Is piled mp iu huge bars,
like Stove wood. the faull loing nearly 6!led 10
its capacity with iha piuciors stuff We also
SAW something good tn weak eyes, VIZ, gold
br:cI. woith 10 900, tie result Of rcceut run IN
the zane mill Tor ono oeei. Who sars Moll.
tana is Not the richest mineral comfy IN the
world
Let pot the rcuders u The Mig il,ink the~r
royIs OF silver aud bricks ofgoli sle 10 be lut'nd
living around loose; no indeed. they represent
thou. auds upo, thousands Of invested capital,
and weeks and months o., labor. toll and sweat.
We ale injoyiug most delightful winter wealth
Of. Tho air il soft, dry and light; the sun as
bright as sun eau be.
Ilayo not bad twocnifc days Of cloudy wealth
a. in til. las, two months. There is something
iuvieorating and youil,,os'"ring in the at
mosrhere of these mountains. ] doubt if Ponce
Do eon in all his Something's after tho fountain
of perpetual youth, come as near finding it, as
it is TO be found here. | knew several middle
aced gentlemen who cane here last Summer
with gray hair and frosty beard, whose hair and
beard is now as black and shiny as The ravens
winp-,hc effect of the climate, or-skll Of the
barber Helena is situated in n little vah Y
nbot,, fonr miles wide, and twelve long, sur
rounded by a Gordon rijutIirg spurs and broken
rcal,s Of the Rocky Mountains, and covered, as
they now are, with or feet Of snow; would
offer to the nilniiuble brush Of Berstadt as
grnnd Il subject as was found in the Yosemite
Valley.
wish could give you an intelligent idea OF
the sensations OF ncw conner into these far off
new countries of the blasted hopes, the dis.
pondency, the wo-begone. sad countenances Of
the great majority upon their first arrival The
overland s,aee from Io,t Benton-at the head
of naviga,iou-landed HE in the centre of the
main sueet on no. day in July last. Being
the sole male occupant of the stage, jumped
out into the street with carpet-bag and TWO pairs
Of mnckinsVn blankets in hand, and beheld q
vast hurrying crowd of busy people, composed
Of the representatives OF every nation (ncarly
of both the Eastern and Western world. Look
inn, around did not see familiar face. 500.
discoy cred some we'll remembered signs on tft
bnsiness houses-such ".jing.Chng.
..Washce-Ho,lse,' Sc Cholnp,a Orc Aqui,' aud
knew in what kind of a country only those
SIGNS were found; and soon began TO think
that after an absence OF nearly IL Yeats
and after about 30 days Of wcarisoic tiavel-
was really again back into the land Of gold
A little further up street peeped into the plate
class windows Of some banking houses and saw
piled on the counters, heaps OF bars and brick
of gold and silver, and then ] kqer was al
rirht-.-that was actually back into n land o
precious metals-and then, sought out tin
International Hotel, and ordered the best dinner
aud finest cigar the country could produce