The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29
TO WHITE PfNERS.

There is an endemic disease, destruc-
tive 10 the individual, though perhaps
beneficial 10 the nation, TO which the
/ people of this western country are sub
ject-ihe migratory fever. 1t is the
! salient American characteristics of en-
/ ergy, adventurousness and the desire
I for money getting that resolve them~
selves into a mania in the gold regions
which in many Of it's features bears
unmistakable evidences OF partial or
/ complete insanity. Ii is in business in
constancy. in flirting with that ubiqui-
( tous, blaz6 coquette-Fortune-a Law
\ ishing the treasures OF time and money,
and the trities OF visionary thought ups
I on her, instead of bringing her "A SUBJ
missIve servant 10 their feet by the im~
/ perial charms of steady industry, and
/ patient. perssvering effort in a legiti =
mate and pasing business, that our peo-
/ pie make the great mistake. Those
who rush inconsiderately from remune-
/ rstive occupations on stampedes, in nine
/ cases out of ten, are losers by the adj
/ venture. They take chances in a game
! against Fate, with the percentage heavy
against them, even in square game,
/ and the cards are stocked in nearly ev~
/ cry instance. Has not the Sun River,
1 Salmon River, and Sweetwater stam-
! pedes of the past three winters evil
denced this factZ Were not the res
ports from Salmon City and Leesburg
and South Pass City, glowing with pic-
lures of fabulous treasures. How many
of the hundreds that rushed from Mon
tana 10 them, realized even livelihood
tho a ffar in I,
of their earnings in Montana and en-
during hardships and sufferipgs and
many peTishing from cold2 We doubt
if one in every hundred are as well of
to-day as they would have been to have
remained in Montana, dull and unprom-
ising as were the times hers then.
Now, when every indication is favor
able for the ensuing season 10 be the
most prosperous for laborers, capital
lists, and business men that Montana
has known. comes reports OF rich quartz
mines in White Pine, Nevada. Every
road to il is thronged with Adventures,
capitalists and laSorers living is inor-
dinately expensive the towns are in
competent to provide shelter for the
corners building material is SO scarce
that houses are hauled there from an
hundred miles distant; the whole coun-
try. perched at an altitude double that
of Helena, is urder bed of snow, and
there is absolutely no employment for
a tithe of the laborers seeking to OBJ
tain a livelihood. Reliable and saga
cious gentlemen writing from there TO
Nevada papers, advise their friends
"even as they value life not TO come
there during the winter" And yet the
White Pine fever has become an cpl
demic here. Some days since fifteen
men had left Unionyille for Treasure
City Many have gone from other
camps. probably not less than 100 from
Helena. White Pine" is as big in the
mouths of impecunious miners as
Washington" is in those of politicians,
and while they are now rolled under
their tongues as sweet mOrselS they will
both scorch before the August sun does.
White Pine will undoubtedly prove a
rich silver quartz camp. and give en-
ployment to many hundreds of men
in the course of year or two; but
there are no placers, and if there were,
there is no water to work them. Wher-
ever "a piece of float rock can be found
there are claims three deep on the
ground. The country is overrun with
prospectors and men seeking employ
ment at grub wages. What induce
ment is there for laboring man with
common sense TO go there There is
no destitution in our camps. Provisions
are plentiful and comparatively cheap
in Montana. Labor can find employ
ment and tair compensation, and pros
perity has fixed its signet on every
branch of industry. We have snow on
the mountains sufficient To insure the
working of all discovered placers for
many months the coming season In
Deer Lodge county, probably the best
mining county in the Territory, we are
reliably informed. there will be more
paying ground opened this year than in
any previous one. If the Ten Mile
mines, near Helena. prove mp as indi-l
Gated by present reports, they will give
employment, at better wages, to more
men than all White Pine District. The
lead developments will be more exten-
sive than ever before The facilities
for travel and transportation, and the
increasing agricultural product, all point
to the better day of Montana and her
citizens, now dawnlng. We speak more
earnestly for the interest of those who
would 60 than for Montana, and bid
them consider well before chasing the
deceptive vision TO which distance lends
such sweet enchsntment. IL will cost
you hard earnIngs to reach there, and
probably the scant remsin inder TO pur~
chase bitter disappointment end regret.
+" The rolling stone gathers no moss.
Think twice before you go once.
No move having yet been made to-
xvard rabuiIdinu the Pacific HOuae in