The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-01-07
$4,000 Non Wanted :

For year past we have not deemed it ad-
visable to solicit immigration to Montana.
The lack of snow last winter, the uncxam.
pied dry season subsequent, the consequent
misery yield Of our placcrs, the stoppase
of many quartz mills, and the grssshoppcr
devastation on The fields Of the ranchman,
accumulated one disaster upon another
Immediately detrimental to every branch Of
industry and trade in Montana. The year
1869 was, in one sense, full of misfortune;
in another, fraught with good. It SAW our
commercial metropolis turn 70 ashes in .
night: It saw, too, hundreds Of mechanics
WHO would else have been idle, supplied with
occupation for months at re,nunerative wa
gcs. It saw tie sun weld the arid letters on
our rich pAcers, and those who have for
tunes in few feet Of ground striving anx.
iously to secure provision for the winter:
but It saw, too, many localities prospscted,
many rich mines opened, and facilities for
placer mining multiplied In every camp.
And this, had It not been for the dry season,
would not, could not have been done. A
better era in quartz mining ID inaug1rais1
the easy circumstances Of operators will
cvcntuatc in more general, thorough, prac.
teal development than has before been seen
in the Territory. Hundreds of farmers have
secured government title to their lands. The
grasshoppcr plague Is not . permanent in
Fiction on any section. With lands of their
own to till and improve, irrigating facilities
and moneyed market, grazing and grain
growing will take their natural positions -
great, permanent and paying interests.
The SHOWS, essential to prosperous min
ing season, have faIn. On the LIST of Jan
nary, 1870, there was snow waist-docp on
the main range, along the head of many
guiches. Last year - late ~ March, there
was not over eighteen inches in the Same
localities. Then It was moist and lay where
1t fell, exposcd TO the warn winds and the
sunshine. Now 1t is dry, and drifting off
into the timber and canyons, will yield
gradually to the summer temperature and
supply watcr to the streams far on into the
summer months; and the probabilities arc
more will fall. ''''
And what of It? This: that Deer Lodge
county has not over one third of tie num-
Der of miners that will be required to work
its opened placer mines during tho coming
summer. Five thousand more laborcrs for
wages arc wanted, absolutely essential to
successful mining, in Deer Lodge county,
at not less than IS or Sc, OF. 81 per dayin
gold, to 60 to work on the list dry of May.
In other industrial pursuits, farming, graz
ing, merchandising, manufacturing and
and building, fully - many more could find
employment. llissoula county needs 5000
more men if the Cedar Creek mines develop
as we'll Is anticipated. So, within our two
counties, there are good Inducements for IN
immigration of II, 900 souls within the next
four months, and the other counties of Mon.
tans, instead of having laborers to spare,
arc, too, in need of more. 49,. .. i Ar
The great ,oons Of Kostans ~ scar s;v
be hborers. It will present itself in an -un-
pleasantly practical manner within . few
weeks. The great question East u 70 End 4
employment There, wages are pittance,
employment uncert,in: Here they arc high,
and Industry but rarely hangs it, ipple.
mcnts on the walls of Idleacss. Il u ap-
parent 10 alI Obscryant men. that q heavy
immigration i necessary, and that it viii be
rccoppcnscd The facilities for travel now
enable quick transportation from, the East
to Montana Newspaper representations BY :.
journals published in the localities desiring
immigration are regarded with sasDicisn.
We have no Emigration Society. To induce
the removal here Of industEious people, The
representations Of H,sidents b friends In the !
States, Of The facts u the casss will do moro
than can b accomplished BY any other
method TO "a Tie circumstances warrant
It. Il Is not only Thai, thsse u . field for .
largo immigration, but =, 40 more people
will absolutely be wanted in this Territory
within the next four or i've months. Do
you know any one, tho or nero in the
States, whho yoqh b bsneatssd, h. ,caRtng
here! Write them. =.
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Do, and evsf have, fas6biiea i Tenure Act 81
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