Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-10-10
TERRITORIAL EAlR.
Address Of Judge %. s. wade.

Wade, delivered At the Territorial Fairat He
lena, with good deal Of interest, and trans
fer to our calumnsa portion of it. ourIrcad-
crs Will be well repaid BY It's perusal
What constitutes tho wealth of d nation !:
Whatmakes q people enterprising prosper
GUS and happy? 1t is not sculpturel halls
and palaces tor the favored few, and novels
Tor the less fortunate; it's not the accu,nuia-
ton OF riches.by powerful aristocracy. and
poverty for the balance of the people j; but
true national wealth consists III never-failiny
demand for enlightened labor, and labor that
always brings sure reward. What state Of
things engenders labor and causes it to under
take and prosecute vast enterprises, and
thereby to accumulate wealth? II is an
abundance OF the raw material, and a de-
maiid Tor the manufactured articles. AS We
know nothing until we learnt it, so we remain
barbarians until we take hold of and utilize
the material which bountiftll nature casts at
our ieet. Wealth consists in mans power
TO command the always gratutous services
OF nature, and. production consists in divert
I Ing the forces of nature to the services OF
man. In other words, 1t is utilizing the re-
sources OF a country and making them In
struments OF culture. progress and improve
ment; and this requires Intellectual labor and
mental activity, combined witt, manual labor
and this is agriculture in the higher sense Of
the word. esI a6'l Il
Does Montana possess the elements OF
wealth, as wealth Is thus defined. Has it
the raw material upon which intelligent labor
can spend Its force and its energy. its intel
icctnal activity and power? Does it contain
within itself the elements OF growth whereby
great and powerful Stste may be formed.
and wherein II throrging, busy population
may find homes OF comfort and peace?
The world does not yet know much OF
Montana. If it did know of its wonderful re-
sources and its charming climate. our noun
tains would throng with busy feet. and our
val eys would be filled with the hum Of in
dustry and enterprise. When East last spring
was looked upon as one who for che last
two OF. three years had been dwelling among
bartarians and savages, and when exhibited
to them some Of the products Of skilled me-
chanical labor manufactured here. equalling
anything the artisans of the East could ac-
complish, they were astonished. And when
| told them that our land here woulsl produce
l02 bushels of wheat to the acre, and other
crops in proportion, they thought haa for
gotten my old habit Of telling. the truth, and
was drawing on ina gination for my facts.
And when / told them that we had court
houses here, and that the lawyers had as
large libraries as they in tho ltasit a3d were
full OF business. and that the merchants had
stocks OF goods as large as many of those in
the larger cities, and that we had churches
OF all denominations and school houses, they
were surprised beyond measure, for they sup
posed that the courts were held on horseback
and that bowie-kniyes and revolvcrs were the
OF justice that the merchants
were halt-breed fur traders, and they did not
dream that a minister of the gospel ever PEN
ctrated west or fTie Mlsso,rI river.
And this is Montana iii the East, and in
stead o. their sending missionaries out here
to us we ought to send missionaries to them.
A few devout deacons from the 8. Methodist
Church Vest would do much towards con-
yerting the incrednlous East 10 the faith in
Montana.
do not intend to cxaggerate or to say any
thing the facts will not justify, and keeping
truth always in view,I may safely say that
no other country in the known world can
snrpass our Territory in the production OF
the cereals and vegetables. Our wheat, rye,
oats ard barley, our potatoes, turnips,
sqlashcs, and almost all garden products are
OF better quality and can be produced in
larger qua tities per acre than anywhere east
Of the Missouri, and nowhere ON the Pacific
coast can these products 81 ours be surpassed.
The grasses Of the Territory arc not.equalled
any where for fattening purposes, and the ex-
tent OF country covered with grass is won
deriul, Upon the tops of the highest noun
tains, ~ well as in The valleys, luxuriant
grasses abound, furnishing the best of food
for cattle from one end of the year to the
other. ft.does not require prophetic vision
10 see our hillsides and valleys covered with
vast herds OF thriving stock, and to see Mon
lana furnishing beet for all the East. The
Rocky Mountain region must in the future
furnish. beef for The thronging millions east
of the Mississippi !, the same region Of conn-a
try will also help to,supply the eastern mar
ket with wool. We have the range Ut coun-i
try, the food and the climate to bring all this
about, and the result is inevitable. 81
The extent Of ground susceptible 10 high
state of cultivation is much greater than we
may imagine. Almost every valley has q
living stream sufficient to supply water for
irrigation. and when system of irrigatEng
canals shall have been constructed, AS 1t is
certain to be, and the large rivers are made to
suppls their bountifnl waters to the farm
;ers, every valley will smile like the rose un-.
der the hand OF skilful culture, and it is not
a high estimate to say that our Territory Is.
capable OF supplying the food for a popula-
ton OF three miilions Of people. while the
timber is sufficient TO supply the wants Of
agriculture and to build the houses for such
a population.
Turning now to the mineral resources OF
the Territory, i might consume whole day
IN talking to you on this subject, but will
not dctain You long. Last year the gold
yield was eight millions of dollars, while the
agricultural products and sattle growing
amounted to probably four millions, making
the grand production of the Territory twelve
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