Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-03-13
BOHEMIAN, MONTANA TERRITORY, MARCH 13.

unSheltered, '.nhoused and unfed, saw
as they shelter and feed themselves on
their ample winter grazing ranges
this cannot he the arid country ii
summer or the tii:id country in wintc1
which Gen. Hazcn misrepreS;-i it t.
be. The reader has has only to io0l
at the reports OF our Surveyors Gen
eral to see that we have an area o
cultivable land that is scarcely en-
croached on-land that yields for it,
average crops from % to 80 bushels O
wheat to the acre, and whose premium
crops at our Agricultural Fair hay.
to go over 1O9 bushels to the acre t.
win the prizes; where GO0 bushels OF
potatoes and 100 bushels OF oats at,
no uncommon yield, and where we
raise rye and barley at the Worlds
Fair in Vienna surpassed everything
Gil exhibition there. He can find, too,
that of all the lands not arabic the
greater portion is of the finest suMine.
and winter pasture, and the residue
covered with timber and ycincd with
valuable mines. Let him look at the
books OF or transportation companies
and he VII find that we annually i'm
pnrted and exported enough to pay for
the maintenance and operation Of a
railroad in this one Territory alone,
though her mines OF gold and silver
are as yet scarcely scratched, and her
coal, lead, iron and copper totally uI-
touched. What will sha do when her
magnificent resources are developed!
AS to her climate, the meteorological
record kept at Fort Benton and at
Deer Lodge for 20 years has again and
again been published in the govern
ment reports, and as it shows a more
favorable winter average than that Of
Philadelphia, the people Of New York
can scarcely put it down as mindura
bly, cold, while those who have the
happiness to reside there, though they
are gathered from all quarters OF tie
Union and Of the globe, claim prefer
cnce for it over TIE climate OF any
State east cf The mountains ircm Maine
to the Gulf.
These facts being true OF Montana
are inlisputabIy true of idaho and
Washington Territories, the former,
like Montana, q mining Territory, the
latter more exclusively devoted to ag1-
culture and numbering, and either of
them superior in climate and natural
resources to any State east of the Al
leellaliics. They will he able when dc
veloped and populated to support not
only one but many railroads, but one
at least is needed for their develop
ment and population.
The fiscal agents of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, miscalculating their
ability, and disappointed in their reas-
enable expectations Of European sup
port, failed to complete project too
great for individual enterprise, and
which only needed to be completed to
become magnificent success. Their
failure was the signal for financial
revulsion, produced by a variety OF
causes. In that crash industries were
paralyzed and fortunes lost; but none
lost. more magnificent fortunes than
the unfortunate projectors. Over this
crash the country feels bitter, and is
ready to applaud anybody who may
kick the scapeg0at of all our financial
sins; but all this clamOr weighs not
against the intrinsic merits Of the
project itself, nor does it suddenly
change the character Of thc-cOuntry
over which the road was to pass. Even
by the agents Of the European com
pany that country was recognized to
be as good OF better than reported
There can be no just reason why under
any circumstances any portion of our
national domain should he unjustly
deprecated or undervalued, and no
motive therefor excepting in the jcal-
Orlsies of competing cities along the
lines of competing routes. New York
is too great to share in these. She is
the metropolis of the whole country,
and her press should see to it that no
portion of that country is falsely dis
paraged, and that no great national
ente prise is libeled down.
MARTIN MAG1NN1S,
Delegate from Montana.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Feb. 10, 1874.