The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-03-07
MARVELLOUS MONTANA.
Valuable Facts and Interesting Fancies

Valuable Facts and Interesting Fancles.
(From the Notes of Samuel Wfikesoan.l
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ssTo the Dry Regionv' e
This will soon be the brief but expressive
interview between immigrants and for
warding agents. From the Gulf of Mexico
to the Saskatchewan is a strip of country
four hundred miles wide, along the eastern
base of the Rocky Mountains. All over
this country no other than the natural
grasses are needed to raise and fatten cattle
in summer and winter. In the Rainy Re-
gion, on the other hand, the grasses grow
from April to October, when their develop
m emit is complete. Unless cut and dried
when ripe, they are of no value for winter
food; the rains, dew and frosts destroy
them. In the Dry Region the moving
machine or scythe are needed only every
tenth year-the year of unexplained clima-
tic vicissitude With this great natural
advantage no stock-raisers can compete
with those of Montana.
se7 A CLIMATIC TEST.
The test Of the best climate is the degree
in which it conduces to the pleasure of
mere physical existence, and to which it
exalts mans power, morally and intellectu-
ally. Montana is 'tflrst proof !" in this par
ticular. There is not in the whole Terrific
ry an ounce of material for facidity or in
ertness. Even her whisky does not make
sots after the eastern pattern. The Mon
tana drunkard has the spirit to blow his
| brains out, or the enterprise to violently
persuade some bosom friend to iiew him
down with knife or perforate him with a
revolver. He does not slowly and tamely
soak himself into the poor-honse or the
grave.
vAscILhATTNG VISITORS.
| can name men whose lives swing like a
pendulum between Montana and the Allan
tic seaboard; and in just the same manner
are alternating between robust and red
checked health in the mountains and all
sorts of ills and aches and misery in New
York and elsewhere in the East. The Mis-
| souri, river at Omaha is their Rubicon OF
health. Crossing it eastward, their vitality
| is gone, and they are given over to winter
of drugs and doctors. But returning again
in the spring, the i'll effects of medicine
and climate disappear as if by magic, and
| once more they riot in health, vigor and eff.
fectiveness.
IRON.
| IL NAV astonish some of your Eastern
readers to know that there is enough iroI
ore of the best quality out-croppingin Mon
tana, and lying upon the surface. to make
the rails of the Northern Pacific from END
! to end; and yet it is SO worthless that NJ
man will waste time to become its owner
j So saws United States Marshal Wheeler
and SO say the records Of the Land Office
4 These valuable veins and deposits are nei
4 ther located or taken up, which is not to b.
4 wondered at. Gold, silver, copper, lea,
i loaded with silver and float tin and CHINA
: bar are so plentiful as to keep the entin
stock Of labor in chronic fever.
coAb.
4 1t is estimated that tile coal fields o
Montana cover 10, 900 square miles. Wit
this is associated iron ore and fire clay
England is the workshop and bank of th
world, hut she could be pocketed in thi
single mine OF Montana and leave plenty 2
, elbow room to work in.
coin By THE BusHEIs
Up to the close Of 1872 the handful
miners who had for ten years wandcre
over Montana, picking and panning, an
eyer moving about, had added te u
worlds wealth iii gold one hundred az
twenty millions Of dollars.
I. MONTANA Is AN EMrIRE.
tis latticed withtwclye degreesof long
!. tude and four degrees of longitude, Il