Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
Helena, Montana, Thursday, March IL, 1874.

Agricultural Fair have to 20 over 100 bushels
to the acre TO win the prizes; where 6OO
bushels of potatoes and 100 bushels of oats
are no uncommon yield, and where We raise
rye and barley at the Worlds Fair in Vienna
surpassed everything on exhibition there.
He can find, too, that of all the lands not
arabic the greater portion is of the finest sum-
mer and winter pasture, and the residue COW
cred with timber and veined with valuable
mines. Let him look at the books Of our
transportation companies, and he will hnd
that We annually import and export enough
to pay for the maintenance and operation of
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 untouched. What will she
do when her magnificent resources arc de-
ycloped:
As to her climate, the meteorological re-
cord kept mt Fort Benton and at Deer Lodge
for 20 years has again and again been pub
lshed in the government reports, and as it
shows more favorable winter average than
that of Philadelphia, the people of New
bly cold, while those who have the happiness
to reside there, though they are gathered
from all quarters Of the Union and of the
globe. claim preference for it over the clin,-
ate of any State cas-. of the mountains from
Maine to the Gulf.
These facts bein. true OF Montana arc in
,.sputably true ut Idaho and Washington
Territories, the former, like Montana. u min
ing Territory, the latter more exclusively de-
voted to agriculture and numbering, and either
Of them superior in climate and natural re-
sources to any State east of the AlleghanicS.
They will bc able when developed and pOpu-
lated to support not only one but many rail-
roads. but one ut least is needed for their de-
vclopmcnt and population.
The fiscal agents of the Northern PIt itic
Railroad, miscalculating their ability, and
disappointed in their reasonable expectations
of European support, failed to complete a
project too great for individual enterprise,
and which only needed to be completed to
become magnificent success. Their failure
was the signal for u financial rcvulsion, pro-
luced by variety of causes. In that crash
industries were paralyze<l and fortunes lost !;
but none lost more magnificent fortunes than
the unfortunate projectors. Over this crash
the country feels bitter, and is ready to ap-
plaud anybody who may kick the scapegoat
of all onr financial sins; but all this clam0r
weighs not against the satrnsic merits of the
project itself, nor does it Suddenly change
the character of the country over which the
road wns to pass. Even by the agents of the
European company that country was recog-
nized to he as good or better than reported.
There can be no just reason why under any
circumstances any portion of our national
domain should I've unjustly deprecated or un-
dervalued, and nO motive therefor excepting
in the jeslousies of competing cities along
the lines of competing routes. New York is
too great to share in these. She is the me-
tropolis of the whole country. and her press
should see to it that no portion of that coun-
try is falsely disparaged, and that no great
national enterprise is libeled down.
MARTIN MAGINNIS, Delegate from Montana.
IL AsuISGrnx. ID. e.. February L. 1874.