Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-06-04
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
THERE has been much talk about I'll
Great West. There has been much Ia!
about the capacity Of it to sustain million
and tens Of millions of inhabitants. o.
of it were TO manufactured many State
! like OHIO, Indiana and Illinois. This va
all very well while the popular ignoranc
prevailed in regard to the region OF couI
try between Western Missouri and Kar
sas and The Rocky Mountains. But lat
Developments haye shown US what II II
1t is several thousand feet above the ses
1t is therefore in ITS latitude very cold.
lis treelcss. But worst Of III. it is deprive'
of any wafer irrigation. That is . primar.
necessity of life. Without 1t life can no
exist. These Pacific plains. extendin:
from Western Kansas to the ROCKY Noun
tains, are destitute of 1t. The inference
is that that immense territor,
can never be made inhabitable to am
large extent. 1t is the great American
Desert. Some portions of it may be mad
available, as Colorado and Nevada for ex
ample, as mining districts for gold ant
silver, But in its great extent it is bar
rem waste. There will he no new Ohio
Indiana or Illinois west of Missouri ant
Kansas. This Is fact that should lie un
derstood by the people not only living il
the States but in the Territories beyond
What is called the Great West is myth
It is Gelusion which is leading tens and
hundreds of thousands of people yearly
to their destruction. No man in Indiana
Ohio, Kentucky or Illinois should lcav,
their fertile plains and their advanced civ
illzation for the problemst:cal CHARGES
that await them in the districts of Idaho
and Colorado. The great American Desert
lies beyond the Mississippi. 1t is safe to
say that 0ne-third of its vast expanse,
from physical causes, can never be within
the reach of the resources of man. There.
fore let the cry Of the Great West cease.
-[Cincinnati Enquirer.
We give place 10 the above from one Of
the leading newspapers in the United
States to show that there occasionally may
be found an editor OF q very prominent
shamefully ignorant of the re-
sources of his country, or maliciously false
in representing them to his readers. We
arc disposed to believe that our Cincinna
Ii contemporary is governed to great ex
tent by the latter in above extract, which
formed part Of an editorial encouraging
to the South. BY its system
Of railroads, Cincinnati has become the
great QUILTING point for the South, and
10 benefited more or less by every immi-
grant to the Sunny Land" The papers
If that city are therefore working earn
,stly to divert the tide Of immigration from
The West, and the above displays the un-
:crupulous means resorted to effect their
purpose. There is no. a twelve year old
school boy in Ohio but knows the remarks
If the Enquirer given above, in reference
o the West, are q Misrepresentation of
facts.
It is a notable fact that the good old
State of Ohio has for q number of years
furnished Governors for nearly all the
Western Territories. Our present Gov
,rnor and his predecessor. our present
Chief Justice and one Associate JusticcI
IL hail from Ohio, and are men who oc-
;upied prominent positions in the Buck
we State. All these men have contributed
argcly to the public prints their knowl
dge Of the inexhausiible and almost H.
imitable resources of the Great West;
Is equable climate. fine water power.
plendid forests of timber, fertile valleys.
icb grazing lands, vast mineral deposits.
nd have characterized it as THE PoorI
Mans Paradise" Gov. Potts has display
d commendable zeal in his efforts toI
make known abroad our magnificent re
sources, and has published statements,
which are proven here every season, that
Montana is far superior TO Ohio as grain
growing and stock raising country, ant
he same may be said of nearly all the
Western Territories.
Before writing another article like the
me from which we have made the above
extract, the editor of the Enquirer should
come West The beautiful gardens, fra
grant flowers, growing fields of grains,
he fat grazing herds Of stock and BAH
bling brooks that would meet his eye at
every turn, would make MIN think the
country anything but the barren desert he
10 wildly pictures it from . distance of
of miles.