Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1876-01-06
THE NEW EIIDORADO.
The Big Horn Region and Con-
tiguous Country.
WOmderland---A Fine Description
of the Mud Volcanoes.


The Chicago papers of December Goth re-
port at some length the second lecture deliv-
cred at Farwell Hall, in that city, by Judge
II. n. Mcguire, of Bozeman. The follow
ing is brief abstract Of the lecture, as we
find it in the Inter- Ocean:
'The Big Horn Mountains are auriferous
and argentiferous throughout. That this is
true may reasonably be conjectured from the
facts have given you. Is it probable that
the miners of Montana, whose time, working
for wages, is worth from $4 to $6 day in
! old diggings, would, year after year, force
their way into those mountains at the risk of
their lives, and finally establish permanent
fort there, if they did not know the country
to be rich in the precious metals? They know
what they are about. Though the placers of
the Black Hills may not meet expectations,
they are certainly on the borders of fabulous
ly rich gold and silver regions. have no
other object in giving publicity to these facts
than to be the means of directing mechanics
and labOring men and all who have been un-
fortunate in business, to more promising
! fields OF effort than can be found this side Of
the Missouri river
Labor, in every channel, is now, and al
ways has been, more literally remunerated
in those mountain districts than elsewhere
The laboring man there, if provdent and
industrious, is absolutely independent, for the
natural wealth is his by right of occupancy,
and its e,elopment yields him remunera-
ton so generous that he can afford to allow
proportionate profits to all with whom he
does business-so all prosper alike. My adj
vice to all who are dissatisfied with their pres
| o1 nSoll fn
chanics and laboring mems to emigrate
| thithcr. There will be no danger of surplus
| of labor for years to come. Millions of acres
of the finest farming and grazing lands are
| lying unclaimed, and the mineral wealth is
scarcely scratched. Nature seems to have so
distributed her bounties as to secure an eQui-
| librium between the various industrial inter-
| osts. Increase of the mining population will
enlarge the demand for agricultural products,
while trading and manufacturing enterprises
| must advance and thrive correspondingly. |
believe those undeveloped regions to be ca
pable of healthiy sustaining population of
million.
"a word in regard to the prospective i'm
portance to Chicago of these new mining,
farming, and stock regions. believe it
has never been appreciated by the business
men Of this great city. 1t is estimated that
Montana's importations last year amounted to
sic, 600, 0O0-one-half of which business was
the San Francisco Chronicle claims that all Of
this trade belongs to California. Now, | am
aware that $1O,OOO,OOO is an insignificant
item in the grand total of Chicago's annual
commercial transactions. But let the consul
ming population of those regions be increased
tenfold-as it will be in the near fnture-and
it will give you an annual trade OF $780,
600. .OOO-a prize no commercial city in the
world could afford to treat as insignificant.
This immense prospective rade, business
men of Chicago, you may secure and hold
forever. The natural laws of commercial
intercourse undoubtedly give it to you. The
opening of the Yellowstone to navigation
next spring will bring to you your richest and
most promising tributary Territory
In bis description of the natural novelties
of the National Park, Judge Mcguire intro
duced number of fine views some for the
first time They were photographs of nature,
Illuminated and magnitied. He gave the fol-
lowing description of mud volcano:
About $50 yards east of the Devils Den is
an immense mud volcano. Its crater is sixty
feet across l stood on its ugly rim just be-
fore an eruption. The black, sulphurous
mud first surged in great waves from one side
Of the great crater to the other, returning,
seemingly, by undercurrents, when they
would again surge over in greater volume and
violence, the muddy mass rising higher and
HIGHER with each convulsion. When the era |
ter was nearly filled hastily retreated, rum
bling thunders shaking the earth beneath my
retreating steps. Having gone nearly to the
Devils Den, l looked back and saw huge |
black column of mud-all of forty feet in di-
ameter at the base-rislng from the crater
ninety or one hundred feet high, when it
branched into all directions covering ra-
dius of immense extent with the nauseating !
sediment