Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-17

y vegetable crops eyer produced in Montan
will probably be raised in the agriculture
districts this year. The erasshopper GRO
has undoubtedly been destroyed, the sea
son SO far has ceen very favorable, an
the farmers will eDdeavor to cover tn
losses Of preceding years by cultivatipl
every available acre of land. Many new
ranches have also been taken up, and par
ties who have 0cyer until now turne'
their attention to farming will this yea
make trial of this healthful occupation
Unfortunately, the very fair prospects O
a bountiful harvest at home, will not shu
out, or even diminish, the grain shipment
from abroad. The failure of crops, an(
the ill-advised efforts of q society O.
would be monopolists to control the mar
ket, have caused the merchants to lose con
fidcncc in home products, and to depend
almost wholly upon the Eastern market.
for their annual supplies. With full crop.
at home, heavy shipments from abroad
and the not improbable exit to the Blach
Hills of thousands of consumers. the re-
suit seems inevitable that there will be ,
heavy surplus of unsaleable produce IN
nearly every county of the Territory, ex
|cept Chotesu. But the farmers of other
sections arc not so fortunate, and there is
a strong probability that they will realize
the truth of the following remarks, con.
tanned in one of Col. Woolfolk's letters
on the Helena and Benton Railroad: Zone
half the farmers must abandon their
ranches and leave the Territory. The
exodus of this class would undoubtedly
have been greater, but for the grasshoprers.
By destroying the bulk of their crops a
demsnd has been produced for the re-
mainder. 1t is estimated that one good
crop would supply our Territory for two
years." There is but one remedy for this
Immigration via the Missouri river and
the Helena and Benton Railroad.
Missoulian.-Wc have meyer believed
that. if we gave away three million dol
lars. or any other sum, to railroad cor
poration, we would find greater amount
OF disinterested benevOlence in such cor
poration, and would eventually get our
money back and more too. Too much
prosperity has impressed Upon the people
OF Montana habits of unthrift and improy
dence. When we, become as economical
and prudent and sober and industrious As
people in the States, and cease to carry as|
large producing class rs we do, wei
will haye made greater progress in ma
erial prosperity than the enactment of all
The statutes ever devised can give US.
Husbandman.-One great trouble aboutl
The management of our county affairs is
that the people do not feel themselves in
iividualIy responsible for the manner in
which they are conducted. They are addic-
ed to laying all the blame At the doors of
certain county officials--whom we must
ay are in many cases innocent-instead of
GREETING out and laborine themselves to
prevent extravagance.
New North. West.-Now, Montana has
'een organized many years. Law. order
TIC society are well established. There
re hundreds of men in the Territory whol,
You'd a. honestly, ably and consrien tious-
= hll every Federal position in the Terri
Dry as they have been dlleJ, at best,
rom abroad. We ask the appointment of /
ar own citizens, because We have those
'orthy Of preferment Is recognition :
nat we are American citizens capable of ,
as right to which vel
re justly entitled, and as q measure oil /,
vil service reform protecting US against !
re invasion Of adventures and bad men q
no under the present system are showed I
the Territories to get rid of their I
nEortunities at Washington.