Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-06-14

sesses over her 81 .,tcr Territories is her ma
iestic navigable streams, which afford COM
mercial facilities of no small consideration.
Other Territories, though they possessed
greater advantages in soil, climate, pastoral
and mineral wealth, could not. even though
they had railroads. compete with Mbntana.
The railroads Montana will have in time,
but the naviuable waters our sister Terri
tories never can have.
1t was for many years doubted that the
navigation of the Missouri river would
prove a success. but now that fact is no
longer c~ontroyerted. Experience has at
last proved q valuable auxiliary in the
work, for it was not until many trials were
had and various obstacles were over
come, that this was rendered easy. Next to
be proven is the Yellowstone, whose cur
rent is perhaps swift and difficult to stem,
vet whose navigation has not, up to this
date. met with more drawbacks and failures
than the first trials upon the Missouri. ear
by wear, as our steamboat men become more
acquainted with the requirements necessary
to navigate this stream, theyIw III meet with
better results. and, like the Missouri, the
world will be forced to acknowledge her adj
vantages. The more navigable streams
Montana has the better it will be, and while
we admit that it is VAN to hope for an i'm
possibility. we believe that what has been
done ma be done again, and even more.
Thus far the attempts to utilize the Yellow
c+o-o Eor ,,ax-iootinp HOG only hanD attended
with partial success. But the last failure is
far from proving the impossibility or the i'm
practicability of the enterprise. Only a few
years ago we heard people say the Missouri
was nearly dry, that boats could nevertoucli
the Benton landing again; but the would-be
prophets have failed, and we venture to pre-
diet that he who says the Yellowstone is but
4 turbulent and noisy mountain brook, fit
only for trout fishing, will yet, If he lives,
see that stream whitened with commerce as
steamers stem its current with ease. The
failure of the steamer Yellowstone to reach
the point Of its destination has dampened
the ardor Of some, but it does not prove that
the project is Il failure, for had that boat
waited a few days longer for q better stage
of water, she would no doubt have made it.
That this was the only cause of her failure
we are not fully prepared to say. but the at
tempt will be made again. The men who
are engaged in this enterprise are not to be
thWarted by a single mishap. We will ven
ture even further than what we have already
said. Less than ten years hence will not
cp1.y ErI fins ct,aar, cpayy1aI with cfoo,,,ncc
and commerce, but the Upper Missouri will
have attracted the attention OF boatmen, and
steamers will be plying between the Great
Falls and Gallatin City. A portion of this
stream has already been surveyed by Col.
De Lacy, a competent judge, and pronoun-
ced practicable, and now only awaits the at
tention of a few men of enterprise and capt.
tai, like those engaged upon the Yellow
stone, to land the supplies of our country
(now lodged on the muddy bad lands beyond
Sun River, with ease, cheapness and safety,
ut the wharf within twelve miles of Helena.
-- ~-8-1
A WASHINGTON dispatch, recently repro
ducing in several Of the Territorial papers,
needs to be briefly noticed. tt contained a
statement chat Col. Galloway was geAnored
from the Office Of Secretary !; that such re-
moval was IA necessary sequence to Gov
ernor Potts vindication,' y etc. Wespeak of
our own knowledge in saying that Secretary
Galloway was not removed from Office. The
Secretary's resignation, entrusted tothe ed
itor OF this paper, was personally presented
to and its acceptance asking of the President.
President Hayes accepted the resignation
rs rendered, and in the presence of ourseli