Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-01-11

bors flock. between the months, of Septem-
Der lst and December 16th. A law to this
effect we believe. will meet the appreciation
of every wool-grower in Montana.
Our eastern exchanges are full OF wise
.admonitions to farmers and stock-growers
about feeding and caring for stock in winter.
We would say to those who desire to escape
these arduous duties to remove to Montana.
The cattle and wool growers of these noun
tains are never reduced to the necessity OF
providing feed for their stock. All that is
required here is to get the stock; nature
will provide the teed.s. Thousands of. beeyes
and tens Of thousands of sheep are grazing
leisurly to-day. upon our brown hills, and
are as fat as they We're. in the middle,o Of July.
Some of our contemporaries, whose editors
have never advanced beyond the pale of
civilization, and who have always regarded
these mountains as a bleak, sterile region.
swept by the frigid winds of the frozen
zone and buried eight months out of the
twelve in ice and snow, will doubt these
statements. Nesting quietly at the. base OF
VII SiIdSSt IloiIlteslIiS III tIto CNS vi Sttil-
lit wales where thousands of happy homes
may be reared. Friends and farmers of the
crowded States, who have not where to rest
your heads, come and see for yourselves.
Our soil is rich, our climate temperate and
healthy, and our facilities for making life
happy as good as the world can produce.
AMENGTHY article on the subject of g tax
ing hullion," from the pen of w. S, Mills.
OF the Northwest company, signed t.lMiner,''
has been extensively published throughout
the Territorial press. at the request OF the
writer. This, we learn. is in order that it
may reach the farmers. We are sorry that
our limited space precludes our giving it the
publicity our Journal would afford it, as it
has a lafger circulation among this class
than all others. Butt it is quite as we'll as it
is. 1t would be wholly unnecessary for us
to devote three columns Of our paper to il
l~tstrate the fact that taxation is a burden.
agd that any industry could prosper better
ii exempt. The farmers have felt the strong
and steady drain too long not too be aware
Of this. Bus they are not selfish. They 10
not wish to carry out the train OF ..Miner's''
argument and ask for exemption. They
only ask for u just division they only ask
that other classes share the burden. alike
with themselves. Certainly, any industry
wonll flourish if exempt from taxation.
Sheep h%usbamlry, yet in its infancy, for i'll
stance, would, il exempt, become the most
prosperous industries in the land. Capital
would seek inyertment in it, our ten thou
sand grassy hills, ~interspersed with beauli-
FIJI valleys, would be filled with tlocks, and
the song Of the shepherd would resouna
throughout Montana, and our yearly. wool
clip would soon amount to millions. But
the taxed interests would suffer in co,lse-
qlence, and reasoning from Miners stand
point, would soon become extinct; hence
the necessity OF, leyying Il tax j all in
terests alike.
ii. N. T.. LEWIS, OF 1T Madison. street,
Chicago, well known journalist OF the West,
the founder Of the JFestefn Rarat, and cham
plon of cheap transportation. announces
that he will begin the publication of
Le'fas' Rurai, at IN early date. The sub
scription price will be $3.50. We will soon
be prepared TO offer club rates with the new
publication.
we { Ike the following interesting account
Of the Montana exhibit of precious metals at
the Centennial from i letterab by w. A. Clark
to the Nem NORTH Vest:
Contiguous to display III eases there
.,.nc ~ %. - ln44nl 49, -