The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-12-03

II. Il. White in Providence Press.
IL Is good rule for every young man who
is doing moderately well at home to make
no change without the most careful consid
GRAFTON. But 1t is true that there are wider
fields for enterprise and more abundant op.
potunities for making money in some parts
Of the Far West, especially for persons who
possess.only limited capital, than in most
of the cities and towns on the Atlantic
coast. The risks are greater, the expense OF
conducting every kind Of business is greatly
increased, and, of necessity, the profits are,
as they oughtto be, large.
In the first place, no young man ought to
think of going to the mining regions of the
Rocky Mountains unless he is prepared to
rough IL.
do not wish to be understood by this re-
mark to convey the idea that all the people
who life In mining towns have few of the
comforts and none Of the Injuries of life. I
have seen elegant furniture, expensive musi-
cal instruments, books paintings and bric-a-
brac in the log cabin of successful miner
at the foot of some rugged mountain and far
from the centres of trade and population of
the mining country.
ryButthe. man who goes into the mountains
expecting TO find these things is in great dan
ger of being disappointed. He is much more
likely to live In tent or q rude log cabin,
to cook his own food and engage in all kinds
of labor which he would scorn in the east.
The West Is no place for drones or namby-
pamby people.
q Again, no young man should 60 to the
West without capital unless he is sure of
employment. Every thriving mining camp
In the West is thronged with men who have
nothing to do, and who follow the crowd of
excited fortune-seekers, expecting to pick up
gold nuggets or silver bricks in the gulches
or on the hillsides, only to be disappointed.
The cost of living in frontier towns is very
great, and the expenses of travelling even
greater. - So e Z. &c ga .
A stage DRYER on the Leadvflle road, not
two years ago, told two passengers who COM
planned that they could not get outside seats
where they could view the scenery that they
would have ample opportunity to admire the
scenery when they walked back.
Mining is the last tina! Eastern men should
undertake to engage in until they have learn
ed something about the business by living
some months in mining camps and carefully
studying the subject. There are five hun
dred mining claims located and recorded and
recorded for every zone that ever pays one
dollar to the locator or purchaser or discov-
erer Of them; yet it would be difficult TO
find a prospector in the West who would not
make a stranger believe, If he could, that
every one of his prospect holes was a bonan-
"a. '-'
would advise no young man to 60 to the
Rocky Mountains with a stock of goods pur-
chased in the east, expecting to become a
merchant there. The classes of goods sold
in mining camps are very different from
those for which there is demand in east
ern cities and towns-not cheaper and poor
er, but different, often better and more ex-
pensive. If any one thinks of going into
the trade in the west he should place his
money where he coull, command 1t instantly
and then 60 to some centre and there be-
come clerk in a store, If he can get a stu
alton. This will not only give him an OPP
portunityto learn what classes of goods are
most sold, but he will also be on the ground |
ready to take the advantage of any excite |
ment that may arise. 1t often happens that !
q rich strike is made in small camp of half
a dozen tents or cabins, and that in two or
,hree weeks thousand men will be upon |
he ground and large town established.