The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-07-15
4 JOURNALIST ON MONTANA.
. she 10 Imperial in All Her Attributes"
Judge Goodwin in the salt Lake Tribune.

judge Goodtoin In the salt Lake Tribune.
In the great procession Of States Montana
will, ere long, assume u stately place. IL is
still rough Territory; some of Its features
are crude and nIcouah, but the shadow Of
the desert passes away before Montana is
reached; the clarified hills arr cat Ie.ed With
green aud often crowned with forests, and in
valley aud an mount ain there Is promise of
u strength and majesty which Is To culmina.e
In such smaiilload aud womanhaod In the
future AS softer climates never bring forth.
So far the people have been blazing trails
and laying the foundations Ut homes. As in
the early days when the settlers first vent
there they were forced To traverse the hills
without grades aud 10 ford the 81 rranis, SO
the practice became habit and TO this lay
no fntnnes lave been lost In building
brides or grading mountains. The log house
Is still common, the saddle and park horse
and ..,etky" Stage NJ. fequeni, and The
girls on horseback drive up lhe cows with
o't any such triUing interpretation as u side
saddle. The Muni ana man u asps the hand
Of a stranger Ms lie might throw a lafiat
there Is 10 dotbt about his energy ar direct
hess. The placer aye is passing away: the
quartz aye Is about commencing III earliest,
aud within the coming five years he yield
Of the preenus metals in Montana will at
tIAtl lllf hltHltUH ot tHt UlfitttiE GhHi-
mercial world In way which would make
a TRANSPORTATION Ia that Territory. The
significance of Butte as n miuing district Is
already acknowledged. though what las al
re-; dy been discovered aud p. formed is but
AS a wave compared With all the pillows Of
The sea. At Marysville. twenty-five miles
beyond Helena, is the grandest SUI lace
showing of ore ia the known world In the
Dunn L'mond mine, owned by Thomas
Cruise. All around the Drum Lnmond are
magnificent mines, like the Belmont aud
Gloster, aud the region has not been half
p,osprcted. Back of IIeleua tif' een miles is
Red Mountain, where for miles silver lodges
are thicker than blackherf:es. In another
direction, few miles away from Helena, are
the celebrated Alta Montana aud Gregory
mines. AT Sheridan here Is magnificent
gold property; at Boulder there are several
exceedingly itch gold mines; beyond Ban-
marx are tine miaes: III many other districts
are we'll est ablishtd properties, while In ev-
cry direction new discoveries are being made
daily. The grade ~ the Utah and Northern
| is almost within sight of Butte and the trains
# tile Northern Pacific will be LAUNDERING
| over the summit If the Rockies year after
| next. The Utah and Northern is the incest
little railroad in the world and AL unquali-
lied blessing to Montana. MontaHa's boom
| is about commencing AND IL is going 10 be
| "A continuous boom. But when her mines
| are all discovered aud appropriated and there
| Is no moie excitement ontheir account, then
he real glory of The Territory will COM
| meuce, for by that time the fiiS children
born will he men ami women; the men will
he splf-poised aud brave AMI tie women
will he rosy and true-just such a stock Of
| immortais as will he II glory to Montana aud
| a defence. whenever called upon, Ia The
ahu.G aepublic. Montana furnishes the
| fountains for the streams ahieh flow east
and west her waieIe hear tile balges which
| ioat both on the Columbia and the Missouri =;
,he Is imperial in all her attributes and cam
"l help but become a State tina. every other
| State will learn in time 10 rely upon, and
hat trust will never be disappointed.