The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-13
q h-SAahR VIII LII
The OUTOOK.

To q man with means, no better oppor
: tunities for profitable investments can b,
found in any state Or territory in the
Union than now present themselves in Mon
tana. The railroads that are now being bull
into the Territory are opening up large Sec
tons that are rich in all the elements that
constitute a prosperous country. Not a 1.-THE
of the 100000 acres Of our agriculture,
lands has yet been turned over by the pillow,
Only a few farms here and there, mere specks
upon our vast area of fertile lands, are cult.
waited; the balance lays open to settlement
Mining camps are becoming the centers OF
attraction and real estate in each is on the
boom. New towns are springing up on the
lines of the roads with prospects that each
will rapidly advance to the proportions and
dignity of a city. Business in every industry
that is being prosecuted in the Territory is
active, healthy and remunerative. As the
roads advance into the heart of the Territory
these industries will be enlarged and others
developed until all are included.
The light of experience enables us to form
some just conception of the future possibili-
ties of this region. Less than fifteen years
ago Colorado contained a struggling popula-
ton, less in number than Montana now pos
sesses. 1t was the opinion of sagacious men
that she had reached the zenith of her glory,
which was then fastening to its setting.
There had been a steady decrease in popula.
ton with The wane IN the production of the
earlier mineral wealth. There was not then
a railroad in Colorado. In 1868 a great trans
continent line swept by along her northern
frontier. The bold and energetic jewellers in
that region, who had but a few years before
reclaimed it from savage life, intultively saw
would be nugatory. They brought them
| selves into immediate connection with the
means of progress and development. The
Territory in.reased in population, prosperity
and wealth With such nnexampled rapidity
that. in the centennial year, she was enabled
to take her position among the sisterhood of
States. Without instituting other parallels
or pursuing the inquiry to other localities
that have grown from sparsely settled regions
to mighty commonwealth, this single in
stance, so similar in physical condition, sa-
lubrity of climate, mineral and other re-
sources to Montana, is 4 sufficient index,
sThe which observed, a man may prophecy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
AS yet TO come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured:
Such things become the hatch and brood of
time"
In the native elements of wealth Montana
is admittedly superior to Colorado. She has
been, like the valley of gems, surrounded by
inaccessible mountains, spoken of in the
Arabian rights: valueless through isolation.
The former method of hurting into the valley
of gems chunks of beef to be brought out by
the eagles with a few gems sticking to them,
will soon be improved upon, and our mac
cessible wealth opened up to the world. Even
our base metal mines, which are now worth
less, will spring into value and the trunks of
trees now rotting p%iecemeal in our forests
will be utilized to make comfortable and
adorn the dwellings of distant people. In
dustries, inter-dependent and complex, will
String up, creating others, and the era of
prosperity will not suffer abatement until all
the avenues of shal! have been
completely filed. This will not have occur
red until long after Montana shall have ia
ken her position as one of the States in the
Union. 1t is difficult to particularize where
in or how this transformation will come
about, but the history of development in
other places, not SO favored in all the ele-
ments that go to make up a great State, teach
es us that Montana is now upon the thresh-
cd of a long period OF unexampled prosper
ity.
The only reasonable thing to do for every
one now living in Montana is to drive a stake
somewhere-to have something that will ELL
nance in value with the enhancement OF val
ues about it. In our own fair city it is a mat
ter of speculation with some at what time the
crest of the boom in her prosperity will
eliminate. That event is no doubt in the
dim distance. Her growth must be com
mensurate with the growth of the entire coun-
try. With an increase of wealth and popu
lation must come an increase Of commercial
transactions with other places which Is itself
an increment of growth. Its future cannot
be predicated upon what Virginia City, Ne
veda, once was, built upon a single ledge
and in a region of desolation and sage brush.
Butte is in the heart of a region capable OF
supporting a dense population and from her
abundance of mines can add to the circuia.
ting medium of the world more than the
Comstock ever produced. The outlook, not
only for the whole Territory, but for the city
of Butte, is full of hope, and is of such fail
not fail to profit by it.
The Republican Committee, of New York
which recently met, failed to pass any resolu,