Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-12
MONTANA.
Col. W. r. Sanders OH the Resources of
Our Territory.
ISpecial to the Inter Ocean. /

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Our Territory.
l Special to the Inter Ocean
WASHINGTON, April 25.-With the openin
OF spring the tide of emigration is natural
turning toward the West, and information a
: to the newer Territories will not be withou
interest to many who are rejecting upon tn
question of where to go. Among the larges
, and least known Territories of the new Yves
: is Montana Col w. F. Sanders, an oil
resident of the Territory. in fact, one of it
E organizers, is in Washington, and his knowl
edge Of its resources is probably unequaled
) What have you to say of Montana as t
its capacity and desirability as place 10
immigration 2" asked your correspondent o
Colonel Sanders to-day. ~
Il will answer briefly" he replied. M
other Territory in the West, in myjudgment
affords such Il field for the investment 0
capital, whether ii be OF brains, muscle o
money as Montana" !
Il wish you to particularize. Is there no
danger to your outlying settlements from
hostile lndians?'
None whatever: thanks TO Generals Glib
bon, Miles, and Ruger, on whom the bnrder
of conquering a peace has largely fallen, an(
to the wise distribution of military posts ant
forces, Il solitary person can ride alone from
one end of the Territory to another without
apprehension. These officers have been sus-
tanned and encouraged by the wise forecast
of Generals Sheridan, Hancock, and Terry
and the people Of Montana interested i'll
maintaining peace, act as a police to restrain
the action of vicious white men, whence In
dian wars principally flow"
! What is the condition Of your social life
and what are your educational facilities and
religious privileges ~
THE social life of our people differs some
/ what from that of the Eastern States, as our
population is made up from people from every
State OF the United States, with a liberal
sprinkling of citizens born elsewhere 1t is
more active, it has petrified into those classi-
fcations which characterize O,atr commun-
ties, but it is as intellectual and moral and
when not too sparsely settled, it is as active
rs elsewhere. The coarser elements, Of which
no known community is wholly free, do not
obtrude themselves into the events or inter-
course, which are in the keeping of good peo-
pie from every hand
GRADUATES OF COLLEGES
and higher schools, whose scholastic educa-
ton has been supplemented by contact with
the world and men of affairs with prudence.
sagacity, vigor, and breadth OF view, give di-
rection to public thought and action there as
elsewhere. The constabulary are not often
called upon officially. Society is as quiet and
peaceful as in the Eastern States Our largest
town has but recently found it desirable to
become an incorporated village, and this was
required, not because the customary county
organization did not maintain order, but to
better give direction to expanding material
interests. All the large towns furnish ex-
cellent academic advantages, free, OF which
they are justly proud, and in the support of
which the public spirit is united and munit-
cent. Throughout the settlements there are
free schools, but in some instances the sparse
ness of the population requires the children
to travel some distance to school, but statis-
tics show the excelling excellence of our
schools, and of them our people are very
proud. The situation which modifies the
educational system operates in degree upon
religious instruction, but the people are libe-
raj in the support of the various churches,
and the ministers of the gospel have been
jealous. able, ,enterprising, and selt.sacrificing
Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Metho-
dist Episcopal, and Catholic churches abound,
while the Baptist and Christian Missions are
maintained with great zeal, and these as a
whole have exercised wholesome influence
over the communities. ought not to dis
miss the schools without mention of
THE HON. CORNELIUS HEDGES,
long their Superintendent, to whose intelli-
gent labor their efficiency is largely due, nor
can l forget to say that the Protestant Epis-
copal, and for that matter every other church,
owes debt of gratitude to the Rev. David S. |
Tuttle, long the missionary Bishop of the
Diocese Of Montana, Utah, and Idaho, now
Of Salt Lake city. Epitomizing all this,
say the social life and the religious and edu-
cational privileges are excellent and appre-
ciated"
How do you get to so isolated adominion?
HOW TO GET THERE
by rail to Omaha, Ogden and Dillon, or
oy the Northern Pacific from ST. Paul to Bis
narck and Glendive, on the Yellowstone. or
iefiecting at Bismarck you can 90 up the |,
Missouri River ! 200 miles to Fort Benton
(which is the preferable route and cheap
,st ?" .... .- ;-..s
Il would not decide. Each claims it's own
advantages. Nor can / say which would on
Ill accounts be the cheapest, except that if
me wished to settle on the Yellowstone
Valley fin Eastern Montana the Northern
Pacific would be the preferable route. Nine
enths of our present settlements are in Wes-
eri Montana on either side of The Rocky :,
e.1.1 ,s9gGjt betjrj sd h
Tell rs what are your industries.n n5oT. /,