, 1882-10-21
~ Railway.

For the benefit Of ths new psohcAt'on,
in thi. city, which has announced ts'en .
opposed to railxays on senerA principles,
and whose opposition vill probably change
the location Of spike in some out-of-she
way switch, We reprint the following from
the Nssr INor.a,oess, published at Deer
Lodge, Montana: :,
An engine and train OF cars entered
"a, Indye for the first time on Tuesday,
October 5. 1892 This marks new era
ia the history of the town whether Ior
oood or for i'll remains to be seen. we
have had plenty of oroakings plenty OF
.dmonitions against railroads; plenty OF
PROPHECIES that railr"ad viii Kill the
town" etc, etc. etc In all the luguori-
on. variations. Well, if the town has TO
die i, were better to be vigorously killed
by one Of the vital energies of the nine
teenth century than to exhaust OF dry rot
with nothing but OK trains to remove the
remains and nothing but mud WAGONS to
carry the news of the demise. But NC
do not take 80 doieful view. Railroads
are the means Of inland traffic and travel
the intelligence of this century has devel-
oped. That their operations has In IN
stances injured towns, is true That they
have built UP hundred where one has
gone down, is equally true. There have
dozens of Montana towns died and been
obliterated from the face Of the earth and
nearly from the memory OF man within
the past twenty yea, when there was no
railroad to lay the charge to. The raIl-
roads have Eot killed any town yet. In
fact, except Silver Bow and Butte. Deer
Lodge is the first Of the old Montana
towns a railroad has reached In the
mean time they have made and built up
where before was a desert, several more
important business towns than any we
have had for ten years, except Helena
and Butte. Montana is not like an old,
thickly settled, fully occupied country,
with every acre under tribute to industry
and with well established centers OF trade.
The few thousand people who have occu-
pied this empire of territory are as moth
ing to what it is destined to support We
have taken up few ranches; worked
out few placer claims lived an easy,
indolent, isolated, hundred-per-cent. life
and been content. We have been on the
skirmish line, as it were, foraging on a
rich country. With the exhaustion of
the pIacers came the necessity for
the reserves to come up. We felt
II The population depleted and
there were hard times. Then began the
development OF quartz lodes and reduction
of the ores. That interest demanded
quick and cheap transit to compete with
ike interests elsewhere. That interest
encouraged and will maintain agriculture
and manufactures The railroads are
here, or coming, to encourage and main
tain mining, and each responds to the
other in building up a prosperous and
populous community. There is no town
reached by railroad in Montana that
will be injured by it. In the case OF Deer
Lodge, We viii have, two years hence,
double the population We have now; where
ia one cultivated farm and home there
will be three; where is one industry there
will be half dozen; and homes, business
houses, and manufactures will increase
proportionately. The price of labor will
be reduced; so too will be the cost of hv-
ing One Will compensate the other.
Dealers will not make so great per cent
ON each dollars worth sold, but they Will
sell more dollars worth.