The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-13
From the Daily Of Tuesday.
Tourists

SAAO A0 N60
tined to become the summer paradis
Tor tourists. While we are grumh
ling about the necessity for dali,
nres, and wondering If the time vii
ever come when we can do withou
them for a short season, there ar,
plenty of people in tile East and evel
in California inwardly wishing tina
they knew some place where they
could get q breath of cool fresh air
General Sherman is credited will
the remark that, after his retiremen
from the army, he would spend hi
winters in st. Louis and his summer
in Montana. The General spent tn,
summer of 1877 in Montana ant
knows whereof he spoke.
1t is q fact We cannot too 1901
realize that, with the advent of rail
roads. the tide will soon commence
setting in this direction, and it be
hooves the people and especial,
those who need money (many of US d.
not care anything about it) to begi,
setting their houses in order. Th,
first great need of Montana in almps
every locality within its boundaries
Is suitable hotel accommodations
Until the people of the East can be
come educated to the healthful anC
p~leasureable experience of ''r0ughin1
it," they are not going to tear them.
selves far away from these supposed
indispensable adjuncts of civilization
A small party Of Englishmen passed
through Butte last week on their way
to . summers hunt in the region te
the northwest. One of them was m
author of considerable note, who had
seen much of Asia, Africa and
America; and he deplored the igno-
rance of the people who sought health
in luxurious establishments when il
could be had so inexpensively by
roughing it in the mountains.
The active chemical constituent of
the atmosphere Is oxygen which is
found in greater abundance in noun
tain air than elsewhere Beside this air
is freer from carbOnacious matter pro-
duced by fermentation, combustion
and putrifaction. It has no malaria,
and coming in constant contact with
snowy ranges never becomes super
heated. The water is always pure
and cold. Some one replied to a
panegyric on a country that lacked
good society and good water that that
vas all hell lacked; but in the mat
ter of good air and good water Mon
tana may be considered very far re-
moved from the warm place men,
toned.
Good society is one of the things
the people cannot too sedulously
to build up. BY good society
is not meant a community of tops
and dudes, but a community in
which schools, churches, libraries,
theatres and places where rational
amusement and recreation can be
had. We want good hotels and good
conveyances for those who wish to
leave the regular lines of Transporter
ton. The early stage-coaching ex-
perjences in Montana will soon live
only in history.
Those coming to Montana in pur-
suit of health and pleasure will not
leave behind them the element OF
human curiosity, but will naturally.
want to see the wonderful mines
have made Butte noted
throughout the country. To invite
o our midst this class we must have
hose facilities which will make their
stay pleasant. Our neighbors at the
Capital City have appreciated the
of this matter, and have
,alked much of large hotel with all
lie modern appliances. 1t is a hint
hat should not be lost to the public
business men Of this city.
There are points of interest about
his place from which tourists can
adiate. It is a natural supply point
or those wishing to visit good fish
ng and hunting grounds. The Big
Hole basin and the country beyond
liable and about Rock Creek cannot
'e excelled by any other point in
for either. The beginning
# the tourists tide will strike Mon
ana this summer, and will increase
3 the years 60 by.