The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-13
The Pleasant Land or GaIlatIn.

The Pleasant Land or GaIlatin.
BozENAx, MONTANA, June; 1885, :
This Gallatin Valley is a country to
fall in love with-a land of high noun
tains, green below and striped with
bands of snow and brown rock on their
SUBMITS; land ofverdant valleys where
swift streams 60 dancing along to nGrture
the luxuriant grain, and farm houses
peep from behind screens of young po-
plar trees; land of wonderful sweeps of
vision and of cool airs that blow from
snow fields lingering in the embrace Of
the rocky lodges all summer; a land of
flowers, where wild roses, geraniums,
blue bells, sunfowers and hundred
nameless blossoms make a parterre Of
every brookside and garden Of every
prairie; land for hunting and fishing,
for excursions to wild gorges and lovely
lakes, lying high up among the noun
tains, for picnics in secluded valleys by
cool, rushing waters, for long journeys in
the saddle, and for all sorts of outdoor
life and adventure.
Best Of all are the grand mountains.
Sitting in the bay window Of "a friends
parlor to-day, I could, by turning only
half around in my chair, see 100 miles of
horizon line of magnificent peaks and
ranges, clear-cut against the blue Of q
perfect sky, the snow fields gIistening in
the sunlight, the vivid green Of the grassy
slopes and the deep green, almost black
of the forest belts making delightful con-
trasts of color with the white and brown
Of the higher pinnacles and precipices.
You are rich man." said to my friend,
''to own a landscape like this. You
have only to look ont Of Your window to
find beauty and inspiration "You no
tice it more than we do who live here"
he replied, "but l often think that no
money could tempt me to live where !
could not see the mountains. I am
afraid should die of homesickness, like
the Swiss exile who heard the Alpine
song of the RAM des Vaches."
Here in Bozeman the citizens are
planning a big hotel that will serve as
tourists summer resort end L e. ~, .l'f f-o,,
resting place for travellers to and from
the Pacific Coast, as well as for hostel
nv for the ordinary needs Of the place.
It is to cost 100000, and donations Of
land and money to the amount of SAG, ,OOO
have already been subscribed. The site
selected will give view from the hotel
piazzas of all the ranges that inclose the
Gallatip Valley and of more than hum
dred individual peaks. If the project is
carried out, Bozeman will become great
resort of pleasure travel. Nowhere can
a more delightful and invigorating sum-
mer climate be found.
The town has achieved noticeable
growth since was here year ago, in
the way of brick business blocks and
good houses. The population is steadily
increasing, but there is general COM
plaint of dull times. Nevertheless, the
leading merchant, Gen. Wilson, tells me
that more goods will be sold this year
than were sold in any previous year OF
the towns history except 1883. The
future growth of Bozeman depends upon
new ditch enterprises to irrigate large
areas of fertile land in the Gallatin Val
lev now unused, and upon the develop
ment of mineral wealth in the vicinity
In Mr.. Rountree's Office was shown to
day masses of iron ore SO rich that wher
hammered the surface appeared like
pure malleable iron. These were from
the Emerson district, about eighteel
miles distant. In the same nelghbor
hood limestone is found in crystalline
form. and not far off there are seams Q
coking coal. Here, then, are all tn
essentials for great iron INDUSTRY. Tn
time is not far distant, believe, whel
Bozeman will have furnaces, forges an
rolling mills. George T. Wlckes. tn
mining expert, says tina! the coal Of th1
vicinity is high grade Ignite, carryin
about fifty-eight per cent of fixed carboI
It does not slack, like the brown Ignite
of Dakota, when exposed to the air, b'
will not keep its solidity ifthe suns ray
fall on 1t long.
The iron lead from which the spec
men came is fifteen feet wide and fol
miles long. Near it is copper vein ca
rylng eighty per cent Of copper, al
enough silver to pay for smelling. II
more see of Montana the more l a
convinced that the mineral resources
the vast Territory have only he'
scratched on the surface 40 to speak,
obtain the richest and most easily wor
ed ores, and that there are almost nu'
berless deposits of gold, silver and copp
ores rich enough to well repay explol
ton now that the railroad has brong
down the prices of machinery and lab'
When new wave Of enterprise succee
the present eddies and back-water
hard times there will be an immense
velopment Of mining industry here
the Rocky Mountains.
: Boston capitalists are proposing
make a big ditch from the West Galla
river which will water lO0,0OO acres
excellent wheat land. Such ditcl
prove paying investments in Colora
bv the rental Of water-rights. They v
be the next important feature in
progress Of Montana. Farming by il
.. cation is the most certain and profita
b mode of agriculture. When the sn
bitches are ready to water the land
costs only fifteen cents an acre to irrie
crop, and the yield of wheat and
is double tina: obtained in the east
V. Smalley in the Northwest.