The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-10
GREED OF CATTLE MEN.

THE MINER is inclined to believe that thu
cattle men are making a mistake in depre
Chatting the value OF land in Eastern Mon
BILE OF cultivation. Their efforts will at
best avail but little. as their object is toe
transparent. They want to hold the vast
ranges unobstructed, SO that their cattle
may roam unmolested and at will. To
that end. they will descend to almost any
| act to keep out actual settlers. BY decry.
ing the productive qualities OF the land
| they hope to create a prejudice that will
prevent actual settlers from coming in.
The Stock Journal. a paper that is body
| and soul in the interests OF the cattle men,
in a recent edition, among other things,
said: "Now comes the Mineral argus and
after duly lamenting the ignorance of the
| editor of this paper offers to the land
hungry hOrdes of Scandinavia n other
| countries 4 1000 square miles of fertile lands
in the Judith Basin. The editor of this
paper has had occasion to travel through
the picturesque Judith valley and has on
various and sundry occasions eaten at the
tables OF the prosperous (?) farmers up
there and it is a positive fact that he never
on a sidgle occasion found meat or a farm
er's table. Milk and bread was about all
that was on the bill OF fare, and their sole
revenue seemed to be derived from the sale
OF butter to the cattlemen Of the country"
The Maiden Mineral argus ONES back at
the Stock journal in a very vigorous man
ner. We will omit the personal matter,
which is no concern of ours, and repro
duce the material facts which it gives:
1--WE claim that the Judith Basin is a fine
agricultural region, where everything can
be successfully grown that can be raised in
Minnesota, save perhaps, corn; and we
know that our ranchmen are to-day in bet
ter circumstances than a majority OF the
farmers in Minnesota and Dakota, some Of
whom have farlned for twenty-five years.
Our ranchmen raise all kinds OF garden
truck in abundance, and get good prices for
their products. What they need is a mar
to consume the result OF their toll, and
will not have many years to wait.
They should and the most of them are,
going lightly into stock raising. Mixed
is the only kind that pays in any
Montana is capable of raising all
the farm products required for home con-
sumption, and not a dollar should be sent
that can be expended at hume.
There is room here for all save a few prince
y, nonresident cattle kings who have ru-
med the grazing lands of Texas and are
now seeking pastures new. The bona fde
men Of Montana are more alarmed
about them than they are about the |
acquired land owners who have
here to live and follow the pursuits OF
The foreign trespassers, like
The editor of the Journal, would like to
put a barbed wire fence around the earth
md then turn the Enclosure into an i'm
nense COW pasture. The Journal editor
s paid forty dollars a month to be-
title every industry save that Of hoof and
and be has got to earn his money or
20 back or the range. Such is class jour
There is no doubt that the large cattle
corporations arc a curse to the country.
They are unfair, unjust and brutal in their
not only with farmers but with
men who are engaged in cattle raising ON 4
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