The Butte daily miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-01

and shrubs which usually grow in temperate
climate; and the Bitter Root, as o fruit country.
Ii rapidly assuming important rank. The time
IL almost present when from the rfpenfng Of
Strawberries in early summer until the last apple
IL picked, this county can and will do much to-
ward supplying the same to less favored locali-
ties The growing needs of transportation facili-
ties to markets has suggested with increased force
a wagon trail over the mountains to Philfpsburg,
Anaconda and Butte, and now the Bitter Root
road direct to those points ia an assured fact.
When completed and in operation this wagon
road will surely give place to the railroad rails,
and then every ranch in the valley will prove q
mine of wealth.
SOCIETIES.
The following societies are represented: Roman
Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists,
Christians, Episcopalians. Masons. Odd Fellows,
Ancient Order United Workmen, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and Fremen, knights of
Labor knights of Pythias, Brotherhood Of Rail-
road Brakemen, Good Templars and Changers
THE PRESS.
Type and printing material were first brought
to the county by the Montana Publishing Com
pany, Messrs. Joseph Mngee and J. H. Morrison.
The plant and paper has successfully been
named Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer, Sep
TENDER Is, 1870, to January g. 1871 Missoula Pho
uCVl uuIIl s>ONSlHuCI AoSA, AuC uutAA
December 2, 1872, Montana Pioneer until Febru-
airy 8. 1873, since which time 1t has borne the
name Muscular. It has long since discarded the
traditional sack and baking powder can, and now
uses regulation type cases and composing sticks.
From its start up to and including its present
force 1t has been edited by Messrs. Magee Morri-
son, A. J. Mccormick F. H. Woody, 4. NJ. CHS
holm, W. X Turk, Chauncey Barbour. Charles 8.
Aspling, Duane Armstrong and VIII Kennedy.
to- u nj. ~ tod
pendent Democratic. November IT, 1882. Harri-
son spaulding established the Missoula County
Times, and has successfully conducted the paper
into paying and profitable Republican sheet.
He, too, has discarded old material in the shape
ola "manktller" hand press and has substituted
a power press Circulation, 7OO and constantly
increasing in favor.
TOMORROW
Although there are several low passes leading
in and out of Missoula, the Northern Pacific
Railroad probably uses the two by which the
county is most accessible. But when the time
shall have arrived, necessity will remove or cut
through these mountain ranges. The Bitter
Root Valley will, in the next few years, be netted
with roads over the divide into the Big Hole
country and thence south; rails will be laid over
the Bitter Root direct to Philipsburg, Anaconda
and Butte; and another line down the valley to
and over the Flathead country into Northern
Montana and British America. Railroads will
also connect the town of Miss0ula with the great
mineral country of the CRur d'Alene and with
points all through the valley. Perhaps no county
in the Territory presents 40 large q. number of
people engaged in general farm work. The re-
suit Is apparent in the Improvements constantly
added to claims. 1t has been demonstrated in
the large crops of wheat. oats, barley and corn,
and her prominent rank as q fruit district. As
is the case with neighb0ring counties, this pe0-
pie must produce enough to live on and leave
generous margin. This, Missoula county is do
ing. Her vast forests growing in canyons, noun
tains and in valleys will survive many genera
lions, and the ptesent stock ia constantly repro
ducing. There is more than enough to supply all
present demands OF fuel, mine and bridge
timbers and railroad ties. But the question
which next arises. will the present and growing
timber supply all these needs. afford building
material for the countless buildings to be
erected, keep up the demands from foreign
markets and yet enough remain to properly
balance the supply of water fall for the great
upper drainage of the Columbia river? Time
will have to answer. That there ia an immense
future for this valley county is apparent. Few
localities enjoy greater.natuml advantages of
climate. soil and sunny days. Its people are In
dustriOus and frugal, traits which in themselves
alone will prove rich Inheritance to those who
are yet unborn. A high veneration for law and
order PREVAILS and there exists close and con-
slant study for the demands of social life. There
are too many wage workers in this community
in proportion to the number of people.
This is explained in the fact there exists lack
oftransportation The Northern Pacific runs
nearly the entire length from the northwestern
to the southeastern extremity and really touches
but MtssOula of the old centers of population,
not to mention the two empires, Flathead and
Bitter Root. The existence of this railroad pre-
vents any greatecompetition from mule or bull
trains, which have entirely DISAPPEARED. The