Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-07-21
NO MORE A DESERT.
Some Logical Remarks on the
Development of the Great
Northwest.
Three Crops of Settlers Required
for a Permanent Population
Varied Resources.
some Conclus ions.

Harp'r's Magazine for July, is quite q
different landscape from that outlined
IN the maps which were the "texi
books" OF many In their school day;
the east, who now have hourishine
farms and luxriant fields, heavily
laden with the best products Of the
earth, within the boundaries of this
once ostracised, sterile domain, says
the Bismarck Tribune. And this
damaging feature OF our old United
States mars has only been dropped
within the last twenty years. Crude
and uncertain n the first settlement
OF new country Is, and always must
be, the developments in that period
are astounding, even TO those who
have been eye witnesses to the great
change. Says Mr.. Shipman: "Ex.
perience shows that il takes three sets
of pioneers to make permanent pop
ulaton. For il must be supposed tn at
the original homesteader is necessarily
q farmer. You will find sll sorts and
conditions of men among them, from
ministers to COW boys, from bankrupt
business men to the latest exiles from
Russia. All Of these, together with
professional men and trades men in
the villages, and a fair sprinkling of
bona iide farmers, appear in the ranks
of the honIesteaders.n After a graphic
description of the "dugout' In which
the settler frat makes his nome,
with its interior provided with more
or less comforts for living and some
times "a very modern organ with an
imposing cathedral back towering
high in one corner Of the room, " and
in the social arrangement, Il day des-
ignated in each week for meeting OF
the literary club" who inteligently
discuss all that pertains 10 their life.
liberty and pursuit OF happine ="
some idea may be formed as to how a
new country commences to be settled
up. "rne h0mesteaders are very hon,
Ct,o says Mr.. Shipman. you can
leave house unlocked at all times
aud your stores are perfectly safe
with the exception of what liquor you
may have on hand for medical pur-
poses.n In other words, II they will
steal whiskey every time, they will be
neighborly and kind to one in distress
and exceedingly hospttable.
This ia all right 50 far as the honest
homesteader goes, but there are para
sites that prey upon the homesteader
rs destructive TO his interests as the
pirates upon the seas 10 the unpro.
tected merchant marine. You might
as well leave your house unlocked a.
to attempt TO protect yourself from
their depredations. steal! There l.
nothing immovable that these prowl-
ing pirates of the prairie won't steal.
With less conscience than the locusts
or a hail storm, they DO not conina
themselves Ito every green thing,
but gather up every scrap Of old lum-
Der tney can find. take mosquito bsr-
of of windows and dismantle the
house outside and in, provided the
honest homeSteader l. absent long
enough to made their rsclp" secure
But why inveigh against this class OF
pests. They are rs uurranhable "a the
badgers and gopher, and IN rid the
c,untry of them you must hunt them
down with the same weapons.
II would Lc impossible To rive even
the hrtrfs-t oullinro ol rNc many good,
practical sentence. contained ln Mt
sHipmau's article, noI ore m"Ie cx-
tract must l." liuur
But the WORSE vice D. the average
pioneer h his imnruv.l,uro, II l.
true that there ura many thlCg-
ugoinat him, surh 1- poverty tn beglu
win. cxhorhiunt pIw.y "nnrgp.,
uigb rates Of inter g, nnd iDa.ly and
ntalIy ia most rn.y-, . 'ih lack oi
thrn and manpe mont Ilia first
stem Ia to make hi. con- Wul"l entry.
| THIS means "a maugmw 900 hls lnrm.
Then lt IL not ngur-tlou pi how l'llir
morpy be can get along With, hot how
much mousy be can brww on his
"1nTlr" They talk the matter over
with great interest among tDrmsrlyr'
(eznoriilly the Interest," aud will
trayeI Ruy miles hulf do1-n times u
they huIr ~ ru he1r u'n nu opportunity
10 make a deql Win loan agent
whose company viii lcnd hundred
dollar nurc on n quarter than thD
Others.
| with few exceptions the oull
people amoug the fret comers who re-
! Ia . their farms are the foreigners