Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-03-06
NO SICKNESS HERE.
Malarial Poisoned Invalids from
the East Find Permanent Cure
Through Natures Hygiene.
A Physicians Digest of the
Wonderful Climate of East
ern Montana.
A Sanitsrium in the Far West
Where Robust Health is
Everybody's Portion.
Eleven Months of Sunshine in
Every Ycar-Natural
Drainage.
The Boss Climate.


The climate Of all eastern Montana,
In the heart OF which Miles City 10 To-
Gated, is unsurpassed by that OF any
other section Of the Union, considered
not only from sanitary but from var
ous other aspscts. True there are
times during the summer season when
the weather Is very warm and in win
ter when It Is very cold, but these
changes tend to relieve the monotoDy
Of an even temperature. The air lie
dry and pure, aud, rs . consequence,
We are particularly protected from all
forms Of contagious snd infectious dis
esses. i challenge anyone to name q
city OF equal size, numerically speak.
ing. 80 absolutely free from epidemics
OF all kinds. Never since the found
ing OF the place, has the city been Wis
tied by an epidemic. In the early
days Of the place some three OF four
cases Of scarlet fever were reported,
but these were among recent arrivals,
showing that the virus OF the disease
must have been innoculated else
where and developed itself here. In q
population OF something less than
three thousand souls, Q goodly mum.
Der must necessarily be children. U
think the average attendance at school
has been about two hundred); yet
since eighteen hundred and seventy.
eight, when the city WAS first laid out,
to the present time, the number OF
cases Of scarlet fever, measles, whoop.
ing cough, membrsneous Group, etc.,
combined 10 less than . dozen. And
among the adults the usual complaints
prevalent in every other section OF the
states, are isolated and nearly always
Of mild type. In word the climate
in and sbou. Miles, together with ma.
lures hygienic precautions, is so sa.
lubrious that the city might fairly be
termed q ''sanitarlum in the far west ~
/ do not wish to be understood as as
serting that no sickness ever comes
among us, for such statement would
be untrue. We do have some sick ness
which is generally infsmmatory in
character, mild aud OF short duration.
At long Intervals we hear OF cases OF
mountain fever aud typhoid fever, a
Discrimination without . difference.
The climate here has also the effect Of
eradicating many diseases. 1t 10 well
known that peuple afflicted with rheu-
matism aud suffering from the conse-
quences OF nalnrial poison in the east,
become bale and hearty out here; and
this effect is usually permanent l
have thus far omitted to mention the
fact that smallpox once ragged among
us. Several years ago, when the
Northern Pacific railroad was being
built through this valley. and when
some three thousand men we're em-
ployed iu the work, smallpox made itl
appearance, but neither since nor be
fore has q SOLITARY csse been reported.
This state OF affairs 10 not only appli'
cable to Miles City, but to the Yellow
stone and Tongue river valleys gener'
ally. All eastern Montana is 30 thor.
oughly purified by natural drainage
that contagious and infectious disease.
find no soil In which to germinste.
The entire eastern half Of the territory
abounds In clear streams whicn take
the places OF sewers and these in turn
empty into the main drains, the Vel.
lowstoue, Rosebud, Tongue and Pow
der rivers on the south aud the big
Missouri and its tributaries on the
north. These carry away the entire In
flux Of the hundreds OF minor streams
and unite at Fort Buford in the make
up OF the main channel OF the Missouri
river. This again drains the country
through which II flows and finally
joins with the Mississippi In casting
their entire accumulation in the Gull
OF Me xlco.
Our seasons, also, are 30 fayorably
divided, a. not only to make this coun-
try . desirable one for hsbitation but
to render Il particularly conducive to
health. Our winter weather seldom
begins before the last week In Decem'
ber and usually terminates before the
opening Of March. During this period