The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-05-15

when he "goes East and finds his social
Importance underestimate or perhaps,
altogether overlooked, what wonder II he
thinks himself and his country slighted.
He is led to exclaim, Il will return to my
far Western home where am honored
and respected"
Most all Eastern people come to Mon.
tana with preconceived ideas of wv estern
liie,o and judging from their manners one
would infer that this county has been
grossly misrepresented. The Pilgrim
as all young men just arriving from the
East are termed, seems to have an idea
that Montana is foll Of bold, bad men who
will rob, insult and otherwise misuse him
unless he is armed, and he generally comes
(as he says prepared for them Let us see
how he is prepared. In his vest pocket
perhaps he carries allttle penny popgun-
22calibre revolver-or as some few
more heavily armed, carry one OF ~ cal.
make. This is their weapon, both often
sive and defensive. They think 10 defend
themselves against cowboys and other bad
men and also to kill deer, elk, bears and
mountain lions with these toys. Now let
II suffice to say that with these insignifi-
cant firearms as weapons are as useless as
catapult. As once heard an old miner
inform pilgrim" who was somewhat
vain in the display Of 20 cal. Colts re-
volver: "If you should ever shoot me with
that popgun and / find 1t out you will
lose it.n But what kind does one need to
bring, you may askS answer, none.
Persons are not much respected out here
who carry firearms and they soon learn to
throw them away and take TO Western
ideas and customs. The days of the COW
boy and other bad men are gone by, and
lynch law does not prevail any more here
than in the most thickly settled communi.
ties Of the East. The country is fairly
well settled and all the choice land that is
open 10 settlement has been occupied for
several years. Still there is lots OF coun-
try that will make good farms by improv-
ing and irrigating IL. But the breeding oil
cattle. sheep and horses are the leading
agricultural industries, and experience has
taught that Montana is peculiarly adapted
TO stock raising The snow fall is gener-
ally light and the wind blows that which
falls on the hills down into the hollows SC
that sheep, horses and cattle generally find
enough TO eat all through the winter. We
generally get some intensely cold weather
in January, but II rarely lasts more than
week at a time. have never known the
thermometer t, 60 below go, although
Trustworthy accounts 60 to show that a
some places it gets as much as 600 below
The changes Of temperature are sudden
for have seen the thermometer fall fifty
degrees in as many minutes.
Mining is the leading business Of Mon
tana and immense sums are realized iron
mines Gold and silver, lead and copper
are the principle products Of the mine
and the amount taken out every year
increasing. Statistics show that the pro
duction of the Territory amounted TO $40
100000 in 1888. So rich are the mine
that the ore from some has been sent 4
Swansea, Wales, to be smelted. This or
was sent through by express all the wa.
and then the profits were immense. Blu
the large reduction works at Butte Cit!
and Anaconda and the gigantic smelier
at Helena and Great Falls that are now II
the course Of construction will lessen th'
cost Of reducing ores SO materially tha
many mines that have been abandoned b,
reason Of the cost of treating their ore
will hereafter yield abundantly.