The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-14
BIC SURPLUS THIS YEAR.
Money That Will Come Into Helena
From Cattle, Wool and
the Placers.
Bright Outlook for All Glasses OF
Business Over the
Entire State.
The History OF n Syndicate for Pur-
chase of Acre Tracts an Told by n
Chicago Real Estate Man.

There will be more cash n in Helena
during the autumn of 1891 than for several
seasons past. according to the testimony Of
men who understand t%horoughly the CON
ditions now prevailing in the state. And
this money will come, not from investors
though from that source there will be
large sum- but it will be cash paid for oul
products, taken from our placers, and re-
tailed in the state for hay. grain and ranch
produce. Six million dollars will come
from cattle shipped east, of which sum al
least I've millions will come to Helena.
The placer mines will yield this year,
according to tho estimate OF those who keeI
a close watch of that industry, a million
more than last year, n a very large pro
portion of this will come to the capita
city. During the past year Helena has
sent east and west for oats. hay, iour and
potatoes about 81 500, 900, which in ordinary
seasons are raised at home. During 1891
Montana ranchmen will not only raise
sufficient to meet the home demand, but
will have a surplus. This is due to two
things, the first and most important
being that there will be no
lack of water for irrigation purposes. and
secondly because thousands of acres In
Montana will be cultivated this year on
which a crop has never been raised before.
This due to the fact that in Lewis and
Clarke, Cascade, Choteau and Gallatin
counties the big canals which have been
building for two or three years are now
completed, and those who have taken Up
farms under them for the first time will
raise crops
In the immediate vicinity of Helena there
will be more produce marketed this year
than there has been in thu e years past,
and there will be a big cash demand for
these products, at good prices. There is
not a surplus in Montana to-day of either
hay. grain or potatoes. The wholesalers
are shipping in all they can get in these
lines, and yet every day there is a shortage
IN one thing or another. This will continue
the pressure will be removed, but not to
such an extent as to materially affect prices.
In previous years there has been difficulty
in getting help on ranches just whom
needed, but from present appearances such
will not be the case this year, and in oonse-
quence the producer, while getting pretty
good prices for his crops, will not be COM
PEELED to pay exorbitant prices for his help,
Leaving out the money which will be re-
ceived from outside investors and from the
profits of quartz mining. it is a conserva-
tive estimate to say that during September,
October and November the surplus which
will come into Helena from the cattlemen,
woolraisers, ranchers and placer miners will
be $4,000, coo. And this means a great deal
to the capital city. 1t means that the
money which Helena men and Helena in
situations have been putting out over the
state for the past three years will come back
with interest; it means a general liquida-
etion all. around, and ii means most of all
easy money at the time of year when there
is usually in the east the reverse condition,
so that Montana will be in better financial
condition than almost any other common
wealth. Helena has noblv answered the
calls on her for financial assistance during
the past few years from all sections of tho
state, and now that the time is surely in
sight when her advances will be repaid, no
class of people have more cause to take
pride in the way she has aided others with
out crippling herself, and no city is more
deserving Of the augmented prosperity
which will be hers.