The Helena independent., 1894-01-01

financial panic will not be among the hap
psnings Of 1894. Nothing can bo done.
more than has. to dspYsciats the value Of oil.
YER; Che eattlsmsn cannot face more adverse
conditions than thsy did In 1893, nor the
wool mon have less demand for their pvo-
duct; the farmers osnnot havs more adverse
o. Aditions than In 1893. NOR the minors
and laborers have lsss demand for their
services. The mercantile intsrssts cannot
be called upon more impssativsly to meet
conditions they had not taken into their
and not sRain In the life of
any man now living In Montana Will the
financial institutions be assaulted by fright
ened deposisoSs % they were last summer.
Il has bsen shown how the state and her
people met all these trials, and came out
the better for II. With this sxpsTisncs.
what 10 the promise for 1S947 II IL Just
year sao since moaey began to b locked
MP In tho east. The result was that there
was little to bs had for established
and mono at oil for
Ihe Inauguration Of new ones.
Now the conditions ars altogether
reversed. There 10 more money In the east
ssady for investment than In many years
before, and II will como to Montana during
1894 to build irriRatina canals. to settle
TO construct railroads TO taks
our county and CITY securities, to help de-
velop our gold mines-in short. TO aid In
the upbuiIdina Of great state. The men
who have the money to invest have been
Watching Montans closely for the past six
months. and her credit 10 established. both
and collectively.
Silver mining IL mot dead. On the CON
trary, 1894 will sec all tho great silver pro-
duoers Of The state again in operation. The
owners have carefully considered the situs-
tion. have taken time to map out
their plans. and eysn with silver at 85 cents
IN ounce they see how they can operate
their properties st a profit. The cattlemen
have rid themselves Of their surplus stock
and their poor cattle. and 90 into the wiA-
ter with their herds In excellent condition,
ranges IN good shapA and what u most inn
reduced that the feeding arouads will mot
be ovsrorowded. Tho inmsnss shipments
Of 1893 are as sure to cause . scarcity of
beef cattle in 1894 a. the sun 10 to rise. and
with that scarcity will come better prices to
the grower. The sheepmen, also, shipped
all their surplus stock. many sending to the
market their entire focks. The year 1894
will reveal shortage both in mutton sheep
and wool in consequence. Another point
in favor of the woolREower is that meroan-
tile stocks are diminishing 80 rapidly shat
the mills and factories engaged In the
manufacture of WOODEN fabrics will bs com.
Ia A. S,n~ -
and this demand will insure good prices for
the clip.
In 1893 just whom the farmer had har-
vested lis crops, many Of the mines shut
down. and his market was suddenly cur
tailed. In 1894 these closed mines will be
open again, scores Of gold mines not In
operation in 1893 will give him new class
of consumers, and the RAILROAD work in the
state will furnish another army. But the
greatest encouragement for tho Montana
farmer for 1894 10 in the fact that the citi-
zens of the state have learned that IL 10
more profitable TO buy within the bound
aries of the commonwsalsh; that by helping
the home producer every branch of business
10 given . new impetus. They will buy his
wheat to make Montana -four. and the con-
sumers will purchase the latter in prefer.
ence to the foreign made article; they will
buy his oats. his hay. his vegetables. his
fruit and his poultry and they will pay him
little more for each OF these articles. In
short he will find that the lesson learned
most thoroughly in 1893 was the necessity
Of encouraging home enterprise. and that
all. from the highest to the lowest, ara
working together to build mp great state.
Hundreds Of miners and laborers who
left the state early in the fall have already
returned, and other hundreds will follow
later in the season TO work in the gold aud
silver mines and on the rails osds--ths Bur-
linaton extension, the Montana Midland
and the Montana Southern. ~
Merchants will have more business than
In 1S9S because there will be thousands
moro employed in the state in 1884. and II
will be . batter and safer business, because
the untrustworthy and the weak have been
vseded out. sfs
As to the banks. they will all be In such
COED condition % to command tho conf
dspce of the public and they have all so
strengthened themselves and concentrated
their resources that they will be able TO do
In 1894 What they could not do in 1S93-help
their patrons and make money ~ the same
time. There will be NO weak OF corrupt
banks in 1894. They have all other been
strengthened or wiped oat OF existence.
Operations will be pushed actively during
the year on all the uncomplsted irrigation
ents, prisss in the state. Tho success OF
those already in operation has demon
strated the fact that they are good invest.
ments. and capital. unemployed elsewhere.
has bssn found 10 go into them. Down in
Bsaverhsad county the Lima Reservoir and
Irrigation company will open 100000 acres
for settlement. In MsaRhsr county the
Missouri Valley ditch will add thousands
OF aorss TO the cultivatAbls area: aud In
Gallatiu. Park. Yellowstone, Custer. Daw-
son. Choteau, Valley. Teton. Ravalli and
Fiathsad, irrigation enterprises Of moro or
less magnitude will increase the aRricul-
Ia, al rssous ces of those sections BY hun
drsds Of thousands OF acres. These are not
new enterprises. bat we're planned months
ago. and this year they will bs pushed to
completion.
In the county Of Lewis and Clarke ths
Dearborn canal. one Of the most extensiva
irrigation systsms In the state. 10 oom-
| plstsd, and arrangements havs
hssn made for the settle.
mont this year on lands adjacent to the
canal, Of Q large number Of thrifty and