The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-02
Noes Folsom of the Great Northern
Railway Gives a Glowing Ac-
count OF
Montana's Besources-Uncqualed and
Almost Unknown Among Farm
ers in the East.
Graphic, Interesting, and Unique De
scripti0n Of Its Climate, Soil, Min
erals, and Natural Wealth.

was favored with a visit from Moses
Folsom Of the passenger department of
the Great Northern railway at st. Paul.
Knowing that this gentleman's opportu-
mites for gathering information were
unsurpassed, and that such news would
lie in Great Falls, the editor had a num-
Der of i~nterrogations to ask, to which Mr..
Folsom ~courteously gave the following:
81 think the prospects for a wave of
population settling westward this year
are most favorable, and that its crest
will sweep across Montana. The migra-
tory impulse inherited from our parent
races is strong in the American.
"There is elbow room and chances to
get in on the ground floor out in this
western land. Things are crowded back
east, the old farm is too small for fur
Their division or else worn out, and man
ufacturing industries are languishing for
want of raw material or too close COM
petition. There are thousands Of peo-
pie in the east whose muscles are de-
veloped by hard work, who have little
savings stored through frugality and
economy who are . anxious to try
their luck out toward the setting sun.
The hunger for land in the west is as
active today as it was in the past when
our progenitors left the cradle of the hu-
man race in far-off India and, journeying
westward, peopled Europe and Amer
lea.
"No section of our continent offers
better inducements for investors and
homeseekers than the northern parallel
between Lake Superior and Puget
sound. Montana is in the center, the
head of this superb belt, this is the
parallel of push, the track of enterprise.
Between the 35th and 49th parallels of
north latitude in this country, you will
find the largest cities, the greatest COM
mercial activity, the finest industrial and
agricultural development, the best
health condition, the finest school sys-
tenn, the prettiest women, the incest
| children, and the brainiest men in the
world. The lethargy of age and depres-
| sion rests upon the east, while in the
west is the morning OF it's hope, power,
and achievements. The question for
the pining thousands who seek the
elevation of their estates is-just where
to go, and in what part of the west. The
west is large, population has touched
Montana only in parts. Its resources
are known and abundant. 1t has more
water in rivers and streams, than all of
the vast country south Of it to the gulf;
it has forests darkening the mountain
sides; it has veins of gold. silver and
copper, and many other metals in every
range, and beds of coal in every valley,
your own Morrison whose work for the
state has never net with proper recog-
milton has a catalogue of several hun
dred minerals, rocks, etc, existing within
the country tributary to Great Falls.
Modest, unobtrusive Robert Williams,
better known in learned and scientific
circles in the east for his botanical and
o~rnithological researches thar he is
among the people where he has long
lived.
"He has classified over eighty kinds oil
grasses growing upon the bench lands
in the valleys, and on the hillsldes around
Great Falls.
"The man who hurries through this
country and judges it from the car win
dows goes back east and swears there is
no grass in Montana; and if he is told
that Montana raises horses OF more en-.
durance, lung power, and muscle and
the ~juiciest beef and mutton in the coun-
try and the best wool in the west, he
takes it as western boom talk.
THE agricultural future of the state
is destined to be wonderful. Agricult'
ure when rightly carried on is
not only an intelligent. profession
but a highly cultivated science, Paris
Gibson has fully demonstrated that
grain farming is a profitable business
and MI. Muzzy, who has farmed from
Wisconsin through to Montana, is an
enthusiastic believer in the fertility of
the bench lands stretching off for humid
reds of miles from here. l, with your
people, would give full support to his
farm paper. 1t can be made to do lots
of good for Montana.
Intensive farming, horticulture, dairy
ing, stock raising, the poultry. business
and all the varied forms OF industries
rightly applied will unlock the store
houses and banks Of natural wealth scat
tered all around you, and surprise, If 1t
don't kill, the croakers. and pessimlsts.
"You have a climate you ought to
brag about. Men md women of the
east, who are failing in health, secure a
new lease of life by coming into this
bracing and iuvigorating air, an atmos-
phere conducive to the highest develop
ment of human and animal life. This
glorious cline lacks the by-gone lore,
t%rOubadours and romancers wove
round the rivers, mountains, and wales
of other lands whose sun has set or is
sinking fast, while here the days OF
glory have yet to come. The skies of
Greece may be blue, and her mountains
as white aud fair as when Sappho sang,
and yet that land and others which livo
only in history are naught to this en-
pre- belt of which Montana is the center
and arch. You must let your light
shine so people who are looking for new
homes and iuNea'IGents may know where
YOU are end what you have to offer.
This IS a bic country and this is an age
bic With EVENT.. The man who at
tcmp.7 - keep cgan pace with what is
DING u in this country won" have
much tlrle 70 attend to anythi 20.