The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-01

temporary description. Such national
financial panic will not be among the hap
peninga Of 1894. Nothing oan be done.
more than has. TO doprsciats the value Of sii-
yer; the oattlemsn cannot face more adverse
conditions than they did in 1898. nor the
wool men have less demand for their pro-
duct; the farmers cannot have more adverse
conditions than in 1893 nor the miners
and lAborora have less demand for their
services. The mercantile interests cannot
be called upon more imperatiyslJ 70 meet
conditions they had not taken into their
calculations and not again In the life OF
any man now living in Montana will the
financial institutions be assaulted by fright
ened depositoTs as they we're last summer.
II has been shown how ths state aud her
people met all thsss trials and came out
the better for IL. With this sxperisncs.
what is the promise for ls941 Il is Just a
year ago since money began TO be locked
up in the eaat. The result was that there
was little 10 be had for established
enterprises. and none al ell for
the Inauguration Of new ones.
Now the conditions are altogether
reversed. There Is more money in the east
ready for investment than In many years
before. and II will come TO Montana during
1894 to build irriRating canals. 10 ssttls
colonists. 10 construct railroads. TO taks
our county aud CITY securities, TO help do
velop our gold minea-in short. TO aid in
the upbuildinQ Of q great state. The men
who have the money TO invest have been
watching Montans closely for the past six
months, and her credit ia established. both
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Silver mining is not dead. On the con-
trAry, 1894 will see all the great silver pro-
duoers of the state again in operation. 1he
owners have carefully considered the situa-
tion, have taken time 10 map out
their plans. and even with silver at S5 oents
an ouncs they see how they can operate
their properties al profit. The oattlemen
have rid themselves Of their surplus stock
and their poor cattle. and 90 iato the win-
ter with their herds in excellent condition,
ranges in good shape. and what is most i'm
/ portant, the number OF cattle has been 80
reduced that the feeding grounds will not
be overcrowded. The immsnss shipments
of 1898 are as sure 10 oauss a scarcity OF
beef cattle in 1894 as the sun is TO rise. and
with that scarcity will come better prices to
the grower. The sheepmen, also, shipped
all their surplus stock. many sending 90 the
market their entire focks. The year 1884
will reveal a shortage both in mutton sheer
and wool IN consequence. Another point
in favor Of ths woolRrower is that merean-
tile stocks are diminishing so rsridly shat
the mills and factories engaged in the
manufacture Of wooden fabrics will be com.
PEELED 10 use an immense amount of WOOL
and this demand will insure good prices FOL
the clip.
In 1898 Just when the farmer had hAr-
vested his crops, many OF the mines shui
down. and his market was suddenly cur
tailed. In 1894 these closed mines will b'
open again, SCORES of gold mines not IL
operation in 1893 will give him q new olas
Of consumers, and the railroad work in thu
state will furnish another army. BLt thu
Rroatest encourages ment for the Montani
farmer for 1894 is in the fact that the citi
zens Of the state have learned that 10 q
more profitable to buy within the bound
aries of the commonwealth; that by helping
the howe producer every branch of businos
Is given = new impetus. They will buy hi
wheat TO make Montana -four. and the con
sumers will purchase the latter in prefer
ence 10 the foreign made article; they will
buy his oats. his hay. his vegetables. hi
fruit and his poultry and they will pay him
little more for each of these srticles. II
short he will find tha, the lesson loarne,
most thoroughly in 1893 was the necessity
Of encouraging home enterprise. and tha
all. from ths highest 10 the lowest, ar
working together 30 build mp a great state
Hundreds Of miners and laborsrs VIII
left the state early in the fall have ALREADY
returned, and other hundreds will follow
later in the season TO work in the gold ans
silver mines and on the rail- oads-the Bur
lineton extension. the Montana Midland
and the Montana Southern.
Merchants will have more business thar
in 1898. because there will be thousand
more employed in the state in 1894. and q
will be q better and safer business. beoAus'
ths untrustworthy and the weak have beer
vseded out.
AZ to the banks. they will all be in sucl
COED condition as 20 command the conf
dsnce Of the public. and they have all 8,
strengthened themselves and concentrated
their resources that they will be able 20 Dc
in 1894 What thsy could not do in ls95-hel Is
their patrons and make money 81 the SAINT
time. There will be no weak OF corrupt
banks in 1894. They have all other beer
strengthened or wiped out OF existence.
O.erations will be pushed Astivsly durinI
the year on all the uneomplsted irrigation
entei prises in the state. The success o
those already IN operation has demon
stratei the fact that they are good invest
ments, and capital. unemployed elsewhere
has been found 90 so into them. Down n
Bsavorhead county the Lima Reservoir anC
Irrigation company will open 10000 acre
for settlement In MsAghsr county thi
Missouri VALLEY ditch will add thoussndl
OF 40 o. 90 the ouliivatAbls area: aud Il
GailAtin. Park. Nellowstons. Caster Dav
son. Choteau. Valley. Teton. kAvalli an'
Flathssd. irrigation enterprises Of more o
iess "a agnltuds will increase the agricul
"a al rosou ces OF those sections BY hun
dreds OF thousands OF aeros. These are no
new enterprises. but were plaAnsd month
ago. and this year thsy will be pushed .
complstion.
In she county OF Lewis and Clarke th
Dearborn canal. one OF the most extens,v
irrigation systems in the state. is CON
pletsd, and arrangements hay
been made for the ssttls
: ment this year on lands adjacent 20 th
canal, Of q large number Of thFifly an