The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-08-18

lditor GOodWin's Tribute to the Great
| ness Of the Treasure State.


ness Of the Treasure State.
From every section of Montana
comes ,reports' Of plentiful crops,
good markets for cattle wool, sheep,
horses and grair, and consequently,
good prices. This will be great
year for Montana. Were silver at
price that would be rcnumerativc,
Montana would show the greatest
years results .of any state in the
union Montana is vast storchouse
Of natures treasure. She can pro-
duce anything that is needed. Her
fruits and vegetables are famous;
her barley is eagerly sought for by
the great brewery establishments;
her coal fields are developing into
inexhaustiblc deposits: !hcr timber
lands are not excclled the world over:
her horses are conceded to be the
best that can be raised, whether for
work or for pleasure: her mineral re-
sources arc the envy of the world;
her climate is the best to be found
and her people arc industrious and
patriotic. Montana is big enough
and great enough to furnish homes
for millions Of people.
Editor G. G. Goodwin Of the Salt
Lake Tribune pays splendid tribute
to Montana in luinn's review, in an
swcr to Grover Cleveland that this
was one of the undesirable states"
| Judge Goodwin says:
clad Il Montana man entered that
u assembly just when the sentence was
I pronounced that his was an "unWel-
;, come state,'' and claimed a hearing
+ before his state was condemned,
what could he have urged in her
O favor? Here are some Of the Items:
n "First-An area two-thirds the
a size OF France and one-sixth greater
x than the United Kingdom.
q "Sccond-Morc arabic land than
j, there is in Maine. New Hampshire,
70 Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is.
Y land, Connecticut, New York and
New. Jersey.
u 'Third-Morc coal and iron than
has West Virginia.: more silver than
Peru; more gold than South Africa;
e' more copper than all the republic
east Of the Mississippi.
o. ';F'ourth- More land to be rrigat
w itthan any other state, and more rich
H. pasture than any half dozen state:
It, cast Of the Mississippi.
tie "Fiftl-Morc water power in on
~, stream than in all New England.
cd HSiXth-Thcrmal springs and beau
,w tiful lakes and climate as bracing a
ra old wine.
,c- 'Scventll-Mincs whore money
created at the rate of 81, ,0OO,0 pc
,uc annum for each 1000 voters, an
nv which in turn supply a home marke
all for the product Of both field an
Ter loom.
,ht, "EiYhth-Magniiicen cducatiunt
me facilities, a high standard Of gener;
ink education, as bright a, people as cvt
rnt walked the carth-truc women an
brave men.
or "Ninth-.As fair a land as ev
Law strong race inhabited, with majcst
nan mountains-thc backbone of the co
zoe: tincnt-lovcly valleys, clear river
,ith grassy hills and endless resourc
led: waiting the touch OF capital al
had brain and Drawn. The British Islt
the Grecian Isles, Ceylon, each i
tjon q distinct impression fixed in t
we minds of men.
,jno II have often thoutht that col
,orc Montana be detached from the con
onr nent and moved out into the Sc
hem where the world could sec it as 1T
re- with it's mountains, its mines,
IS Of onward sweep Of it's great industrl
the What stories Of its encnantmel
Ilcct would be told: how soon it would
all come the especial concernment OF
gen nations;; how they would seek
trade: how the proudest natle
,yavs would gladly make treaties with
mo- and how in:its independence 1T co
,use- afford to be kind to all, but say
acts all: sWe are glad to see YOU; 1T
and no doubt be convenient for us to
has change some products with you,
ainst if we do it, it,will be only from CHI
him not necessity: for when Omnlpote
Iine's fashioned and equipped our islane
down placed everything required 1or
,cl rs maintenance and defense OF our
,ores- ple-an empire complete in its
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