Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-09-09
Advertise the Country.

One of the best things that ever
happened for the mining interests OF
Fergus county was the determination
Of the Business Mems association and
the fair association to devote some
means to getting up a comprehensive
mineral display for the county fair
and the outside expositions TO which
il will be sent after it has been eX.
hibited to the visitors to the local
fair. A mining man from Colorado,
a a who has spent his life in min
ing districts. recently stated to the
writer that for showings which the
county districts are the least adver-
tised of all of the gold bearing fields
in the west. The gold Is here in the
mountains-in the Moccasins Judiths
and Snowies-and it will remain here,
buried, until Gabriel blows his horn
unless the country is advertised and
the possibilities of the different dis
tricts made known TO men who are
willing to put money into the ground
in order to get more money out. The
man who has money always has am
DIG ODDOIluultlto w hldht Blolldbit
investments. There are men and bod
les of men in the world who make
il their business to inform him where
he can place a few thousand, and If
he looks favorably upon the scheme
he will invest in a proposition taken
to him o n than journeying the
country over, spending his time and
subjecting himself to the %inconven-
fences of travel upon the chance that
he will find something better. Use
every legitimate means to advertise
the wonderful mining possibilities OF
Fergus county; tell to the world that
we have here mountains mineralized
with the precious metals and which
need only the magic touch of capital
to be made to yield up their riches,
and see how soon men with money to
invest in a proposition which offers
him an even break will find this coun-
ty. comparatively inaccessible though
II is. The mineral exhibit now being
collected by John b. Ritch will be a,
long step in the right direction. First
it will awaken local enthusiasm and
inspire those already here to greater
effort in the development Of the coun-
try: in Helena the mining men OF a
mining state will be aroused; again in
Spokane. where there are more men
of wealth who are looking for likely
looking mining prospects in which to
invest their money than in any other
city, the Fergus county dis
play will speak ~eloquently for Its ma
tive hills. Finally in st. Louis. where
the entire world will be assembled,
il will occupy d creditable place in
the mineral exhibit Of the state and
men who will go to that city for the
purose of making the great worlds
exposition of some commercial bene-
fit, will not fail TO observe II. But
the mineral exhibit Is but m step
and those interested in the develop
ment of the country should not allow
the work of advertising to stop. Ev-
cry day sees new families coming In
TO the county to settle on some OF
the land so freely offered: and that
is well for the ultimate hope OF any
country il the tiller Of the soil. Stock
raisers are constantly improving the
grade of their stock andt hat, too, Will
rebound to the country's benefit, as
the interests of the rancher and stock
raiser go hand in hand and are fire.
quently identical. But the third mem
Der of the trinity OF Fergus cOunty's
great resources-her mines-is not
keeping pace with this general for