Year: 1868

It will show The stock raiser how others


have improved their cattle, horses.


mules, sheep and poultry, and how he


can put money in his purse by following


their example il will exhibit to the


farmer the results obtained by others


under certain systems of cultivation,


and explain to him in what manner he
can make most productive his own pos
sessions. To all it will show what is


being done by others in the same line
of business with himself, and suggest
TO him such improvements as will re-
dound to his future profit. 1t will also
exhibit to all who visit, the products of
those engaged in different occupations
from themselves. and show them in
what manner they can advantageously
call upon other departments for assist
ance in their own. And thus it is. that
while the Fair may at first take few
dollars from those who visit il, il will
in the end, if the advantages offered are
rightly improved, put money in the
purses of all who may favor ii with their
presence.


Blu: as a means of inspiring confidence
in the resources of Montana, both among
our own people and abroad, the coming
Fair will, perhaps, attain TO its greatest
usefulness and Importance 1t will, we
believe, prove that this Territory is not
surpassed in the variety or value of it's
resources by any portion of the United
States and il will show that it
has, within itself, ample founda-
tions for a large and permanent State
1t will give the lie to any assertion that
the Territory is going down. and cause
all to whom il imparts its lesson to look
hopefully upon Montana as their future
home, instead of regarding it as they
now do, in many cases, as only tenn
porary abiding place, from which they
are to flee like SO many refugees from
Sodom as soon as they can raise "home
stake" In this manner will the perIna~
nency and consequent prosperity of the
country be increased TO an extent that
could not in any other manner be Sc
cured. The Agricultural Fair .isss not,
however, an exhibition for our people
alone-it is, in a certain sense. an exhi>
bitiop for the whole United States. 1t
will not, of course, be seen in its perfec.
ton by the county at large, but only to
about the same extent as the small boys
see the circus when they peep under the
flaps of the tent. The people of other
sections, the outsiders, will catch Gimp
ses of it through the telegraph, the press
and the mails, and will. at the bare an
nouncement that Montana has an Agri-
cultural Fair, cOncede TO the Territory
that Importance which they never be-
fore attached TO il. The telegraph will
herald over the entire country the fact
that we have great exhibition OF Ter
ritorial resources; the newspapers of
Montana will fly to all portions of the
country and give the proofs Of our
wealth in the shape of descriptions Of
articles exhibited and next will go the
letters written to friends at home by all
who attended, and adding their testi-
mony In proof Of what has gone before
And thus will the outside world see our
Fair, and through it, the rich Territory
of Montana. Seeing, it cannot fail to
our wealth, and an access
sion to the muscle and capital of the
must follow. When such re-
suits are to be obtained. the Fair cannot
be too well patronized. and we therefore
urge our friends in all portions of the
Territory to be prepared, not only to
visit the Fair, for of course everyone
will do that, but TO prepare something
for exhibition in 1t.