Show MONTANA TERRITORY u it i t a j i S glo gloomy 0 picture me ur brawn drawn by an old resident th te e p present r e S e n t 0 diola d i ci off ot t ae I 1 inhar anva 0 stants contrasted with early days I 1 I 1 1 10 allow mii me io in rayh paya word awit abelt poor montana aall as it may ID be ilia nio ing of say ing ali C liitt s god godfoy llwis cheri nearly five fire years during wh ch time I 1 wa was s nearly orar tile v bola territory and ni I 1 afy wali ell posted about abold it wh when eul I 1 first went there times were goo cooj find glenly or work ni aj fair wage io a t be right n slit season for almost hymy body ids the JUS feat i ULLY although ilia lio country hail hai no railroads railto rail ro bill ith I 1 railroad ilS peed cd jt air now than it il w two ngo ji have ligard carlies oart 1 that jears ati there weri pot 10 ow while people io in tho the entire territory of course I 1 have no AL accurate means it knowing kao naff but judging front from my lilly own perd observations I 1 do lot cot there cart can possibly be oter if people leave or continue leaving the dooc done year the H there are thou bindi in in montana to day ho he woul I 1 could only get addition to being a hard country to cot into in aten ten times harder one to get out or this fall quite A large member ili alt the way twill I 1 ono nian man a sow few ago 9 0 who packed his hii blankets and grab on root earla tho ilia whole dibianco from helena 10 to lo corinne ho wis a very tory plucky fell fellow tw and waa wa bound to leave mont hon ta nil uli or ishrish h in th tho 0 attempt llo ile had a crossinn crossi nj the ranges but managed to esi cai ia with it lamy way bd ba aked a ked tt hit hat is ia hol holdier holdi dior oc in mon tana I 1 c V Y A Ns i M LS 11 mccause ninny nia ny want inn hajy tile 1 stage fire fare or buy a pony to la baat iaci lhoir be 1 grub rub and thy wait tot this the wages don dac it ii too late in the year to leave A ASa inmany living spent their if all on their miserable ranches ore are fill holding oo on to them in the flor forbom lorit 1 ar r our or till the linnca get feet bettl better ihor are arc of course many other too numerous to mention A or of ME THEM I 1 ibia his last oil and summer I 1 wi in firisen mining camps camp mil and could not strike a job in any ono ol of them A iriani bamo to mo me one morning and acid me thero there was a mm man in a camp seventeen miles olf I 1 did no nn wait to liuna my m limric li oric but I 1 out on toot foot at once when I 1 got within w three miles of tho the camp I 1 met five miners leaving it I 1 ihly bey had I 1 lccy cen over to the caio p abea I 1 of 1 die and failed to fiod end I 1 til they ey had bad been over abood kool man many camps and ana swore there wan wall not A diye work to bo be had in ho be whole of montana I 1 milling mini M tells ole to find work nork in the mine and failed many I 1 had left their ranches nd ill the ile minoti were lover crowded with them wages in the gulch at placer wining were but 3 or 1 per day as aa a 1 rulo rule As it a man rarely pull in diore than forty borly to lo one OBO hundred Luni jred days day 1 m i in ini in i beir and has to buy hn his own gu boots boot and other it will bo be readily seed seen tint boiking tor for fit at placer MITI mina ing in 0 citina is nota not a very lucra peoro A especially ni ai lin lili employer often falls fails to pay him ON THE MUNCHES it ii still Wit gi diio aro adira to tit 23 25 all n nl l 1 per or months month in in satning and aemmer in they rat rai 0 10 ft a month more if a nian man could only got get paid M hen lis hia work va dooe done it v oil id not be a ball bad but when ho to iii u on a ranc lic lie ho is ii paid oft off by noe dole and I has to many a weary mile before lie can sell it if for dioro aliana I 1 linow ono mamiko had ft a note lor for ono ono one ot of tho the boil boa ranchmen ranchman ranch men in galla gillain in valley iio he hod had to soil sell it for tor tora sat 3 airth r had it note tor for InIn I 1 knew quite ft ani number trabor of if men alii ito got nothing fur their labor what eer As ft a rulo role the rAuch men aro are not to blamo blame ill fr failing to pay their melv I 1 hey ley tiro are for the paa he hoadly in ill debt nud deceit ing litto or dithing for their produce in the bitter hoot tied nod other valleys this last year ranchman ranchmen ranch men lid did not cot harvest auy any but TURNED THEIR cartr ON 0 THEIR crops chops io in those area are a long distance train front ali the mining minin fl camps tho the condition of ciany ran ranchman ranchmen ranch climen men is H copier dopier we I 1 was astonished to fo see big emont hardy moil men fit to work liny any Ts here 0 in tile tho gulch tho the lind tho the timber or lit t any kind of 0 rough labor ilk Ual latan valloyd L m aho vho he hid bal galloi nothing jo rj ania no wild meat only eberil they were successful ceals ful hunti hunting tig and potatoes and bar ley conco coffee it may bo e naked asked why they did not ot raisch gaii gaiden gardani gar denI truck ruck it because TIM till rn IX MONTANA for farming tile nic so short that a poor man mail who wanti to put pill in ackop alone lis has lo 10 1 irti rustle tl tedo to do it and has bu little time to olk at gardening giu dening in his hia lei leisure time lio lie often lias ilia to cut nood mood and stu it to spay tile entert on I 1 his notes ast ns they ey fall due Au eTbel tho 11 1 it I 1 I 1 OF 01 MONEY MO Vl in all scarcely one mari man in one hundred wms to alvel i ft dollar drawing lr awing ft a greenback out 0 of a pocketbook produces moro more elci excited fie montt moritt lian reloaded oil I 1 mohor ei a I 1 nor out bf a hiiter would have done clone ft a few y acara corsage ngo I 1 heard ono little bear that lie io never saw harder border tims times in teamsters from ulah and ther sti fitl augers going into helena during hie 1113 sum eummer time imagine montana is a fine country balau o fl ololia ischo is the most lively bustling i looking place in the N aholo bolo territory bu but it if they tried to brint work there cir orease else aliey gouid soon chango arigo their opinions 01 ol ftc not bue that thai RIM u man an cau can get ct aoa 1 the trouble is to 0 o got act paid nhon tile tho work is duco I 1 lano hao seen more moio meu men working for t aluir board in montana aria titan lover I 1 ever saw jill colorado huff o Won lilg utah and idaho altogether montana is n a country tj live but bf |