| Show UTAH AND MONTANA 1 1 another column will bo be found a letter ietter from the helena montana gazette fazette in which the writer wilter there of expresses the conviction that montana offers more inducements to men of nil all classes titan utah that during the past few months a gre great a t many dissatisfied people have lert left leit left montana for utah giving a gloomy and discouraging account of the former territory although several already wish themselves yes back that wages are low in utah and superabundant that the utah mountains are covered with recently made locations that sales are slow here even oli olilia of high lIi ill 0 grade minest ile lic capital now seeking for foi investment in utah being controlled and directed by intelligent men who expect the worth of or their money if they invest that work in lit and development of mines are the order older in utah and that dAton montana taua is a better field than utah for quartz prospecting now we do not see sue thab that there is anythIng any thing in the above for our citizens to repine over except possibly that many dissatisfied persons are coming here from montana but when they get equally dissatisfied here they can go back to montana or an anywhere where else they choose there ia Is no law nor rule to keep people liere here against their will except they be of the criminal class although such things have been asserted As ai regards the advantages presented by montana for immigrants of huy buy class we believe them to be considerable it is a region of extensive and varied resources which the tile rall rali railroads roads will greatly aid in developing agriculturally montana is no doubt equal and we are inclined to think superior to utah in regard to mining montana had a history and a weighty lity prestige when utah was nowhere but with the decline of placer mining the excitement over the interest in and the prestige of montana began to decline and it is not too much to say that they have not been notably renewed yet but the montana papers papera persist antly affirm the superiority of montana as a quartz mining country and for steady mining business and at the same time wonder that distant capitalists and others interested in mining can not see it and do not come up more vigorously and more freely and invest for the development of resources people even so shrewd and quick witted people as capitalists are aro perverse sometimes and they will nol noc dej do or at most they are slow to do as many other people think they ought to do and wonder why they do not do if it montana really is so much superior to utah as a steady mini mining country capitalists will not fall to find it out sooner or later in intact face they are generally quite quit guit as quick as other people in discovering where and what business promises to pay best and they will not always bo be behind in finding that montana is such a superior country for mining investment as the local papers affirm if what they affirm has sufficient basis of fact wo wp haye have ourselves heard heird persons who have lived in both territories give montana the preference yet still mii they continue to iivo livo here but where a person lives is not always a question of taste or liking it is frequently a matter of bread and butter or the result of some other sufficiently potent caum cause As regards the condition of utah wo we do not know that the facts that tile the period of mining excitement is about gone by that capitalists are cautious and require an equivalent with fair and well grounded promise for their investments investment and that honest work and real satish ac development tory are necessary are things to td bo be sorry for and mourn over they are everywhere more favorable to stead steadily fly ro re business and a healthy financial condition than is tile the fe veri verl shush dyall of or wild excitement and reckless speculation the comparative dalness of the tho times hereabout the present summer is largely the result of the speculative excesses and fierce elci excitement bement immediately preceding iri ill respect to the mineral resources of utah wo we have not considered it any obligation resting on us to create a great hue and cry about them for the purpose of attracting here chiefly tile the vultures who are ever on the tiie look out for the carcass regardless of all other considerations many of them far more important imant p por ortt ant tant wo we are well enough satis tied fled that utah has lias a fair share ot of natural resources agricultural and mineral and that at the present they amm are but very partially in course of development but the less perfectly and the less rapidly they are being developed the more remains for future and more perfect development which will come along in its time no doubt of that we are also well wel dellaware laware aware that utah occupies a central and very favorable position which will not fail fall to be generally and fully appreciated woon soon enough and consequently we are not a bit jealous of the progress of our neighbors montana nevada colorado etc for i no matter what advances they lii lit cy may make in material progress and prosperity wo we are not the least afraid of either or all of them rob bing utah of her distinctive position for in so many way she possesses peculiar advantages and and means of progress as to give div 0 lier ller people unshaken unsil aken confidence in a future that need not be despised As to lower wages in utah that is a matter in lit which supply and demand havo have something to do generally in lit this territory there is a comparatively largo large population given to steady labor whereas much of the population of neighboring territories and states is of a speculative restle restie ag roaming character seeking fortunes rather than making homes if montana wants population of the tile former class class the way t to get it is to seek after it and import it as utah does or else produce it largely in the natural way as utah does |
