Show MONTANA MEMS A SENDS A FEW DF TIVE NOTES THE TEE NORTH SULPHUR Or bings RINGS montana territory october 10 1883 1683 the two largest cities in montana territory are ara helena the tho capita capital and butte batte the mining centra centre butte surprised me helena disappointed me although the capital haa han the fairest futures future the silver city la to my way of thinking the better town of the two helena la now in the hurly burly excitement of the completion of the northern pacific things are on a civer diver quiver new enterprises are spring inz ing ng up old ones are stretching out and unless things are very carefully managed somebody will get left butte is doing a solid business and moving on steadily as though nothing had haq happened in particular her mines are doing well and by them hundreds find employment capitalists are getting rich and the nations wealth is increased montana is a great country and there thero ore are any amount ot of things thine here hero to interest anybody the resources of the territory nrc aro wondrous the mineral stores are by no means yet fully developed bew kew 11 ninda finda are coming to the front and before five years hence many another hole will be dug and from it will be ba taken treasures of wealth that will astound the most moat credulous at least sueh buch la Is the belief of those who are accepted authority on buch ruch uch things montana is quite a country for newspapers they aro are numerous nume rous roua and of high anu anet low degree many nie are very creditable journals but most moat of them are nuisances one feature of montana journalism which me as a marked peculiarity li is the use of slang the racket is popular and all seem geom to catch on without exception there are no monthly magazines published in the territory that I 1 know of there is ii one paper in ina inn a foreign tongue the montana argus it Is in the german and only lately started agriculture and stock raising are the chiet chief occupations outside of the mining industries everything is done on a big scale seale there are no small farms utah farms bear no comparison in extent of acres aeres cultivated in missouri valley I 1 saw standing in shocks fields of wheat that made the land golden for miles square the barme with hardly an except exception lon ion aro are fenced the best beat of any I 1 have ever been seen in some parts all kinds of roots flourish 3 maturing to an enormous size biza but small grains are ard principally cultivated all threshing machines are run nun by steam power the arrival of the railroad Is 13 not viewed with very egold feelings by many of the farmere farmers they fear that they will not be able to compete with eastern prices others are more hopeful and say iet gilet let her come the farmers 1 homes here with a few except exception lone ione are poor excuses for civilized people to be sheltered by after alif sixteen een years yearb of toll toil and returns they are ane nearly all pioneer log cabins built where the settlers first squatted on their homesteads there are millions of acres of land in mon montana tana tans that will for ever be under the gorf gorl original ginal curse of trash and bind trouble s it is a rough country and cold fruit will grow but sparsely and that only la in a few places at white sulphur Spring springs sis ris where I 1 am now stopping for a lew rew days they are warm sulphur springs they are seeming seemingly lp to me just like the warm springs immediately imm edi atel north of salt lake city lately they have been attracting some attention te and are making considerable I 1 a bl e ol 01 0 1 t a struggle to become famous for f or a bathing b a thag and health resort for the lame glame halt and blind I 1 ican lean can testify that they are hot enough to be long remembered it if not well known before finishing will note one feature common to all classes of mon tan lanb lans it Is swearing since here I 1 have had occasion to do some business with all kinds of peo people p le they all swear there may be some exceptions 3 but they have not come in my way yet no matter who you me meet whether men of good social standing jn in aristocratic circles or the rough miner or mountaineer one and all ail and all alike are profane to a shocking degree this may be considered by some as very trivial but bat it is a marked eccentricity ot all mountaineers yours truly A B T |