Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-09-26

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run up against bruin, we shall put in prac-
tice exactly what the Press SO kindly hints
we are likely to do, Honest confession
is good for the soul"
Vim. Glassman, of Benton, was in town
one day this week, having just returned
from an extended trip TO Neihart, the adj
iacent districts, and White Sulphur
Springs. Mr.. Glassman, who is pretty
we'll Informed upon mines and mining
matters, went to the camp for the pGr-
pose of collecting information and sam
pies of ore from the different mines to
send to Salt Lake City, where he IS IN
terested in a smeltar. He found his task
a herculean one, and after collecting sew
eral hundred pounds of samples, gave up
the task. He says that Neihart VIII as
tonish the world, as soon as the mines are
developed. The formation is similar to
that of Leadville, and he predicts that
Neihart will outrival that famous camp
in every point within the next few years.
Judge E. E. Bywater, of Sand Coulee,
one of the pioneer farmers Of Montana,
who made farming a business from SO to
80, says there is no question but that
Montana will eventually rank as one of
the grain-particalarly wheat-produclng
States Of the northwest. He says in '65
it was necessary to irrigate three times
during the season, and the rainfall gradu-
allv increased until in 1880 it was only
necessary to irrigate once, u since that
date, has found the rainfall sufficient to
produce the finest Of vegetables, and what
little grain he required for his fowls and
stock. He is confident that irrigation
will shortly, if not at present, be found
wholly unnecessary. MIR. Bywater is also
a firm believer that eventually the bench
lands will prove to be the best grain pro-
ducers, and we are willing to back his
opinion against all the theorists in the
country.
The following from an exchange is as
applicable here as elsewhere, and applies
with equal force to mining investments,
Nothing promotes prosperity like harm
ony: 'Show me a town that is eternally
torn up with discussions, spites and jeal-
ousies and we will show you a town on
the verge Of decay. No town can or will
amoun to anything where these things
exist. Unity is prosperity and growth;
dissension and division ~demoralizes and
ruins. When a stranger N to town
and find the community pulling in oppo-
site directions the next day generally sees
him beyond its reach. Nothing is made
by dividing a town, but everything is lost.
There are thousands of examples OF this
throughout the west. The way tor every
town to do that desires growth and pros
perity is for every property holder to in
vite capital to town irrespective Of its
particular locality. A good residence, a
block of buildings or other improvement,
is a benefit to the whole town, no matter
where it is put"
Great Falls is greatly interested in the
proposed navigation of the Missouri from
| this point to Helena, and the latter place,
usually SO wide awake, can not fail to ap,
preciate the great benefit such an enter,
prise would prove to her. 1t would in
fuse new life, of the most substantial ma
tufe, into both places. 1t would give
Helena what she is 10 practically with
out-cheap fuel. To Great Falls and the
surrounding country it would prove OF in
estimable value. It would be the means
of giving employment to hundreds of la
borers in the mines, and would bring hun
dreds of families to occupy and till the
surrounding large area of arabic and pro
ductive land. It would be Of a value
only secondary to a railroad for all north
ern Montana. It would place nearly al
the best agricultural sections in easy com
munication with the commercial center
of the territory, and would furnish CHEAP
Transportation for all products thereto
It would enhance three-fold every acre o.
arabic land along the Missouri river. Be
sides giving Helena access to the bes
part of Montana, it settles forever her fue
supply, which at the present is troubling
her not a little. We shall look to Helen;
to move in this matter, and hope she vii
give it early consideration, and not allow
the plum she now has within her reacl
to be plucked by others less deserving.
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