Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-05-01
\ BRILLIANT FUTURE.
What Will Combine to EHake Great
Falls the Greatest City in the
NorthM est.

raits the Greatest City in the
Northwest.
There can be 40 doubt that Great Falls
will be the most populous town Of the
far west, before the close of the present
century. Its advantage over al other
towns west Of Minneapolis, for the en-
ployment of labor in a great variety of
manufacturing industries, assures for it Il
remarkably rapid growth, within the
next ten Or fifteen years. The majority
Of the men who have it in their power to
shape its future, to a great extent, are
among the ablest and Wealthiest men of
the country. These men composing the
Townsite. company, have, most of them
been here, and have carefully examined,
for themselves, the townsite, its water
power advantages, its coal and iron. as
we'll as the agricultural and min eral re-
sources of the surrounding country.
Their personal examinations Lave also
been supplemented by the Investigations
Of some of the ablest specialists in coal,
iron and water power matt ers, in the
United States. The result is, the com
pany will now move forward in
diligently, in the development of
their plans, and will not make fits
takes; such las were made at
Minneapolis, when work on that water
power was first commenced.
lnthe incipients sta es of this enterprise,
the first thing accomplished, was the Sc
curing Of all the available water power
that heinz the key to the whole situation
and this was successfully done several
years ago. The improvement of the
water power has been delayed, until rail
road communication could be had with
the East and West; now however, as the
Montana Central railroad. is to be COM
pletcd to Great Falls in a few months,
the work of improving the water power
will soon be commenced, preparatory to
building reduction works on a scale com
mensurate with the mineral of
the Rocky mountains. Then viii come,
the utilization Of the iron ore, and coal
in the manufacture OF iron. These in
dustries alone will give employment to
several thousand men; hut they are not
all, Their e must come as a result, Machine
shops and foundries for repairing and
manu- ttacturing machinery for this
country, for here at Great Falls, iron can
be made cheaper than at any other place
prominent manufacturing industries
which we can count upon with certainty.
FIGURING mills on an extensive scale.
will also be established here, the product
Of which will be shipped to New York
and Europe under through bills of lading.
No enc can deny this, who knows any
thing Of the Immense grain growing ter
ritory that surrounds Great Falls. The
wheat producing area of the country, is
also moving North and West, and the
coming fields for the production of hard,
spring wheat are in Ne#thern Dakota,
Northern Montana and tbs Saskatchewan
country. Great Falls Will not only have
ample railroad connection with the wheat
growing sections Of Northern Monta IA
and the West, but it will have the most di-
rect rail connection with the lakes and East
ern tide water around the prominant in
dustries Just referreGto, will cluster many
other brands of manufacturing, of less
Importance, but all tending to the
growth and prosperity of Great Falls
10 deny that a great manufacturing
center can be built up at the Falls
ofthe Missouri, would be to deny that Mon
tana possesses the great and varied re-
sources that have been of late SO general
ly conceded to her.
The growth of western towns and Of the
West generally, has been a constant sur
prise to us all; but when w consider the
tremendous energy of our people, and the
unparalleled growth of the country in
we should not he surprised,
and we should be prepared for still more
growth of towns in the newer
of the West. We are reioiced
that the foundation of the coming city of
Great Falls is being laid by men whose
experience enables them to com
mence the work properly