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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
PAVING FUNDS DIVIDED.
AVAILABLE BUDGET OF ESQ, 900 AP-
PRoPRIATED BY THE COUNCIL.
Streets Demanded by Heavy Trafiic Pre-
ferred, Followed by Court. fernando.
Third Streets and jackson Avenue
Outside Business.

Tho important business outlined for yes
ferday's council meeting served TO place
every member in his seat around the
green cloth covered table promptly at 230
O'Clock pm. President MADDEN, with his
newly trimmed iron gray locks neatly
pompadoured, sat at the head, and smiled
bcnignly upon his associates, who APP
pcared overwhelmed at the magnitude OF
the task confronting them. The president
set the tongues agoing by the candid an
nouncomeni that he played his first game
81 cards the preceding evening. aud
chuckled vigorously over the expressed
qualification that he walked off with the
Doodle. This was succeeded by few
knuckle r,ps on tine uncovered edge OF tho
table, Secretary Pullen read the minutes
OF two preceding meetings and sailed into
the following:
PAVING PETITIONS.
Residents along Bcale street had In an
invitation TO the council 10 consider the
condition Of that ihorcughfarc, which they
pronounced one of the most conspicuous
in the city. vet most Of all neglected. The
document sci forth that therc were several
broken gaps without pavement Of any
kind. Were these gaps filed up there
would be an unhroken and continuous
paved highway from the Mississippi river
eastward 20 the Pigeon ROosi road. Cedar
blocks from Dc>oto 10 lauderdalc. and
gravel thence eastward, was recommended.
From property owners ON fernando,
from Elliott across Calhoun, subscribing
S.li5. Chief RYAN, OF the fire department,
recommended the paving Of this street, 10
facilitate the department In reaching ilrSs
IN that section, and thus relieve DcSoto.
From Linden 10 Vance, on fernando
street, property owners subscribed $3.50,
provided The work bc done by November
], next.
A petition, accompanied by suhscrip.
tons amounting to ~ 40 was submitted
for the paving Of rontoioc street with
stone or macudam from Cynthia 10 Wal.
nut This was represented by Mr.. Bobo,
Who explained that bis people wec willing
10 acccpt paving 10 the railroad leaving
ont MessrS Coward aud Dunn, In case the
cpuncil did not wish 10 acccp, the whole.
Mr. John Robinson proposed 10 con-
tribute 500 for the paving OF that portion
81 Wellington street, between Vance aud
Mississippi avenue, with stone or gravel.
lie also promised TO U.s. his endeayop 10
have the property owners on the west side
81 the stree, give 500 more.
Residents OF Marshall avenue asked that
home action in the way 81 improving or
ia any way repairing that highway be
taken at once.
The question vas fairly opened by Mr.
Randle, who moved TO take up the con,
siieration OF Main street
President MADDEN asked tina, The mattel
81 funds he inst determined. and rquesic,
an estimate from Secretary Pullcn. wilt
had been assigned 10 the task oi hgurin
fot the purpose. Il developed that thcr
was on hand only about $4,000, rs pc
following statement
INCoME.
Tax irgy NJ cent ON 81 .1ft 80 vAiusu0u.
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06

Residences.
Two new seven room Houses on Dummy. Lid
beautifully located, finished In first class styI(
Small cash payment, balance monthly splenda
opportunity To &C, homes
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06

Iicodssaraparilla Is peculiar 10 itself, aud
superior Ia all other pmpamtions IN strength,
economy AMI medicinal merit.
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Capt. lee suggested that attention hc
given the pressing business streets say,
itum Bealc 90 Poplar, and from the bayou
wet 10 the river. The available amount
was ~ small that " would not 20 lar II
fcailcrvd over the ouis,rccls.
NJ Wallace stated that Il wns iaci
that the heaviest aud most important
hauling Was irom the large cotton sheds In
South Memphis, up Main street and hc
was In iayor oi putting this highway in
frsi-class condition.
Capt lee opposed the repairing Of Main
fircci, claiming that 1t would bc q waste
81 money.
President MADDEN paid his favorable
respects 90 Third street. suggesting that
Tishomingo gravel DO slcposiicd thereon,
allowed 10 remain two or thre years, nt
the end Of which time Il would h. n fine
foundation for permanent pavement.
Mr.. Randle offered resolution that the
president be empowered TO grade this
street, lay this foundation with the city
force, which was seconded by Mr.. Ilirsch,
and Il came up for discussion.
Maj. Petit vigorously opposed taking up
any side street until the heavy CONNER.
cial streets were attended a., On tho bust.
ncss theory that Il was good policy 10 pro.
serve the property already possessed.
Capt. lee thought both could be kept
up, ~ the cost Of shaping up Third strccl
would not exceed $4,000.
Maj. Petit then submitted an cslimai,
for division among the streets, which
after suggestions from all hands, was adopt
Cd NJ follows
Resolved, That the following appro
priafiOna La fnade for uaxinU pnfnos.s
Ia paving Front street. from Union 10 Pop
lar, 5000 TO be used IN repairing MaIr
both ua,s. $1,000 10 be used in rrpsIsa,
second street, beginning at Madison ave
working both Ways; $4,000 10 be uscd u
making Tishomingo Foundation on Thir,
street, from Monroe north 10 the bayo.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
REHABILITATION.
OuTsiDE nrsiNEss.

I. l.. lee, agent 81 the ~. Bernard Coal
company. pctiuoncd ior the privilege OF
Of crossing Dunlap street with two railroad
tracks In order to reach n permanent coal
yard which lac proposed TO establish be-
tween Ross avenue aud Ayrcs street and
Lane avenue and the Louisville 4 Nash
vile railroad. Referred 10 the president,
Mcssrs. Graham and Randlc.
Residents along Echols sir,ct called at
icniion 10 the awful condition Of that high
way Recent rains have caused hcbayou
banks 10 cave, cncroaching upon the street.
Mr.. Wallace expressed his qualification
nj IN opportunity 10 disproyc charges
raised against him by his colorcd brethren,
that lac was mo more than bump ON "a
| log, sitting in the council and saving
nothing. lie therefore submitted n rasO-
luton that a brick sidewalk he ordered
laid on both sides OF Echol-, from Missis.
sippi avenue to Vance street, by the prop.
crty owners. aleo that the engineer curb
both sides ui the street n far M curbing il
admissible, aud also iill the hole nj the
intersection Of Vance street, 40 Es TO stop
ANY further abrasion.
The Poni0loc street petition inf paving
came up. al expressed themselves ~ anN-
ious ~ open and fix the street in iini.clas-
I STYLE but there was not enough money
| left 10 do the work, aud Il was settled that
the tirsi residence street taken up should
he Poniuioc, provided the citizens he
tween Wellington street aud the Memphis
| 4 Charleston railroad misc 1000.
President lladdcn stated that Mrs. VIII
hanson WIS willing 90 donate the necrssar,
ground TO open Della street, from Ruth &
laudcrlalc, provided the city would IL
the work. Referred 10 the president ~
report.
Mt Wallace moved that gns lamp h
erected about midway OF Ruth street. cor
ncr Of an open lot. Referred 10 the prcsi
! don't will untypF "a url
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06

bids ior paving the alley In mar oi the
Gayu~o hotel, FROM Tom Brown, at Al 80
and sliO, Michael lhrkin. Cd cents and
q cents, were opened The materials
wcrc 1ishomingo and river gravel, respect
rules, until next meeting
that drain pipe. two feet In diameter. l,c
put In the hollow between Poplar aud EN.
change streets extended, and leading into
the large box drain already under High
street President ordered TO have work
| done.
Action on the bank depository and hos.
pital removal questions was postponed and
the council then adjourned.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07
TIE WOOL MARKET.

The wool market is exempt from violent
fluctuations and is perhaps the only staple
that has not shown steady advance since
the general revival of industry year ago.
1t is fortunate, however, that there has
been no decline in price when the various
influences at work are taken into account
In cotton this country has no dangerous
competitor, and our market quotations
regulate the price everywhere. In cotton
goods we hold our own against the world
and are insured ii steady market by the
tariff which prevents speculative ship
ments. But wool is produced in Australia
and South America and is exported hence
in immense quantities to the London
market which thus exercises great in
tluence on prices everywhere. While the
competition is keen in the raw material
it is indirectly so in the manufactured
fabrics which are imported largely at
undervaluations and compete with our
own in many ways besides price, owing
patriotic pride people take in wearing
'imported' goods. The threatened re-
moval of the duty is also malign intlu-
ence, but happily the commission mer-
chants regard the situation calmly and
are not disturbed by the cries of wolf
which they have heard repeatedly for the
past ten years.
Returns from Boston are encouraging,
The sales from January to February 90
were 24,665,0OO pounds against 21,52O,O00
pounds for the corresponding period last
year. This shows so far an increase in
the business of this year of 3,145,OOO
pounds. This increased demand has
been attended with reduced receipts, be-
ing about 200 bags less of domestic and
1900 bales less of foreign. The stock of
wool on hand is considerably greater than
that of year ago, but if the present state
of business continues it must soon show q
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07
A Veterans Opinion.

We are indebted to the courtesy OF
O'Dwyer of the Great Falls Tribune fol
a copy of the extra edition Of that excel
lent paper, setting forth the resources
and development of that city and its tribu
tary territory, which is wide in area. II
is in one respect like Spokane Falls, and
that is its great water-power. The town
is tn have two million dollar smeltel
plant, at a point, too, remote from the
lead ores necessary in the reduction of the
dry ores Of Montana, which are at on,
very doors. If Great Falls can support
such plaut, what may not Spokane
support of the same sort of an industry
But we digress; we desired to say in the
outset, that the Tribune's great edition is
a credit to the publishers and to theil
spokane Falls Chronicle.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07
GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1883.
Semi 'eek|y,
THE WORK BEGUN.

Monday was memorable day for Great
Falls and all northern Montana. Beside
the great Missouri-near that under,
ground river which there breaks through
all barriers to join the main current
work was begun on the reduction
works which are to give Montana world
wide industrial fame. Very properly the
honor of turning the first sod devolved on
Paris Gibson, whose foresight and
sound judgment have been vindicated
by the selection of this location for what
will be the greatest metallurgical estab-
lishment in the world. Hugh Kirken-
dali representing Labor also appropri-
ately took part in the simple but express
sive formalities by which the work was
inaugurated.
The work thus begun will be Of great
magnitude. The first section which is
main building 1900 feet long with a
frontage Of $50 feet on the river In this
immense structure will be five Go ton
water jackets, 20 roasters, a cooling room,
ore bins, sampling works and assay offices,
and all the departments of great metal
lurgical establishment. Two immense
furnace stacks, one 1876 feet and the other
$50 feet high will tower above all the
buildings and will serve as beacons to
the miners who will come here to vend
their ores. Every real improvement that
can economist labor and increase the pro-
duct OF the base ana precious metals will
be employed in this vast laboratory which
will have the highest skill, abundant cap
ital and ample enterprise at its command.
The extent of these works may be partly
realized from the material which will be
used in their construction. Six million
brick, 100000 feet of lumber, 100000
fire brick, 5000 tons of sand are only
part OF the supply which the construc
ton of these works will require. The
hydraulic machinery will also be on II
most extensive scale and will be supple
mented by two steam engines of great
capacity for general purposes The first
section of the works will have capacity
of 1926 tons daily which implies the pro-
duction of a large amount of lead and
bullion.
The benefits which these works will
confer on Great Falls and all Montana
are incalculable. They will provide the
miner with market for his ores--a mar
ket which can afford to pay him high
price because water-power, cheap fuel,
extensive business and the highest skill
will enable the works to produce gold,
silver and lead at the lowest cost practi-
cable. The works will also stimulate
other industries and render Great Falls
the center of industrial activity and a
place of commercial renown.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

The Great Falls Tribune is out with j,
1G-page boom edition full of statistics
carefully complied and Illuminated by
we'll executed wood cuts. As an exhibi
ton of frontier newspaper enterprise anc
literary ability it has never been equalleG
in northern Montana. The number re
fleets much credit on the talents and en-.
terprise Of Jerry Collins, editor anG
proprietor of the Tribune.-Butte Inter
Mountain.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

Station Agent Williams, who recently
visited Great Falls, is loud in his praises
of the people of that town. He says the
newspaper men over there are hustlers
and that the town is lively and deserves
success. He further said that the hotel
is as complete in every appointment as
any in the west.-BoZeman Chronicle.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

The Great Falls Tribune issues a spe
cial boom edition, with map showing
the resources of the territory tributary tc
Great Falls, the metropolis of the inter
mountain region, 1t is a sumptuous sheet
and prefusely lllustrated.-Grand Forks
Herald
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

1t is hardly fair of Butte to attempt
to form what might be called ''girl
trust" Here is the bid the Inter Noun
tain makes: SONY Is marriage licenses
having been issued in Gallatin county
since the new marriage law went into
effect on September 1, 1887. The Bozeman
Courier believes that the license fee of So
is too much and that instead of fee a
bounty ought to be paid to Gallatin
county SWANS to encourage them to
marry. The buXom beauties of the Gal
latin, however, need not wait for the ad-
vances of the ranchers over there on that
basis. Let the lovely creatures come to
Butte. There are 1900 unmarried miners
here, stalwart, handsome fellows, who are
just aching to get married and would pay
800 marriage license with the greatest
pleasure. A good wife at any price is
cheap enough" Great Falls will go one
better, for our SWANS will not only pay
the license cheerfully but will endow the
bride with a corner lot or a quarter sec
ton Of land. The girls will be at pre-
MUM here.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

large decrease. Prices are lower than
they were in 1886 and 1887, but as last
years production, according to james
Lynchs estimate, was 333,5OO,O0O pounds
which is more than the large wool clip
of 1SS4-it is clear that the outlook on
the whole is rather encouraging.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07
Great Falls Deserves Success,

The Great Falls Tribune has issued a
boom number that will do that country
a great amount of good. The Great Fails
fellows are boomers from the head of the
gulch and deserve success.-Bo zeman
Chronicle
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07
provel'b say

Gradually the country is learning the
great extent of the reduction works to be
erected here. We copy today dispatch
on the subject from the Chicago Inter
Ocean, which has large circulation
among the leading manufacturers of the
west and pays special attention to their
interests.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

Chauncey NJ. Depew in his Washing
ton birthday address, spoke in praise Of
the factory in terms which will meet a
hearty response in the west. He said:
"The factory doubles the value of the ad-
joining farms for the farmers, whose
tariff eXactions are too small to be calcu-
lated. Beside the mill grows the village,
and the resistless energies Of American
development burst the bounds and build
the western city. To this new mart the
railroad is constructed almost with the
speed of its moving trains, and the quick
and cheap communication between
country and city furnishes new solvents
for the safety in the prosperity of the
country. Protected opportunity has de-
veloped our incalculable natural resour-
ces and enabled us to manufacture in
iron, glass, cotton and wool as we'll as any
nation in the world, and more cheaply,
save in wages. If the duty on importa-
tons is the bounty to labor which lifts it
above the degrading and dangerous CON
ditions of Europe, and enables our arti-
sans to retain their self respect and indie
dence, it is the republics best invest
ment."
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

Mr.. Chandler reports the Belt noun
tain miners as full Of enthusiasm at the
prospects for the coming season. But he
says that they wantno reduction on the
lead duties. Lead is cheap enough at
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

Bring on your smelter; there is use for
a hundred more, we say to the Spokane
Chronicle, but do not say that we are ''too
remote from the lead ores necessary in
the reduction Of the dry ores of Montana
which are Mt our very doors" They are
Just as near us in the Belt Mountain re-
gion. There is the Tiger mine for in
stance, which produces 1904 ounces of
silver to the ton and yields forty-nlne (49)
per cent Of lead. There are hundreds of
other mines in that region which likewise
yield silver-lead ore in abundance. In
addition that region. abounds in the gold
bearing ore which smelters value so
highly
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

Some grave changes are proposed IN the
new tariff. The duty on pig iron is re-
duced from 81 to $6 per ton; steel rails
from $17 to $11 and rolled iron from IL
cents per pound to cent. In copper the
proposed changes will meet with opposi-
ton. The rate on old copper is reduced
from to cent. Ingots and Chilli bars
which now pay cents are to come in at
2 cents--a reduction of 30 per cent. The
duty on rolled plates and sheets is re-
duced from 80 per cent. on the value to
30 per cent. All this is bad enough for
for Montana interests, but the reductions
on lead would be still more injurious
On lead ore and dross the duty is reduced
from IL to q of a cent. Pipes for re-
manufacture are to pay n cents instead
of cents. Steel, pipes and shot are re-
duced to "a cents from 3 cents despite
the protests from Utah and elsewhere.
But this mineral schedule is likely to
meet the fate Of most of the bill-that is
it will be either modified or rejected en-
tirely. We want no foreign copper or
lead in ours.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

Blinks-I wish I'd heard about that
New York walking match in time.
should have entered for the race.
Winks-You? | never heard your name
in connection with pedestrian matches.
"No, never entered one, but I'd like
to now, I'm in magnificent training.
"Eh? What have you been doing
lately"
"Trying to collect bill from Chicago
man. Omaha World.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

As far as we have been able to see there
never was the slightest excuse for boom
ing the town of Great Falls.-Anaconda
Review.
"Ihere are none so blind as those who
will not see." But you are right, friend;
Great Falls is booming on its own accord.
"Good wine needs no bush,' as the
proverb says. mu.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07
THE NEW TARIFF.

The tariff bill which, after much con
sideration, Mr. Mills has reported from
the committee on ways and means, is no
likely to meet with much approval. l
will not please the extreme, consisten
free-traders who regard import duties a:
burdensome directly and incidentally. L
will not satisfy the reformers who would
revise the tariff on the British model and
would reduce the protective duties grad
ually. 1t will meet with strong opposl-
i ton from avowed protectionists of the
Randall Kelly school who are DESTROYS to
reduce the surplus, but would not do SO
at the cost of our home industries. The
measure, like ali revisions that have pre-
ceded it, is a compromise scheme, but one
looks in vain for any settled principle in
the adjustment of the duties.
In placing wool on the free list Mr.
Mills and his associates have acted
consistently with their professions and
teachings. They hold that the price of
all wool is enhanced by the present tariff
and accordingly they have decided to re
move the burden. On the other hand,
many democrats and republicans hold
that the price is regulated by the cost of
productions; that the wool growers of the
United States who raised last year $685.
800 900 pounds Of wool have enriched the
country by their industry and received
only fair reward for their labor and en-
terprise. They will assert that wool
growing has thriven under the protective
tariff and that if we throw our markets
open to the surplus Of Australia and South
America we will unsettle the industry
and enable those countries to divide the
market with our own producers to an eX-
tent which cannot now be estimated.
Under the present tariff the importations
to 115,00O,00O pounds annually;
under the new they would greatly exceed
that quantity, thereby displacing a cor
quantity of homegrown
WOOL
In Montana, and notably in northern
Montana where the sheep industry enables
us to turn TIC account hills and valleys not
yet needed for agriculture, this influx of
foreign wool would be felt with crushing
effect. The 100000 pounds which we
'aise annually would not be needed at
Boston Or New York, when the Argentine
Republic which has 100000 sheep and
ambs, and Australia which has 79,00O,OO0
oour in their wool, displacing the Ameri-
IAN production which is the clip of only
100000 sheep. The inevitable result
would be a decline in price and ulti-
nately the ruin of the wool industry.
But the bill will never pass in its present
'orm ii at all.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07
Discussing the Desser

Mr.. Waldo (at dinner party)-May l
pass you the cheese, Miss Breezy?
Miss Breezy (daintily)-Thanks; small
hunk, please,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-07

In one column the Helena Independ
ent spells it "San Coulle' and in an,
other "San Coulee.' No wonder that il
circulates nonsense about the Sand Col-
ice coal.
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