Great Falls tribune., 1888-09-26
OUR RESOURCES.

Foremost among the reports Of north
western progress, the St. Paul Pioneer
Press of Saturday, the 22d instant, places
an able letter from Charles M. Webster
Of this city. This letter is headed, "Great
Falls Grandeur" "Assays from the Rich
Mineral Fields Astounding in the Vicin-
ity of the Water Power City, Mature
with Lavish Hand Scatters Broadcast
Inexhaustible Resources in the Garden
Spot Of America" "After doing all this
She Caps the Climax by Bestowing enc
OF the finest Water Powers in the World"
These appropriate head lines precede
interesting details regarding the recent
mineral discoveries, the future wheat belt
and the water power. These are follow
ed by the following able summary of our
resources:
H. Here are everlasting lodges of gold,
carbonates, sulphurets and chlorides of
silver, mines of copper, galena, and the
richest iron ores, with the best limestone
and black band tluxes lying contiguous,
and railroads in operation to supply the
needed transportation. Here already an
proaching completion are the most extern
sive smelling works in the world. Here
is great distri buting center, midway be-
tween the head of lake navigation on the
east and ocean navigation at Puget sound
on the west; between Calgary and British
Columbia on the north and Salt Lake and
the Snake river valley on the south. Here
is the heart of the stock-growlng and beef
producing district of the continent. Here
are unsurpassed Typographical beauty and
attractions; and all within easy access
and almost adjoining the Yellowstone
National Park, the geyser, wonder-sum-
mits Of the world. From the head of the
rapids, at the eastern limits of this most
lovely OF all townsites, to the foot of
Horseshoe falls (including four of the
grandest waterfalls on the globe, the
Black Eagle, Golfers, Rainbow and
Horseshoe, varying from 90 to 50 feet in
perpendicular leaps), a distance of one
mile, the total fall of the river is 200 feet.
The river bed being of solid sandstone
dams can be constructed at any point de.
sired, and at comparatively small expense.
Besides the immense coal field Of
Sand Coulee, near the city, where ma
chnery for 1900 tons output per day is
in operation, Il fourteen-foot vein of coal
has just been discovered at Dry Wolf
near the line of the Belt Mountain
branch of the Montana Central. about
twenty miles south, having every indica-
ton OF great'extent and superior quality.
Important new strikes have also been
made in the mining camps of that vicin-
ity.. A mass of very rich carbonate.
weighing 200 pounds, assaying high, was
brought to town Yesterday. A thick vein
OF carbonate and galena has just been
discovered near Running Wolf creek, of
which two tons are being taken out daily
The placers Of Dry Wolf are also PAM
ing out so well that extensive hydraulic
works are to be put in immediately. An
other extensive body of iron ore has also
been struck, 212 feet in thickness. show
ing conclusively that the deposits of
iron in this vicinity are practically inex
haustible; also that our city is at the
threshold of interminable stores of coal
iron, silver, gold and other mineral
wealth."
This excellent letter will be of service
tothe busy,restless population of Minneso
ia, who are ever in quest of new fields
OF enterprise. They laid in Dakota, the
framework of one Or two great states.
and they will be found active in promot-
ing the rapid development of Montana
which will yet be the Empire State of
the Northwest