Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-11-07


gives the following details:
THIS NEW CITY, GREAT EALLs,
Ninety-seven miles distant from Helena,
is reached by the Montana Central rail
way through the Big and Little Prickly
T ar canyons, and by the Manitoba from
all points on the Missouri above White
Firth and Fort Buford. 1t is compare
lively new, having been put in railway
communication with the outside world
less than year ago. This town Is fast
springing into prominence, and must be
for all time to come, the base of supplies
for the vast mountain region, in the cav
ern veins of which are hidden untold
millions of wealth. M
IMMENSE WATER POWER.
Here Is water power which can be
utilized with less expense than anything
of the kind on the continent of America
or in the world; a power of sufficient
magnitude to turn every mill and rur
every spindle on the continent of Ameri
ca. Already smelling plant is nearly
completed which involves an outlay Of
more than $s,0O0,o00.
The three varieties of sandstone which
crop out on both sides of Sand Coulee fol
a distance of IA miles, in lodges from 81
to 1876 feet in height, are of the finest tex
ure and quality, and exist in such guam
titles that of either variety the Chinese
wall could he duplicated from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific ocean and have
an abundant supply to build a great city
VAST COAL FIELDS.
At the head of the coulee is the open
ing of the great coal field which extends
for 100 miles; the principal vein averag
ing IA feet in thickness. The supply will
be amply sufficient for the great demand
which must come from the mines of cop
per, lead, iron, gold and silver, which are
now being opened in the Belt, Little
Rocky and Boulder mountains, which are
only 30 to 10 miles distant, and are al
ready reached by the Montana Central
railway.
FERTILE SOILS.
The bottom lands on the Marias, the
Teton and the Sun rivers are wonderful
ly fertile, being so impregnated with sa
line ingredients they absorb the water
from the streams and render irrigation
unnecessary. Every variety Of vegetable
Or grain required for the sustenance OF
the family Of man and the domestic ami
mails kept about them, are grown in great
abundance. The land remote from the
streams and of higher altitude will pay d
bettor profit to the owner from the indig-
months of the year tnan the best wheat
lands Of northern Dakota and Minnesota
A CATTLE REGION. .a
The thousands Of steers which are now
being shipped, are selling in the Chicago
market at an average Of 500 per hun.
dred, and averaging in weight from 1890
to 1,400 pounds, yielding the ranchmen
$62 per head, after paying expense Of
rounding up for selection, freight and
brokers' charges, which aggregate IS q
head.
Prior to Sept. this season they were
shipped to Chicago from Sand Conlee IA,
900 head of fat cattle. No county in the
north can vie with this in raising wool
Think Of oAe owning $4,000 sheep, from
which he sold this season 10000 pounds
of wool at 20 cents per pound and 1900
weathers free on board at the yard at Sc
per head. Yet such are the facts in the
case enormous as they appear to the men
who are content to keep flock of 500
and think it a big thing to do, as it really
is. The man who lives to see 20 years
will see at the great falls Of the Missouri
one of the best built cities in the north
west
Here the great Missouri has a solid
rocky bed. Here it leaps into the air 21G
feet in four falls nearly perpendicular,
the greatest Of which is 93 feet perpen-
dicular. Here the wool is produced and
sold at 30 cents per pound. 1t is then
shipped 5000 miles and manufactured
into the garments the miners and other
classes wear, shipped back again and sold
at for from $40 to $50 per pound to the
men who produce it.
The millions of mineral wealth, which
are being turned out annually from the
mines near by, will at no distant day be
invested in manufacturing here, and when
once the ball is set in motion it will de-
velop possibilities which, should l pre-
dict at this time, might send me to lun-
attic asylum. The poorly paid and poorly
fed artisans from the great marts Of
manufacture and trade in the east will
come here to do the work and get the
pay for it. Some portion of the starving
millions from the Old World will come
here to tunnel the mountain and bring to
light the hidden treasures. As civilian
ton and the inventive genius travels
westward the star o. empire will follow
in its tracks.
COME WEST, YOUNG MAN.
Here is the place for the young man to
age and integrity, who is willing to labor
watch and wait. To such, capital will be
put against ability and service, and to
such, frutation will come, and all the
conveniences and privileges which wealth
can bring to those who know their value.
THE MOVING SPIRITS.
The men who extend the track for the
great locomotives, to climb the mountains
began at the bottom of the ladder. 20
years ago the president of the Montana