The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-07-06
RANDOM -RExEmBRANcEs.
~ III. prass Association Meeting at Great
Falls January $3.50, 1888.


of h Press Association Meeting at Great
Falls January $3.50, 1888.
The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Mon
tana Press Association in Its large attend
anca of members and their "eligible' wives
and sweethearts; in the diversity of enter
tainment afforded; in the lavish hospitality
extended by tho citizens OF TREAT fa''s; III
theil cordially of welcome that did not relax
under the most extended session, and ls
nleasant social features, surpassed any OF the
verv pleasant ~stannuals" the press gang has
vat epioyed. Had we a page at disposal II
could be we'll occupied with recital thereof
and in reproduction Of the address OF vel
come BY T. E. Collins, Esq, and the re-
spopse of President Sutherlin; the able annu'
aladdress of ex-President w. w. Anderson;
the history by Hon. Will Kennedy; the very
ELOQUENT eulogy on Joseph E. Hendry, de-
ceased. by Mr.. Lambert Mollinell; the letters
of absent members, and the pleasant re-
sponses to sentiments offered at the banquet
But these things to greater or lesser extent
have appeared in the dailies, our space is
limited, and we can but generalize that
which they have given in detail. In its bust
ness aspects the meeting cannot be said to
have equalled preceding ones, social feat
ures proving SO attractive that the week
wore out without the Association reachin ne
the order of business "for the good of the
craft" and which is a primary object for
which the Association was intended.
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We have said the attendance was large
Among those in attendance were ex-Presi-
dent w. W. Anderson and daughters, Matt
w. Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. E. Boos,
Secretary Jerry Collins and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Devine and wife, Mr.. Chas. s.
Fell, Mr.. and Mrs. Van H. Fisk, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Il. Foote, Mr.. and Mrs. r. 81.
Howey, Mrs. F. A. Reynolds, Mr.. Walter
Matheson, Mr.. and Mrs. James II. Mills, Mr..
and Mrs. Addison Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. S. A.
Robertson, Mr.. n. Y. Hoss, Mr.. Daniel
Searles, Mrs. S. M. johnson, President and
Mrs. W. H.. Sutherlin, Mr.. and Mrs. W. H.
Todd, Mr.. C.. NJ. Webster. Mr.. J.. r. Wild
meyer, Mr.. H. p. Rolfe, Mr.. A. K. Yerkes,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Botkin, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
E.. Collins, DR.. A. 81. Hersey, Miss Lou
| 0uIuI4C, NA. u. W. ACAAcy, VlIs duu luIS. D..
W. %Langhorne, Col. and Mrs. w F. Sanders,
Miss Serapta Sanders, Col. and Mrs. W. F.
| Wheeler, Mrs. Benz. F.. Potts, Mr.. and Miss
Atkinson, Mr.. p. Dryer. Mrs. S. M. Corson,
Mr.. Thos. D. Etler, and doubtless others
whose names escape our memory. To these
in all social enjoyments were added perhaps
an equal or larger number of ladies' and gen.
tlemen of Great Falls who seemed to have
laid aside business and domestic duties to
contribute to the enjoyment of their guests.
Great Falls is go miles northeast of Helena.
1t is reached from Helena by the Montana
Central railway, which at Great Falls con-
meets with the st. Paul & Manitoba road.
Thu Central traverses the magnificent Prick
~ Pear Canyon, the beauties of which Ian
guage has been exhausted in describing
directly on the line of the old stage road,
until where the latter DIVORCES to the north
they part company, the Central continuing
down the stream until 1t empties into the
Missouri and thence on the left bank of the
latter through and along the splendid Chest
nut valley until it reaches Sun River, directly
opposite the mouth of which is situated the
oAVy - a "Ao. ~ IS uOt d. tu0 OEGaG
Falls of the Missouri, as might be presumed
from the name, but fifteen miles above. The
city is beautifully located in a bend of the
river, with a great portion of the water front
laid off for a park. 1t is 'built upon a rock,''
and the river will never encroach upon or
overflow it. Opposite the upper portion of
the city is Broadwater Bay, a splendid ex.
panse OF water where the finest kind of boat
ing may be enjoyed, and where a score or
two of she'll boats are housed, and which
were courteously placed at the disposal of
1.-THE gang" Here, too, is the wharf of the
steamer Fern, which plies on the river
above, carrying passengers and commodities
like her larger sisters on the great river be-
low. Back of the city the lands rise in gentle
undulations to the vast plateau, and a mile
or more from the present building limits, on
the fine slopes and terraces is where it is ex-
pected will be built the mansions of the rich
as the city grows in proportions and opu-
lence. A couple of miles below town are
the Black Eagle Falls, two or three miles |
further down is the Giant Spring, situated |
just in the edge of the Missouri and pouring |
forth a volume of water greater than the
Deer Lodge River at low stage. 1t is clear
as crystal, chemically pure except a trace of
lime, and is the largest known spring in the
world. 1t has its origin elsewhere than from
the river, but Just where the scientists have
not yet determined.
Within a few hundred feet of the springs |
are located the works of the Great Falls |
Shelter Company, the foundation walls of
which are laid and many of the arches set.
The superstructure is just going up, the con-
tlnuous rains and the interrupted operations
OF the Manitoba road having seriously re-
tarded work. Hr. Harry G. Child is General
Manager, and informed us the Company ex.
pected inside of thirty days to be buying
ores and ready for reduction. About one
fifth of the plant, which has been frequently
described, will be completed at once and de-
to the treatment of silver ores. The
remaining sections will be completed as
as possible. This will afford a good
market for Montana ores. The projectors
no question of the quality or quantity
the Sand Cou(ee coal. This they nave evil
denced by their large investment, and "mon.
ey talks" A half mile below the smelter
are the ::Rainbow Falls, the Missouri river
tumbling over a sheer precipice forty feet.
1t is a very beautiful fall, surprising in that
respect the Great Falls, ten miles below.
Stairways have been built rendering 1T easily
from the bluffs zoo feet above. We
time to write 'scenery," nor space to
accord it, in this issue, but the Rainbow
Falls are worth a long journey to see.
On the arrival of the "press train" at Great
falls the visitors were merely given time to
at the Park Hotel, belonging to the
rownsite Company and probably the largest
and finest in Montana, and now under the
management of Mr.. Julius Horst, when thev
we're taken in carriages and driven over the
bench lands where splendid fields of wheat
ire growing, and have been grown for the
'ast three years, without irrigation. Mr.. T.
y. Collins Informed us it was a demonstrated
act that wherever there was clay subsoil
mere was no necessity for irrigation to raise
:ood crops, and all over the country we saw
ne homestead or presumption buildings and
OF grain, evidencing the occupation of
ne nigh lands for farming purposes. This is