Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
FACTS ABOUT GREAT FALLS.

Great Falls is located at the falls of the Missouri, which
furnish the greatest available waterpower on the continent.
It is within seven miles of the most extensive coal and iron
district in the west, beyond which are rich gold, silver and
copper districts.
It lies tributary to the best agricultural region in the
territory, as well as the part best adapted for grazing.
The pineries of the upper Missouri are tributary to Great
Falls.
Great Falls is especially adapted by its natural resources
and geographical position to become the leading manufacturing
city between Minneapolis aud the Pacific, as well as the railroad
center of Montana.
The western machine shops Of the Manitoba line will be at
Great Falls.
Plans are being prepared for dams, canals and other means
for utilizing the immense water-poWer at Great Falls.
Works will be erected here for reducing gold, silver and
copper ores, and for the manufacture of iron and steel.
Iron, coal and limestone are all found near each other in the
neighborhood of Great Falls.
Unlimited quantities of building sandstone are found here
and may be easily quarried.
Great Falls is in the garden spot Of Montana.
The lands around Great Falls for hundreds of miles yield
luxuriant grasses. The prairies and table lands are especially
adapted to the raising of wheat, oats and barley without
irrigation.
The climate is hea1thful. The mean temperature in winter
is about the same as that Of central Illinois. The weather is
warm in summer, but the nights are rendered cool by gentle
mountain breezes.
The mining camps in the Belt mountains will provide a
home market, with good prices, for part of the field and garden
products raised around Great Falls.
Great Falls will be the leading wool market of northern
Montana.
Men Of enterprise and wealth, such as James j. Hill,
president of the Saint Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad,
and colonel Broadwater. president of the Montana Central, are
extensive property owners at Great Falls, and take a warn
interest in the advancement Of the city.
Great Falls is the seat Of the new county of Cascade.
Great Falls has two banks, a large -four mill, as we'll as
saw and planning mills. 1t has the finest hotel in the territory
and other good hotels.
The merchants and manufacturers Of Great Falls are active,
enterprsing men, who are well qualified to keep the city in the
front rank.
industrious men, with or without capital, receive a cordial
welcome at Great Falls.
Measured by the bright prospects Of the city, real estate is
cheap at Great Falls.
The jobbing trade will flourish at Great Falls, which is well
adapted for the receipt and distribution of merchandise.
The railroad journey from Great Falls to Saint Paul may
be made in SO hours, to Chicago in 4S hours, and to Portland,
Oregon, in 35 hours.
Great Falls is within moderate distance of the rich mineral
regions in the Belt mountains and in the main range of the
Rockies.
Great Falls is the western terminus of the Saint Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad, which connects this city with
trunk and steamboat lines of the country.
1t is the northern terminus Of the Montana Central, which
connects the city with Helena, and is in course Of construction
to Butte and other mining districts of the Rocky mountains.
A branch Of the Montana Central connects Great Falls with
the coal fields at Sand Coulee, whence it will be extended early
in 1888 to the mining section of the Belt mountains.
THE WATER POWER