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

wheat lands will increase. and before
many years the traveller will see in this
vast region, which is the garden spot OF
Montana, almost measureless fields of
waving wheat, yielding enormous crops
of Montana No. 1 hard, which is ground
at Great Falls into -four, to be distributed
throughout the civilized world.
LII that time the traveller will find IN
the north the rich valleys and bench lands
of the Sun and other rivers covered
with fields of waving grain, while in the
west and south he will see on the vast
plain which stretches to the Belt, High
wood and Rocky mountains, abundance
of the milling worlds long-sought desire.
Montana No. / wheat.
FL. 0. Chowen, the president of the Cat
aract Mill Company, received his business
training at Minneapolis, in the house ofC
Fletcher..& Loring. Preston King the vice
president, is a son of colonel William S.
King, and himself a prominent citizen Of
Minneapolis. Frank B. Wilcox also
ome from that city, where his people
are "old timers"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
OUR ~NEIGHBDRS.
Montana the Center of "a Prosperous
Group of Territories.

Montana the Center of Il prosperous
Group of Territories.
While Montana is proud of her own
vast domain she has also reason TO be
gratiiied at the wealth and prosperity Of
her neighhors. 1t makes a great differ
ence in the advancement OF a state
whether the country around it is produc-
tive or otherwise. Arizona and New
Mexico are not of much service to each
other. nor can Kansas and Missouri derive
much benefit from the Indian territory $
long as it is inhabited solely by its pres
ent Inhabitants. On the other hand, New
York benefits by her proximity to New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, while the New
England states are so linked together
that prosperity is diffused throughout
them all.
OF the neighhoring states, for such we
| regard as the rightful title, Dakota is the
| most prosperous because she was the first
to enjoy the tide of immigration, and the
! first to profit by railroad communication.
| She boasts Of an area Of 150,932 square
| miles. equivalent to 96,596,4s0 acres.
This area, which is only about 1000
| square miles larger thar that of Montana,
is equal to West Virginia, servia, Greece,
Denmark, Belgium, Maryland, Vermont,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachu-
sets. Saxony, Connecticut, Delaware and
| Rhode Island all combined. These home
and foreign states support 2~o,600,6o0 peo-
pie, although their resources and produc-
tive capacity are largely undeveloped.
Our neighhor's acreage Is 50 great Iii {
it is equal to that OF II! the crops rails q
in the United States, corn and cotton
excepted.
YAe Dakotans turn this immense
domain to good account. They number
only 100000, and yet have impaired such
value to the land that the assessed valua-
ton amounts to s155, GS4.364, and the
value of livestock to $~43,195,229, while
the wheat crop for 1897 was estimated al
60,0O0.000 bushels.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

Marching ever westward. the advance
guard of the grain-growers have found
here in northern Montana the permanent
hard wheat region of the world has been
found. Here stretching eastward from
the base of the Rocky mountains are all
the conditions of climate and soil com
bined in a region Astounding in great nat
ural resources. As in Dakota. the rain
fall will be more abundant as this won
derfuily rich soil is more largely
cultivated. This will increase the
present enormous yield of grain.
These bench lands were regarded
at first with distrust, as in Dakota, and
are now found to be the best in the world
for grain growing, This is proved con-
elusively BY wheat, as fine as the world
ever saw, which was raised last year in
this vicinity. Such wheat enriches the
farmer because it commands the highest
price, and it delights the miller, because
it produces the highest grade of flour.
The coming of the Manitoba railroad
will effect a marvellous change in this
new wheat belt. The demand for hard
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

large extent which will be able to smelt
daily 200 tons of ore. The works will be
so built as to admit of indefinite expan-
sion. They will embody all the latest
improvements in the reduction of ores.
and will be connected by railroad with
the Sand Coulee branch of the Montana
Central, with which it is understood the
company has made an advantageous con-
tract for coal.
sAMPLING WORKS.
The Montana Smelling Company will
establish sampling works by the 1stof May
for the purpose or determining the mar
ket vaIue of all ores that are brought
here for sale. The company is deter
mined to encourage mining by paying
literally for these ores. The cost of
reduction will be so moderate that the
company will be in a position to afford
such encouragement.
The country surrounding Great Falls
is correctly termedthe Nimrod's paradise.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

purifier which separates the flour from
the bran and coarse substances therein.
At the Cataract mill the wheat is passed
through successive rollers, becoming
finer at each successive crushing until
finally only the outside of the kernel is
left. As the result of this process which
involves great care and sound judgment,
a large percentage of high grade flour is
produced, while by the old method of
grinding wheat between stones the guam
tity of superior flour was less owing to
the rapid reduction of the grain. The
Minneapolis millers who were the first to
adopt the new system, made large sums
of money by their success in obtaining
this large proportion of high grade flour
from the wheat. In time, the process be-
came widely known, and Great Falls is
now on a par with any city in the excel
lence of it's mill machinery.
THE NEW WHEAT BELT.
Now arose the demand for hard wheat,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

Wyoming is a younger territory, but
Montana has reason to be proud of the vast
region which extends to the boundary OF
Colorado, and embodies ONE of the best
features of all the states that surround
her. Her soil and climate are good, and
She has immense mineral wealth. Her
ranges support cattle, horses and sheep
worth S%s0,OO0,00G, and could easily sus-
tain much more. Her area is nearly
100000 square miles, and like Montana, is
SO diversified that there are lofty noun
tains and fertile valleys, with many
streams to water the plains. Idaho, our
western neignbor corresponds in many
respects with Wyoming, and is also q land
of great resources, which will add to our
wealth in the near future, when we are
more closely linked by railroads. Onthe
north we are bounded by Canadian terri
tory, which has large ffecks and herds,
and may in time form part Of the Aimeri-
can Union. With such surroundings we
are proud of our position in the north
west. and do not envy that OF any state in
the Union.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
cred some interesting details from
Messrs. ChoWen, Wilcox and their staff.

cred some interesting details from
Messrs. Ctlowen, Wilcox and their staff.
~ THE REVOLUTION.
1t appears that prior to the Introduction
of the roller system of milling into this
country the incentive to produce hard
wheat was slight, because BY the old stone
process soft wheat could be ground as
profitably as any other. The Introduction
of the Hungarian process by the Mime
apolis millers changed the relative value
of the two kinds OF wheat, causing the
hard to experience a decided boom.
BY the new process as employed at the
Cataract mill, the bran Or eoYering.of the
grain is rendered tough by gentle
heating. The grain is then passed be-
tween steel rolls, which are just placed
far enough apart to crack the kernel. In
thus cracking the grain particles Of fine
and coarse flour escape. The fine flour
is bolted through fine cloth to separate it
from all impurities. The coarse sub
stance called "middlings" is sent to the
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
THE NEIHART DISTRICT.

Fro=a here for nine miles south is a
constant succession of mineral deposits
mot excepting the Dry Fork mines on the
southeast till the Neihart district is
reached. This district is famous for the
remarkable rich silver ores which abound
in the camps. For under this heading |
must include the Carpenter and Arrow
creek camps. Before many months these
camps together with Barker will be reach
ed by railroad. Practical tests prove that
the ores af those various camps tluX we'll
togethef,t the necessaryc omponents which
are absent in one being present in
another
Nature has done enough; it remains
for MAJ by his energy and skill to take
advantahe of this bounty. Fol- some
years tie camps have been dormant. The
incoming of railroads will now change all
this. The miner will find a ready market
for his ores at such ~remunerative prices
as it has 40, been possible heretofore to
receive. Let us hope that these miners
who have SO nobly stuck to their post for
so many years will be the first to reap the
benefits of the revival of the camps.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

which would not pulverize at once into
flour bat would go through each stage of
the process with a certain degree of in
tactness, so to speak. Southern Min
nesota became in popular estimation the
coming granary of the world, But the
pioneer farmers pushed northward into
the Red river valley, whence, after much
success in wheat growing, the advance
guard moved westward and by cultivat-
ing Daknta-the northern part OF the
Great American Desert'-made it the
great hard wheat granary of the world.
Beinr still unsatisfied, farmers continue
in quest IF the ideal hard wheat country.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

best machinery, which is moved by the
rapids of the Missouri, and produces -four
of the highest quality. Its two
brands of high-grade flour are well
known and we'll likedi n Montana mark
cts. These are the popular and famous
brands, Diamond" and Cataract"
The officers of the company are H. @.
Chowen, president; Preston King, vice
PRESIDENT; and F. B. Wilcox, secretary
and treasurer.
Regarding hard wheat, the new pro-
cess of milling, and the bright prospects
Of Great Falls as the chief seat of the
milling industry, the Tribune has gath
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
SMELLING ORES.
Details of the Reduction Works at Great
Falls.

Falls. @.5.
Nature herself designated Great Falls
as the seat of reduction works. Long be-
fore even the city was founded, MIR. Paris
Gibson discerned its suitability for indus
trial establishments. The combination OF
water power, coal, ores and limestone con
WINGED him and others that this place was
admirably adapted for those processes by
which the pure metal is extracted from
the ore which contains it. President Hill
perceived readily that important fact and
was swayed by it in the subsequent inter
est which he took to establish a city here
and connect it by railroad with the min
eral regions as we'll as with the Manitoba
system which is linked with the trunk
lines of the entire country.
NJ. Hill, Col. Broadwater and their
associates first directed their attention to
the construction of the Montana Central
and the Montana extension of the Man
itoba system. When these great enter
prises were completed last year the rail
road companies were in a position to
invite capitalists to judge for themselves
of the merits of Great Falls as the seat Of
reduction works. In order that the in
ducements should be ample, the Montana
Central began the construction of IA
branch roadto the Sand Coulee coal fields
of which it has purchased a broad area.
A COMPANY FORMED.
The attractions which Great Falls, thus
equipped, offered as the seat of reduction
works were so striking that last month the
Montana Smelling company was formed
in New York to reduce ores here. The
company which has been formally incor-
porated under the laws of Montana in
cludes Hon. A. S. Hewitt, mayor of New
York; Hon. Edward Cooper, and r. S.
Gurnee also of New York; Adolph
Eilers, the head of extensive reduction
works in Colorado; and II. w. Child of
Helena, who is general manager. This
company has s1,50o,000 capital in 1900
shares of $1,000 each. 1t has ample
powers to carry on the reduction OF
metals on the most extensive scale and to
transact the business Incidental thereto.
The company has lost nj time in begin
ming work. 1t has selected an adj
mirable site beside the Missouri
where great water power is availa-
ble. Here it is building works of
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
CATARACT MILL.
MONTANA WHEAT GROUND BY
MONTANA WATER-POWER.
The Pioneer Mill of Northern Montana
---Great Falls as the Future
Seat of the Milling
Industry.

Great Falls aspires to make flour for
the vast region .of which she is the
metropolis. She has made a good begin
ming in her Cataract mill, which, by a
happy coincidence bears the name of a
pioneer mill at Minneapolis. This fine
mill stands on the Missouri, at the foot of
Central avenue. 1t is equipped with the
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

ores are ga,ena and carbonates OF lead
and silver, with some copper. Last sea
son gold was found in ferruginous
quartz which promises well, but is not yet
developed. Graphite, mica, tellurium,
antimony, zinc, etc, are also present.
Gypsum is found in the n~eighborhood III
quantities and will, undoubtedly, be
worked in the near future.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
Will Make 8 Journalist.

Editor-Toung man, this copy is writ
ten in a very bad hand. Is that the best
you can do?
Young man who wants to be an edito
oh, no, sir; / a write worse than that
when ! EARLY try
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
Golden Hopes.

Steps are being taken in San Francisco
to form a miners union, says the Nevada
Transcript, and one of its great objects
will be the resuscitation of hydraulic min
ing. The government needs the several
hundred of millions of gold locked up to
please the whim of a lot Of valley cranks.
Therefore the time will soon come when
the cranks will be b1otted out of exist
ence and the hydraulic mines worked for
all they are worth. Then the happy and
prosperous days of vore will dawn again.
and the old Californians, who have made
this state what it is today, will realize
that their early labors have moi gone for
naught,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
YOGo DISTRICT.
THE KING

The King district camp is situated at
tho middle fork of the Judith river. The
ore is similar in character to the blanket
veins of Yogo, carrying gold, but it is not
of as great thickness.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18
WOLF CREEK.

The ores of the Wolf Creek district in
clude magnetic iron, carDonates and chic
rides of lead and silver, and some gold,
which is not as yet developed. There is
copper in abundance. The above named
three districts may be considered as one
camp. The prospecting done this last
year in Yogo, King and Wolf shows not
only a similarity Of deposits and miner
ais. but also that the lodes are continuous
from one camp to the ether. These dis
tricts will all be worked from the judith
basin.
THE BARKER r
In the Barker district the locations
may be termed legion, although the
developed mines are as yet few in num-
err. The Barker and Gray Eagle Wright
and Edwards, Silver Belle or -Four Aces,
and P~ittsburg are well developed. The
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

NE1HART, February 15.-[special cor
r%espondence of the Tribune.]EWork is
progressing nicely IN a great many pros
poets in this camp, and in every case the
results are far beyond expectation.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

The country surrounding Great Falls
is correctly termed the Nimrod's paradise.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-02-18

Now arose the demand for hard wheat
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-17
Terra Gotta Wells.

THE undersigned will put you up l9 inch
Terra Gotta Well for half the price of a
dug one. The common wood bucket is used
for drawing water The cleaning out Is the
work OF q moment by keeping galvanized
sheet iron bucket in the bottom 70 be hooked
out ut will. Satisfaction guaranteed. This
Terra Gotta weighs 10 TO SO pounds to the foot
G.. N. CALHOUN.
Greenwood, $. G.
They are frog proof and superior TO one dug
Joel S. Bailey, Greenwood.
They are bound to take precedence over all
Others Prof. Blake, Greenwood.
Joe Ligon, Bradley.
Roy. II. Smart, Troy.
Dr. L. Anderson, Nincty.Six
Rev. Pressly, Due West.
D.. Wardlaw, Mccormick.
out of q wells made in my town in two
years hvac put up . Of them.
July13, 1857, II m
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-10

There shall be person born of the
most correct parentage in respect to
the virtue of truthfulness. That per-
son shall grow up in the perfected
practice of the virtue of truth, so that
his or her word shall be password
of integrity and honor and right. But
by environment that person shall come
under the fatal influence of one COM
mon, everyday agent, alcoholic drink,
and, as the agent changes its victim
and masters its victim, the first symp-
toms of the victory of evil in what is
called dipsomanla shall of certainty
be the loss of the once pre-eminent
virtue. Of the many victims of in
temperance whom it has been my mis-
fortune to meet. not one has escaped
this moral abasement, departure from
truth-the vice of falsehood. 1t is a
part of the moral disease, as distinct
and clear as any part of the physical
disease-unsteady gait, restless impa-
thence, or palsied specch-which
springs from alcohol. 1t is as if the
spirit of untruth had entered the body
like a physical poison, had corrupted
the mind, and made it veritable cen.
ter of sin.-LriSh World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-10

find himself in such position that he
can not do what he would like to see
done; but the citizen is free, and is not
in any wise under any obligation to
ask that such a fountain Of evil shall
be opened in his community The
law is to be used by Christians to place
the greatest possible restraint upon
the injurious traffic, and not to shelter
and support it. If all in given COM
munity would refuse to sign such petit
tons, there would be practical sup
preston Of the evil trade. By resist
ing all applications, we cut off the
worst, and train public sentiment for
entire prohibition.
Every person who signs such petit
ton becomes in measure responsible
for the dire consequences. When
young men are led into vicious habits,
it is under the sanction of his NAME.
even though in his heart he thinketh
not so. To sign such petition is TO
invite all the dangers and untold evils
of the liquor trade to ones own house.
The saloon is the training school of in
temperance, and to sign a petition for
license is to ask that such school be
opened for ones own sons. We have
seen the names of worthy men to such
petitions, and we have afterwards seen
them weeping over their ruined sons.
With poor grace, and we may be
sure, with poor effect, would any one
who allowed his name to be SO used.
prohibit his son, or attempt to restrain
his brother, from becoming patron of
the attractive place and company.
No, it is not for Christians to give
their names for such uses. They should
have no fellowship with the works of
darkness, but rather reprove them. A
Christian name there! Can one i'm
agine his Masters name to such a petit
ton? But it is for us to abide in Him,
that our lives may be like His-pure in
themselves. and q blessing TO all
around them. - United Presbyterian
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-10
Origin of the Spider.

Arachne was maiden who had at
tanned to such eXpertness i'll weaving
and embroidering that even the
Nymphs, leaving their groves and fount-
aims, would gather to admire her work.
They whispered to each other that
Minerva herself must have taught her;
but Arachne had grown vain as she
grew dextrous, and, overhcaring them,
denied the implication with high dis
dain. She would not acknowledge her.
self inferior even to goddess, and
finally challenged Minerva to a trial of
skill, saying: "lf beaten, l will bear
the penalty" Minerva accepted the
challenge, and the webs were woven.
Arachne's was of wonderful beauty,
but when she saw that of Minerva she
knew that she was defeated, and in de-
spair went and hanged herself Mi
nerva, moved by pity for her vain but
skillful opponent, transformed her into
a spider, and she and her descendants
still retain portion of her marvellous
gifts of spinning and weaving. -SWiSs
CT0s ---.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-10
CHEESE THAT POlSONS.
Physician Imparts Some Practical Hints
Concerning Tyrotoxicon.
"What have you been eating?"

"What have you been eating?"
Nothing, DOCTOR"
Nothing? Where did you have
dinner last night?'
cat a table d hote restaurant" re-
piled the young man, who had visited
his physician suffering, as he supposed.
from q severe attack OF Indigestion.
"Ah" said the doctor, his face light
cning up; land what did you eat?"
"Well. l had soup. fish, an entree,
roast, fruit. some cheese"
"Cheese. | thought so. You've
been poisoned. Cheese causes as much
illness in this country as sailed fish
and sausages do in Germany. The
subject of cheese poisoning is being
investigated by analysis. Whether it
arises from the milk used is not yet
fully determined, but it seems probable
that it does. 1t is most likely that the
Ssning agent is in the milk before it
becomes cheese. OF course, every
cheese manufacturer has his theory, as
to the cause of poisonous cheese, but
there is no unanimity among them"
What is your theoryP"
"Cheese poison is called tyrotoxicon,
and Investigations have shown that the
toxic agent is in the milk, owing to i'm
proper management of the same, the
milk not being cooled until some hours
after milking. You have only to raise
the lid of a can of fresh milk that has
stood for some time without cooling,
and the odor certainly will not impress
YOU pleasantly. Great care is required
in handling all foods of animal origin.
and although manufacturers tell you
that they exercise great care and invite
inspectors to their factories, yet
YOU see by such little thing as let
ting milk cool improperly poison gets
into cheese, and all articles in the
manufacture of which milk is used
~ y Mail and Express.