Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-01-11
PECK'S

ble outu ult., coutdtu1HS IGCh ldtest
attempt to annihilate Great Falls, reached
us, we Wefe informed of the forthcoming
production; the manuscript had been
passed around among the little coterie"
for approval, and as usual, Peck's vanity
was played upon unsparingly, and he
wrought himself up to believe that a
reiteration Of his former falsehoods, sea-
soned with casuistry and gratuitous
advice would paralyze the Great Falls
townsite company and every business
interest of this place. Anyone with less
egotism and assumption than Peck would
see the folly of the undertaking, and
realize its futility. As an evidence of the
havoc he is creating it is only necessary
to state that values in Great Falls realty
have advanced steadily during the past
month, and that at this very time the
| real estate market is more active than it
| ever was before, as the record of trans
| actions published in cur local columns
| today will fully evidence. We do not
wish to attribute this to Peck's crusade
| of calumny and vituperation, but submit
it as the most convincing proof of the
fact that his false statements and far
fetched deductions from them fall utterly
harmless, SO far as Great Falls and the
| Great Falls Water Power and Townsite
IOompany are concerned.
/ In his efforts to cast a cloud upon the
title Of Great Falls property Peck has
dismally failed. The single case he cited,
garbling and misrepresenting the facts,
shows the weakness of his malicious
| attack on this town. The townsite com
| pany holds a United States patent for the
tract of land in question. It was proved
up on in due accordance with law, and
every requirement of the same complied
with. Water was brought upon the land,
and under the regulations of the land
office at that time the compliance there
with and the proof were perfect. A
special agent of the land
office examined into the case
thoroughly, and he SO re-
reported and a patent was promptly is
sued. The title to this tract is as strong
and ~impregnable as that of any land in
Montana, and if a thousand Pecks, with
ten times as many blackmailers as
prompters should assail it, it would
stand as firm as ever.
But Peck has made a new discovery
and he announces to the little world in
which his diatribes circulate, that ".senti-
ment'' is "Great Falls greatest resource
the foundation upon which its "boom" is
built. He goes into mathematics to prove
it and makes himself about as ridiculous
as when he figured out that the Manitoba
railroad would cost $4,000 a mile and
that Broadwater's talk about spending
$10,00o,0o0 in Montana in one season in
railroad construction was all bosh!
Sentiment The Numerous fine bust
ness blocks in Great Falls, all occupied
by busy and prosperous merchants who
trade is constantly and rapidly increasing,
are doubtless founded on sentiment; the
magnificent Central block, which brings |
its sentimental oWIer-Mr. Henry d.
Minot of the Manitoba railroad-a rev.
enue of % per cent on his investment,
is a mere matter Of sentiment; the Catar-
act mill, which for several months has
been turning out thirty barrels of excel
lent flour daily, ground from Montana
wheat, is running wholly on sentiment;
our mil1-owners turned out and sold the
past year 100000 feet of lumber just to
be in the sentimental fashion; the $4,000
bridge that Mr.. Hill and his asso-
are building across the Missouri at
this place rests on piers and abutments of
sentiment; the railroad bridge, which
will be completed within a week, is but
tressed and fanked on every side with
sentiment; the Manitoba and Montana
companies have decided to aban-
ion their first plans and remove their
yards with all concomitants within the
Great Falls townsite on purely senti
mental grounds; the Montana Central
company are building a railroad
o the Sand coulee coal mines, near Great
Falls, where they will have, as president
and general manager Shelby
INFORM us, 800 men at work in d short
line, just for the sentiment of the thing
md to cap the climax of sentiment, Mr..
Hill and colonel BroadWater recently
vent to New York and succeeded in or