Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-07-18
FIRMLY UNITED.
FALLS, HELENA AND BUTTE
LINKED BY STEEL BANDS.
60 Tria Juncta in Uno"--Able Remarks by
Judge Hedges on the Common In
terests of the Three Cities.

1Ial W Dutte tU-udy is an oVenC worthy
recognition and public rejoicing. In a
certain way we have been connected here
tofore, but it was such roundabout
costly way that it merely whetted the
appetite for something better. Until the
completion Of the Wickes tunnel, the full
advantage Of the new route will not be
realized, but the connections will be
made by the time our paper is in the
hands Of its readers and we shall no
longer be compelled to take the round
about way by Garrison, change cars and
roads three times to get from Helena to
Butte. For the first time in history
Butte will have something like substan-
tial competition. In one important item
at least, that Of coal, this new connection
is going to bear fruit at once. The rich
and exhaustless coal mines of the Mon
tana Central at Sand Coulee are now in
direct connection with the smelters at
Butte, and will be Immediately available.
Butte will get the benefit Of those mines
as soon as Helena, if not on quite as
favorable terms. What Butte would like
further, is to get its salt on as favorable
terms as it will hereafter get coal.
"THREE QUEENLY CITIES"
Now Is the time for us to respond to
the toast that was assigned to us at a
rather unreasonable hour at the press
banquet at Great Falls. The toast was:
"The three great cities Of the future state
of Montana Falls, Helena and
Butte" In whichever order local pride
and taste may associate these three
queenly cities of central Montana, they
will form galaxy Of majestic beauty to
irradiate the horizon of the imperial state
of Montana when she has come into full
enjoyment of the dowry that a partial
Providence has amply and securely pro-
vided for her. As great statesman of
England, speaking Of the king, lords and
commons, so beautifully and forcibly al
luded to their happy union under the
British constitution, ''Tria juncta in uno,'
50 with more propriety may we speak of
these stars Of hope bound together by the
steel band of the Montana Central rail-
road, and set to glow forever upon the
fair, young brow of imperial Montana,
long after kings and lords are no more
known to the British constitution. All
honor to Col. Broadwater and those who
have aided him to fashion such n crown
of strength, wealth and beauty for our
expectant empress Of the north. 1t is a
grand and splendid combination, equival-
ent to that Of Minneapolis, Denver and
Leadville. Each has Its peculiar and
special advantages that will give stimulus
and direction to its future growth.
WATER POWER AND COAL.
Great Falls has in its vicinity enough
water power to move all the machinery
in the country, and coal enough to dupli-
cate this power. The boundless wheat
fields Of the north, after all others are ex-
hausted, will send their harvests here to
be ground, and all the wool that is pro-
duced by our multiplied flocks will here
be manufactured. The triumphs of ma
5chinery are but in their infancy, and here
has slumbered for ages, the power that
will set its nimble fingers in motion and
give employment food and clothing to
endless generations.
ABUNDANCE OF CAPITAL,
Helena, supported on either hand by
such centres Of mining and manufactur-
ing life, drawing her support from a
thousand scources, dependent more upon
the energy and enterprise Of her citizens
and her central situation and multiplied
connections, will prosper in proportion
as all other parts and portions of Mon
tana prosper. She will act as the balance
wheel, the central accumulating and dis
tributlng reservoir of life, enterprise and
wealth.
RICH AND VARIED MINES.
Butte has her destiny in her mines,
rich and varied as they are numerous
and exhaustless. Ever since the day that
A. ]. Davis demonstrated in the Lexing-
ton mine and mill that fortunes could be
made here by good management, the
star of hope for Butte has risen higher
and is shining brighter. She is breaking
one by one the withes that have bound
and cramped her young and sturdy limbs
and she will soon stand erect in conscious
strength, ready to stride forth on career
that will be the envy of the world. She
is loaded down with the raw materials of
| wealth, and the roots of her prosperity
pierce to the center of the earth.
Between these three sister cities there
| is just enough diversity of interest'to in
| sure to each an independent prosperity
| enough of common interest to prevent
jealousy and promote Jealous co-opera-
| tion.
Such natural union indicated by
providence no device of man can sunder,
and while the sands Of ages slowly run
away Montana, our common mother
pride and Joy, will stand strong, safe
proud and bold on her triple support
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