The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-02-27
Great Falls:
THE BEAUTY0F the NORTHWEST
ACity Wonderful Surroundings!
A City Of unrivaled Attractions!
The Home for the Sons Of the
Pilgrim Fathers!
The Land Of the Free and the
Home Of the Brave!
The City We Love So Well!
The Montana Seat Of learnjng!
| The Eden Of America!
The Montana Seat Of Learning!
The Eden Of America!
The Home Of Health, Wealth and
Happiness!
GREAT FALLS CITY,

Located at the Great falls of the Missouri
which furnish the mightest available
Water power On the Americancontinenti if
not on the globe, is the Queen City Of the
Northwest.
She is within ten miles of the most ex-
tensive Coal fields and Iron district in the
West, beyond and almost contiguous to
which are exhaustless mines of Gold,
Silver, Copper and Lead.
She is in the very heart Of q vast Agri
cultural and Grazing country Of unequal
ed fertility and capacity.
She is destined by her natural resour
the leading Manufacturing City between
Minneapolis and the Pacific, rs we'll as
the Railroad Center of Montana.
Railroads, the St Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba, the Montana Central and the
Sand Coulee Coal Fields Branch.
She has = population Of nearly 1000
and is growing rapidly.
She made $1,OOO,0OO worth of i'm
prbvements in the year 1888, though only
two years old.
She is possessed of one OF the most
healthy, delightful climates on the earth,
the mean winter temperature being about
the same as Southern Ohio or Illinois,
and the summer nights being rendered
cool and bracing by gentle mountain
breeZes.
She has the most magnificent Iron
Bridge across the Upper Missouri, costing
$4,000.
She has Il magnificent Railway Bridge
spanning the broad, sparkling Missouri
and connecting the East and West divis-
ions of the City, the former the busi
ness and residential, and the latter the loca-
ton of the railway machine shops, round
house, car works and other extensive ter
minal establishments.
She has the largest FIGURING Mills in
Montana.
She has three solid Banking institutions.
She is the County Seat of the newly
organized County of Cascade, which al
ready ranks as the fourth in wealth and
population in Montana.
She has one of the most elegant, COM
modious and comfortable School Houses
in the Northwest.
She has in operation the extensive
Reduction Works of the Montana Smelt
ing Company which, when m.,leted, will
be the largest on the continent, employ
ing 1000 men and reducing 1000 tons of
ore per day.
She has Coal Measures of sufficient OK
tent to supply the whole Northwest with
the Cheapest and Best Bituminous Coal
on the Continent.
She has facilities for providing the
necessaries OF life Flour, Meat and Veg
ctabcs cheaper than elsewhere on the
Continent.
She has ,lnrivalcd advantages for Rail
way Transportation and connections with
! the markets and business centers Of the
J East and West.
She is the natural Centre and Distribute
ing Point between the hcadwaters OF
Lake Navigation on the East and the
Ocean llarbors Of Puget Sound Oh the
West.
She is also the natural Centre and Dis
tributing Point between the Canadian
Pacific on the North and Union Pacific OF
the South.
!, She is destined in the near future t.
become a leading Centre for the Manufac
l. turc of Iron and Steel.
g She has Daily Mail connection, over tn,
e Montana Central, the Scenic Route OF thu
Z Northwest, with Helena, the temporary
It Capital Of Montana; also with Butte, the
Il greatest Mining-campon earth, Anaconda
It the Mountain home OF the Monster Cop
y per Smelters Of America. Portland, Sal
Francisco aud Pekin, China.