The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-02-19
Great Falls:
THE BEAUTY OF the NORTHWEST
ACityo Wonderful Surroundings!
4 City Of unrjvaled Attractions!
The Home fof 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 leaTnias!
The Eden Of America!
The Home Of Health. Wealth and
Happiness!
The Growing Glory Of tho Hand
Of Creation!
The Industrial City Of Northern
Mnn$nnol
The Cnnntv Seat nf cascadal
The Home Of Health, Wealth and
Happiness!
The Growing Glory Of tho Hand
Of Creation!
The Industrial City Of Northern
Montana!
The County Seat Of Cascade!
GREAT FALLS CITY.

Located at the Great falls of the Missouri,
which furnish the mightest available
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not on the globe, is the Queen City of the
Northwest.
She is within ten miles of the most cx-
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 vast Agri-
cultural and Grazing country of unequal
ed fertility and capacity.
She is destined by her natural resour-
ces and geographical position to become
the leading Manufacturing City between
Minneapolis and the Pacific, as we'll as
the Railroad Center of Montans.
She is already the terminus of three
Railroads, the St Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba, the Montana Central and the
Sand Coulee Coal Fields Branch.
She has IL population of nearly 1000
enterprising and intelligent Americans
and is growing rapidly.
She made *1,O0O,OOO worth Of Inn
provements in the year 1883, 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 iu
Montana.
She has three solid Banking institutions.
She is the County Seat of the newly
organized County Of Cascade, which a.
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 completed, 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 ex-
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
ctablcs cheaper than elsewhere on the
Continent.
! She has unrivaled advantages for Rail-
way Transportation and connections with
the markets and business centers Of the
East and West.
She is the natural Centre and Distribut-
ing Point between the headwaters of
Lake Navigation on the East and the
Ocean Harbors Of Puget Sound on the
West.
She is also the natural Centre and Dis
tributing Point between the Canadian
Pacific on the North and Union Pacific %
the South.
She is destined in the near future to
become Il leading Centre for the Manufac-
ture of Iron and Steel.
She has Daily Mail connection, over the
Montana Central, the Scenic Route of the
Northwest. with Helena, the temporary
Capital Of Montana; also with Butte, the
greatest Mining-camp on earth, Anaconda,
the Mountain home of the Monster Cop
per Smelters OF America, Portland, San
Francisco aud Pckin, China.