Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-05-25
EOOL MARKETS.
|oRT BENTON wOOL-GROwER
4 CALLED TO ACCOUNT.
EFacts for NORTH. Montana Wool
of the Great
Falls Market-It will Lead
all Other Points.

Ihserye that our esteemed contem
h the Fort Benton Wool Grower
Nat deal to say about wool mar
;sena nf +ha onrran+ ,,o,+h
sas lust been received at this Of
Marvellous as it may appear, til,
lie and cry that was raised las,
Ne advantage Of competition ir
ftation afforded by the "grea1
N river''-is heard again, and this
Ice of the fact that not a bale Of
Mt down the river last year and Of
HI fact that it is doubtful if a
Eeamboat will land at the For,
5evee the present season. To tell
Il growers at this time that they
herive any benefit from Missouri
&petition is evidence that either
II Of the Wool Grower is a knave
IL assumes the growers Of North
Mana to be fools. No other CON
can be put on the case.
X II . IT,.
Is also much said in this publica-
BIT the "Montana wool gro owers
b. and its immense advantage
kmaster! About this institution
hangs some unpleasant remin-
pf last year. The wool ware
a conception Of the editor Of
Grower. and consequently a
one. He said to himself and
his coadiutors letus build this
on the banks Of the migb,y
ma before it is half con,,leted
see lin Hill hnildinp his rail
H. Ran+on hottom and r;ah+
verv eaves Of orr structure,
LII failed 10 become frightened
eard Of the great warehouse.
SBlattar still, stands asol;t,rv and
m N, miles from the railroad which
Ssth;s vaar as 1oe+ tba on,v on+lot
Sninl nf Northarn Montana Inst
Ialae superb advantages of storing
house and then after it is
having to pay the hanlage to
II Me hill, two miles away! If
a. ~. wills wool warehouse were 10
~ = 1 / Beyond II. 2. Rolfe's country
IA location would be as favor
"A existing circumstances, as
e wool growers warehouse at
tanning merit for Fort Benton
narket on the ground that this
stands on the levee is about as
pfoposltlon as the other, viz:
erl river competition Will act
OF freight rates, We give the
rs OF Northern Montana credit
pch sense to believe that they
mt with chair OF that sort.
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proposition advanced by the
Ter editor is that "advantages
to result from massing our
e point" and, of course, Fort
hat one point. That is a moss
bn. AS we'll say advantages
BIT to the miners Of Montana if
h haul their ores to one point,
Spoints, to sell them. The ex-
transportation and other CON
would far outweigh the tad
The stockmen Of the western
II some years past have been
their beef and mutton at Chi
he result has certainly not been
raging. There was a time
Benton was a "massing'' point,
Such of necessity. The advent
vaors 900 ~ ,,;,noo, for,,.
lnnesota and Dakota .'massed"
b at central points, hut when
eds came, elevators were built
station and the farmer saved
transportation and other
and got as much for his grain
ket would allow. The s'mass.-
Ery is a relict of the past, and
build more clearly demonstrate
fact that last year, the first
ind Of wool ever came to Great
Ing the first wool season after
It of the railroad), a million
the fleecy product was market
Ind under as favorable and ad-
\ circumstances as wool was
in any town or city of Mon
Y
= y
er up these several remarkable 9
Ms, or arguments in favor of
bn as a wool market, the editor
Dol Grower resorts to some of
alpable fabrications that could