The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-02-05
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The Home for the Ssas afs,hs.s.
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The Land Of the Free and the
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The City We Love So Well!
The Montana Seat Of lsarniuel
The Crownins Glory Of the Hand
F Of Creation!
The Industrial City Of Northern
Montana!
The County Seat Of Cascade!
GREAT FALLS CRY,

Located at the Great falls of the Missonri
which furnish the mightest availshia
Water-power on the heAmericancontinent 4
not on the globe, is the Queen CITY Of the
Northwest. '"s
She is within ten miles of the most ax.
tensive Coal fields and Iron district in tha
West, beyond and almost CONTIGUOUS n
which are exhaustless mines Of Gold.
Silver, Copper and Lead.
She is in the very heart of a vast Apri-
c9lturai and Grazing country of unequal
ed fertility and capacity.
She is destined by her natural resour-
ces and geographical position to become
t1e leading Manufacturing City between
minneapolis and the Pacific, as well as
the Railroad Center of Montans.
She is already the terminus of three
railroads, the st Paul, Minneapolisand
Manitoba, the Montana Central and the
Sand Coulee Coal Fields Branch.
She has population of nearly 4.OO0
enterprising and intelligent Americans
and is growing rapidly.
She made *1,OOO,O0O worth of i'm
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. 0's
She has a magnificent Railway Bridge
spanning the broad, sparkling Missouri
ana 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, rouud-
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 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
deduction 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 thu
necessaries of life Flour, Meat and Veg.
etables cheaper than elsewhere on the
Continent.
She has unrivaled advantages for Rail-
way Transportation and connections with
the markets and business centers of the
Ea st and West.
She is the natural Centre and Distribute
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 on
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.