The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-03-02
The Crowning Glory of the 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
| Whlch furnish the mightest available
Water-power on the AmericancOntinent II
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 tn
which are exhaustless mines Of Gold
Silver, Copper and Lead.
She is in the very heart of a vast Aeri-
cultural and Grazing country of uneuiial-
ed fertility and capacity.
She is destined by her natural rcsour
ces and geographical position to become
me leading Manufacturing City between
minneapolis and the Pacific, as we'll as
the Railroad Center Of Montana.
She is already the terminus of three
itallroads, the St Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba, the Montana Central and the
Sand Coulec Coal Fields Branch.
She has population of nearly 1000
enterprising and intelligent Americans
and is growing rapidly,
She made x1,OOO,OOO worth of i'm
provements in the year 1888, though only
two years old.
She IS possessed of one of the most
healthy, delightful climates on the earth.
tte mean wintcr temperature being about
the same as Southern Ohio or illinois
ana the summer nights being rendered
cool and braciny BY gentle mountair
brcaZes.
Sne mas the most magnificent Iron
$4,000. - o'''"s
She has Il magnificent Railway Bridge
spanning the broad, sparkling Missouri
and connecting the East and West diyis-
IONS OF the City, the former the bust
ness and residential, and the latter the loca-
tlon OF the railway machine shops, round
house, car works and other extensive for
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 nj
ready ranks as the fourth in wealth and
population in Montana.
She has one OF the most elegant. com
modlous 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 Oh the continent, employ
ing 1000 men and reducing 1000 tons Of
ore per day.
She has Coal Measures of sufficient az
tent to supply the whole Northwest with
the Cheapest and Best Bituminous Goal
on the Continent.
She has facilities for providing the
necess'res Of life Flour, Meat and Veg
etables cheaper than elsewhere on the
Continent.
She has unrivalcd advantages for Rail-
way transportation and connections with
the markets and business ccnters of tha
East and West.
She is the natural Centre and Distribut
lng Point between the headwatcrs of
Lake Navigation on the East and the
Ocean llarbors Of Puget Sound on the
West.
She is also the natural Centre and Dis
trlDutlng Point between the Canadian
Pacific on the North and Union Pacific on
the South.
She is destined in the near future to
become leading Centre for the Nanufac-
turc 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 Smrltcrs of America. Portland. san
franclsc" aud l'tkin, China.