The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-02-22
The Home Of Health, Wealth and
Happiness!
The Growing 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
which furnish the mightest available
Water-power Oh the Americancontinentif il
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
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, US we'll as
the Railroad Center Of Montana.
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 population of nearly 1000
enterprising and intelligent Americans
and is growing rapidly.
She made $1,000,0o0 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,
LHC ulGltil "lItSl DCluk 0UOuN
the same as Southern Ohio or Illinois,
and the summer nights being rendered
cool and bracing by gentle mountain
breeZcs.
She has the most magnificent Iron
Bridge across the Upper Missouri, costing
| $4,000.
She has a magnificent Railway Bridge
spanning the broad, sparkling Missouri
| = 33,.s-
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 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
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
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 on
the South.
She is destined in the near future to
become a leading Centre for the Manufac-
ture of Iron and Steel.
She has Daily Mail connection, over the
Montana Central, the Scenic Route of the
t Northwest, with Helena, the temporary
Capital of Montana: also with Butte, the
: greatest Alining-ca camp on earth, Anaconda,
) the Mountain home of the Monster Cop
, per Smelters of America, Portland, San
Francisco aud Pckin, China.