Great Falls tribune., 1889-10-09
the GREAT SMELTER.
The B. L NJ. Will be Located at
Great Falls.
BIG DAM TO BE BUILT.
Work Win Begin on the Dam and
Smelt4r this Fall-Two of the
Greatest Enterprises Ever Begun
in MOntann-A Boom for
Great Falls.

The TRIBUNE is enabled today to make
an announcement of the highest possible
Importance to Great Falls and northern
Montana, viz: that the smelling and re
fining works of the Boston & Montana
Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining
company will be located at this city
This is now, as we learn on the highest
authority, an established fact. II is no
longer asnrmise or a probability, buta re-
ality. Thecontracts have been signed, seal.
ed and delivered and in short time the
work Of construction will he under full
headway.
THE GREAT DAM WILL, BE BUILT.
The agreement with the Boston &
Montana company is that the eunsllrpassed
water power Of the Black Eagle falls is
to be developed and made ready to fur
nish motive power for the immense smell
ter by August 1st of next year. To this
end work on the dam at the falls will be-
gin in short time under the general
direction of Mr. Tanning, the eminent
hydraulic engineer, who has already pre-
rared the plans aud specifications for this
great undertaking.
WORK WILL PROCEED RAPIDLY.
Much Of the work will be completed
this fall and winter, as the conditions are
most favorable. The river is lower now
than it has ever known to be and this
circumstance will greatly facilitate the
work.
THE INDUSTRIAL. CITY. .~a
The dam to be constructed across the
Missouri will be the most thorough and
substantial IN the United States and one
of the most important undertakings Of
this character in the country. To develop
this great water power and render it sub
servent to the needs of Industry will cost
in round numbers $5OO0OO and this sum
is to be expended here within less than
one year! No enterprise Of brighter
promise has ever been inaugurated in
Montana. It marks the beginning of the
manufacturing era in this new state and
denotes unerringly that Great Falls is to
be the industrial city Of the new North
west. 1t is not alone the greatest devel-
oped water power in the United States
that will bring about this result. This is
i but one OF many advantages. Already it
is an assured fact that Great Falls will be
the railroad Of Montana; the best
coal and most extensive coal fieldsin the
northwest lie at her door; immense de-
posits of valuable iron ore are at hand
the silver-lead ores of the adjacent noun
tains can be laid down here more cheaply
than at any other point; the western eX-
tension of the Great Northern railroad
insures cheap timber and lumber from
across the range; and the great agricul-
tural and grazing areas surrounding will
TEEN with a population that will find
here healthy market for every product
of the field and range. Nature has be-
slowed her gifts with lavish hand on Great
Falls which is now to enter rapidly upon
the realization of her great destiny.
A STRONG COMPANY.
Work on the great smelter will begin
this fall. It is understood that it will be
one Of the largest smelling and refining
works in the world. The Boston & Mon
tana Consolidated Copper and Silver
Mining company as now organized is one
of the strongest in the United States
They own the Mountain View mine al
Butte and many others adjacent that
promise equally we'll. The former is ac
knowledged TO be one Of the largest
richest and most valuable copper proper
ties in the world. Although operating
on comparatively small scale at Butte
this company sold 24,2O3,S44 pounds o
refined copper during the year ending
June Both last, which brought in th'
markets $s8O7 PA. The value of ths
silver and gold purchased was $1s5,OoO
making the total earnings for the yea
nearly $30OOO0O With the new smelte
in operation these figures will be multi
piled many times.
LOOK OUT FOR THE BOOM.
1t is the intention of the company no
only to erect smelter, but also retin
cry at this place, and it is given out tina
the plant will be much the largest i
Montana, not even excepting the famou
Anaconda. The engineers will be her
in few days to lay out the work, whic
will begin at the earliest practicable day
What the effect will be upon this Cit
need not be told. 1t simply means tn
biggest boom-on substantial basis
any town in Montana ever had. Loo
out for it.
"Tired All the TiMe,"
Say many poor men and women, VII
seem overworked, or are debilitated