The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-08-10

shipped in from the west. 1t has begun
70 grow, and it is the supply point for the
Judith basin. A large business is transac-
led. Chinook, the town Of the warm, west
wind, on April Is was an imaginary point
Oh the map. Attractively situated upon
a natural rise in the midst of a wide val
ley, it has grown so rapidly that 1t now
has twenty-five or thirty substantial build
ings.
So satisfactory is the business outlook
that preparations are being made to erect
several stone and brick buildings. This
place is the natural supply point of the
valley and bench lands for radius of
sixty miles, and it has 4 bright future.
Every business man that has located there
has transacted five times the business he
anticinated. The government land for six
miles around has been mostly occupied,
but there Is an abundance remaining out
side that limit.
Malta, at the second crossing of tho
Milk river, is looming up as cattle and
trading point. 1t has but one store.
Glasgow, 1871 miles east Of Chinook and
twenty-five miles above the mouth of the
Milk, is growing rapidly. 1t isa railroad
division point, and its citizens, beginning
with little or no means, are all prospering.
A number of buildings of an excellent
class are in the course of erection, while
its new paper, the Herald, will no doubt
still further add to its prosperity.
As the reservation is great plain, tim
ber is scarce except pine in the Bear
Paws and good deal of heavy cotton
wood along the Milk. Coal in veins over
twenty feet thick is very abundant near
Chinook. Wheat and oats have grown
the present season without irrigation,and
stock of all kinds arc in the pink of con-
dition. Altogether the opening of the
great reservation cannot but add largely
to Montanas wealth and prosperity.
Bids for the erection of the new agency
buildings on the reduced Gros Ventre and
Assiniboine reservation, twenty miles
east of Chinook, were opened yesterday
by Indian agent Fields,at Belknap agency.
The bidders were w. II. Millick of Idaho;
H. X. McAllister Of Chicago; r. c. Power
& Co. of Benton; Chas. Carson of Salt
Lake City; MIR. Ketchum of Helena, and
lIealy Bros. of Bismarck. The lowest bid
was made by Healy Bros, $34, 900, and the
next lowest by 7. G. rover s. Co. On ac-
count of an informality Healy Bros bid
was not accepted, but probably will be.
Mrs. Anna Callahan, of Wickes, Mont,
has been prospecting on Peoples creek
and will put in ranch with l 1000 head of
cattle. Twelve cars of stock cattle be-
longing to John Gardts of Garrison, ar
rived at the Chinook yards yesterday.
Mr.. Gardts has returned for twenty cars
of sheep. Mr.. Humble, late Of Corvallis,
is daily expecting 10000 head Of sheep
for his new Clear Creek ranch. The band
has reached the Marlas. Taylor Green
of Union, Oregon, has located ranch for
100 horses, 200 having arrived, with the
balance to come. I. c. Power s. Goa
new mercantile building, 30x8S, IL In
course of construction. Rauchmen are
putting up large quantities Of hay.
That the Manitoba managers are far.
seeing and sagacious as we'll as magnan-
lmous railroad men, we have further
proof, strong as holy writ, the magnifi.
cert passenger depot at Great Falls.
Fully aware Of the importance Of this
point as the present western terminus oi
their road and also as the future distribut-
ing center for their line when it shall
have attained the goal of their continent,
, al aspirations and made its western ter
minus OH the Pacific coast or Puge,
Sound; also Of the certainty of its being
q the distributing center for the north nn.l
!. south line in contemplation and certain
n ere long to be built, connecting the Cana
dian and Union Pacific roads--have they
=. not provided for structure that we may
y gaze upon as monument Of their abid
= Ing faith in the future of this city: Anc
!. Is not this also confirmatory Of their goot
;, faith in all that they have officially ant
= In their published circulars declared-tha
:, Great Falls Is destined to become tn
). manufacturing metropolis OF the north.
/, west?
Col. Broadwater Of the Montana Cen.ra
= is to be congratulated for stfordlng tn
, distinguished gentlemen this excellen
3 opportunity OF seeing the march and tn
:, marks of progress for themselves.
,r Call and examine our celebrated line
- - of Striblcy, Cousins, Feigler Bros an
ol Sellers ladies' aud children's shoes.