The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-10-09
The Great Works ASSuped'
The Mighty Missouri to be Tributary
to the Growth
And Grandeur of Great Falls. the
Future Metropolis
vi the NOrtllWest---WhOse Attractions
and Resources are Unrivalled.

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ST. PAUL, Oct S.-[Special to the LEAD
Err. lit is settled that the Boston and
Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver
Mining Company will be located at Great
Falls. 1t will employ a large force of
men. The number of men employed in
the production of fuel and ore will also be
immense.
The works will be the greatest en- the
continent.
Labor on the smelling works and dam
at Great Falls will be commenced this
fall, and continue until winter and re-
sumed early in the spring.
1t means ten thousand people next
year for Great Falls, and the expenditure
of two million dollars to laboring men.
AS seen in our dispatches, the Boston
and Montana Consolidated Copper and
Silver Mining and Smelter company will
locate their immense smelling and re-
fining works at Great Falls.
Although negotiations have been pend
ing for long time, they have only just
been brought to focus. The efforts OF
the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific
railroads to secure these works on theil
respective lines have been very great
but the superior advantages which Grea
Falls possesses in respect to cheap fue
and water power prevailed. Thorough
investigation on the part of the interested
parties showed beyond any question tha
there was no other place in the northwes
possessing in such marked degree tn
facilities desired for these massive work
as does Great Falls.
Here are unlimited measures of Goa
easy of access and capable of being mine
at small cost.
Here, also, is water power ten time
greater than that of the falls of St. AnthC
ny, available at comparatively small eH
pense.
These, besides many other importan
considerations, gained for Great Falls tn
location of the mammoth works, whic
will tend greatly to the prosperity OF on
city.
The product of the extensive cope
mines of Butte, the largest in the worlt
will be brought to Great Falls to L
smelted. The copper matte will be r.
fined here. The works will emplo
thousands of men.
The transportation of fuel from San
Coulee and ore from Butte will add grea
. lv to the number employed and it is no
5, certain that thousands of men will /
u employed in this vicinity.
It is usually considered that the nut
ber of men employed in any concel
gives population of five times tt
, amount. Hence it is no theoretical es'
mate TO consider that these works alol
. will give Great Falls population OF II
600 to $4,000 people in the near future
The establishment of these wor
L. means also the construction OF a da
across the Missouri at Black Eagle fal
which will involve the expenditure Oh
A. large sum of money and the employme
nd Of an immense number of men.
If has long been understood that Wh'
= this dam was built at Great Fails
would he one of the greatest works
+ho bind on the continent. 1t WILL
4. o,,s+r,ctad so that the immense watt
mower of the Missouri now running
uosta will be made available tor
kinds of manufacturing purposes su
. &c -four. woolen goods, machinery d
other manufactures suited to the wal
Of this mining and agricultural sta'e'
II Next in importance to the ouiloins
+ho main line of the Manitoba rail-"
is tho construction Of the immense "oi
Of the Boston and Montana eopl
- com many, The negotiations nave oe
n slow, yet the whole subject mas 0esH
5 Of Thoroughly canvassed that the worh
pN'' 30 forward now without any oei"J
interruptions. .,o
ia \ fixed amount of work Will o0ne
the dam and the ground for the sme'
hafore Christmas, when our winter O''
II i've l., sats in Work will then De feS"''