The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-11-16


deeds, papers and contracts between
the Boston & Montana Consolidated
Copper and Silver Mining & Co., the
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail
way company, and the Great Falls Water
Power & Townsite Co. were signed and
delivered and the money consideration
paid over
This is by all odds the most important
deal for northern Montana ever trans
acted and will affect more widely this
section of the state than any other enter
prise that has ever before beer consum-
mated here. Except the Anaconda the
is the largest and most successful copper
mining company in the world.
The money to construct these immense
reduction and refinery works is in the
treasury of the company and the plant
will be pushed to completion with all
the ability and energy that this company
can command.
In connection with the plant of this
company the building of the immense
dam at Black Eagle falls will be carried
on. We understand the Great Falls Wat
er Power & Townsite company have
made all necessary appropriations to
complete this great work, which when
finished will be one of the largest on the
continent.
When we say that one half of the five
thousand horse power required by the
Boston It Montana company must be
ready for their use by the first of next
September it is sufficient guarantee
that the dam will be pushed forward to
completion as fast as men and money can
do it.
Engineer Tanning, the eminent water
power engineer, has been telegraphed
and will come on at once and commence
operations. The dam will be rs feet
high and will be constructed at Black
Eagle falls. A force of men will be en-
ployed in getting out timbers and stone
during the winter, and arly in the spring
q large force of men will be put on and
the work pushed ahead in the character
istic manner of Jim Hill.
The engineer of the Boston & Mon
tana Co. has also been sent for and al
soon as the proper surveys can be made
will commence to grade the grounds
The first building will be an immense
one and will be used for storage, 800 fee
long and about 80 feet wide, being large
enough to admit double tracks, another
equally as large building, several shop'
and offices and in fact all the building
needed for the concentrating and smelt
ing works. including boarding houses
will be constructed by August next. Th'
refining works will be added later. Worl
will be kept up the whole year and sever
al hundred men employed.
The Boston 6 Montana Copper CO.
as it is generally called, is one OF th'
soundest financial concerns in the World
It's canital stock consists of 125,OOO share
par value $25 per share and all paid up
It's total paid up capital amounting there
fore to over three millions. Its building
will all be built of brick and made Er'
nroof. The construction will be unde
the personal supervision of Mr.. Parsons
The copper ore will be hauled from TN
enormous copper mines in Butte. I'M
output at present is the enormous quantl
tv of four hundred tons per day. I'M
amount will be increased and means I'M
hanling of over four hundred tons OF or
daily over the Montana Central. IN
hauling of the product which last montl
amounted to 1890 tons will be given u
the St. Paul, Minneapolis y Manltoo
railway and is an indication OF the com
oot;tion between the Manitoba, Cnlol
and Northern Pacific roads for the loca
ton of these works. ~,
T. demonstrates too that the N. T. n.
] will he compelled to build q branch u
Cnoo+ Falls at once. The readers OF In
Gr.nER can depend upon it that efea
;. Fa,ls will be the scene of more ac'l'l'.
: and improvement next year than an!
d other town in the state.
+borouph inVeStl CATION Hlao'