Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-05-18
GREAT FALLS LEADS,
WONDERFUL RESOURCES COMBINED
HERE,
What the st. Paul Pioneer Press Says OF
Us-Some Facts for General Circu-
lation - Coal Water Power
and Public Lands.

Great Falls is situated upon gently
sloping site upon the eastern shore of
Broadwater bay at the junction of the
Missouri and Sun rivers, commanding
full views Of four different mountain
ranges. Its location is ideal. Here are
the great cataracts OF the Missouri, a sue
cesslon Of falls and rapids, with total
fall of 512 feet. The first fall, the Black
Eagle, has descent Of 2S1a feet and an
available fall of "a feet. This will be
utilized during the coming season.
The other falls are Rainbow, 40 feet
perpendicular; Golfers, IA feet; Crooked
OR Hors eshoe, 20 feet, and lastly, the ter
rifle plunge Of 100 feet, Great Falls.
PLENTY OF LAND.
Millions of acres of fertile farm lands
tributary to Great Falls invite the indus
trious farmer to come and take free
homes. They are now being rapidly
taken up. As a stock raising section this
ranks second to none. With coal, iron
and limestone in inexhaustible quantities,
all within Is miles OF the water power,
and down grade from the principal
mining camps of Montana, Great Falls
has no rival as a point for smelling ores
upon large scale. This fact has already
been recognized and q 100000 smelter
has been built, which has capacity for
the reduction Of $50 tons Of ore per day
and employs $50 men. This plant is only
u fourth of its ultimate size. The other
succession. 1t will be the largest smell
in the world. Other enterprises of equal
Importance will be inaugurated this year.
Its population is $500. In the number
Of votes cast last election it ranked fourth
in Montana. Great Falls has more sub
stantial buildings than any other town Of
its size in the northwest, mostly brick
and stone. 1t has four brick yards which
turn out an excellent quality of brick
-Four varieties of the very best building
sandstone are found in quantities sutfic
lent to supply the whole country west Of
the Mississippi.
AK WELL EQUIPPED.
Great Falls has one of the finest hotels
in Montana, the best equipped and largest
flour mill, a large saw mill and planning
mill. Timber comes from the forests OF
the Belt mountains by way Of the Mis-
souri,. Great Falls has two express and
two telegraph companies, two large
wholesale houses, which in amount of
stock carried and business done compare
favorably with those Of large eastern
cities. Two agricultural implement
houses do large business among the farm
ers and ranchmen. 1t has three church
edifices and $4,000 school house.
VARIED RESOURCES. t.
Taking into consideration its water
power, coal and iron fields, its mining, ag
ricultural, stock raising and dairy re-
sources, It's advantages as smelling point,
Its building materials, its favorable loca-
ton as railroad centre and distributing
point, where can such combination Of
resources be found at any other new city?
Where is there an opportunity for such
interchange of products? Where will
you look for a more favorable place for
men of enterprise with or without CAPT
tai? Greater things will be accomplish
ed in Great Falls during the next three
to five years than anywhere in the Great
West. Land can yet be had for free
within five to eight miles of
the city.
COSTLY IMPROVEMENTS.
The improvements at Great Falls are
valued at $2,5OO,OO0, excluding railroad
It is the western terminus of
the St. Paul, Minneapolis Il Manitoba
railroad, and the eastern terminus of the
Montana Central. The Sand Coulee
branch extends to the town of Sand Cou-
lee, numbering $40 souls. These coal
fields of vast area furnish fine quality
suitable for cooking purposes; as steam
coal it has no superior, and is used ex-
clusively by the Montana Central railway.
The Sand Coulee branch will be extended
the coming SINNER to the silver, copper,
galena and other mines Of the Belt noun
tains. This will infuse new life into the
mining camps and be Of much benefit to
Great Falls, to which they are all tribu-
tary. A $4,000 stone and iron wagon
bridge, 1000 feet long, spans the Missouri
at Great Falls for the accommodation of
the citizens of the Sun and Teton valleys.
One million pounds of wool, 29,77O sheep
and 5000 head of cattle were shipped
from the Great Falls yards in 1883. The
railway company has erected q commodi
Gus wool warehouse and extensive cattle
yards for the accommodation of shippers.
Great Falls is incorporated as city. A
company has been formed for putting in
water works. A large spring near by has
volume sufficient to supply three-quarters
of million people.
RECOMMENDATION
Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia.
Bishop John H. Vincent, chancellor
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