The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-05-28
Great Falls to be the Manufacturing
Centre Of the North
West.
OPINIONS FROM PROMINENT CITIZENS.
Answer to the Question. 'Why Will
Manufactures Flourish at
Great Falls?"
Water. Water Power. Cheap Fuel.
Railroad Facilities. Raw Ma
terial all at Hand.

"Why will manufactures flourish AT
of n few of our citizens yesterday, and
the responses are given below. No one
was found who did not have an abiding
faith in the future industrial and
manufacturing prominence Of the city,
and it was no trouble to find good reasons
to bolster and buttress their belief:
Paris Gibson-I have answered that
question hundreds of times, and | think
often enough in print. To do the subject
justice | would want a goodly portion Of
your paper. In a word, the combination
Of unlimited water power with i%neXhaust-
ible cheap fuel, together with superior
railroad facilities and abundant raw ma
terihl Mt hand, leaves no possible room to
question Great Falls future supremacy
rs Il manufacturing and industrial center.
u. r.. Collins-l am convinced that
manufactures will grow and flourish here
because they have done 50 In places with
far less advantages than we possess.
Manufactures are moving westward.
Formerly we bought wares and fabrics
from Europe. Then New England forg-
ed ahead and supplied the country with
good cotton fabrics and excellent hard
ware. From New England m%anufactur-
ing industries have spread to New York,
New Jeskey, the south and middle west
ern statesss Why? Because the people
find that they can manufacture goods in
n place as well as in another. Georgia
produces excellent cotton goods; Illinois
makes as fine watches as the Waltham
(Mass.) factory; Chicago turns out the
best mining machinery and Minnesota
makes the best flour.
In view of such changes | am CON
WINGED that Great Falls will become the
seat Of varied industries. Our railroad
facilities. our water power, our coal fields
and our ~neighboring silver will serve
rs the basis of large industries which will
in turn lead to others. The industrial
revolution is so great that 1t would be
hard to say what manufactures may not
flourish here yet.
Then there is the matter of freight.
The two dollars per hundred or there
abOuts, which we pay for freight and
carriage is in itself a bounty for the home
producer. OF course it does not amount
much on t he cost of some goods, but
there are products on which a discrimin-
alton of $50 per ton is not to be despised."
Chas. NJ. Webster-Flrst. Because
Great Falls is the central point of the
largest distributive territory in Montana.
Second. Great Falls is the largest pri-
mary wool market in the United States.
Third. Great Falls has at hand more
coal at a less price than any western
town. thereby furnishing unlimited
quantities of cheap fuel for manufactur-
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