The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-03
GREAT FALLS.

A late number of the New York Times
contains a ten column article from the
pen of Chas. Hallock, which is in the
main, devoted to this city. We reproduce
the following extract as of interest, even
to Great Falls people:
Great Falls is as complete, as it stands
today, as though it had been laid out Il
century ago. 1t covers an area OF tour
square miles, and has room for extension
over two townships of level land before
reaches the surrounding hills. All its
streets are eighty feet wide; its Genital
boulevard one hundred. Expensive busl-
ness blocks of BRICK and stone form the
nucleus of the town, while genteel cot
tages and villas reach out over the piai-
rie for IL distance of two miles. The
building stone can be had for the quar-
rying close by, in blue, red, brown. white
and olive-green colors, and there is no
end of clay for brick. A hotel costing
100000, Il twenty thousand-dollar brick
school house, u pretentious railway sta
ton in Gothic style, and other creditable
structures give tue place a thrifty aspect.
There are no shanties III Great Falls,
no squatters, no beggers, and few idlers.
1t is a working community of 5000 enc
getic people, gathered within the space of
three short years. Forty miles away on
the south are the blue outlines of the
Belt mountain range. On the northeast
are the lofty peaks Of Highwood, clad
with evergreens. Just at hand is the con
tiuence Of the Sun river which stretches
away through a beautiful valley tianked
by the towering submits OF the Rockies,
capped with snow. What outlook can be
more charming?
The immediate future of Great Falls
seems to be big with astonishing develop
ments. Taking into consideration its
water power, its coal and iron fields, its
mining, agricultural, stock-raising and
dairy resources, its advantages as asmelt-
ing point and lumber districts, and its
favorable location as Il railroad center
and distributing point, it would seem to
Justify already the highest expectations
of its founders.
Verify, the world should be curious to
know how I'LL this magical transforma-
ton and instantaneous development has
been brought about, and what supreme
forces have been silently at work while
the Micawbers slumbered and slept. Who
are the shrewd men who are sin it?'
/ w AD ldppCt NV Nv
a." said Marcus Daily, the shrewd
| freshman of Montana; II tapped the
mines with my pick and shovel"
Who jumped the Dakota pralries and
ran the tramways into the mountains?
~ said jim Hill, the Napoleon of the
Northwest; III am the man with my nerve
and plan"
Who mapped it all out?
al ,,;l r,l prp,lwatar of Ha1pua
president of the Montana Central and
Knight of the Bath; 81 did 1t myself
without fear or quarter"
And who built Great Falls?
81" said Paris Gibson, the little gian'
from Maine: II built the town and go
the others into it, too"
Finally-who made Montana what it is
giving it it's enviable status among thu
states, foremost IN many things and lag
gard in none? Aud q chorus of all the
great magnates in the land, the tinanciers
the syndicates, the land spectators, ant
the mighty princes from Wall street t.
Anaconda rings out in unison, "The Bi!
Four!'
Surely these energetic field marshal'
have happily accomplished what other
of perhaps WIDER experience and create
capital had previously abandoned as un
profitable and ~unpromising. They dis
covered possibilities which even now sur
pass the widest dreams OF shrewd liant
spectators, reGeeming millions of acre
Of soil to cultivation, opening the market
of m to products which cannot
richer, and converting the wilderness in
to a garden and the low country into
region of snug farms and sheep ranches
D., kl.,, ,-,-jr, $40 ,hrIl b,,ry %kA.
They need no other monument or memo