The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-19
GOING FORWARD.
Important improvements in Progress
in and Around the City OF
Great Falls.
Two Hundred Men are Employed in
Building the Railroad to the
Copper Smelter.
General Summary of the New Build
ings, Railroads and Other En-
terprises Now on Foot.

Spring work is in active progress in
and around Great Falls. The sound of
pick and shovel, hammer and planer is
heard on all sides.
Contractor Foley's men are hard at
work on the smelter branch railroad.
Two hundred men are preparing the
grades for this short but important road,
which will be used at the outset to haul
material for the dam and for the Boston
Il Montana smelter buildings.
Mr.. Parsons meanwhile is ordering
machinery for the great smelter and is
buying machineryand other things need
ed in the early stages of the work.
Just as soon as the smelter branch rail
road is finished lumber and
iron work for the dam will
pour in. Skilled workmen, will then
promptly put these materials in position.
Mr.. Tanning will be here next week and
will give personal supervision to
the work in its early stages.
His plans have been prepared
some time, and he knows exactly what
material is required and what time it
ought to take to lay it.
MI. Parsons and his assistants who
have the franchise for the cleo
trio street railroad are also push
ing on with that work. They
have made surveys for an extensive sys-
TEN of city and suburban lines. The
track will provide ample facilities within
the city and will give people
ready access to the Black Eagle
and Rainbow falls. The track
will cross a bridge at Black Eagle falls
and thus connect the town with the Bos-
ton u Montana smelter.
This system of electric railroad will be
constructed with all the latest improve
ments. 1t will put Great Falls
so far as regards street railways on a foot
ing with those New England cities which
have acquired at great expense and costly
experiments almost perfect systems of
rapid transit.
Although winter has fingered in the
lap of spring longer than usual, the
Great Falls builders and contractors are
making up rapidly for lost time.
The excavation for the Vaughn-Paul
block is finished. Workmen will begin
on Monday to lay the stone foundation
of this large building, which will ben
eft all First avenue South prop
erty and will give good i'm
pressions to people, who will descry it on
arriving at the new Great Northern depot.
This building will have a frontage of
rs feet. 1t the intention of Messrs.
Vaughn and Paul, who are both
enthusiasts on all that concerns
horses, to make part Of the building the
model livery stable of Montana. The &C.
commodation for horses will be of the
first order and the rigs will include the
latest styles.
Adjoining the livery stable and in the
same block Mr.. Vaughn will build the
stores and hall already announced. The
hall, which will be the leading feature,
will be % feet wide, 1870 feet long and IS
feet high. This hall will be adapted for
large public meetings and dramatic en-
t~ertainments. 1t will be strongly built,
we'll ventilated and provided with ample
means of ingress and egress. AS a bali
room Vaughn's hall will not be excelled
by any in Montana.
Not far away from the Vaughn-Pau
block the irrepressible John Germ, alder
man, actor, theatre lessee and saloonist,
Is completing a we'll proportloned bust
ness house, which will include two store
rooms. He Will also build another house
adjoining. He will readily find tenants.
Central avenue meanwhile intends to
keep ahead in Improvements. The Park
hotel annex will be a notable addition to
that popular house. 1t will be three
stories high. There will be two large
stores and Il barber shop with bath rooms
on the first floor. The upper floors will
be reserved for the hotel. They will be
$50 feet long and will be finished in lux
urious style. The annex will be built OF
brick.
Work on the new Dunn block on Cen
trail avenue also goes On steadily. Mr..
Dunn displays good taste and sound
judgment in all his buildings enterprises.
This addition will do credit to himself
and Central avenue.
Mr.. Ulm is in town supervising the
primary work on his new block, which