Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11
GREAT FALLS. THE WONDERFUL
A Candid and Intelligent Review Of Her Match
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tBY J. 8. P1NxEY, MANAGER AMERICAN Press
ASSOCIATION, ST. PAUL..
Three Of the best cities in Montana
Great Falls, Helena, and Butte-are To-
Gated ON the Manitoba railroad and its
connecting line, the Montana Central. A
stranger might think that all of these
cities could never become large and
really important, commercially and 9th
erwise. because they are punched SO close
together. But the strangers opinion
would be wrong, because Great Falls
and Helena and Butte may be considered
great cities now, and each is daily becom-
ing more important and prosperous; and
each is, In measure, helped by the other
two. For instance, Helena's wholesale
houses in every line of trade find good
markets in and around Great Falls on the
north and Butte on the south. Great
Falls supplies coal to Helena and Butte,
and the mines in Butte send immense
quantities Of ore to the smelters in Great
Falls. where the bullion is produced and
shipped east. Thus are being built up In
Western Montana three immense cities
Great Falls, which will be great manu-
featuring and ore-smelting center;
Helena, the wholesale, banking and rail-
road metropolis Butte, the city Of mines.
At one OF these cities, Or somewhere be-
tween them. q big lumber manufacturing
interest ought to spring up, to turn into
cash the heavy pine forests Of the noun
tains.
Great Falls IS certain to become an i'm
portant manufacturing town, because she
has an inexhaustible supply of good b.
luminous coal, plenty Of pine and
other timber can be obtained in the
foothills, less than forty miles distant,
and the cascades and rapids and falls Of
the Missouri river that almost surround
the city, furnish unlimited water power
that is easily and cheaply controlled.
The supply of coal is not merely re-
source on paper-the mines are being
worked right along by hundreds of men,
good coal every day. Much Of this coal
is sold and used in Great Falls, this being
perhaps the best evidence that it is of
good quality. 1t is also used to some ex-
tent in Helena and Butte, and at the Man
itoba and Montana Central railroad sta
tions and in the trains and locomotives of
those companies. @rs~@
The water power with which Great
Falls is ''hemmed in" is being used by
one mill that turns out 100 barrels of
flour daily, by large ore smelter en-
ploying 800 men, and by lumber and
shingle mill, and another dam is being
built SO that the water power may be
utilized by new smelter which will en-
ploy 500 men in reducing ores sent from
Helena and Butte. Water power at this
new dam will also be used to operate an
electric street railway plant.
Another Great Falls resource of ines
timable value is the Neihart mineral dis
trict, located about fifty miles southeast
of the city and connected by branch Of
the Manitoba railroad. This district will
develop into one of the richest mining
camps in the country. expert and ex-
pertenced miners have gone in there 10
great numbers and they all pronounce It
the equal Of any they have ever seen.
Gold, silver, iron, copper, and hard and
soft coal are among the resources Of this
section, which may be said to form part
Of Great Falls. At any rate, everything
produced in the Neihart district will be
shipped to and marketed in Great Falls,
or handled by Great Falls men, and
everything used there must come from
or pass through Great Falls.
With all these natural advantages and
with townsite that is most desirable,
why will Great Falls not soon become
great city? And with large trade to be
derived from the fertile agricultural dis
tricts north and west, and by the aid of
the immense cattle and sheep interests of
this part Of Montana, the city's develop
lnent cannot fail 10 be rapid as well 40
substantial.
TO see the gigantic spring Of pure
water, clear as crystal, which pours out