Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-11

they cover an average of SIX square
miles at each Of these localities aud pro-
! hahly many more, and will furnish $4,000.
| 600 tons of marketable coal or n thousand
tons per diem for the next hundred
years. by the time these Goals are ex-
hauSted some better mode Of warming
the cold regions and lighting the dark
hours will be discovered. The amount
Of coal on Willow creek, on Spanish
conlee. on sun river, on Missouri river,
and on Otter creek can not even be con-
jectured from the small amount of work
done ut those localities. But enough is
known to say these localities will fnrn-
ISL all needed supplies for domestic uses.
and that Deep creek, sand coulee and
Belt creek mines can furnish an abund-
ant supply for all manufacturing mining
and transportation purposes.
THE VALUE or CASCADE GOALS.
The Case ide coal mines are situated i'll
the midst Of a vast prairie country, which
i rapidly filling up with teeming and
industrious population, whose homes must
be warmed and lighted, whose factories,
whose railroad trains. whose machinery
of all kinds must be propelled by coal.
These mines are seventy miles from the
nearest timber on the west, one hundred
and seventy miles from the Dominion
and much further from available timber
on the north. Six hundred miles from
H. ~.
IN Minnesota, and with very little timber
and none to spare even to the Gulf Of
Mexico on the south. And this is in the
midst of a great building, manufacturing
and mining population, and vast systems
Of railroads, which will soon exhaust all
available timber aud be wholly depen-
dent upon our coal beds for fuel! And
all this present and prospective growth
Of populations and industries under the
47th parallel Of north latitude, where we
sometimes feel the frozen breath of the
Polar bear
These mines, too, are near the junction
of Sun river and the Missouri and Great
Falls, the most beautiful and fertile
region Of the northwest, and destined to
become as populous as the valley Of tile
Hudson.
Those who doubt our growth shoule;
study the history Of Chicago, St. Paul and
Denver. There are ten times the reasons
why Great Falls should become Il great
city than there ever was why Denver
should become the queen city Of Colora.
do. Montana is the greatest mining
country in the world, and its mines are as
yet scarcely prospected. Our agricultu-
raj resources are limited only by the
amount Of water, and that is increasing
every year aud will increase by natural
laws as cultivation progresses.
The Cascade is the best and most avail
able coal for the present and prospective
demands Of this growing region. These
Goals will play their full part in warming
the cities OF the plains and the cities Of
mountains, in running the machinery and
in heating the furnaces of thousand
mines, and in running the trains of two
great systems of transcontlnental and
meridian railroads. No coal. as we have
shown, is better adapted to supply the
varied wants of such population. Its
varied properties. its cheap mining and
its available means of transportation, and
the present and prospective demand make
this one OF the most valuable coal regions
i'll the Great West.
GREAT FALLS is the first large city on
the Missouri. There is something in
spring Ia being at the head of that long
chain OF cities, which includes Omaha,
st. Joseph, and Kansas City, not to speak
Of the t1ourishing towns which line the
banks of the great river and its tribu-
taries. Great Falls will do credit to the
In natural advantages she is
not excelled by any city on the mighty