The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-05-10

today these same lots are worth several
hundred dollars per front foot; yes, they
are worth many thousand dollars a piece.
Great Falls IL a good town, with a bright
future, and people investing money there
will reap handsome profits. At the same
time, when Great Falls started, they
hadn't one-tenth the natural resources
to make . town that Monarch has. Jutt
think, Monarch is the natural smelling
point for the tremendous mining dis
irict Of the Belt mountains, having more
than 5000 mining claims tributary to it.
It has also the finest agricultural country
in all Montana in the immediate vicinity.
Settlers are pouring IN there fast and
many thousand acres Of fine farming land
are now rapidly being taken up. think
there are now at least 10000 acres In cul-
tivation. You know tile American farm
or wants to farm where there is rainfall
and moisture enough to farm without
irrigation. l have been up and down the
Rocky mountains north and south from
the British provinces to the centre Of old
Mexico, and l have never seen such q
raised with a certainty without irriga-
tion. In talking to a reliable rancher
who has farmed there for five years, he
informed mo that q failure was never
known; that the only drawback they had
to encounter was to find q market for
their products. Now slnce the
MONARCH AND GREAT FALLS RAILROAD
has been built they have received q
new impetus and every farmer has
this year increased his acreage.
l spent quite q while at Monarch,
visited and carefully studied the
mines and other resources, and am con
WINGED that Of the few things In this
world that bear investigation, here Is n
of them. s6tandlng In Monarch and look.
ing about me l saw forests Of the finest
timber where today there are six saw
mills in active operation. There runs
right through the heart of the town the
Belt river, a large stream with sver one
hundred feet fall to the mile. There also
ID the confluence with the Belt; of Tilllng-
hast and Barker fork Of Belt, tine, cold,
mountain streams, teeming with speckel-
cd trout and affording a tremendous
water power"
"Having always been very fond Of
shooting, l have hunted over the greater
portion of the Rocky mountains in the
United States and Of the Sierra Madre in
Mexico, consequently l have seen q great
many beautiful spots, but no where have
I seen a place that equals this. Monarch
Is an oasis, as 1t were, q small valley in
the heart Of the mountains, the entire
area of which is six hundred acres.
Around here tower perpendicular noun
tains, many hundred feet straight up,
looking az If great nature had taken her
knife and sliced out of the lofty noun
talns around . parallelogram, one-half
mile wide and two miles long. Three
miles up Martins CANYON to the east (by
the way, one of the grandest canyons !
ever saw. q 1ne natural road leads us out
to the rich farming country, and is the
only pass leading into the mountains. As
l said, Monarch Is a p~arallelogram into
which ponrs four canyons, Martins can
yon, the only pass into the mountains
from the outside world; Barker canyon,
the road that leads to the great Barker
silver mining district; the ,Neihart can
yon, which leads to Neihart, Carpenter
creek, Snow creek, Hoover and Harley
creeks silver mining camps and the great
Middle Fork and Yogo gold camps; and
the TillinghAst canyon, which leads to the
T~illinghast iron district, the largest iron
beds u Montana, and also to the Carbon
ate silver district"
THE MONARCH AND GREAT FALLS RAIL
ROAD.
Here these canons converge and their
streams form the "Great Belt" which
lows northward and leaves Monarch
through q grand canon through which .
man never passed until last fall, when
the Monarch and Great Falls Railroad
surveyors had 10 be let down by ropes
over the precipices 70 make their survey,
and since then the railroad has been built,
running through narrow gOfges rad tun-
nels, built at an enormous expense Mon
arch il the most scenic spot In the Rocky
mountains. And II Is here, through these
passes that the rich ores of these districts
are brought by wagons and loaded on
the cars. Here is the distributing point
for the largest and richest mineral dis
trict In North America and the finest and
most successful farming and stock rails
ing country OF Montana. tell you that
soGdeepi seated are my convictions Ut the
success of this place that myself, and
friends have arranged to put ten thous-
and dollars in there In May and we wish
to put thirty thousand dollars in improve
ments this summer.
Have scientist and mining experts ex-
amined this country thoroughly"2
"Dr. Raymond Of the New York Min
ing and Engineering journal paid q high
tribute to this country. Professors Swal-
low and Churchill, mining experts Long
made. Emerich, Applegrath and Lambeth,
Capt. Couch and Col. Hart have each
pronounced 1t a wonderful country.
This country Is richer and larger than
the CHur d'Alene and gives Monarch a
far greater country TO draw from than has
the city Of Spokane Falls"
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