The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-06-21
Facts For the st. Paul and Minneap-
oils Visitors Whom Great
Falls Welcomes
SPECIAL COMMERCIAL EDITION TODAY.
General Information Relative to the
Growth and Prospects of
Great Falls.
The Position of Great Falls as al
Industrial. Railroad and Com
merrial Centre.

Great Falls is located on the Missouri
river, near the confluence of Sun river
with that stream, and at the head of the
series of cataracts and rapids that in Il
miles make a descent of over 400 feet.
Its site is in q great bend
of the Missouri river on a pla
teau which slopes gently to that
stream, and it is the general verdict OF
for a city is not found in the Northwest;
and those who are familiar with the state
and its varied resources admit that no
section is more generously endowed by
nature than the large area naturally trih-
utary To Great Falls.
The population at this time is estimat-
ed at not less than 1000. This growth
has been practically attained in three
years and the least %sanguine of our citi-
zens confidently expect a population of
5000 before January l, 1891. Many put
the figures higher.
Great Falls Is the county seat of Cas-
cade county, which, although the young
est, is one of the most prosperous IN the
state. The assessed valuation of pro-
perry in 1889 was s 5,0O0,0O0 and the rate
of taxation but 1913 mills IN the dollar.
Great Falls is an incorporated city. 1t
has a splendid system Of water works,
built in 1889, at n cost of $105,OOO and
when the work, now under way, is COM
sewerage, The city will expend this
year $4,000 OH ewers. Parks have also
been laid out and a generous fund Great
ed to beautify them, as we'll as u broad
streets and avenues, by the planting of
trees and otherwise.
WHAT Is THE CLIMATE OF GREAT FALLS?
The climate of Great Falls and this
portion of northern Montana is unsur-
passed. The winters are short, continu-
ing generally from about Christmas until
some time in February. During this Pc
rod there are short intervals of very cold
weather, but they are of short duration.
The warm chinook winds come in oppor-
tune times to break the rigor of the win
tiers and often under their genial influ-
ence there is a change of so degrees in
the temperature in a few hours. The
rains come just when the crops are grow
ing and maturing and then cease in time
for the farmer to do his harvesting with
out fear of damage by rains.
r THERE LANDS THAT CAN RE FARNEDP
The lands within a radius of ten miles
of Great Falls are nearly all appropriated
by settlers, but beyond that limit there
are tens of thousands of acres of good
land free to the settler and which may be
taken up under the numerous land laws
OF the government.
GREAT FALLS AN INDUSTRIAL CENTER.
Although Great Falls is one of the new
towns of Montana, it Is acknowledged by
all to possess extraordinary advantages
for employing labor and capital in many
industrial enterprises. OF these the most
important will always be the smelling
and refining of the ores bearing precious
metals and the smelling and refining of
copper ores and the manufacture of iron
and steel. No other spot in the United
States IS so ah~vantageously situated as
Great Falls for the cheap reduction of
all these ores, for the following reasons:
First-1t is situated in the country
where the ores are mined.
Second-The railroad grades from all
directions favor it.
Third-1t has a surrounding country
rirh in nrrip,,lt,,ro md ,,,,tDrol ro,o,,
Ces.
Fourth--It has the advantage of an i'm
mense and never-failing water-pOwer
Fifth-lt has the still greater advan-
tage of an unlimited supply of excellent
coal at its very doors, which can be mined
and delivered at the furnaces at q nomi-
nal price.
MINERAL RESOURCES.
Commanding an area of mineral coun-
try of more than $4,000 square miles,
Great Falls is destined, at no distant day,
to furnish employment for q hundred
thousand men; for it must be borne in
mine that M other part of the United
States is as rich as Montana in gold, sill
YER, copper, lead, iron and coal.
SHELTERS ESTABLISHED?
Approaching the superior resources of
Great Falls for reducing ores, less than
two years ago, the Montana Silver Lead
Smelling company, composed mostly of
New York and Colorado capitalists, COM
menced the erection of large works here,
which are now in successful operation.
About nine months ago, the Boston L.
Mpnfapn GpncnliHnfal (Io,rar md N;1u,,
Mining company, owning great mines in
Butte, decided to locate their smelling
and refining plants here; and during the
lars will be expended by this company at
Great Falls in the construction of smelt-
tiers and mills.
In order to furnish these mammoth
works of the Boston u Montana Copper
company with power to drive their ma
chinery and encourage the further estab-
lishment of industries here, the Great
Falls Water Power Il TOWNSHIP company
has commenced building a dam across
the Missouri river at Black Eagle falls.
This work will be entirely completed be-
lore the close OF the present year and will
be one of the greatest works of the kind
to be found in the United States.
Around these great central industries
for the treatment of crude ores and for
the working of metals will be gathered
hundreds of smaller industries, attracted
to Great Falls by cheap power and cheap
fuel.
WHAT is THE WATER POWER OF GREAT
FALLS?
There is probably no other water pow
er in the United States that compare with
this in volume and availability. In guam
tlty it is estimated to be equal TO one