The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18
GREAT IS GREAT FALLS.
A WONDERFUL WATER POWER.
smelling


Track is also being laid to the new
Boston and Montana smelter site, where
great dam is being built at cost Of $500,
goo, and by next November will be furnish.
ing 10000 horse power for the gigantic
smelling plant that is now in course Of con
struction. This smelling and electris cop
per refining plant will cost nothing short o
million dollars, and will give employment
to 9 small army of men. The Montan,
Smelling company's plant, located near thu
new dam, cost 1900, and is the mos
complete of its kind in the state.
THE CHEAP WATER POWER
that the Black Eagle Falls is capable o.
furnishing is far superior to that of the st
Anthony Falls of Minneapolis. which to-da,
nearly feeds the world. With cheap coal
cheap power. cheap railroad facilities, ohea1
lime and cheap fire clay, and the great wesl
as market, there is nothing that will pre-
vent the banks of the Missouri river along
Great Falls from becoming lined with mills
factories, smelters and founderies. for this
unlimited water power will revolutionlzt
manufacturing and milling in the northwest
and Great Falls will become great metrod.
oils.
An iron wagon bridge, which cost geo. 600,
giving the city COMMUNICATION c with the the
fertile Sun river valley, and an immense
yards from the wagon bridge. Great Falls
being the present
WESTERN TERMINUS OF THE GREAT NoRTHERN
railroad, it is confidently expected by the
people of Great Falls that it will be the
starting point for the Pacific coast, as it is
known that President Hill will extend the
road to the Pacific without DELAY. This
undertaking will place Great Falls in the
position to command the erection there OF
extensive car repairing and machine shops
similar to those of the Northern Pacific al
Livingston, Great Falls being the western
terminus of the prairie division and the
eastern terminus of the mountain division
of the Great Northern. The building of the
Great Northern west will place Great Falls
in position to compete for the lead ores Of
the Coeur d'Alene region and will also give
an entry to the timbered sections of Mis-
soula county. 1t is
THE DISTRIBUTING POINT
for the entire Milk river valley, comprising
IL, 100000 acres of land. It is the market
and supply point for the Judith Basin on
the east, grand section of country to the
west to the main range Of the Rocky noun.
tains and the Smith river valley to the
south, embracing all told peerless cattle
sheep and farming section. Great Falls is
the principal wool market of the state
last years purchases being over 2,O0O, COZ
in northern Montana. Il is the county seat
OF Cascade, the youngest county in the state,
and within its borders are thousands OF
acres of fine table lands which are unex-
celled for the raising of large crops, and
several irrigating canals now being con-
structed will place every foot of ground in
The situation of Great Falls to all these
natural advantages, together with it's un-
limited water power, gives to it a position
that win soon see it the largest city in the
state and the great industrial center of the
new northwest. The city's location is very
miration of all who look upon it. The
broad and level plateau upon which il
stands gradually slopes away for two miles
along the banks of the Missouri, while TO,
an equal distance on the west it gently
slopes to the foothills, and from east to
west an area comprising $50 miles in extent
looks to Great Falls as its center. Last year
wool was brought as far as 100 miles to
Great Falls, where it was sold for cash at
70 cents per pound. The possibilities of the
COAL, GOLD, SILVER AND IRON
mines south of Great Falls are unlimited,
and no city in the west can set forth so
many resources or show such bright pros
poets for glorious future az can
this city destined as it is to COM
mand the distinction of being not only the
new Chicago, but the Minneapolis, Swan
sea, Pittsburg and Denver of the new west,
all combined. 1t may be ten, perhaps
twenty years, but its future greatness is
beyond the peradventure of doubt, and its
population, which has already doubled in
nine months, will double again in six
months and continue doubling year by
year until it attains the climax of it's great
ness, which is without limit, and while in
four years it has grown to be city of 1000
people, in four wears more it will be city
Of 5000 people at least. The tide of pros
perity is now on, and naught can ebb its
how, which will be as constant and incessant
as the mighty stream which PUSHES past its
gates in cataracts. torrents and falls, Civ
ing to the city natural power sufficient
almost to move the world. Such is Great
Falls in its general aspect, and who can but
say that the city is aptly named the Future
Great"