The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-28
SATURDAY, MARCH %. 1891.
GREAT FALLS.

Frank c. Park, a prominent an
observing lawyer of Waukesha, Wis
who recently made a tour of the gres
Northwest, sends the following CON
plimentary notice of Great Falls t
the Waukesha Journal:
There is a peculiar nervousne
about the passengers on the cars, a
you all have noticed on trains tina
are approaching a large city. Soor
the train crosses the sriver and tn
passengers all alight. We hav'
reached some great business centre
but where is the business? lin one
direction is level prairie, gin the othe:
thinly scattered business houses ant
residences as far as the eye car
reach. They say it issGreat Falls
but where are the falls? What Dc
the inhabitants do here? No farm
ing country around, and 1.-THE range.
only raise stock! These area few
thoughts which first strike the new.
conner to this future Montana metrop-
oils. But after remaing here for a
week | learned the 1~secret of this fut-
ure city, and it is this: Where great
natural resources are:easily utilized,
manufactures will concentrate, and
there, also, large cities Wilt grow.
Pittsburg is an example f :.factories
first concentrating near the:great coal
fields; Minneapolis is an example of
Touring mills concentrating around
their great waterpower; Kansas City
is an example of packing houses con-
%centrating near the center of the
great stock-raising region of Mis-
souri, and Kansas; Denveris an exam
pie of smelling plants
convenient to the great mining camps
of western Colorado. Great Falls has
400 square miles of coaliields' within
ten miles of it's centre. the largest
waterpower in the United States
over 1,OOO.OO0 horse-power-within
its limits, the largest wool and stock
raising region in the west immedi-
ately surrounds it, the richest silver
and copper mines in the,world are
tributary to her immense ssmelters,
and with these natural resources trib-
utary to the advancement, even the
most conservative will say, here
Will be the greatest city
OF the northwest" and that
too, in the very neal future. But her
growth more than sanctions this rash
statement. In 1889 her: population
was $500, in 1901 increased to 1000.
In 1890 the great dam was construct
I'D across the Missouri river, one
smelter costing one and a half mil
lions was completed and another es-
timated to cost three millions was be-
gun and will be completed:inside of a
year, two saw mills we're constructed,
one machine shop, two new railroads J
entered the town, twenty new busl-
blocks were erected and over five
hundred new dwelling houses. The
work now laid out for 1891 isIthe COM
of the great smelter. the con-
truction of an immense wooden mill,
bank building costing $3.50, 900,
twenty-five other business blocks, and
me builder alone has contracted to
'uild 400 new dwelling houses. A
weeks visit to this city will undoubt-
dly convince one that a large city
must necessarily-if the law of de-
nand and supply holds true-spring
p around these large factories, nat
raj resources and advantages. To
he young, ambitious and energetic
erson visiting the west nothing is
,ore pleasing than the way he is re-
into business circles. His
ress is not seen, but he is looked
Iuare in the eye, and if he has what
called business hustle, he is
listed without further inquiry with
weightiest of business matters. I
here is no place in the world where
ristocracy is Sc completely ignored,
nd here lies the great advantage s
YER the eastern cities. Percentage, &
ress and bearing are completely 9
and he is valued for his
,ility to make money, and not for
relation to some NEUROLOGICAL c
king, the cut of his necktie, or the Il
with which he holds his :
sckbone. / believe that old sage, .
GRACE Greedy, gave good advice .
hen he said, go west, young man; r
least the writer is going to follow v
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