The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-01
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becoming slightly fatiguing. 1t is difficult
to say anything which has not already
been said and yet to the establishment of
a select group assembled in a real estate
Office yesterday n gentleman did sue
coed in making an original remark. The
gentleman in question is not IAN old
Montanian,' nor is he an eastern capital
list. More properly speaking he comes
from the central states, where gigantic
business deals are never hampered by
anglo mainacism and where muscle and
brain are educated and trained for a
wider and broader existence in the west.
Someone made the trite remark, "Great
Falls is just about six years old. Colonel,
rather an astonishing growth, isn't it?"
Imagine the confusion of the crow
when the gentleman who had Just be;
treated to a drive about the city, viewing
the S2,OOO,CW worth of building, hurry
rush Of laboring men and the absorb
looks of capitalists, the great dan aru
smelter and mammoth mills and manu-
factories, had just hearkened to a most
eloquent speech of a local enthusiast, had
seen as completely as two hours would
allow the full glories of the peerless
princess of Montana-when after all this
he rose, stepped to the door. glanced
around. and in Il most nonchalant man
ncr replied, 'Why. no, | see nothing sur
prising.'
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His hearers were thundcrstruck. Blu.
the gentleman went on: "Why is your
,r,,r,cc G,,r,ririn,r H. u,,nrlin,r a., %
natural law. isn't it! Wasn't everything
here to make il: You tell me you have
six banks with IA capital of over Il mil
lion dollars. Don't they always DO IA big
business and doesn't money always %
where it meets a most profitable return?
You show me "A great iron foundry. Why
shouldn't there be one where such
buildings as that of the TOWNSHIP com
pany and the sm,ltcr are constantly
arising: You tell me your great dam
cost Il cool 100000 Will not the in
vcstmcnt pay ten fold? The Boston a.
Montana is here, the Butte a. Montana
coming. Nothing surprising there! |
only wonder that more are not here.
Gentlemen, you don't see your own
possibilities or you would never
talk so. You have the greatest
water power in the world. 1t would
turn millions of wheels and save in fuel
/, millions of dollars. 1t would make mil
ions OF articles and employ an army /,
+, men. The bench lands on your borders
are the richest known to man. their pro-
!. ducts might feed a nation. Rocky noun
tain sandstone would shame the porphyry
of older days for durability and beauty,
Millions of cubic feet lie at your doors.
You have the thousand hills of scripture
and the cattle and s~heepcXcced the wild
est dreams of gray-haired patriarchs. At
r your very gates, all undeveloped, lie I'M
told millions in gold, silver and copper.
The world must look to you
! for her monied supplies. The cen
sus shows that mining is the
! best paid, most profitable industry
!, upon the globes surface. You have but
} to stretch your hands and they touch
i, limitless fields Of coal, unboundcd de-
/ posits of precious ores, shining gold,
pale silver, useful copper, platinum, and
/, mountains of magnetic iron. The valley
in which you arc located is the most
beautiful in the west. When l see its
| vast expanse shut in by the ranges OF
: mountains and green with succulent
grass, ! recall with a sigh the crowded
Z tencments of my W home and wonder
r at the folly Of man* e man.
He stopped and the crowd filed slowly
out. One man said it beat a sermon and
= another remarked that he hadn't a wore
to add.
!: The stage route from Great Falls t.
Milligan has practically been abandoned
and no mail has been delivered at thu
latter place since July ). V. II. Pease il
q the contractor and the TRIBUNE hopes t.
see the postal authorities get after hin
with something in the nature of a sharl
y stick. The people Of Milligan and vicin
ity are entitled to get their mail in ac
,. cordance with the contract entered int,
4 by Pcasc.
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% Referring to East Great Falls, We ar
I. reminded that New York and other pan
u ties purchased during the present yea
200 acres of land near the Great fall
or (thc prospective town being located on
n portion of this tract, and speculation
rife as to what is e be done in that V
:. cinity. Should either the burlington {
N Northern Pacific come to Great Falls
will doubtless touch the new town an
" something of Il boom may Toe expected
r Certain it is land in that vicinity
VI. worth holding ON 10,
cr %.#
Ne The various public buildings are a
- progressing at an encouraging rate.
n large force are at work on the Tod; I'll
he stone for the opera house is being cut
Sand Coulcc: the flooring Of the Wilco
V. building is partially in and the stor
10 work is already showing high above Il
ground; its occupants may o inhab
> the Beachley building; as to the Con
~ building Contractor Roberts said Il
roofing would he finished last night an
e. should no umfavorablc circumstances Il
ng tcrvcne the building will be complete
within three weeks; owing doubtless
d.: its heavy iron work, the Townsite al
of First National building progresses mo
rs, slowly than the others; its foundatl'
~ has. however. been in for some time.