The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-06-11
Hi WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. JUNE IL. 1892.
GREAT FALLS FUTURE.


shows that all large cities are built upor
the seaboard or large rivers. No small
water course furnishes a city of impor
tance. Interior towns and cities grow
to certain limits and stop. They adjust
themselves to their environments and
never move beyond them. This is in
harmony with that natural law which
finds expression in the Fitness of things
Again, it will be discovered that cities
owe their population. prosperity, and
wealth to their w creative powers. y.
town which depends upon the surround
ing country for subsistence is simply a
country town. Like a stream. it can not
rise higher than its source: it merely
keeps pace with its feeder. But d city
richly endowed with native resources
draws capital and enterprise to itself and
not only grows and tiourishes, but builds
up and enriches its environments. The
first is an absOrber. its existence depend.
ing upon local and transient patronage;
the second is a producer. turning out
wealth and promoting the interests of
all.
Great Falls is a producer. 1t has
power. the cheapest known power in the
worlG. 1t is practically unlimited. it has
power to sell. 1t is i~neyhaustible. 1t
was here ages ago; it is here today; it
will remain here forever. 1t cannot be
mined out like gold and silver and cop
per and lead and coal and IRON. On the
contrary it is a living, never ending.
never ceasing flow of power. 1t is a
living. never ending. never ceasing flow
of wealth. as rich a century hence as it
is at present. 1t is an obedient power,
readily yielding to the will of man and
costing nothing to support it. No other
city in the state possesses it.
This power is one of Great Falls indie
structible sources of wealth. 1t has
others which cannot be destroyed SO
long as the seasons come and 60 and
rain falls and vegetation grows. They
are found in the products of the almost
u~nbounded surrounding grazing and
agricultural lands. When in the far
distant. darkened future mining for
precious metals have ceased and
ore reduction shall have become one of
the lost arts. and manufacturing centers
be grounded in harmony with the plans
of the Creator of the universe Great Falls
will be one of the few places in the en-
tire west where wealth will be produced
from raw material and a great country
will pay tribute to its industries.
In the meantime generations of men
will come and go in Great Falls. each
profiting by the wealth of the preceding
one and each gathering that of it's day;
inaugurating great projects; completing
vast enterprises and building up the
greatest city in the west. Huge smelt-
ing and reduction works will be con-
structed: iron and marble manufactur-
ing establishments will be erected; wool
en- and paper mills will be operated;
wooden ware. wire, cutlery, glass, and
kindred Industries will employ the ever
present wealth producing power. and
hundreds of thousands of busy, enter.
prosperous and happy people
will call Great Falls their home. OF
such will be the future Of this city. The
is not overdrawn. The history of
the world stamps it as true to destiny.
Great Falls is "a city of magnificent
possibilities. Its vast treasures in sur
rounding mines of gold and silver and
iron and coal and marble and its mex
haustible wealth Of grass and other soil
products form a grand arch whose key
is the unlimited power Of the
.plunging waters of the mighty Missouri,
the whole spanning the future great city
Of the western half of the continent AS
the rainbow spans the heavens. The
of Montana may be seen in the