The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-10-21
GREAT FALLS A SURE WINNER
is in the Race for the Capital and
Will Distance Every Com
pptitOr.
Gaining in Popularity Daily Because
at It's Wonderful Weiltll of
Resources.
The City Which Affords the Fest
I.mation and Offers the Best
Inducements.

With each succeeding day the chance
OF Great Falls being the city which tn
voters of Montana will select as the fu
ture capital of this state grow brighter
This is easily explained. for its resources
and advantages are Just becoming gen
orally known. During the last two
months there nave been hundreds o.
visitors in the city who had not before
been aware that it possessed such won.
derful and inexhaustible and
advantages. The gentlemen in charge
Of the capital contest for this city have
had prepared some information concern
ing the city and its surroundings. and
these facts are being sent to the voters
throughout the state.
The secret of its increased and rapidly
growing popularity lies in the fact that
the truth of the statements sent out can
not be called into question. No exag-
-erated statements are prepared and no
refutation of its claims will bear weight
where an investigation follows. Ii is
prc.eminently the city of Montana whose
future rests on the surest foundation.
There is not another city in the north
west that can equal the record of Great
Falls in substantial growth: where SAM
tation has kept pace with broadening
suburbs: where all the forces of civiliza-
ton have caused the moral and intel
lectual development to walk abreast with
her rapid material progress. The ca
paclty of her hotels is adequate to any
demand that may be made upon them
and are equal to any in the country.
treat Fails Is d strategic point for in
dustrles. She holds the key Of prospect
~ within her grasp. One cannot com
prehend what one million horsepower
Is. lie can only repeat the numbers and
hgure up the many things he does know
ana comprehend. Almost as well ask
INN to comprehend the candle-power Of
the sun or to think of the universe be-
Tore creation. Yet that stupendous mum
Der represents the power of the Missouri
river which for ages has been going to
waste and only the merest trifie Of
which. even now. is being utilized. Some.
one sand: Nonsense: you cant utilize
'''"h B'"'i' but IL has DttD utlllIel
IN the construction of a mac,moth dam.
and even with it only a modicum of the
lreat power is controlled. The river in
is might still thunders on. But a few
trops of the mighty flood pouring over
as yet been taken. Yet what potent
srops they are. Minneapolis with ali .
Ter greatness has only $4,000 horse
Iower and Itolyoke has only l2.2OO to
urn all its ~spindles. Both these nut
ogether do not amount to the power j
hat Great Falls has IN the first dam.
nd not a fortieth of the power of the j
l~issourl river. The Missouri river never
uns dry. its body of water is never an a
reclably diminished, and the plants :,
ulit here will never have to shut down J.
cold weather or dry seasons or put in :.
team boilers for reserve use. When II
ne present dam can not furnish all the ;.
over required all that is needed is to II
up!lcate 1t. AS many can be built as :,
yer can be required. t
When mines have been worked out.and
concentrators. ~refineries and
.uartz mills are idle, as they must some d
ime be, Great Falls will not have ey-
her sustenance. While at her a
'"or are the coal measures which will :,
make the process Of cheap copper-smclt- !
NJ feasible, and furnish fuel to all the d,
melting plants of the state. when the !
noke OF their fires no longer ascend
e~avenward there will be a market for
coal product, and its mining will F.,
We employment to hundreds of laborers.
/ nth the time the ore deposits of the
'untry shall have been exhausted. there
no point in Montana which can com. M
lie with Great Falls. because of the =,
and unlimited abundance of -
,ter power and coal for every purpose "a
+ which it may be used. Jt
Tributary to Great Falls are 22.OOOOOO 9N
res OF agricultural and grazing lands. II
TINS area a large portion is suscepti- =,
. OF cultivation and will yield hand VI
me returns to the husbandman. The re
rmer need no longer fear that he will ",
I have markets for his crops. for be GO
ming with next year he will find y.
idy sale in this city for every pound al
grain he can raise. ca
The ineXhaustible coal fields found in hi
IS wonderful region are one of its great o.
trees of wealth-but only one. At 70
'eral points in the faces Of the hills ar
|, quarries of white and red sandstone ~
lal to anything that exists, both in wi
atty and quantity. and some of this O.,
ne is the most perfect material for the
OF plate. glass that has ever ye
en- discovered. Underlying much OF 80
S stone are in~exhaustible deposits of no
/, clay which is equal to the best found is
England. and which will soon be man At
into Innings for furnaces and W;
entirely supersede in Montana and tn
, west generally the imported article. vi,
large plant in course of erection at the no
e-clay beds, about three miles from Ju
!, city. will soon be in operation and or,
j employ a large force of men. The .Ja
going to the mines passes beside az
works, and Immediately adjoining wi
8 important plant is a quarry of white tn,
OF endless extent and another m,