The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1892-10-23
ANACONDA
1t is Out For the Capital and Its Name is al
=. the Top of the Ticket.
1t is the Best of the Seven Cities in the Race
and it Asks Your Vote.

rivals in the race. II Anaconda eets the
capital, no citizen Of Montana will over
have cause to regret the choice on tho
score Of this city's relative fitness In its
site or scene.
Tho mission Of this mornings edition of
the STANDARD 10 to present tho facts and
the argument In Anaconda's favor. These
concern the city's physical superiority, its
commercial rank, its worthiness In Q So
cial way, its relation to centers of busi-
ness and transportation, its achievement,
its promise Of permanence, its resources,
its surroundings, aud it's moral tone.
Placing its pages under tho limitations
thus outlined, the STANDARD will not per-
init itself to be diverted by tho scurrilous
personalities invented and set In circuia-
ton by the men who arc managing Hele-
mas canvass. These are the resort of the
desperate; they are the mutterings Of the
cnvious; they will not prevail. Nor will the
STANDARD heed what Is industriously put
before the public in the effort to slur the
people of Anaconda and to extol tho as
sumed social superiority of its nervous
rival across tho range. Tho STANDARD
docs not admit that its to wnsmcn need to
sit at the feet Of Helena In order to be
taught the amenities, to study deport-
ment or to take lessons in etiquette. An.
aconda 10 the homo Of plain people; they
are the chief contributors to its prosper
ity-it IL not their ambition to give Ana.
conda wide reputation as city of snobs.
They are the owners Of homes here, and
they do not sit at night at their bedside
wondering whether the city will make good
It's promise Of permanence, as Helena
would have the state suppose. These
homes are modest in their way. They lack,
perhaps, the conspicuous adornment Of
polished floor, cathedral glass and bur-
nished turret, but they are pleasant
homes, their equipment is comfortable,
and their chiefest beauty is that they arc
paid for. Referring to the county clerks
and to tho banks for proof OF its assertion,
the STANDARD declares that there Is not
in Montana q city where the percentage
Of incumbrance on improved property
represented in business blocks and resi-.
dences 10 as small as II is in Anaconda.
This assertion We commend to the atten.
tion Of those who slander the citizens of
Anaconda-and especially those whose
mortgage indebtedness on homes they call
their own is the bane of the banks in Hell
ena and the burden OF anxious capital in
the East. In a word, the people of Ana.
conda will assail no citizen in private life,
they will make no false prctenses. They
will not lay claim to superior social quail
ity; they will not presume to question the
right of the city OF Great Falls to act for
itself, they will not try to debauch Butte,
they will not undertake to bribe Bozeman.
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The incontestable fact is that Anaconda
is nearer the center of the states popula.
ton than any other city in the state, ex.
cept Butte, which is "a miles away. Tho
connections Of this city with every train
that moves over the Northern Pacific, with
the Great Northern service and with the
line Of the Union Pacific arc immediate,
and, as tho STANDARDS readers arc
aware, Anaconda becomes principal sta
ton on the route of tho Butte, Anaconda
q Pacific road, now actually under con-
struction. That road Is part Of the best
transcontinental system operating in tho
state. Its completion to tho western
boundary Of tho state, within the next
few months is q fixed fact-there is not a
shadow Of doubt about ii. Within year
Anaconda will be accessible i'm less than
three hours to b6 per cent of tho Donlla.
ton of the state.
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Among the cities Of Montana, Anaconda
ranks second as the center of traffic and
business-its competitors for second place
are far in the rear. While it 10 not the in.
tention of this page 10 reciie details, the
following table finds n convenient place
here. 1t shows in weights and in dollars
the railway business Of Anaconda for the
first six months of this year. The figures
are official:
Weight. Charges.