The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
now OTHERS SEE US.
Great Falls the Largest Industriall Cen
ter in the West.

Great Falls the Largest Industriail Cen
ter in the West.
I From Western Letter. in Augusta (Me,) Cos
pei Banner.l
Leave Bozeman Faiday morning; ride
down the Gallatin valley, its happy
herds sleeping in the sun; the sight as
pleasant as summer, save the fields are
gray. Still here the cattle feed and
grow fat. Snow on the mountains.
No language will describe the picture
now bursting into view. Mountains
rising in matchless grandeur on every
side piles of SHOW kissing the sky.
The valley warm. All winter long the
sun has flooded it., and zero and la
grippe have not been felt. Here at
Gallatin is the head of the Missouri
river. Who would think it after seeing,
two years, its boiling mud at Omaha:
Three small rivers. the Gallatin, the
Jefferson. the Madison. flowing togeth-
er form the Missouri, and a clear and
more transparent stream never refreshed
the eyes of man. How strange going
down the Missouri and going due west!
After winding its valleys. following its
slnuou course, we suddenly leave it t.
its PEACEFUL flow, and dart through the
mountain gate 10 Helena. From Helena
TO Great Falls is Il hundred miles, on the
Montana Central. and a most f~ascina-
ting journey, through 'Prickley Pear
Canyon and out into the great plains
lying beyond the mountains. watered by
the Missouri and the Sun rivers. Now
we followed the Missouri due north
uavigable 40 miles and now we reach
its cascades and the beautiful. wide.
glourious curve around the new and
majic city, about which some of YOU
have never heard the city of Great
Falls. 1t lies in the arm of the river
which here takes it course eastward and
gathers courage for its sublime leaps
over fall after fall-ten miles of cascades
and falls-from ten to one hundred feet
high, (5l0 feet in 10 miles The city is
six years old and has eight thousand
people. County seat of Cascade county.
Five railroads already hers, with branch
es to the rich mining camps of Neihart
and to the Sand Coulee iields-3W
square miles of coal at the cities door.
Fifteen hundred tons per day the pres
ent output. In BELT Mountains rich
mines OF gold, silver, copper, lead and
the three great smelling companies al
ready here are drawing ore products
from Butte and other mining camps. OF
account of cheap fuel and unlimited
water power. at Black Eagle Falls an
immence dam of one hundred thousand
horse power. 1t is a fertile agricultural
country, sheep growing a great industry.
In 1890 shipped 100000 pounds of
wool. With irrigation, no limit to its
productiveness. Great foundries and
saw mills, flour mills, ten miles of cleo
trio street railway, fine water works.
Missouri river here is pure as crystal,
fresh from the mountains. Three daily
newspapers, etc. The climate very fine.
winters short. warmed by winds from the
Pacific. Summers cool. ! saw no mud,
roads dry and smooth. Could there be
a better location for a city! The clean
smooth slopes on either side OF the river
so inviting for homes. then the sweeps
of the waters then the vision OF the far
off hills and mountains. her the wonder
full natural scenery about which you
have never heard. Tourists will come
hundred of miles to see the Rainbow
L dis, eAcelfeu only ny duu
they will come thousands miles to see the
"Giant Springs" 1t is really a river
which must Of lost itself in the noun
tains. and here. for miles below the city.
near the edge of the Missouri. boils up
with volume and force to turn a hun
bred miles. Its water spread, forming
a cascade before reaching the river, and
looks like a river itself. and such
crystal purity! Here ] must stop. 1t
is needless to say that | am enthusiastic
over Great Falls. 1t is to be the
metropolis of Montana. the largest in
dustrial center between Minneapolis and
the Pacific coast.