The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-05
THRIVING HAyRE.
The Humn,lng Town at thu Three juno
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HAvRE. March 4. Special - situated
at tho mouth of Bail Hook creek,
a small stream that riaes In tho
Bear Paw mountains and cmptiea into
Milk river, six milaa ena Ut Fort
Assinnihoine. il the town OF Havre. Hayre
ia not the center of all sacred, egal and
commercial maepiticance. There are no
mammoth mnccaruni fields on the north
where that article OF food Is raised without
irrigation. nor u banana belt on the south.
IT ia simply the creation Of the psolihc
brain of j. j. Hill, and the boss railroad
town OF the northwest, Although the town
site of Havre is a beautiful one tho chances
are that it would naver have bean utilized
as such, had not the Great Northern
selected 1t as the most satisfactory point
for a junction Of their main line with its
Pacific coast extension. But when this
fact became generally known, tent after
tent was pitched and occupied az temporary
business houses and private residences I'M
til recently, when substantial frame ones
have taken their places. Havre ia tho
freight terminal of the Montana division
of the road. 1t is the end of two freight
OlSlStoile, lin upuA tuS CollplotlOl O1 tu0
Pacific extension will be the and of three.
An elegant ten-stall brick round house is
completed. machine shops are under con-
temptation, and it is only a matter of but a
short time when it will be the home OF all
railroad men operating on the three divi-
sions. "@
Blu outside of its present and future pos
sibilities MS a railroad center, Havre has
other facilities fos the building up OF a
substantial town that cannot be overlooked.
The town is we'll watersd Ey Milk river. is
surrounded on all sides by its valleys and
foot hills, is located in the heart of the
greatest stock raising country in the west,
that will afford good water and shelter to
unnumbered thousands of horses, cattle
and sheep. On the south, and in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the town, extensive coal
measures have been discovered and par
TALLY developed. from which the town has
been supplied during the past winter at 81
Per ton, delivered,
The post of Fort Assinniboine is but six
miles distant. The soldiers of the garrison
are nightly visitors from whom the town
has and will continue to derive q lucrative
patronage. The growth of the town has
been so remarkable that the population is
now about 500, and, with a rapid increase
for the next few months it will ut the COM
ing election be the most important if not
the largest voting precinct in Choteau
county.
Among the creditable mercantile house3
OF the city. carrying large and we'll assorted
stocks of general merchandise, are Broad
water u Pepin, both of whom are former
residents of Fort Assinniboine and are
we'll known to the public; Hollingsn, Skyl-
steadt u Co., who are recently from Da-
kota, where the business manager of the
nrm, MIR. Hollingen, has been prominently
connected for many years with a leading
bank Of his former home. The hotel bust
ness OF the city is handled to the queens
taste by Z. G. Shelton, a full-fedged south
erner by birth, reputation and profession,
who has just completed and furnished a
$4,000 two,story frame building with an
additional ffty-foot annex. Mr.. Shelton's
cultivated taste is a guarantee Of a bounti-
fui supply OF the best the market affords, |
a cordial reception and first-class treat. |
ment to all who ~sojou!n with him while |
enroute to and from the Flathead country |
and other points along the line.