The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-17
JUST AS THEY SEE IT.

F. r. WALLACE would like very much
to see the opera house question settled and
a building completed in time for the con-
yentions next summer. have an idea that
if the Board of Trade, or some other repre-
sentative body, would communicate with
Mrs. Ming, urging upon her the Importance
of the subject, that she would put up a new
and elegant theater on the ground adjoin-
ing the present one. She has the plans
made for such a building, and I believe
could te persuaded to begin work on it
earlier than she has contemplated.
II. BARNErT-I hope the city council will
see its way clear to go ahead with the grad
ing of Broadway. A largo majority OF the
property owners affected are in favor of il,
and, in addition to being a great public i'm
provement, it would give employment to a
large number of mon who are in need of it.
The expense would soon be repaid to the
city in the increased value OF the property
and the consequent larger taxes paid.
A, NJ. HoLrER-What Helena most needs
ia for a greater number of the large prop
erty owners to show some interest in 1t by
contributing to those enterprises which are
for the general good of all. Whenever it is
necessary to raise money, whether it be
much or little, for things of that charac-
ter, there are a dozen or fifteen men who
put up. Others, who would receive vastly
more benefit and whose entire success de-
ponds on the prosperity of the city. shut mp
their purses and put away their check
books, and absolutely refuse to chip in q
dollar. If We want to do anything, there
must be u change in this respect, or those
men who nave been carrying the burdens
will refuse to do so any longer. While a
dozen or 20 of patriotic Helena men may
be able to pay all the expenses of starting
public enterprises, they will not do it for
aver. and the sooner the interest in these
, matters is more general the more rapidly
, will plans for improvements now under
consideration be carried out.
j. II. LAWRENCE, president Rapid Transit
~conpany,-Al of the electrical equipmen'
q for our line has arrived, and we now hav'
y three motors in position. The engines ant
boilers will be hero in a few days, the car
left st. Paul yesterday, IL unless som
o unavoidable delays intervene the motiv
II power on all our lines on Feb. / will b
d electricity. ..
d S. S. HoBsoN, Fergus county banker.-Th
people in our section are looking anxiougl
for railroad connection with the outsid
world. We dom care from which directio
- the road comes, nor h builds it. just
40 we get it and the sooner it comes the bett'
70 we will like it. Fergus, l believe, is IL
ne banner sheep county of the state. The
are now about 40O,U 600 sheep in that Eectio
d. When the county IL better settled up, al
an our farmers keep shsep as the farmers ba'
Il, east do, in small herds, We will have a,C0
"A 600 sheep. and We have plenty of room I
them. There is lots of feed in Fergus I'll
'te year, and we look for prosperous lines.
A. L. WAKEFIELD, theatrical agen'
WI Theatrical people are the first to sui
lal from any general financial stringency, n
We the last to experience the effect of 20
at times. Thirty-thres per cent. of the the