The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-11-04
Grandeur of the River Scenery Along
the MissOnri's Banks Near Black
Eagle Falls.
a Picture Painted by Nature, Adorned
With Gorgeous COlOrings and Re-
s%plendent in Beauty.
The Giant Spring, the Outlet of a Sub.
terranean River, Where Crystal
Waters Bubble Forth.

Probably the grandest water scene in
the United States after Niagara Falls is
the view which is to be had of the Mis-
souri, river at the Black Eagle falls in
this city from the right bank at the end
of the electric railroad line.
The dam at this point throws the
water back upon the rapids up the
stream where it is spanned by two
bridges which look in the distance like
spiders webs strung across the stream.
The great river then tumbles over the
dam. and is broken and shattered by IA
thousand shelves of rock as it makes its
way down into the gorge below the dam.
The water view up and down stream ex-
tends for about three miles. On the OPP
posite bank of the river rise the reduc-
ton works of the Boston e. Montana
company. with the great smokestack on
top of the hill, the summit of which is
five hundred feet above the stream.
Several handsome villas occupy the
heights along the face of the plateau,
and further on the wild natural scenery
remains just as it appeared to the first
white explorers. Lewis and Clarke, who
passed this way in 1901. Down the
stream and on the right bank of the
river is another beautiful picture enclos-
ing the works and residences at the
huge silver smelter. a distance of two
miles from the Black Eagle falls. Onc
would suppose the distance to be no
more than a stones throw. These works
are all colored a bright Po.npeian red
which contrasts strongly with the browns
and yellows of the landscape. and it is
beautifully set off with the blush gray
of the rapid stream.
1t is a pleasant walk from the Black
Eagle falls to the silver smelter. and ex.
actly under these works near the bank
OF the river is the Giant Spring which
everybody who sees it %pronounces one of
the wonders of the world. Expressions
of surprise and admiration burst from
the lips of everyone on first beholding
this marvellous freak of nature. The
water which flows down over the shelv-
ing rocks would form by itself a good
sized river. and yet in the deep basin
from which it boils up there is only a
slight motion like that or a boiling ket-
tie on the surface, and one could not
imagine that such an enormous flow of
crystal water as goes down into the
Missouri from it cOuld come these depths
without causing greater commotion in
the basin.
The water is of an even temperature
all the year round and is not effected
apparently by the changes of season.
which would indicate that it must have
it's origin at "a long distance from it's
source. 1t is "a decidedly pleasant water
to drink, being sufficiently cool and alb
solutely tasteless, but it's color is so
much brighter and clearer than that of
the river that for some distance from its
ju%ncture with that stream it causes a
marked change in the aspect of the
Missouri.
Standing on one of the bridges which
span the c~revices whence these waters
emanate, the view up the river at sunset
is most magnificent, and as the evening
advances the electric lights begin to
glisten at the Boston a. Montana works,
and on the suspension bridge above the
Black Eagle falls dam a vision of the fu-
ture greatness OF this city is forced upon
the fancy Of the observer.
1t will not be many years before hun
dreds probably thousands of tourists
will come this way each season to feast
upon the scenic delights and to breathe
the health giving atmosphere of this To-
callty. The fame of the Giant spring
and the scenery neal it will be as great
as that of the glaciers of Switzerland.
the Mammoth cave, or the wonders of