The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-02-06
THE CITY.
Great Falls and Her Wonderful Growth
A Vigorous Youth,

A Vigorous Youth,
In the last number of the Montana
Mining Review. its talented editor, Prof.
Swallow, thus d%iscourscs on the metrop-
oils of Montana:
Great Falls, beautiful for situation on
a broad expanse of bright waters formed
by the junction Of Sun river at the
head Of a series of w~aterfalle in the Mis-
souri, unsurpassed for beauty and grand
eur and adaptation to drive the ma
chinery OF the largest reduction works
and manufacturing establishments: and
generate the electric force to propel the
street cars and machinery and produce
the light of a hundred cities. And all
this in the mids of a vast expanse of
broad prairie country watered by numer-
GUS rivers and mountain streams and
pregnant with the fertility to feed a
%populous state, and all surrounded by
numerous mountain ranges intersected
with vast veins of iron, copper, silver,
gold, lead, zinc and variegated with
quarries of GRANTEES, freestones, marbles.
hydraulic lines. fire rocks and iire-clays
and pure glass sands.
What more can a country want be-
sides these numerous sources of growth
and prosperity, and the coal beds which
intersect and undcrlie all these beauti
full valleys and broad plains, where nu-
merous herds of cattle and horses and
tiocks Of sheep flourish on the native
grasses, and the forests Of timber which
cover all these mountain ranges:
And besides, tnat we may have the
glow Of health. the beauty and elasticity
of youth. the strength of manhood and
the enjoymente of age. We have an at
mosphcre as pure as Switzerland, suns
az bright as Italy and the chinook
breezces from the warm Pacific seas.
And here on the sparkling Missouri
a modern Eneas from the shores of
| Maine has founded "a city which shall
| rival that founded on the yellow Ii
Der" twenty. five hundred years ago, and
which for many centuries was the seat
of the political, intellectual, and religious
power of the world. Great Falls, in the
ambition of vigorous youth, aspires to
be what Rome was, and she has made
more progress since our Fneas founded
the city in 1885 than Rome made in a
hundred years.
Three thousand years ago when the
commerce OF the nations was carried on
by caravans overland the great cities OF
the world like Babylon, Nineveh, and
Palmyra were inland town. But when
men went down to the sea in ships and
did business upon the great waters the
great cities were founded upon
navigable waters, like Tyre, London. and
New York; and now. after 1000 years of
water carriage by sea, river. lake and
canal, railroads have undertaken to &c
the carrying business of the continents;
and interior cities are springing up and
taking on metropolitan proportions and
customs SO rapidly as to appear like the
work of magic.
Under the impulse of American energy
Great Falls has made more progress in
seven years than Rome did in s%cvcnt,
times seven years.
A. great many men at Great Falls hold
mining properties in Sweet Grass hills
Bear Paw mountains, the Little Rockies
at Neihart, Barker. Maiden. IOgo. Run.
ming Wolf or Dry Wolf, and in some OF
the vast fields within the dominion OF
this ambitious city of the Falls.
A casual visit to Great Falls gives one
no Just idea of what the city now is, and
less conception of what she will be be.
fore the close of this century. One must
see the score Of large mercantile houses
the five or six banking houses. the brick
and freestone blocks. and private resi-
dencee extending over a wide area, tC
appreciate this young city. And be.
sides, one must travel over the nine and
one-half miles of electric street rail
roads, and see sixty miles of cleo.
trio wires conveying the illuminating
fluid along every street and into every
business house and hundreds of private
dwellings. Then let him spend a day
going over the vast reduction works OF
the Boston Il Montana company and the
Union smelter. When one has seen all
this and counted the labor and money
it took to make such a city in sever
years he will feel like taking off his hat
to the men who have done the wonder
full work.