The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-22
HAYWOOD ON GREAT FALLS,

He Devotes Two Column to the Town in
a Recent Chicago Evening Paper.
Many will doubtless remember Her
bert Haywood who visited Great Falls
several months ago while on a tour OF
the northwest in the interest Of several
eastern newspapers. He spent about a
week here gathering data for future
newspaper articles, SOM Of which have
appeared in different eastern journals.
He is a clear, forcible writer, and his ar
ticles are always interesting.
The Chicago Evening Journal of Sep
TENDER 2 contains over two columns from
the pen OF that gentleman descriptive of
Great Falls and environments. It com.
mencee with an account of the big falls,
The Giant spring, the Rainbow falls and
other natural attractions in this vicinity.
Then follows a sketch of the decline Of
the steamboating business and a refer
ence to the construction of the Manitoba
and the consequent rapid growth of this
city.
"Here,' says the writer, "within sound
OF the roaring cataracts, in sight of the
encircling chains of the Rocky noun
tains, has grown up a town Of the plains
like the Denver of two decades ago, with
all the curious phases of plains life"
Quite a portion of the article is de-
voted to Charlie Russell and his pic
lures. Two of the latter--the companion
pictures, 'Seven-Up on the Plains and
After the Game is O~ver,'-are repro
I.aol r,,I,, ,-1Il TEo ..- L. Ill
of a picture of the artist. Russell is
styled 'the most interesting character in
the town, having painted the finest In
ns.cowboy and cattle range scenes yet !
produced" All in all, Russell fares we'll
at the hands of the writer.
Speaking of the resources Of the town,
Haywood says: THE most marked line
Of progress is in the water power and
electrical development. At Black Eagle
falls, three miles from the center of the
town, the river is set to work by a great
dam and power house. Like playthings
the SHE currents of the mighty river
turn the ponderous machinery of one of
the greatest copper smelters in the world,
while on the south bank run the dyna-
mos that supply light and heat and mo-
tive power to the town. No idea can
be formed of what water power means
until the interior of the power house at
Black Eagle falls is seen. where immense
balance wheels are rolling, driving
wheels propelled. and dynamos whirling,
and yet not a boiler or jet OF steam to be
seen, all moved by a concealed pipe of
water. This abundant power is what
literally runs this young city. Not
only are the street cars run and lighted
by electricity, but heated as well by
means Of four radiators in each car.
Elevators, printing presses, an iron
foundry. and all kinds of heavy ma
chinery are moved by this ubiquitous
force. Automatic excavators, pumps,
and r~ock-crushers are run by electricity.
The tailor uses it to heat his goose, the
restaurants cook with it, the butcher
chops his sausage and Hamburger, and
the grocer grinds his coffee by turning
on the current.
But the most promising outlook is in
another direction. The man who has
made two blades of grass to grow where
but one grew before is Paris Gibson.
He has proven that the wheat can be
grown on the plains. He has fought
against the prevailing pref Juice against
agriculture, In a region that the sheep
and cattlemen have regarded their ex-
elusive domain and opposed any en-
croachments. What raise wheat on the
bench land where not a drop of water
can be applied has been the universal
depreciation. An impossibility it seems
till n is shown in spring the early {
planted wheat outvieing in verdure the
native grasses, and In the warm days of
August the sandy soil uprears a stand
of wheat produced during the fiery or
deal Of a hot summer on the plains,
that will equal the sbest yield of the
Dakotas. .
Through eight trying years the pioneer
agriculturist has t%rlumphed and his |
wheat has grown. 1t is his example 6
that has inaugurated the era of wheat i
RAISING on the bench lands. the begin !
ming of an agricultural development
that shall yet exceed the wealth of Mon
copper and silver Mines