The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-01-27
a vast amount of agricul
prOducts and il is all shinped ont of

raises a vast amount of agricul
products and it is all shipped out of
state. What you raise in this part of
the country for a long time to come will
be marketed here at Great Falls and
Sand Coulee and Neihart. And, gentle
men, | want to congratulate you upon
the prospect which you have for selling
the products of your farms for good
prices and for all time to come here.
Speaking about the development OF
this country and of this town, | want to
say this, that we have one resource.
which, bye and bye, will come 10 this
town and give it extraordinary rromi-
hence as al industrial town two re-
sources-one is the handling of the cop
per there is in this country. A man
told me today, who stands at the head
of the miners of this country, he said to
me: In my judgment Great Falls is to
become and surely will become the cen
tire of the copper industry of this coun
try. lApplause And you know that
Montana is at tine head among the cop
per producing states of this union. He
said to me: This copper will not only
be smelted here and refined, but the
product after it is refined. the copper in
gots, will be rolled out into sheet copper
and drawn into wire to supply this west
ern country aud will be shipped 10y
steamships to Japan and the Indies He
said it is only Il question of time when
the copper of Montana must be smelted
and refined at the falls Of the Missouri.
Now this is an enormous industry. and
that alone would give you ar enormous
market in Cascade county.
Nnw tharn iG unpthplr IpGpnptp and |
mean the treatment of our iron ores.
We have around us one of the greatest
IRON belts on the American continent. |
had almost said that our iron ores exceed
in quality andquantity the iron ore of Su-
perIor. Mr.. Hill gives it to me that the
iron ores are equal to those in that region,
and the quality is remarkable. They
are free from phosphorus. They possess
those qualities which will enable us TO
produce steel of the finest qualities. Tn
like the ores of the southern states, they
are the highest type of iron ores, and it
is only a question of time, aud not a very
long time ia this progressive age, before
this iron industry will be thriving right
here. This is an age of iron, when we
are passing from wood to iron. Out here
in Montana we need it for our fences,
for our fence posts and for our steel rails,
and we need it for the ties on which
these steel rails are to rest. My railroad
friend (Mr. Johnsoul will bear me out
that a wooden tie won't last one-half or
IA third as long as in Minnesota or in the
east. 1t is gone in about three years,
and in the east it probably lasts ten
years. Now this iron is needed here.
and where can it be treated to so good
advantage as it can at Great Falls,
where We have the coal and all the facil-
tiles for this business: 1t Is the judg-
ment of some of the best manufacturers
Of steel in the United States that this
will become one of the great points for
producing iron and steel. | merely men
ton this 20 show you that we have re-
sources around us which when once de-
veloped are destined to make this one of
the great cities OF the American union.
Appiause.