The Helena independent., 1894-01-01


h Alta mins With $50 Oshsr misina and
veod saaps easily swell the total 10 a00O
men whose monthly wages aggregate $25l. :
COO This includes only thoss engaged In
The nining businsss. snd sxplains In part
pase .svhaS supports Helena" The out-
look Tor 1894 10 chat ths number OF wage
sa,psss employed In The oouatry tributary
10 Helena, IN mining and k!ndred enter
Isissa will be donblsd, and their Aggregate
wages will reach halt million dollsRa
However large the measure Of prosperity
that may come TO Helena In 1894. and how
ever arsas the increase In population. the
former will NOT surprise her eitixsnA and
abe IL amply able TO care for The latter.
The Buslinaton railroad nay enter ths
City during The year. thus giving another
line to the easA II II should u will dad
ample terminal facilities. Eastern busi-
nsss men may come 10 establish shsns Ives
anew. II 90 they will ind the merchants
al, sady here located In moderniy appointed
stores and buiidinCs. equal to any elsewhere
In the country. with large and we'll sslects d
stocks. The man of family may
como Hs will nnd city
with every modern public eonvenisncs.
churches Of ell denominationa public and
private schools second TO NO city In the
land. splendid publis library, all the Sc
csss and bsnsvolsnt organizations sspss-
sentsd By strong branches. and all those
thtses that make Helena pre- sminentlv the
homo city Of this sountSy. The first In
quily made By many people II rsgar1 TO .
western city has reference to its wasss sup
Ply. The water supply Of Helena was
passed upon last year By Representatives Of
the national government and thsy officially
yranouncsd II pure and wholesoms and
suflicient for city Of l00000 psopls. The
water 10 su2plisd BY the Helena Consoli-
dated Wstss eompany. the source
OF supply being Ten Mile creek
and its tributaries. together With
D.y Guloh and ORo Fino canyons. With .
eatchmsnt aRsa Of 5000 square miles. COW
ering perpstual snow shsd. and with an
available fow Of from 12O0Q 600 " IS 600.
600 gallons svesy twsnty-fous houFa
Storage reservoirs IN the mountains have
a combined capacity Of 100000 Rallons.
CAVITY, through twenty and sixteen iaeh
cast iron pipes from Ten Mile TO The Broad
water hotel. = distance Of seven miles; from
there the water 10 carried through fourteen
inch pipes to shs distributing system In the
city. The water from Dry Guloh and Oro
Fino canyons also dows by gravity through
six and eight inch cast Iron Dipss,
. distance Of three miles into . reservoir
on the east side OF the city. and thsnos
into the distributing system. Tbs oom-
pany has total of sixSy-hvs miles Of pipe.
reaching every section OF the city and
suburbs. This system furnishes such an
excellent hTs sslvios a. 10 meet the hearty |
appreciation Of The insurance companies,
aud 10 held up BY them ~ . model for
other eitisA Neither In quality nor quan-
tity 10 the Helena wafer supply sxosllsd by
any othss stty.
Ten yesrs ago che fuel question was .
troublesome one, mot only In Helena, but
throughout the state. Thsrs we're no de-
vsloped coal miAss In the state and wood
vas almost exclusively used for both do.
msstio and industrial purposes. The sud
don increase In population after the coming
Of the Northern Pacific railroad msde .
still greater demand on tho timber, and il
vns absolutely necessary, from An esonom-
ical standpoint, that another fusl be pro.
vidsd. II vasa known that In various
seutions OF the state there were immense
coal measures. and whom the demand came
these were opened. Branch railroads were
built TO these mines and now no cityin the
country 10 better -proyidsd in ths matter of
fuel than Helena. The Rocky Fork mines
in the eastern part Of the state. the Sa"f
Coulss fields in Cascade county. the e
mines seress tho line in Can
the Trail Creek and Horr fl, ,
1fe oil in operation. furnishing us
good bituminous coal for domestic and
steam purposes, at reasonable p ices as
could bs desired. Beside these fields |
thsse are others all over the state, so that
the intending settler need have no fear OF
fusl famines, as 10 the case in various parts
of Iowa and North Dakots. The coal mines
OF the state give employment to several
thousand men the year through. Tbs vast
quantities. Of coal in the state. and the fact
that all the developed mines in Montana
are on lines Of railroad that run into Hell |
ena, is a guarantee of a fuel supply the |
manufacturer looking for q location. will |
not overlook.