The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-01

be Alta mine With go Other mining and
wood camps easily swell the total TO 1000
men whose monthly wages aggresate 500 r.
900. This includes only those engaged In
the mining business. ana explains In part
part What supports Helena" The out-
lock for 1894 il that the number OF wage
Gamers employed in The country tributary
20 Helena. IN mining ans Kindred enter
prisss. will be donbied. aud their aggregate
wages will reach half million dollarG
However large the Measure OF prosperity
that may come % Helena In 1894 aud how
ever great the increase in population, the
former will not surprise hsr oitizsns aud
she lie amply able 90 care for The latter.
The Darlington railroad SAY ent'r the
city during the year, thus giving another
line 90 the east II IL should u will hnd
ample terminal facilities. Eastern busi-
ness men may come 20 establish thsms Ives
anew. II 90 they will md the merchants
al eady here located in moderniT appointed
stores and buildings. equal 20 any elsewhere
In the country, with large and we'll seieote
stocks The man of family may
come he will nni city
With every modern public convenience.
oherohes Of all denominations public aud
private schools second 90 no city In the
land. q splendid public library, all the Sc
cret and bensvolsnt organizations repre-
sen,ed by strong branches and all those
things that make Helena pre- eminentlV the
home civ OF this country. lhs hrst in
quiry made By many people in regari 90
western ctr has references 20 Its water SUP
tly. The water supply Of Helena vas
4 l.. -. haN Iva Of
the national government aud theJ officially
Pronounced 10 rue and wholesome and
sufficient for city Of 100 900 people. The
water is supplied BY ths Helena Consoli-
dated Water company. the source
OF supply being Ten Mile creek
and its tributaries. together With
Dy Guloh and ORC Fine canyons With
eatehnsnt area OF 1900 square miles. COW
sring psrpstual snow shed. and with an
available dow of from 100000 10 l30O0,
600 gallons every twenty-four hours
STORAGE reservoirs in the mountains have
n combined capacity of 100000 gallons.
Z he water from these resetvois flows by
CAVITY, through twenty and sixteen inch
enst iron pipes from Ten Mile 20 the Broad
water hotel. a distance Of seven miles; from
there the water IL ca ried through fourteen
inch pipes to the distributing system Ia the
city. The water fiom Dry Guloh and Orc
Elmo canyons also flows by gravity through
six and eight inch cast iron pipes,
n distance OF three miles into Q reservoir
on the east side OF the city. and thence
into ths distributing system. The COM
pAny has a total Of sixty-hvs miles Of piTe.
reaching every section OF the city sud
suburbs. This system furnishes such an
excellent ere ssTvios as 20 mfet the hearty
appreciation OF the Insurance. companies,
aud il held up by them a. q model for
other cities. Neither in quality nor guam
tity is the Helena water supply sKoellsd BY
any other oitJ.
Ten years ago the fuel question was q
troublesome one, not only In Helena. but
throughout the state. There we're no de-
veioped coal mines in the state and wood
vas almost exclusively used for both do
nestle and industrial purposes. The sud
den increase in population after the coming
Of the Northern Pacific railroad made q
still greater demand on the timber, and il
vas absolutely necessary. from an esohom-
ical standpoint, that another fuel be pro-
vidsd. II vas known that In various
sections Of the state there wsfe immense
these were opened. Branch railroads were
built 10 these mines and nov no oityin the
country is better provided in the matter OF
fuel than Helens. The Rocky Fork mines
in the eastern part Of the state, the S''
Coules fields in Cascade county. the
mines across the line in Con
ths Trail Creek and Horn t..
ore all in alton. furnishing 90
good bituminous coal for domestic and
steam purposes, az reasonable p ices as
could be dssii ed. Beside these fields.
there are others all over the state. 90 that
the intending settler need have no fear OF
fuel famines. as 10 the case Ia various parts
of lows and North Dakois. 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 Montsna
are on lines of railroad that run into Hell |
ena, is a guarantee Of a fuel supply the !
manufacturer looking for a location. will |
not overlook.