The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-09-06

change nature before he could
make one more valuable than another.
Tell him that if has not learned these
A G facts in finance. he is an ego
tlstlcal fool TO try to discuss the ques-
tion.-Mining Industry and Review,
MONTANA's GREAT ENTERPRISE
The mining. smelling and refining OF
copper constitute to-day the most i'm
pertant industry in Montana. The fact
that more than half the entire copper
product of the United States comes from
Montana justly entitled it to be called
the Copper State of the Union. The
enormou pay-rolls created by this great
industry have done very much 10 place
Montana in the front rank among the
far Western states as regards financial
standing. Nor has this industry by any
means reached its limit of growth. AT
present. but a small part of our copper
product is refined here. and not a pound
of it has as yet been converted into
sheets and wire in Montana. notwith-
standing our state is rich in water pow
er and coal. When refineries are estab'
lished here sufficient to treat the entire
iONdCl VI Jul NoppS III tAhN
mills on q large scale are put in opera
ton. then indeed will copper become
king in Motana.
But we are rapidly approaching the
dawn of another great industry in our
state. which is destined to rival the cop
per business in magnitude. | refer to
the smelling of ores II the
ture of steel and iron goods. Ii nature
has made Montana the s~torehouse for
copper ores she has as richly endowed il
with iron ores and coal. In quantity,
quality and variety of IRON ores Mon
tana is without a rival in the Union.
Til eyes of the American steel K
have hitherto been directed to the head
of Lake Superior as the only great de
pository of high grade steel ores; but as
the resources of the Northwest are IN
folded. it will appear that Montana is
not only rich in ores that grade as high
as the Lake ores, but that it is vastly
superior to that region in the variety
and quantity of its iron leads and de-
posts. The following analysis from
two leads fifty miles from Great Falls.
in opposite directions, will convey an
idea of the high character of our North
Montana ores:
Percent. Per cent.
Metallic iron...."......54.DOo 6S.23G0
PhoSphGfous. +. ........ 0D024 O-Oi9}
sulphur. . ............. 0Di2O O.loN
olLied. . . .-......-...-. l-l.po
The principal ores of This region az:
magnetic and hematite with its several
varieties. The region surrounding Great
Falls being especially rich in iron Gre
and all the essentials thai go with it.
such as coking coal and limestone. we
naturally believe this place. will become
q great center for the Jpn and steel
making business. That irdn ores Will be
successfully smelted by Electricity adj
mits Of little doubt. Should such be the
case, steel will be made st Great Falls
at a less cost than elsewhere in the
United States. for such high grade stee,
ores are not found in any other place in
the Union in close proximity to a great
water power, like the falls Of the Mis-
souri,. -
Although iron ore, coal and water
power abound in many sections of the
South, the refractory nature of south
ern ores renders steel making very diff
cult and in many places impossible. If.
however, iron ores cannot be treated by
the electric process. we have every adj
vantage of making steel and iron
possessed by the most favored sections
OF the country. 1t is true we are far
from the markets of the East, but VIC
have the rapidly developing markets of
the West to supply.
Railway building in the West win
steadily continue, and every seven OF
eight years new rails must be supplied.
Is it probable this great and constant
demand for steel rails will much longer
be supplied from the East? Is it like
ly that these transcontinental lines that
for hundreds of miles pass along the
great coal and iron measures of Mon
tana will continue to be supplied with
rails from Pittsburg, twenty-four hun.
dred miles east of us? Is it not reason.
able to suppose that Mr.. Hill. wha
stands today foremost among railway
MEN, will see to it that steel and iron
making. the greatest of all the worlds
industries, is speedily developed in Mon.
tana! This state, with its unparalleled
resources in copper, iron, coal and water
power should become the Industrial Gen.
ter. the workshop of the Northwest.
Through energy and far-sighted poll.
cy. copper has given this state a world,
wide reputation, and it is now to be
hoped that some strong man will soon
interest himeslf in the development of
our iron resources and thus create an
other important epoch in the progress OF
Notwithstanding Standard.
Nothing helps one SO much to love the