The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-10
ANOTHER OLD TIMER
Thomas COrbariy, an Esteemed Pioneer
of This State, Dead.
OLDEST A. 0. H. IN MONTANA
The Cascade County immigration
and Mining Convention Ad-
Journs Sine Die After
Profitable Session.

Great Falls, April 9.-Thomas Corbar-
ly died this morning at $3.50 O'Clock at
his ranch at Boston Coulee and the
body was brought in this afternoon.
. When Mr.. Corbarly left Great Falls, a
week ago, for his ranch he was in poor
health and soon after his arrival there
contracted severe cold which quickly
developed into pneumonia, with fatal
results.
Tom" Corbarly. as he was familiar
~ known by hundreds of friends, came
to Great Falls 10 years ago and has
been closely identified with the city's
growth. He was a New Yorker for
many years and has a brother and
nephew in that city and brothers in
Poughkeepsie and Albany Before
coming to Great Falls he was for 10
years with Colonel Broadwater at Hell
ena. Since coming to Great Falls Mr..
Corbarly has accumulated considerable
property. He was an earnest demo-
crat and influential in politics, both in
county and city, where he has held sew
eral important offices in the democratic
organizations. He was liked and re-
spected by hundreds of friends through
out the state. He was SO years old and
was the oldest member in the state of
the A. o. H., which society will have
charge OF the funeral services.
AT 10 o'clock this morning the Cas-
cade county immigration and mining
convention met at the board of trade
rooms in the Realty building. As a
large number of delegates from other
parts or the county could not arrive
until this afternoon, very little was ac-
complished at the morning session save
the preliminary steps towards perma-
nent organization.
Paris Gibson, the county member of
the state executive INIT lad
the meeting to order and delivered a
short, able address in which the pur-
poses of the convention were stated
and the results which would accrue to
the county from good honest work in
furthering them. He stated that the
total state fund to be raised was 81 200.
or which Cascade county is requested
to furnish $133 as its share. Ira Myers
was chosen temporary chairman and o.
M. Holmes secretary.
Upon motion of Mayor Webster the
chair appointed the following standing
committees for the permanent organi-
zation: Organization, w. M Atkinson.
M. s. Parker and L. s. Woodbury. reso- /
buttons, Z. M. Webster, o. NJ. Holmes
NJ. PASCAL; finance, F. w. Webster, ].
III. Mcknight, A. Z. Edwards.
AT O'Clock the convention was again
called to order The report of the COM
mittee on permanent organization was
received and recommended that the |
temporary organization be made per- |
manent. The report was submitted to |
debate and after some discussion IL was |
thought best to amend it so as to pro- |
vide for an executive committee of 10 |
members. committee composed of w |
NJ. Bole, Frank Webster and NJ S. |
Parker was appointed by the chair to |
name the committee. This will be done |
in the course of the next few days |
when replies are received from several |
persons in the county whom the COM
mittee are anxious to have serve.
The first paper read before the con-
vention was THE Water Power of |
Great Falls" by NJ. S. Parker. He
pointed out the inexhaustible supply of
water power in Cascade county. AS
an illustration he pointed to, the divi-
dend, of more than $1,000 900 paid out
by the b. & NJ smelter, which, he said,
was commentary on the water power of
Great Falls This dividend, he de-
clared, was greater than that paid by
the entire Great Northern system dur
ing the same period.
Coal and the Minerals of Cascade
County," by o. c. Morrison, followed.
While the county had no solid silver
ore or precious metals. there were with
in its borders mineral deposits of great
er value. In 1894 the coal output in
the county was 63S960 tons. or 6S per
cent. of the entire output of the state.
ne lBu TOT 1880 were not yet attain
able. but when given out they would
show a total output of nearly a million
tons. 1t took a dozen years to make
the people of the country believe, he
said, that coke could be made from
Cascade coal. Now the coke industry
cuts a material figure in the products
of the state. Iron, mineral and metal
lie paint and other minerals were
pointed to and their product in the
county named.
THE Markets of Cascade County," by
w. NJ. Bole, was an interesting paper.
He treated of the difference in the con-
of the agricultural products
grown here and those shipped in. Cas-
cade county consumed s950000 in agri-
cultural products, of which $500 900 were
In wheat To grow this in Cascade
county would require 200 farms of 100 ,
acres each and give employment to
more than 1000 men.
'The Possibilities OF Irrigation" by s.
r. Robbins. followed and was well re-
,eived. The last paper read was on
Hard Wheat" by w. NJ. Atkinson. In
his he substantiated the facts contain
ID in Mr.. Bole's paper. 1t takes 500. 900
bushels of wheat TO operate the mills
IF Cascade county per year OF this
amount only 10000 bushels were grown
N the county. The Cascade bench land
wheat was Of a higher grade than
North Dakota.
The convention then adjourned sine
lie.