The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-14
IN LIBBY.
Electric Light Plant and Water Works
for the Town.

Electric Light Plant and Water Works
for the Town.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Llbhy, Nov. l0.-An agreement has
been entered into between the Kalispell
Electric and Power company Of Kalis-
pell and A. B. Johnston and w. A.
Hills of Libby for the construction of
an electric light plant and for putting
in system of water works for Libby.
Under the terms Of the agreement. as
given out by Mr.. Johnston, one of the
parties to the deal, the company must
have the electric light wires strung in
side of six months and be prepared 20
furnish the people of Libby electric
lights inside of that time and work
must have begun on the system OF
water works before the expiration OF
the six months. The proposition is the
result of the endeaVors of r. D. Gould
of Kalispell who has been working on
the scheme about month, and he has
already sent the electrical engineer of
that company to Libby to look over
the situation.
1t is proposed to take the waters of
Flower creek for the purpose Of afford
ing the power necessary to drive the
plant and for the water works system
when in operation. In order to get the
water where 1t is desired it will be
necessary to run a ditch about a milo
creek about two miles from Libby and
this will take the water to the top of
bluff which will give about 225 feet Of
fall. There is a natural site for a
reservoir on top of this bluff and the
whole proposition can be completed at
very small cost. There is population
enough here at the present time to
make the investment good one, and
the rapid growth of the place will in
short time make it one of the best in
that line.
The Libby Lumber & Development
company recently sent out train-load
Of squared ties from it's mill at this
place, making it the largest shipment
OF lumber ever sent out from the Libby
yards. In addition there We're three
carloads Of bridge timbers. The whole
train was routed east. This mill is
running night and day and employs
about 40 men.
This fall SO far has been one of the
best known here for some time. Aside
from the recent fall Of snow, which did
not last long, there has been nothing
to keep the nrospectcrs out of the hills,
and they are still making locations and
doing assessment work. Except on the
very highest mountains there is no
snow, and the weather is as pleasant
and as mild as spring. 1t is confidently
predicted by the old-timers that there
will be but little snow until Christmas
and that the winter will not be a Sc
we're one.
Work on the new $4,000 hotel is pro-
crossing and the excavation for the
foundation is all completed and about
half of the masonry work for the foun-
dation walls has been laid. Much of
the material is now on the ground,
and as socn as the masons are through
the carpenters will be put on. 1t will
not be completed until some time in
the spring.
Owing to the recent decision of the
supreme court the school trustees of
Libby are trying to figure out some
means of keeping the schools open for
the full term, there being now in the
treasury enough only to run them UNI
til the LIST Of January There have
been no refusals yet on the part of tax
payers to pay the special tax, and If
all of them pay this will be enough to
keep them open until about the LIST OF
April. AS the large majority of the tax
is paid by the Great Northern, and as
it is thought the company will take
advantage of the decision, it is feared
the schools will have to close before
the expiration of the full term.