The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-21
GOOD FOR GREAT FALLS.
Looking Forward to a Year Of
Prosperity.
BIG CONSTRUCTION WORK
Boston Is Montana Shelter Is Making
Large Addition-New Buildings
Are Planned-A Rastlin9
Lively Trust.

Great Falls, May 20.-There is no
reason at the present time why the
summer of 1899 should not be a good one
for the city of Great Falls and her peo-
pie 1t has often been the fate of this
town that just when everything was
apparently moving smoothly some
thing happened to set it all afioat, nut
it will take considerable to prevent a
very large and solid growth this sum-
mer, and to predict that no one need
go outside the improvements which
are either under way or planned for this
summer.
Probably no one can say just how
much the additions to the plant of the
Boston and Montana smelter will cost
Sure it is, that in spite of the warped
sympathy of a sheet printed in a town
of decayed commerce, decayed mining
interests. and judging from the events
of last winter, of decayed manhood in
general, the contracts for the enlarg-
ing of the electrolytic plant of the con-
centrator and the building of an en-
tirely new stack and fumes equal in
size to that which now crowns Indian
Point, have been let and work has
started on part while lumber and 9TH
the train load. If the copper trust is
a bad thing Great Falls people do not
know. it nor fear it, and the sympathy
of the Helena paper is like the water
that rolls from ducks back. From
what now appears it seems safe to say
that the Boston and Montana smelter
will be increased so per cent. over it's
present size, and that means an ex-
penditure of at least a half million
So it is worth while noting that when
the people of played-out placer camp
are begging Eastern capital to put I'D
cheap Woollen mill and are doubtful
of getting that, they have sympathy
to waste on younger. brighter, clean
er town where 100000 enterprise is
actually under construction and the
people are ignorant of any necessity
for sympathy. The Boston and Mon
tana company heads the list, then, with
100000
This is the great source of labor. but
outside of that there are many minor
buildings and OUTLAWS which in ordi-
nary times or in towns where disso-
luton is imminent would be reckoned
as considerable. The paving of a por-
ton of the business section of the
town, in which some forty lots are in
terested, is practically certain The
cost per lot has been estimated at $3.50.
which would lead to a total of $4,000.
otl liul oody lliG CUIllTdcL 1OF a xI2,-
900 building on Central avenue was let
by j. A. Cobb of London, England. NJ.
II. Luther has obtained the lots, the
plans are prepared, and it is only a
matter of few day before the CON
tract for $4,000 building will be let
by him, the structure to occupy the
northwest corner of First avenue south
and Fourth street. Right to the west
of this place ]. r. Miller has applied
to the council for permission to erect
a brick building to cost probably IS, 900.
one block to the west and on the OPP
poslte side of the avenue, the old wooden
buildings are being removed prepara-
tory to starting another brick building.
o0x75 feet. The only doubt about the
matter is whether it is to be one or
two stories in height. On Second street.
between Central avenue and First ave
nue. south, Messrs. Mitchell and Skin
nerare just completing two-story brick
building, costing at least $1,000. Just
a snort time ago within this queer
season we call spring. Roberts and
Winters put up one-story brick build
ing on their lot on Central avenue. be-
tween Fourth avenue and Fifth streets,
costing about $4,000. Conrad Bros. have
had plans made for a building for their
lot on the corner of Central avenue an
Fourth street. They have not yet de-
cided whether they will build this
spring or not, but when they do 1t will
be about $4,000 or more. Messrs Took
and Freeman, who own the opposite