The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-09

a pressure sufficient to throw stream
over any building in the city, provides
ample protection against fire and will
suffice for many years to come
AS regards
SECRET SOCIETIES.,
we can only say that all the prominent
orders are represented, there being
something like twenty lodges in the city
all with large membership and in pros
porous condition.
There is also in this city an organiza-
ton known as the
| KALIsPELL CLUB,
which boasts of all the most prominent
business men of the city as it's members.
Their rooms are finely fitted up and are
said to be by odds the finest in the west
for the size of the town.
We can also boast of IA thoroughly or
ganized and active
BOARD OF TRADE,
James Conlon being president and j.
W. Connors secretary and treasurer. 1t
was through this board and the personal
efforts of the secretary that the U. S.
weather bureau was located in this city.
They have also furnished the various
boards of trade and chambers of com
merce throughout the country with sta
tistics of the various resources Of the
county, keeping in touch with the secre-
tary of agriculture as we'll as the inter
state commerce commission, making
crop and timber reports to one and hand
ling all subjects of imortance to the city
in connection with the other. The Sec
rotary has, without calling a meeting,
kept the different inquirers advised of
the progress of the various institutions
and of the conditions of both crop and
timber. All communications and in
quiries are promptly and cheerfully an
swered
We also have what is known as the
FLATHEAD COUNTY HORTICULTURAL So
CIETY,
with headquarters in Kalispell, and
whose members largely belong to the
state organization. Their annual exhibit
for 1900 has just closed very successfully,
having been we'll attended and the dis
play fully up to all expectations.
There will be proposition submitted
to the voters of the county at the coming
fall election for the issuing of bonds for
the erection of a
NEW COURT HOUSE
at a cost of $5OOOO and as the building
is much needed and the people of the
county are in a furnishing condition,
there is no question but that it will be
carried and the building erected the
coming year.
As to
NEWSPAPERS.
Kalispell is represented by three news
papers, two of which are weeklies and
one semiweekly, as follows:
The Inter Lake, weekly, by r. M,
Goshorn; republican in politics; sub
scription rates 81 per year.
The Flathead Herald-Journal, weekly,
by Moore & Houtz; democratic in poll
tics; subscription rates 50 per year.
The Kalispell Bee, semi weekly, by the
Bee Publishing Company; democratic in
politics; subscription rates $3.50 per
year.
With the completion of arrangements
by the Great Northern and the locating
by them and other capitalists of the diff
ferent numbering interests that are sure
to be started the coming winter, there is
no question but that there will be
NEW RAILROAD
completed from this place to the Great
Flathead lake. This, coupled with the
assurance that the coming spring will
see the ninety miles of new track built
by the Great Northern between this
point and Libby, SO long talked of, is
that there will be large sums
of money expended in this vicinity next
year, making prosperous times for the
entire community in the coming season.
Another enterprise that will materially
aid in making Kalispell great manu-
featuring center is that of local CON-
pany who have organized for the pur-
pos of utilizing the inexhaustible water |
power of Swan river. At point on |
this stream, some 20 miles from this city
the river has fall of 80 feet in two
miles, and it is the purpose of this com
pany to utilize the power and they are at |
this time constructing at that point an
electric lighting and power plant, the |
power to be transmitted to this city and |
will ultimately be used for all manufac-
turing and power purposes, lighting the
city and to furnish the motive power for |
an electric railway.
While the city of Kalispell at this time |