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

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route, but for people who have never
made it, it offers many attractions. While
this valley and the people generally were
never IN a more prosperous condition, the
FARMERS being we'll out of debt, and but
few mortgages, and as evidence of this
tact the combined deposits of the two
banks of this city amount to something
over s65O,OOO.
There are needed badly more manufact-
urlng Industries, and among few that Of
fer excellent inducements may be men
toned pulp and paper mill, a cooper
ing or tub and barrel factory; sash and
door factory, single mill, and as sugar
beets have been experimental with here
ana grows to an enormous size, as we'll
as containing a large per cent of saccha-
rine, there is no question but that beet
sugar factory would pay handsome re-
turns; and while Kalispell is one of the
wealthiest towns of it's size in the coun-
try local capitalists have been accus-
toned to such large profits and good re-
turns from a regular mercantile and
short Investment system of investing,
that they are slow to undertake manu-
featuring enterprises, and there is no
question but right here in Flathead
county, and in Kalispell in particular,
there are more openings for safe invest
ments with surer and larger returns than
is offered to
CAPITALISTS
in any community on the western hemi-
sphere today. The city now has a fine
brick brewery, cigar mandatory, num-
Der Of planning and lath mills and two
large merchant -four mills, with com
bined capacity of 300 barrels per day,
running at full capacity. Kalispell is
division headquarters of the Great North
ern railroad, which has machine and
repair Shops, round houses, coal bunk
ers, and numerous other improvements,
as we'll as large two-story brick passen-
ger station which is the finest on the
line west of st. Paul. The
AoNNolIh NOMfAN1s
was organized, the city laid out and the
plot filed on April, 2lst, 1891, at which
time the first building was erected
being the office of the company.
Mr.. G. 2. Conrad, the president, has
been the manager from the beginning
and is heavily interested. He in con-
nection with the Great Northern rail
road and other eastern capitalists form
the company which has done much to
develope the recources of this great
valley of which Kalispell is essentially
the headquarters. By referring to map
and looking at the country, you can see
at glance that Kalispell is to be the
commercial, as we'll as the manufacturing
center of all this great country, reaching
on the west to Boomers Ferry, on the
north to the National boundary line and
on the south to the Northern Pacific
railroad, a distance of 100 miles each
way and for 200 miles to the east.
Now look to the numbering and agri-
cultural as we'll as stockraising and
horticultural districts, covering the
valleys, plains and forests of this great
country. Now the gold, silver, lead
copper and coal mines, all producing;
the water power of the great streams
harnessed, the inexhaustable oil fields
developed, the natural gas wells opened
and their product being utilized. Then
immagine if you can, the smelters and
their army of labor required to reduce
the ore from these mines. The manu-
plants coupled with every
industry that it will require to supply
the wants of this great section, large
enough and with recources sufficient to
form an empire within itself. Immagine
all of these we ask you in our furnishing
city, with street railways and all modern
and you will see Kalispell
as it will appear in dozen years from
now, if not sooner. In this the writer
may be accused of exaggeration, but
We have followed the settling of new
countries from the Missouri river to the
Pacific coast and have seen these things
yet we are free to say we
have never seen a country under the sun
with the natural resources and ad-
vantages, and offering the opportunities
that does this section in common, and
in particular, and with one
half of it's natural advantages developed
there is no power under the heavens
that can prevent this city from being
just what we have pictured it, and ali
we need to verify our statement is time
for these things to develop. The writer
wishes to say that he is indebted to Mr..
J. H. Edwards. vice. president of the
Conrad National Bank, for many of the
facts and statistics in this article, and as
a fitting conclusion to the foregoing and
to give final emphasis to the grand
truths concerning the importance Of the
trade, commerce and manufacturing
Of Kalispell and to the country at
large we now ask the privilege
Of introducing to all of our readers
the representative business establish