The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-11
BRIGHT IDEAS OF
MONTANA EDITORS
Advance All Along the Line.

Advance All Along the Line.
1t is too bad that some people should
be afraid that Kalispell will grow too
fast for them to keep up with 1t. The
healthy increase in population and
structures since a year ago has not been
al. air bubble. The finances of the newly
arriving settler are generally In good
condition and it is only few old timers
who elevate their brows and thrust the
tongue into the cheek when some new
and decided improvement Is contem-
plated. OF the new class OF residents
there is something else emphatically IN
their favor well worth discussing; they
are in a majority thrifty tradesmen, ex-
pect mechanics and possessed of the
ability to rustic which arises from
frequent ups and downs. These are the
people who are managing the reprehen-
s.ble boom with which Kalispell is
threatened, aided and abetted to con-
siderable extent by another class of
new citizens who have brought into the
city enough ready money to invest IN
building and merchandise.
This world is passing away with too
much rapidity for the people of Kalis-
ment ordained by the natural resources
of the country. For ten years already
Kalispell has been kept swathed In in
fantile garments and some men who
We're here before the town, have grown
old waiting for the revolution which Is
now due The infant metropolis has so
far outgrown the bands which have en-
veloped it that its creeping days are
over. 1t has begun to walk and will make
pretty fair run before the season Of
1901 is closed.
By some specious reasoning It may
be considered by the tremulous old
timers q disadvantage to q town to
be the most talked-about and written
about of the embroyo business cente-s
of Montana: 1t may to them also seem
dsadvantageous for men with outside
capital to come here to stay and
spend their money. engaging in business
enterprises, building brick blocks and
rows of residences for the comfort and
convenience of that other class who are
" workers., but prefer to begin life in their
new home surrounded by comforts that
could never be obtained from q log shack
with dirt roof, which after some period
of saving they might succeed in trans
forming into a place OF some pre-
tensions.
I Within the past year the development
OF Kalispell has been largely contributed
to by this outside capital: the local CAPT.
| tai has been chary or investment ana
| entirely too conservatively administered
for the best growth OF the city though
| doubtless fully complying with the
| etasive policy prescribed by those who
are afraid Of boom.
And then again some trifling incon-
sistency Is observed in a local con-
temporary which in one sentence adj
monished the too forward movement
of the city and then takes particular
pains to compliment the city council
| for a recent conclusion to complete
| the paving of Second street its en-
! tire length. This move Is one which
meets with the hearty approval OF all
the business men ON this thoroughfare
and will also forward the movement
to complete the grading and macadam-
izing of Main street, which will result
in Kalispell having two business streets