The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-22
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1eo1.
A HINT FOR BILLINGS,

are beginning to manifest themselves
in response to the efforts put forth
by them to induce the location of man
ufacturing enterprises in their city.
1t is true that as yet 40 very large
concerns Of that kind have established
themselves there, but ct the present
rate of increase in the number Of
smaller ones continually selecting the
capital as a field Offering inducements
attractive enough to cause them to
cast their lot with it's citizens the time
is rapidly approaching when the ag-
gregate will represent a total not to
be slightingly spoken of. Large ends
often follow small beginnings and no
reason can well be advanced why this
With enough small factories the total
of the number of men employed will
be the same as though all were in the
service of one big concern with the
added advantage that comes from a
diversity of employment and many
kinds Of employees. With only one
large enterprise giving employment it
is possible, ever probable that the
nature Of the employment it afforded
might not warrant the paying of large
wages and thus while the men in it's
employ might number hundreds. the
sum of it's monthly disbursements
for wages would be small. With many
factories of many kinds such a likeli-
hood is not so probable and the COM
munity is bound to be the gamer.
Another cause of generalization is
the good sense of the people of Hell
ena in welcoming all newcomers,
whether they be great or small. To
all is extended a cordial greeting and
their loyalty to their city prompts the
people to offer every assistance and
inducement to the strangers and to
exert every effort in their power to
make their ventures successful and
the selection of their city as a base
of operations profitable. Very sensi-
bly, the citizens of Helena eason that
if small concerns can be induced to
locate there and make a success of
their business in time larger ones
may be made to understand the bene-
fit it would be to themselves to come
also and share in the prosperity of all.
Only a few years ago Helena furn-
ished the source of unmeasured mer-
riment to the newspapers and individ-
uals of other towns in the state be-
cause of it's cracker factory. The man
ner in which that factory was exploit
ed as a fund for alleged witicisms and
humorous paragraphs by editors of
towns not fortunate enough to boast
of any source of employment or rev
enue to it's citizens, except such as
nature had placed at their disposal,
is still well remembered, and ever
now an occasional fling at Helena's
original manufacturing enterprise may
be read in some of the publications
that have not yet learned how stale
and tiresome the thing has grown to
be. The people of Helena, however
were unmindful of the little quips
and continued to boast of their fac
tory, saying that it was only the fore
unner of others to ONE While
those others may not have materializ
ed with the celebrity expected, Still
they came and others are coming t.
join them and the number is slowly
but surely increasing. The last news
papers to arrive from the capita
bring the announcement that still an
other manufacturing enterprise is t.
be added to those already a part o
the city's source of industry an
wealth and because of the nature 0
the product it is intended shall b
it's output every reason exists for be
lieving that it will find the field a goo
one and one holding out excellent il
ducements as to the future.
Billings could do much worse tina
follow the example of Helena in r.
spect to the matter of seeking to in
prove it's condition and add to it's pro
perity and growth. With two line
of railroads and a third an assure
fact, and natural advantage of LOCI
ton, ample fuel supplies almost
its very doors, an unrivaled waite
powers that could be made the han
servant of manufacturing industry
a nominal cost and surrounded by or
of the richest and most promisin
territories in the west, it possess
to a marked degree all the reauir
ments Of a place where indust'