The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-06-08
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square miles, is ideally and pictur
esauely located on the historic Mill
Esriver, on the main line of the Grea
Northern railway, three hundred
miles east of Helena, the capital o.
the state. The position the city oc
cupies on the river, it's substantial
and imposing business blocks, its
beautiful modern residences, sur
rounded by well kept lawns, shade
trees and flowers, its numerous
churches, it's hospitals, it's hand
some and modern school building
Fits grain elevators towering skyward
it's capacious flour mill, it's electric
$lighting system, it's water and sewer
k3system, the waters of Milk river
Mcoursing along it's northern boun-
Diary, all give it the appearance of a
4 city several times it's size and make
Il it attractively beautiful as a "home
Y town"
y The growth of the town during
the past decade has been phenomenal
and where but yesterday the gaudily
painted Indian placed his wigwam
and lit his camp fire to roast his
venison or other wild meat, or later
where the cowboy with snaps and
broad sombrero made after vast
erds of cattle whose hoof beats
reverberated over the sun-seared
praries, today there is pulsating,
throbbing city, peopled with red
Bblooded men and women who are
fhot content with working and striv-
Ming for the present but for the future
EaWeifare of the city and it's posterity
/ hs we'll. Malta is appropriately called
The city OF opportunity for here are
Mound advantages material, physical,
Educational, religious and economic.
So phenomenal has been the city's
development that those who are not
ultimately familiar with conditions
Nmight characterize its rapid growth
Eas "a boom. But Malta is not
Il boom town." nor has it ever aspired
to be boom town in sense in which
the word is commonly used. 1t has
never been built larger than it's pos
sibilities warrant. It's wonderful
progress and development OF the
past few years has been done solely
On the sane and sound basis of sup
ply and demand; this is evidenced
|toy the volume of important business
transacted, the figures attendant up
Oh the abundant crop returns from
the surrounding country, by the civic
the surrounding country, by the civic
fact that there are no idle business
blocks Or houses already constructed
and in waiting for prospective ten
ants. Maltas resources are mani
fold and sufficient TO support the
healthy growth of the city. Capital
is available for building purposes
and when the building is needed the
money is forthcoming. This indi-
Gates, most emphatically, a steady, |
positive advancement and an in
creas sed flow of wealth through it's
banks.
Potent factors in the solidity of
the city are the sheep and cattle in
dustries of it's rural districts, the in
creased farm acreage of the adjoin-
ing country, and incidentally, the
rich gold mines of the Little Rockies
augment it's commercial activity
Surrounding the city lies some of the
greatest potential land of the north
west and as yet there has hardly
been dent made in the rich land to
be cultivated. In that land, by in
telligent cultivation, lies future pros
perity, power, wealth, and influence.
The Milk River Irrigation project
promises to transform all the river
bottom lands and a large acreage is
receiving water for the 1916
crops. The entire irrigable area of
the Milk River project in Northern
Montana is 225,0O0 acres but only
a fractional part is entirely complet-
ed. Eight thousand acres in the vi
cinity of Malta, Wagner and Dodson
Is receiving water for irrigation pur-
poses this season. During the year
1912 the United States government
erected a handsome two-story office
building in Malta. Project Manager
w. W. Schlect and his corps of as
sistants make headquarters in this
building, which is known as the
Reclamation Office Building"
During 1915 about $20O,O00 was
expended in public buildings, brick
and concrete business blocks, houses,
bungalows, garages, cottages, street
pavements and other lasting i'm
provements. Building operations
we're commenced in the spring as
soon as weather conditions would
permit and continued throughout the
and fall and we'll into the
winter. Three of the most note
worthy of these 1915 buildings are
he Edwards-McLellan block, the
lew school building and the Varney
block. The handsome three-story
s-McLellan business block of
concrete, erected at cost of $4,000 .
ornaments the east side of Fifth ave-
lue and contains the Fifth Avenue {
Hotel and Cafe, the Enterprise print y
ng plant, the Russell Cigar factory, .
Ferris club room, and the Russell l
>arher shop. l.
The new $4,000 school building
S a modern, concrete structure, and 7
,ffers splendid encouragement to all '
Who are interested in the city's edu- I
ational advancement. Through the q
lntiring efforts of Prof. j. l.. Elliott a
md his able corps of teachers, the p
chool has recently been placed on n
he accredited four-year high school Q
list. The school library contains six Ii
hundred volumes for supplementary o