The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-06-08

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CTS and stock raisers generally, as il
/ addition to it's daily product of flour
iced is ground.
Banks are the financial and com
ncrcial harometers OF the communi
| ty in which they are located--th,
straws that indicate which way th'
financial wind is blowing Malta ha
two substantial kind-The Firs
State Bank and the First Nationa
| Bank. The former bears the destinc
ton Of being the pioneer bank o
Malta, having been established il
1908. The First State Bank own:
its banking house, an elegant two
story structure at the corner o.
Front street and Sixth avenue. The
first floor is occupied by it's banking
| business and the Rumble Abstract
company, while the second floor is
occupied by the clerk and recorders
! office and the office OF the county
treasurer. This banh is local in
stitution, 400 out OF 500 shares ot
the stock being held by Phillips
county residents. The bank is in
most flourshing condition as its
statement of May 1st, 1916, showed
deposits amounting to SAIL, ,441.05,
reserve of $206,933.47 and total
resources of $481,528.18
The First National Bank at the
corner OF Front Street and Fifth
Avenue is a member OF the Reserve
Bank of the United States and was
established in Malta in 1910. This
bank is also enjoying an increasing
business and the volume of that bus
iness is most gratifying to it's direct
crate and apparent to it's patrons
generally
The city owns it's water works and
sewer system as we'll as the electric
light plant and all are features of
which the city may speak with PRIDE
The water supply of the city is de-
rived from well about half mile
from Front street, the principal
street of the city. This we'll is for
ty-four feet deep and fifteen feet in
diameter. One half mile from the
we'll is reinforced concrete reser-
voir at an elevation of 11O feet
above the we'll. The capacity of the
reservoir is 100000 gallons. The
water works is equipped with triple
cylinder Gould pump, 9x12 feet
which pumps 500 gallons of water
per minute. The pump is directly
connected to a thirty-five horse pow
er vertical engine. j. F. Vert has
charge of the water works system.
visit to the large merchantile
establishments will convince most
skeptical that the stocks Of merchan-
disc carried by Malta merchants are
new, complete, we'll displayed and
uD-tO-the-minute in the seasons de-
mands. Malta merchants have sur
Vlyed triumphantly hard years,
when crop failures made collections
small and difficult. No Ole merch~
ant has mortage on success but
each has kept step in reaching a
financial standing few attain in
frontier cities. The personnel of the
city's mercantile world includes r.
NJ. 1rafton, John Survant, j. F. Kill
duff, L. C. Edwards, Louis Hirsch-
kowitz, F. w. st. Hill, J. +. Murray,
d, B. Chambers, G.. L. Partridge, B.
a. koke, Herbert Dorr, Ray Gardner
Geo. Whitney, Leon Reed, L. D. |
Bates, A. P. Laramy Ellis Blumen-
hal Mrs George Forge, T. r. Scho-
5nborn; Mai Smith and Mrs. M. M.
Mercer.
R. NJ Trafton is the pioneer store
Keeper of Malta and came to this
ocality in 1887, when antelope herds
numbered from fifty to five hund-
ed and the teepees Of the red men
lotted the bench land and the val
eys. To Mr.. and Mrs. Trafton be-
ong the distinction of being the first
white people to build log cabin in
Malta At that time one might ride
Or whole day and encounter moth
ng but Indians and wild animals.
soon after they located here things
'egan to happen" and during the
ummer OF 1887 the Great Northern
Railroad was pushed through from
DEVILS Lake to Great Falls. Mr..
ration engaged in the taraffic of
'uffalo bones and they were so
Plentiful at that period that he ship
ed thirteen hundred tons, (Over
ne hundred car load) the first sea-
on. This old timers life is replete
With interesting experiences and sit
ation of the early days and in
the changes that have been
1rought by Times evolution in city
nd country. In October, 1915, Mr..
ration generously donated resi-
ence block of twenty-five lots for
Phillips county court house site
Or like all newly created counties
hat have no court house the officials
ave their headquarters wherever
lost convenient. Some have offices
n the second floor of the Veseth
lock, others over the First State
ank and still others over the Ed
'ards-McLellan store, but the day
not for distant when the tax paw
rs of the county will see fit to vote
pom the question of building a
ourt house and then Mr.. Trafton's
onation will be truly appreciated. !
Societies, lodges, clubs. and fra
'rnal orders are we'll represented !
Malta, and include A. F. & A. NJ,
Q. 81; l. O. O. F., F. O. E., Re-
ekah lodge No.32, o. E. S., the Milk
lver Valley Gun Club, and the {
club. The 1. O. O. F, have ,
Warded the contract for a hall to
'mmenced the erection of a hal] +
ld the f. O. E. also will erect a {