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GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
wiLL UaNKS , Iu nn a_. I
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NIT, b'T* d
Ma.. Gann tirD't j'.is the an- a
thorizel a;gat of tih Ti3:;::z to so- !ii
licit subscription, job work and ad- a
vertising. All cntracts inale by i e
him will be faithfn!iy car:rie1 out by I1
this office. ti
UP to the plresent date more than f
four times: a0 'a'y -touBets have vis- t
ited the National Park this year, than Ic
last. e
THE number of iiigiriaants landed
at Castle C Garden since the 1st of Jan
nary is 3'0,i)0 less than (during the a
same period l ;t year.
THE Sentii=l, plnii ou!dr, a
by S. A. 1oeiniison, is a :t I:i. I : f'
a neatly printed Sheaetd is ev4iInt
ly well iisuppxr'ted. S:, we- wish
you all the good luck i "a-il. e• l
L:
MI. Watsi;s':i adamas, "' 7it
ry of Montana Jurn11ali.m I"" frim a
the Press A&oc(: 17i. is 1 blished 1
by the Minir. A co n,'eici(as by e a-{
son of the number of glar ig Our":' )
it contains.
Gov. Hoxou:-, of Ohio, wasr-no:.
inated for tle oL icy te l)enoc'rats.
As Judge Firakere' w omiated byI
the lReprlib'ans, it plae the same
ticket in the field. as pireseht:d at the
last guberidationaI eelcti n. t
THE Se'i'retari of a' ir :iaS iliriW' t .
ed(1 Gen. Mil , iin cca ,,lxi:l , f ler I
Deparimn:t ca th', ,i.-, ,:L to i:hi
troops in r1ea .:ie.s to-, c:ee ti .i,
President's proiianna:ian in r- ation t
to cattlemelln 11the ' Che ' e and
Arapahoe Ileerva-ton. Y, t.:ms f a.
the proclamation the c:ttlenn w ill!
be comnpelled to remove !their herdl s by
the 4th of next month. I):
EŽ'oruA(:ISa relports are rece't' ived
from the grain districts thro :lughut
Montana. The crops in the vlici: it
of Great Falls and Sun River are
looking excellently, and will pro
duce from thirty to forty bushelh s to
the acre. The locusts have tnot Imade
their appearance yet in this ;lart ofl
the territory. rv ig will gtn
erally be going on th ougionut the t
territory by next week.- Special to
Pioneer Press.
1',a
Fenou accounts so iar recliveved the
wheat crop of the surro.udting coun
try is excellent, and the yield to the
acre will be h:rge. TUri fortuatey
there are too many varietie- of sring
wheat, but farmers all seem to under
stand that the wheat required is the
Scotch Fife, and they will get it as
fast as possible. The Fife, or hard I
wheat grown on the bench lands of
the Highwood a:id Shonkin, is said to
be very handsome, and it is thought
to be fully equal to the Dakota hard
wheat. The building of a first-class
mill at Great Falls will stimulate
wheat raising, and the day is now at
hand when the people in this part of
Montana will send no more money
east for flour.
THE purchase of the principal mine:
in Neihart by the Proa dwater svndi
cate places this part of Montana on
the eve of important developments.
This syndicate of capitalits is one of
the wealthiest that has ever comnmnenc
ed operations in the west-their muon
ey power reaches into the millions.
.Some of them are among the most
energetic, far-sighted men of the
country, who have won national repu
tations in handling great enterprises.
The purchase of these mines will have
an important bearing upon all this
part of Montana, and especially upon
Great Falls which will become shortly
the supply-point of Neihart and the
adjacent mining camps. The pur
chase of these mines will result in the
building of a railroad from the Falls
to Neihart, and the establishment of
reduction works at our magnificent
water power. It means the speedy
settlement of the surrounding coun
try by a good class of farmers. In
short, it is the dawn of a new era to
all this part of Montana.
WITHOUT knowing the exact amount
that is annually paid out for flour and
bacon by the tax payers of Choteau
county, it has certainly amounted to
a very large sum during the past ten
years. These two staples have been
shipped to us from points distant
from one to three thousand miles,
thus entailing a cost of freight from
one to three cents per pound. The
money paid out for flour and bacon
never returns to Montan, and the
purchase of these two articles alone,
is sufficient to keep our people poor.
Fortunately, the situation is changing
rapidly. Farmers are beginning to
raise wheat, and within two years all
the flour consumed in Choteau coun
ty will be made in Montana. Every
farmer is now raising hogs, and next
year the crop will be sufficient to sup
ply the entire demand in the county. 1
Farming in this part of the territory
is rapidly becoming an important in
terest. Upon the development of this
industry depends the permanent
growth and stability of Montana,
4)i the past few week-; there
,-n bcan e:i ,v;de:ntr revivale of busi
i- :s in all tr:,, an-i idhstriee- in
the est. Li:; i.s chat':ing news. and
Soe w!hich the 1people of M'ontana
duly alqppreciate. The Pioneer Press,
edito,,ri', says: "The signs of busi
n!.(', riecoveryt' are not confi'ed to any
- l:nted fi,'ld. The ostronget ho-pe i that
a .e, ,ra h1- 1gun is furid in the
co-ordilin:t!1g but indetipen-!nt 0'ci
deinces of imaprt, venem t in all direc
tionS. The ';:,Co'. of clearinigs points
to this conchlion. A ihettir de:mand
1 for money lnu:e. reasonab)le a belief
lthat the seee-l',:;s accaumunulaion of
1 capital in bai:k reserves wtill preseitly
cease, andl the money of the country
reis ored to its nur.rdl occiipation in
producti.ve e:mployments. From all
the gieat cenier; of trade there are
prhse ra dstr(et:'s has ,ben tre
f .rr,:d:i to a . :-~,:a : >- tha:t the-re were
Ssy::/nis of 1e'. b e.iines hea:lth in
S},,rt,; of the country. The i'inaa
c Ch-en sSi-toi'r the view 'we
iihve taken i. it. ..ate.:t r..evi".w of na
tio:,u' I:u1 i;-'.-. It cells lparti nlar
altention1 i.) the u;;;ward movnwnmet of
t*'c,': of s-tape ctton god-. Aming
ct on"'i'f'c ers t' distress has
]I 't,'gll !r t " i'll Wt'i ly'he're 4 1: '. The
Cho.i c ! ,'i' eric:a,ýcntlv oit,):sirve:s that
dince th,, oni'rit of t: - osI. h:a.' at last
fl ,n el1ow the di:l:""adl--and that
whhil, 11t?,ers v,(--%' in their m;:, con
srvtilve M0ol-- it is stronig i'nlica
t ion tha th;.' icw.: t poient of pro,.ue-
tiona Ls been rea'chehd, and that it
n!u t invres, e;en to keep place with
that 1:in11:m110 -111'd'ni.- d which hast
;(,:, suSici, eto ,x;:;-'t ov, rstocks
v lA dM h::a, i. it is at least c uhin
ta' t!his wll be' no famine year. C'orn
I pr'ospect - are: ai:v the avclrage, and
a curtail :I wheat,. iproctih'ioon, as long
as i ill lae a : e c':mfortabdle sturplus
S1 - :' e .. a wi:l be co-nt erbala.. ed
1y 1hi hir pt'rice. 'ina:lly, the rail
roadi ituatio n is looking up, the suI- 1
ner earnings reported being on the
vwho1 1 very: I: antory. It is hardly'
pIroble that all these ip1g-:ns are fal
."rio -. fhats the better tone of all{
imarkets and all iid:lstrie,. Comi:ng at
a time nlhn ther, was no external 1
cause for recovery, should be but a
tenporarv rally. There is nothing
to cause a rally save the working of
tho.e natural agencies which are de
peel1 on" to t!iriI the pendulumh to its
backward swing. He is not over
saguine wh on:;t-rauiates himself I
on returning proslperity. We believe I
that it is on the way, and hope that
the country ma.y have learned not to
abuse it i,5 rushing again at a later
date into those extremes of over-con- I
tidence and rash speculation whose
expiation we have 1)-en slowly and
painfully working out."
FT. BE.Tox, M. T., Aug. 18, 1885.
En. TI:IEcNE: I have read the report
of Mr FIord's in regard to his vote on
the new road from Fort Benton .to
(:reat Falls. and have several times
travelled the new road and know
cvery foot of the adjacent country,
and I know that the road is a great
imp)rovement on the old one and that
a very slight expi)ense laid out on it
will make it the best road in the
county. The grade across Huntley's
Coulee is very short, not exceeding
30 or 40 feet, and can be made very
easy. There are n.) other grades on
.the entire road which one man and a
team cannot make perfectly easy in
three days work. This road is a great
advantage to Ft. Benton, which is
furnishing Great Falls with its sup
pliies, and which pays a large propor
tion of taxes. It is of equal advantage
to other parts of the county. Is not
the reason that a road from the mouth
of Sun river across to Eagle Rock, in
connection with this road, might in
jure Sun River Crossing, rather a
poor excuse for a Choteau County
Commissioner to offer? Is not it
a sufficient answer to the column of
words in the River Press to suggest
the example of Edward Kelly, the
only man in Chotean County, who is
injured by the new road, but who re
ported in favor of it thereby showing
himself to be an HONEST 3IAN, and
one who would allow no petty preju
dice or spite to interfere with his offi
cial duty. TAXPAYER.
THE grand jury at Manudan, Dak.,
returned an indictment for murder
against the Marquis de Mores. The
alleged murder was committed two
years ago.
Tax prospect bf good crops gener- 1
ally, except that of wheat, which is
below the average in most of the
country, necessarily gives increased
tone and confidence to business. The 1
promise of large transportation im- I
proves railroad stocks. When the 1
crops are marketed there will be a
demand for goods of all kinds, and I
men will have the means to pay for
them. This will stimulate manufac
turing. There is no question but that I
the lowest point of depression has i
been passed, and when men are as
sured that there is no risk of prices f
going lower they will stock up and I
this will make trade lively.--Herald. s
TILE INEVITABLE OUTCOiE.
Er. T::iur:rr: Are the natural rc
- y sources ,of Montana suflicit to create
a prominent industrial center at Great
1 Falls? and have we a right to con
, clide that it will become a populous
and wealthy town? These are ques
Stions tha~t should interest every citi
Szen in Montana. The building up of
t g'reat manufacturing town at the
Sfalls of the Missouri would benelit
Moat eana in the same way that Min
neapolis and her varied inanufactur
ing interests.be:neit the rapidly grow- t
1 ing state of Minnes:ota.
In answering the above questions t
f afirnmatively, I assume that the spirit S
of progress still exists among the peo- a
ple of the United States, and that the
i march of empire is still west ward.
1 If this is granted then the rapid de
veiupm'ent of Montana's varied re
sources is an a:sured thIng. No per
son: who is tolerable familiar with this
Teritory, will deny that i1 only needs
1Ix;ple and cl:tcrpr:l'e to producet al
imoest unlimited wealth from its
nmoauntains, plains i!id valleys, and
cause it to take rank aniong" the fore
- m:ot states of the \\est. !n agricul
tire, it is destined to take an import
ant position. Its wheat producing
area is as large as that of Minnesota.
The pri'nipal part of it lying east of
the Belt J Mountains and extending
north of the Museleshell river to the
boiundtary line. It has a greater ca
pacity for the production of beef and
wool ihau any other State or Territo
ry except Texas. It is rapidly corning
to the front as the greatest gold, sil
ver and copper producing section of
the Union. It has inexhaustible sup
plies of coal and iron. Its forests of
pine ad fir in the northwestern part
of tiii Territory, far exceed the rich
e.t pine lands of Minnesota and \\ is
eon-in. Last but not least, it pos
sesse a climate llnsiurpassod for
lhealtIhfullness. With such resoorces
lying around the headwaters of the
Missouri and Columbia rivers, will
the wave of emigration stop at the
western bounary of Dakotal? t is an
assured ifac t that Montana is on the
eve of rapid settlement, and that the
old order of things will give place to I
In the center of the richest and
most exteniive agricultural section
of Montana, and on the berder of the
great Sand Coulee Coal Fields;, are
situated the Falls of the Missouri
river, affording the largest available
water power in the land, with the best
possible approaches from every di
rection. East of these falls there is
no other water power for more than
eight hundred miles; to the west there
is no water power except upon small
streams in the mountains, until you
reach Spokane Falls in Washington
Territory. Is it not probable then
that capital and enterprise will be
combined to establish at these Falls
various manufactouring industries?
Can any intelligent man believe for
a moment that Montana will have no
manufacturing center? and if there is
to be such a center, is it not likely to
be at Great Falls, where there are at -
least, one million available horse
powers of water, with better and
cheaper coal than can be found else
where in Montana? Can any one name
a more probable place in this part of
the went for a great industrial center?
It may be asked, as it was frequent
ly at Minneapolis, when I went there
to reside, in what manufacturing en- I
terprises can you employ labor hero?
I answer in various ways, suited to _
the products and demands of this
country. By far the the most impor- q
tant industry that Great Falls can
k avo, and one that will add thous
ands to its population, is works for
the elaborate treatment of the ores of
Montana on an extensive scale. Cheap
and never failing motive power, iron -
within one mile of the falls and cok
ing coal within eight miles, make
Great Falls without a rival as the
place for reducing and refining the
ores of this country.
Whenever the wheat lands of Mon- -
tana become connected by rail with C
Lake Superior, and farmers begin to
occupy these lands, then the milling
of wheat at Great Falls will give em
ployment to much capital and labor;
for remember that the wheat produc- I
ing country is constaat.ly moving
west.
Woolen goods suited to the wants
of our people, will also be manufac
tured here. Wool will also be sorted,
scoured and compressed here, before
it is shipped. The great variety of
paper required in this country, can
be manufactured here. Foundries
and machine shops will be required,
not only to repair, but to manufacture
mining and other machinery. These
are some of the many manufactories
giving employment to thousands of
men, that can and will, in due time,
be established at this great water
power center. As a result, a very
large population, with its schools,
churches and public works will be
gathered at this place, and railroads, I
which always seek manufacturing
centers, will afford it rapid and di- 3
rect connection with the east, west,
north and south.
If we are permitted to draw conclu
sions from the growth of other places I
having great natural advantages, we
must admit that Great Falls will in
evitably become one of the most
promin.ent citijes 1.4'ween the Lakes
and. the lachi:j OCccu,.
Paris GIasox.
_4 -XP!.N X;CAIRE.
A P'oplar River, Munt., dispatch
dated the 2 .t, says: The inmates
of the miiitary post and Indian agen
cy were thiown into a state of con
terination last night by an attack re
ceived iy the Pl'oplr Creek Indians
from a party of Crows residing in
this vicinity. One Sioux was killed
and one wounded. A war party from
the Sionx tri he was immediately or
ganized to pursue' the Crows, but the
t.roopls threatened to turn out, as was
done to resist the Crow invasion,
which ended with the first assault,
and they dispersed.
ROYAL, ,ot
Absolutely Pure.
Tlhis ,itwdir nvw r vari's. A marveiof pnurity
Strflnent !ld wIlkom1nlessl(.u. Moru economical
t han I he ir., y khnds. and camnot he sold iin
cmln-titn with na, multitudoeoflowtest, shor
,'i"!'ih!. I uPm ,ihr ijtlhtrte..r h !owder.. Bolhnly in
cants. Ite.SL ?uAKINo 'oWDER I'0.. 107 \\all st.,
New York.
P!¶u' corSale!
The un-dersigned offers for sale, or
will trade for cattle
One Spun of Goodl Mules,
For further information apply to
ANN I)OCKERY.
Great Falls.
The BUYERS' GUIDE If
issued March and Sept.,
each year. ~'g 216 pages,
8s x I1L inches,with over
3,500 illustrations - a
whole Picture Gallery.
GIVES Wholesale Prices
direct to consumers on all goods for
personal or.family une. Tells how to
order, and gives exact cost of every
't.:ng you use, eat, drink, wear, or
have -¢n with. These INVALUABLE
OO1KS contarin information gleaned
fr.. thi e markets of the world. We
:vil rriil a c~py FREE to any ad
dress :po, receipt of 10 eta, to defray
exen.~ce of mlaitllng. Let us hear from
you. Rcspectfully,
MONTCOMERY WARD & CO.
2" , 229 VCWabash Avenue, Chicago, ILl.
NESE LAUNDY
Great Falls, 3Mont.
Ah Wah, Proprietor.
Lau ndry Work Solicited. Satis
faction Guaranteed
OHN W. WADE,
Civil Engineer
U. S. Dep. Mineral Surveyor.
Special attention given to land surveying and
irrigating canals.
IELENA, MONT.
H P ROLFE W F PARKER
ROLFE & PARKER,
Attorneys & Counselors
Special attention given to Land and Mining
(laimsr and Collections.
H P. ROLFE,
U. S. Dep. Mineral Surveyor.
GREAT FALLS
CHARLES G GRIFFITH EDMUND INGERSOLL
County Surveyor
G RIFFITH & INGERSOLL,
Civil Enlineers & DeD, U. S.
Mineral & Land Surveyors,
Irrigating ditches and ranch surveys a specialty.
OFFICES: GREAT FALLS & BENTON.
D R. A. F, FOOTE,
DENTIST,
Broadway, - - - Helena, Ment.
(ABOmB HERALD OFFICE)
STOP AT
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SALOON AND
-GAMING EWPORNI
Imported XXXX Hennesy, 7 yars.
25 cents a drink.
XX Hennesy, 4 years old, 12. cts.
Extra Fine 4X French Brandy,
25 cents a drink. 4
Fine Domestic Wine 12) cents. i
Imported and Domestic Cigars at
12j and 25 cents each.
HENRY A.& FRY, Prop.
THE FUTURE
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Located at the Falls of the Missouri, the
"0 --GREATEST-- WATER-POWER
ON THE OONTNENT.
THE POINT
IN THE ; PART
OF THE I TERRITORY
I TT
Agricultural and Stock Raising interests contend
for pre-eminence in the surrounding coun
try, every acre of which is available for
one purpose or the other.
Within Seven Miles of the Town is the
Largest and Best Coal Field
In the Territory, Underlaid by Great
ON DEPOSIT S.
The Neighboring Mountains are Rich in Precious
Metals and the Combination of
Coal, Lime, Iron and Power!
Insureslthe establishment of large Reduction Works and the treatment of
the ores of the Territory at this point.
Manufacturers of a!! kinds should correspond with us. Liberal reductions made on lots to
those wishing to improve. Address, H. O. CHOWEN, AGENT.
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GItOOEEZIES. ADWARE.
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GROCERIES Groceries, Hardw ar IIeneral erchalndse HARDWARE
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GROCERIES Great Falls, - - ili iontana HARDWARE
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t--GENERAL- I- MERCHANDISE
Helena &BllentonSge Line Great Falls Blacksmith Shop,
Coach for Helena leaves Sun Riv- WM. J. PRATT, PROP.
er every evening at 8 o'clock,
except Sunday evening.
Coach for Fort Benton leaves Sun BLAC ITHN AND REPAItING OF ALL IiNl.
River every morning at 4 o'
clock, except Monday morning I am prepared to do any class of work in my line, and in a most thorough &
J M POWERS, Manager. workmanlike manner. All work done on short notice.
T-. LOUIS HOTEL AL llDSEASES OF THE FEET TREATED SU1 C L
All Bon ToR 8ll esb t ,
Maintreet, Hena Livery, Druft and Kule Shoeing.
Main 5treet, Helena
FIRST LAS I EVERY RESPECT. Cor. t d t.
.,S Slusher, - - Proprietor.rc ,