Great Falls tribune. [volume], January 15, 1887, Image 8

About Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890

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GREAT FALLS, MONTANA.
GREAT FALLS is located at the Falls of the Missouri which furnish the greatest available water power on the Continent. Is within seven miles of the most extensive COAL
and IRON district in the West, immediately beyond which are rich GOLD, SILVER and COPPER districts. It lays tributary the best agricultural and grazing part of
the Territory, and the pineries of the Upper Missouri and tributaries. It is especially adapted by its natural resources and geographical position to become the leading
MANUFACTURING CITY between Minneapolis and the Pacific, and the principal RAILROAD CENTER of Montana.
The trip to Great Falls will amply repay tourists.by the beauty of the scenery on the way, and they will find here the most magnificent series of waterfalls in the world,
while the surrounding country is rich in picturesqe scenery. For further informatlon address H. O. CHOW EN, Agent.
SPRAY OF THE FALLS.
Ben Steell was down from gun River
this week.
Robert Vaughn was in town a couple of
days this week.
WE will have the cars running into
Great Falls by next August.
Mr. C. J. C. A. Bly has decided to re
main at Great Falls until gentle spring.
John Herron and E. J. Hunt of the M.
C. railroad engineering corps, were Park
hotel guests Wednesday.
Geo. Barron of Choteau was in town
Wednesday. This is the first time he has
paid Great Falls a visit since the 4th of
July.
Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel entertained a few
friends last Thursday evening. Dancing
and cards were the diversions of the eve
ning.
The Indian commissioners, Messrs.
Wright, Larabee and Daniels -passed
through Great Falls Thursday en route to
Fort Belknap.
The Park hotel laundry is prepared to
do, in the best and quickest manner all
the laundry work in Great Fslls. Leave
orders at the hotel office. tf
Friday's chinook cleared off the snow in
this vicinity in a few hours and reopened the
pasturage for the cattle. It came at just
the right time to save thousands of dollars
for the cattle men.
Messrs. Martin and Kinloch took Tues
day's coach for Helena. Mr. Kenloch will
go on.to St. Paul to attend the ice carnival
and Mr. Martin will remain several weeks
in Helena.
Mr. Nicoll returned safely to Great 1
Falls last Saturday in excellent condi- 1
on for a man who was alleged to have
frozen to death. We are glad that he
fooled Old Jack Frost this time.
Thos. Kane and Bill Anheier were four
days on the road from Benton to this
place. They started Sunday morning and
arrived here Wednesday night, themselves
and horses pretty thoroughly exhausted.
Samuel Getts the efficient superinten- i
dent of the Helena & Benton stage line I
was in town Thursday on business for the I
company. He was thirty-six hours com- i
ing from Benton. In such weather as this s
a stage superintendents' life is "not a hap- t
py one."
Fred W. Anderson, who has been in the
employ of the TRIBUNE for over a year
has severed his connection with the paper
and will hereafter devote his entire time
to the study of his specialty, botany.
If true merit and industry deserve success
Fred will attain the eminence in his chos
en procession which we all wish him.
Mr. Stephen Spitzley whose speedy re
covery from the serious results of the late
stage coach disaster, was hoped for has
had a relapse and is very low. Mr. Spitz
ley is a terrible sufferer and it will be a
long time besore he will be able to resume
work. His condition is really critical. We
hope for a favorable turn in his trouble.
Our livery stable proprietors should
make preparations for an active busine, s
the present year, and should have a suffi
cient number of first-class turnouts to ac
commodate the multitudes of strangers
who will visit the water-power metropolis.
No town in the territory has in its imme
diate vicinity, as many natural attractions
and as much grand scenery as Great Falls,
and here are the finest natural roads lead
ing out from the town in every direction.
The Park hotel continues to be well pat
ronized, its business being far beyond what
the proprietor Mr. Ehrhart supposed it
could be the present winter. It is now
evident that the present capacity will be
entirely inadequate the coming season to
meet the wants of the public. So appar
ent has this become, that the proprietors
have decided to extend the Park frontage
an additional one hundred feet. This ad
dition is to be two stories in height, with
basement for laundry and steam heating
purposes. When this addition is com
pleted the hotel will then have ninety
sleeping rooms and a veranda 250 feet in
length.
The ·townsite companyaywil sow :15)
acres bf wheaitlrndiffei nt localities on the
bench lands and prairies the coming spring.
This wheat farming is designed to show
r to the skeptical that the table lands and
prairies of this part of Northern Montana
are capable of producing large yields of
f wheat without irrigation. This experi
mental work was commenced the present
to season, but owing to a drouth almost un
parelled in the history of the country, the
yield per acre is small, averaging on old
e ground from 12 to 15 bushels to the acre.
Although this yield appears to the Mon
1. tana farjer a complete failure; it is con
k siderably more than the average yield of
wheat in Minnesota the past year. We
shall watch these experiments of the town
site company with much interest. We un
is derstand that they are to be continued for
several years.
w Experienced parties have made arrange
g ments to establish an extensive nursery for
e- shade trees adjacent to thetownsite. They
will not only sow a large quantity of seeds
of the Elm, Basswood, Broad Leaved Cot
tonwood, Maple, etc., but will ship from
nurseries in Minnesota and Michigan a
very large number of seedlings. We un
derstand it will be the policy of the town
;o site company to encourage the planting
II and careful cultivation of ornamentaltrees.
e With the extensive waterworks which
they will soon establish for the benefit of
n Great Falls the townsite will before long
e be transformed from its present condition
to a forest of shade trees. The townsite
., company have already themselves planted
many hundred trees, and have also shirped
from the east, a large number of Ameri
can and English Elms, to be planted along
1 the avenues after attaining one or two
1 years further growth in the nursery.
There is a greater depth of snow
t throughout this country than there has
- been seen since the memorable winter of .
e 1880-1, with this advantage however in fa
e vor of the present winter, that mild weath
er continued up to Christmas, where as in
r the winter of 1880-1 cold stormy weather
had set in early in November. Fortunate
ly however for the stock interests of this C
country heavy winds from the south and
southwest have uncovered a portion of the
ranges, piling the snow in immense drifts
- in the coulees. Unless we have some
e more severe storms very soon, there is not
e likely to be a heavy loss in cattle in this
L- vicinity. We are now approaching the
is season when we may reasonably expect
- the warm chinook winds to carry off a
large part of the snow now lying on the
ranges. Up to the present time, flockown
eers have fed little or no hay, the hills and I
L ridges now uncovered affording sufficient
,r substance for the sheep.
Dunlap & Mitchell,
--DEALERS IN
GROCERIES AND PROVISION
A Share of Your Patronage Solicited.
Great Falls, - - - Montana
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Send your Mail Orders to us for
s anything ytu May want in
Fine Boots, Shoes or Slippers
We Can Please You.
SCHULTZ& CO.,
Helena, Montana
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HELENA, iand be on e
b HELENA, MONT, Send For Samples & Prices and be Convinced
MURPHY, MACLAY & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail
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And Dealers in
Biuilclers'
I"Iarcldvwaae.
Central Avenue, Great Falls, Moit.
New .Hardware Store.
BUREC 8& HOTCOEISS,
Have just opened the finest assortment of
Shelf and Heavy Hardware.
In Great Falls, at prices which defy Competion.
All kinds of tin work done to order Call and gest price
JoH. FAIRFIELD,M.D.
r PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Great Falls - - . - - Montana.
A. G. LADD M. D,
t PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office Hours: 9 to l a m& 2 to 4p m
Great Falls. . - Montana
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a P. ROLFE,
e . Attornoy-at-Law,
- r 8pecial attention'given to land entries of all
kinds and to contests in the land office
ut U S Deputy Ilaeral Surveyor
Helena and Great Falls
National Bank
Of Great Falls, M. T.
CAPITAL, $50,000
C. A. BROADWATER, PRESIDENT.
H. O. CHOWEN, VICE PRESIDENT.
L. G. PHELPS, CAsmIER.
A. E. DICKERMAN, Ass'T CsmHIER.
DIRECTORS:
C. A. BROADWATER, H. O. CHOWEN, E. SHARPE, S. E. ATKINSON,
A. E. DICKERMAN, L. G. PHELPS.
A general Banking business transacted. Exchange drawn on the principal points in the United
States and Europe. Prompt attention gven collections. Interest idon Time Deposits.
BANKING HOURSB, 9 A. ., P. I.
PIONEER HOTEL
G--reat "E"'as, 2vrot-,
PAUL GRELLMAN Prop.
Having leased the above Hotel and refitted the same we solicit the patronage
of the public. Best table and most comfortable rooms of any Hotel
in Great Falls. Charges reasonable
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M. SILVE RMAN,
PROPRIETOR
ielena Armory DEA resh Fruit, Tobacco, (g &c.
r Main Street, Helena, Montana
S0 f (1h] imnfl General Land and
U. . lYIUIlIOUl N Mineral Business,
Mine, Examined and Reports, Plan, Etc., Executed.
- Real - Estate - a nd. - Co issio.
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OFFICEON ad STREET BETWEE 2d & Sd AVES., - - - GREAT FAPLIL MONT
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