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The Great Falls Leader (Great Falls, Mont.), 25 March 1890, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn86075267/1890-03-25/ed-1/seq-12/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
10 G R E A T F A L L S A N D E N V I R O N S . SfiOW Ct^EE^ JVTI^iHS. Snow creek empties into Carpenter creek three and one-half miles northeast of Neihart. The mines along this creek were first developed in the spring of 1882. Work on them has been pushed ahead steadily ever since. C A ^ P E flT E P * C ^ E E ^ . Miners say that this district will when fully worked produce, lead enough for all smelting purposes in Montana. There are quite a number of other locations in this district that, as far as develop ments have progressed, show up good-paying rock. The Belt Mountain railroad is already completed, and is in operation from Great Falls to Belt creek, a distance of twenty-one miles. From this point the road will continue up Belt Creek canyon, on an easy grade for about forty-five miles. The grade is nearly com pleted to within fifteen miles of Neihart, and track laying will soon commence. Before the grass is again green upon the hillsides, the shrill whistle of the locomotive will awaken the echoes among the crags and peaks in the very heart of the Belt mountain range, pro claiming a new era of unbounded prosperity and activity in this and adjacent mining camps. The railroad for the present will terminate at Martin’s ranch (junction of Belt creek and Dry fork), distant from Great Falls about sixty miles, and about twelve miles distant from both Neihart and Barker. The road will be extended to both towns, and ultimately to Yogo, Wolf Creek, Castle, etc. This line will be the main feeder of the Great Falls smelters, and will add millions of dollars to the wealth of the people of Northern Montana. THE TOUUfl OF CASCADE. The town of Cascade is situated on the main line of the Montana Central railway, twenty-nine miles south of Great Falls. Thomas L. Gorham was the founder of the town. He platted the town site, and put the lots in the market in December, 1887. It is situated on a beautiful plateau on the bank of the Missouri river. The town commands a large trade from the Chestnut valley and the surround ing country for thirty miles. There are now over thirty buildings in the town, one large general store by Shepard & Flynn, a variety store by Thomas Switzer, hardware store and tin shop, planing mill, blacksmith shop, feed and livery stable, twro good hotels and a barber shop. Also, a neat frame church, and a brick school house. The I. O. O. F. has a large and commodious hall, and a membership of over forty. Water works were put in last fair by Messrs. Perkins & Taylor, which convey the water from the purest springs and dis tribute it throughout the town in iron pipes. Town lots are sold at reasonable prices and on easy terms. Government lands can be had not far from the town under the homestead and pre-emption land laws. Improved ranches can be bought at from $5 to $25 per acre. There is a good educational institution—St. Peter’s mission—sixteen miles from Cascade, for boys and girls. CHESTNUT VAIiLtEV. This beautiful and fertile valley is in the southwestern end of Cascade county, and is traversed by the Montana Central railway and the grand old Missouri river for about seventeen miles. The productions of this valley are wheat, oats, barley, corn and vegeta bles. Wheat yields from forty to seventy bushels per acre, and oats about the same. No place in Montana excels it in vegetables, such as potatoes, cabbages, onions, beets, carrots, etc. Potatoes grow very large, and the yield is from 200 to 400 bushels per acre, while they are unexcelled for flavor. Rutabagas and turnips grow very large, and the yield is abundant. Bluejoint grass and timothy also grow luxuriantly. On the east and west sides of the valley are hills and bench lands stretching for miles away, which are covered with the most nutritious grass, and small creeks and brooks of pure water from the mountains are running in almost every direction, abounding with delicious mountain trout. On these hills and plateaus thousands of horses, cattle and sheep pasture and grow fat, winter and summer. The herds of sheep run from 2,000 to 15,000 head ; horses from 100 to 1,200 head, and cattle from 100 to 3,000 head. North of this range the cattle herds average from 3,000 to 10,000 head on the ranges. The first cattle wintered in Chestnut valley were the property of Thomas L. Gorham, now of Cascade. They were “ turned out of the yoke ” after a summer and fall’s hard work in the month of January, 1869. These cattle were poor when turned out to rustle for them-
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