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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-36/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
34 G R E A T F A L L S A N D E N V I R O N S . when the dam is completed in September, will bestud the banks and bluffs of the Missouri with mills, factories, foundries and machine shops, and give an impetus to the manufacturing development of Great Falls, powerful and lasting. WEST Gf*EAT FAIiLiS. B R IG H T P R O S P E C T S FO R T H E N E W TO W N T. E . C O L L IN S B U Y S AN IN T E R E S T A N D W IL L B U I L D A R E S I D E N C E . One of the most sightly additions to this city yet platted is the tract of land owned by Dr. Crutcher on the west side, recently filed and approved by the county fathers. It lies on a gently sloping hill, the same distance from the Park hotel as the school house. Hon. Robert S. Ford has recently purchased a large interest in the “ West Great Falls” plat, and will erect a splendid residence upon selected lots there. Now comes another surprise in the announcement that Hon. T. E. Collins, president of the First National bank, has purchased an undivided six-sixteenths interest in the townsite, and has given bond to Dr. Crutcher, the owner, in the sum of $20,000 to build and occupy a residence to cost not less than $10,000. It is the intention of the three owners, Messrs. Crutcher, Ford and Collins, to at once place the townsite on the market and to en deavor to make this elegant site the location of the finest residences. To facilitate the proper transfer of property, Mr. E. S. McCord has been made trustee of the townsite and is empowered to make deeds and contracts. Considerable work in grading the wide streets, planting trees and other improvements will be done early in the spring. Considering the eligibility of location and comparatively low price for lots—ranging from $1 to $12 per front foot—a rapid growth may confidently be expected in West Great Falls. The plat is on high, healthy ground, easy of access, near the business center and free from the vexatious wind and sand storms that occasionally annoy housekeepers in other quarters. Besides, it is beyond possible smelter and car smoke. The owners of this addition are gentlemen of ample means, and have express designs and material improvements in view, looking to making it the most desirable location for the best class of people and fine residences. That they will endeavor to secure such is manifest in the prepara tions being made by them to erect and beautify their own homes in this addition. G^EAT FALiIiS THE WOOIt T^AlDE CEfiTE During the wool season of 1889 Great Falls received 3,240,000 pounds of wool. This is the largest quantity received in any Mon tana market this year, and exceeds the receipts of last year by 850,- 000 pounds. The wool industry is growing rapidly in Northern Montana, owing to the railroad facilities and central location, which afford a good market. Great Falls is becoming the headquarters of the northwestern wool trade and all the leading eastern houses have had their buyers there during the season. Among the old-time wool buyers who have attended her market and bought largely this year are Messrs. Eldridge, Martin, Price, Walker, Putnam, Mann and Livingston. The home buyers also bought freely, Messrs. Paris Gibson and Theodore Gibson carrying off some of the finest clips by bidding high prices. Almost all the wool received was compressed for shipment, effecting a great saving in freight. STEAD Y GROWTH op G^EAT FAIiliS. It may be said that the fall of 1889 was marked by the first ex perience of a real estate boom at Great Falls. From the founding of the city, in 1885, to 1889, a steady and strong growth was observ able. In 1888 nearly $1,000,000, including the construction of the first section of the great smelter at the Giant spring, was disbursed in the erection of substantial improvements; yet there was nothing approximating a boom in property. From the time when the Manitoba railroad was completed to Great Falls, the development of a commerical and manufacturing center at that point seemed assured. Handsome residences and massive stone and brick blocks sprang up as if by magic. The city seemed to don her imperial robes and assume a metropolitan dignity from the outset. No squalid cabins or tumble-down shacks were the stepping stones to the stately man sion, as always and everywhere had hitherto preceded the mature age of municipal stability and importance.
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