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44 GREAT FALLS AND ENVIRONS. The appearance of the exterior of the Duilding, and especially of the sandstone used in its construction, meets with the approbation of every one. A primary school house is located on the south side of the town. Schools are also established on the west side, at Ulm, and at the Smelter and lower Sand Coulee. Five hundred and twenty-one children of school age are enrolled on the census list, over 225 are in actual attendance, and at the rate of increase 300 will be in attend ance by the summer season. The course of study is equal to that in the best schools in the country. Special instruction is given in drawing and music. J. G. G. Thompson, A. B., a graduate of Dartmouth college, and an experienced instructor, is principal, and is rapidly bringing the school up to a high degree of excellence. He is assisted by Miss Helen P. Edgerton, a former principal of one of the grammar schools of Fort Wayne, Ind., who gives instruction in music and drawing, Miss Fannie Ewing and Miss Jessie Rich, both excellent teachers, have charge of the grammar and primary school. Miss Holbrook is teaching the west side school. Mr. M. H. Cromwell has charge of the Ulm and Smelter schools. The board of education is com posed of PI. P. Rolfe, president, A. G. Ladd and F. W. Webster; W. P. Beachley, clerk, schools second to none in the state. It is the design of the board to make the CITY UXRTHQ . Great Falls may justly claim a system of water works second to no other city in the west. Nearly ten miles of cast iron mains have been laid. Hydrants and fire plugs are placed at convenient distances, so that, under ordinary circumstances, a fire may be extinguished before disastrous headway can be attained. The source of supply is the great Missouri, which at this point is clear, pure and safe as the rains as they descend from the heavens. We know of no city in the land having such a water supply for the homes of its citizens. Cf*OPS WITHOUT If^IGATIOfl. The inquiry is frequently made, What is the yield of wheat and oats on the bench lands around Great Falls without irrigation ? To answer these important questions in a public manner, we will state that wheat grown on the bench lands, where no irrigation is possible will average from twenty to forty bushels per acre of good No. 1 hard wheat, weighing sixty to sixty-two and a half pounds to the bushel. The average yield of oats on the same land is seventy to one hun dred bushels per acre of the finest oats grown on the continent, if not in the world, weighing from forty to forty-five pounds to the bushel. As to barley, it may be said it can be grown on the same lands with equal success; but, till breweries are established here, the demand for barley will be limited. Prices from mhieh the Cost of Lrivincf in Great palls m a y be Determined. Flour, per hundred $2 Cornmeal, per hundred.. 2 Oatmeal, per hundred.. 4 Potatoes, per hundred... 1 Corn, per can ................... Tomatoes, per can .......... Peaches, per can ............. Cove oysters, per can ___ Cheese, per pound .......... Butter, per pound .......... Eggs, per dozen ............... Lard, per pound ............... Raisins, per pound .......... Honey, per pound ............ Syrup, per gallon ............. 25 to 00 “ 00 “ 00 “ 15 “ 15 “ 25 “ 15 “ $3 50 2 50 5 00 2 00 20 20 30 20 20 40 40 12 20 30 90 Sugar, granulated, ten pounds for ..................... $ 1 00 Coffee, per pound ............. $0 20 to 40 Tea, per pound ............... 25 “ 1 00 Coal oil, per gallon 30 Beef, per pound ............... 10 “ 20 Mutton, per pound 10 “ 15 Pork, per pound ............... 10 “ 15 Sugar cured hams, per pound............................. 13 “ 15 Fresh fish, per pound... 10 “ 25 Soft coal, per ton ............ 3 00 “ 6 00 Hard coal, per ton ............. 18 00 u 20 00 Lumber, boards, per thousand........................ 19 00 Board at restaurants ranges from twenty-five cents per meal to as high a price as you choose to pay for it. Private boarding houses have weekly rates from $5 to $7 for board only. Rooms can be had in desirable localities for $10 and upwards per month. Rents, business houses and dwellings vary according to location. EliECTt^IC STREET Cflt^S. A franchise was granted by the city council in the spring of the new year to H. O. Parsons and associates, of Boston, for an electric street car system. It is proposed by the company, as early in the pres ent year as possible, to put in operation, under the very best and most successful patents known to electric locomotion, an electric street car plant that shall cost $200,000.
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