The City of Great Falls, Mon.

The City of Great Falls, Mon.

When Horace GREELY 'said, “Go West, young man, go West,” the West was almost an unbroken wilderness, and little did he dream of the vastness of the country to which he was advising the young men to go. Although Montana has been a State but three years, she is rapidly coming to the front as one of the richest States in the Union. Her output of gold, silver and copper already exceeds that of any other State in the Union and still mining is only in its infancy. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of rich mineral-bearing land, that has scarcely had the prospector’s pick struck into it, and there are thousands of acres more that have been thoroughly prospected and proven to contain very rich veins of precious minerals, none of which are being worked because there are as yet no railroads near enough to ship away the products of the mines, nor ship in supplies to miners.

T he rapid development of Montana in the past few years and the large influx of people from all parts of the country, has been the means of building up cities where but a few years ago the Indian and the buffalo were the sole inhabitants. Among the cities that have sprung up in the past few years and made a rapid, permanent growth, none are more prominent than the city of Great Falls, in Cascade county.