GREAT FALLS

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GREAT FALLS , a city and the county-seat of Cascade county, Montana, U.S.A., 99 m. (by rail) N.E. of

Helena

HELENA
HELENA, ST (c. 247-c. 327)

, on the S. bank of the Missouri river, opposite the mouth of the Sun river, at an altitude of about 3300 ft. It is ro m. above the Great Falls of the Missouri, from which it derives its name. Pop. (1890) 3979; (1900) 14,930, of whom 4692 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 13,948. It has an area of about 8 sq. m. It is served by the Great Northern and the Billings & Northern (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system) railways. The city has a splendid park system of seven parks (about 530 acres) with 15 M. of boulevards.' Among the principal buildings are a city

hall

, court

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, high school, commercial college,

Carnegie

CARNEGIE
CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837– )

library, the Columbus

Hospital

and Training School for Nurses (under the supervision of the Sisters of Charity), and the Montana Deaconess

hospital

. There is a Federal land office in the city. Great Falls lies in the midst of a region exceptionally rich in mineralscopper, gold, silver, lead, iron, gypsum, limestone, sapphires and bituminous coal being

mined

MINED

in the neighbourhood. Much grain is grown in the vicinity, and the city is an important shipping point for wool, live-stock and cereals. Near Great Falls the Missouri river, within 72 m., contracts from a width of about 900 to 300 yds. and falls more than 500 ft., the principal falls being"the Black Eagle Falls (50 ft.), from which power is derived for the city's street railway and lighting plant, the beautiful Rainbow Falls (48 ft.) and Great Falls (92 ft.). Giant

Spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Fall, about 20 ft. high, is a cascade formed by a

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

on the bank of the river near Rainbow Falls. The river furnishes very valuable water-power, partly utilized by large manufacturing establishments, including flour mills, plaster mills, breweries, iron works, mining machinery shops, and smelting and reduction works. The Boston & Montana copper smelter is one of the largest in the world; it has a chimney stack Sob ft. high, and in 1908 employed 1200 men in the smelter and 2500 in its mining department. Great Falls ranked second (to Anaconda) among the cities of the state in the value of the factory product of 1905, which was $13,291,979, showing an increase of 42.4% since 1900. The city owns and operates its water-

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

system. Great Falls was settled in 1884, and was chartered as a city in 1888.

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