The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-04-15
The Best Road 70 Montana.

The opening of wagon road from the
mining districts of Montaas to the States,
by short and practicable route, and one
that will avoid the necessity of crossing the
Rocky Mountains, Is of vast importance to
this Territory, and matter in which every
citizen OF Montana has an interest; and we
are pleased to observe that q move of the
greatest Importance has been made in the
right direction. gsg- r..o-
In anticipation Of o renewal, the coming
Spring, of Indian hostilities on the Platte,
q company was last winter organised for
the purpose of opening road and build
ing telegraph line from Virginia City to
the States; and afterwards incorporated
under the name of the "Missouri River
and Rocky Mountain Wagon Road and
Telegraph Company" which company
afterwards consolidated with the "Boze.
man City and Fort Laramie Wagon Road
and Telegraph Company" and elected N.
p. Langford, President, Samuel Word,
Secretary, and Samuel T. Hauser, Treas
urer of the Consolidated Company. The
Board of Directors are Chief Justice H.
L. Hosmer, W. B. Dance, Hon. A. s. Pot
ter, Harry Burns, N. P. Langford, Col.
Foster and Capt Kerchival, gentlemen we'll
known in this Territory for their business
enterprise and energy, and under whose
direction everything will be done that can
make the route which they have selected, a
safe and desirable one for emigrants to
travel over.
Messrs. Bridger and Bozcman have joined
their interests in their respective roads
with those of this Company, and have been
employed to conduct the emigration from
Fort Laramie, through to the settled por-
tion of Montana; and ferries across the
Big Horn, Clark's Fork and the Yellow
stone, are being established, and bridges
are being built across the smaller streams
wherever they are needed, along the line
of the route. The Company will also open
up their main line of road to the mouth of
tho Yellowstone, and branches to Fort Ben
ton, Milk River, etc.
The Fort Laramie branch is the most i'm
portant ono to this Territory, for over it
will roll the great tide Of emigration which
the recent mineral discoveries in Montana
will speedily bring US. We regard the
opening of this road Is an enterprise of
incalculable Importance to this Territory.
BY the present circuitous route Uia South
Pass or Bridger's Pass, the best part of the
season is consumed in getting to Montana,
whilelby the Big Horn route, there will be a
saving of seven hundred miles of travel to
Virginia City, and to the towns in the
Prickly Pear Basin, and to other mining
camps east Of this city there will be saw
ing Of eight hundred miles Of travel, thus
enabling the emigrants to reach the "dig-
gings " in the midst OF the mining season.
The grass along this route will feed thou
sands of teams the water is good and
abundant, and there is game sufficient to
supply an army. Az mail route it has NO
superior; the rich vallies through which il
passes affording at almost all points de-
sirable ranches for stations. In the winter
these vallies are nearly free from snow, end
, there are no mountains of any consequence
to cross, and over this route our mails could
be brought from Omaha in eight days in
the summer, and ten days in the winter
We trust that our delegate may at the mex
session of Congress, prevail upon the Pos
Office Department to transmit our mails
4 , over this route, that we may not be cut of
!, from all communication with the States fo
FIVE or six weeks ut time, as We have beer
= = the past winter, in consequence of the deel
u SHOWS in the mountain passes.
At the Big Horn River, the emigration
= from Minnesota, by the route directly ives
g from st. Paul, will touch this road; ant
It that from Sioux City, at some point be
e tween Fort Laramie and the Big Horn, 81
b that from all quarters of the east. the EN-
i icration will come to US, by way of thi
d road and in this view of the matte
}. eyery citizen of Montana is interested il
M l.. 81 ~ol - Sro~al
!, The Company under whose direction tn
n road is now being opened, intend to con
n struct, as soon as possible, an eleetro-tele
r graph line from Fort Laramie, to the ives
., tern boundary of this Territory, connect
% ing with other lines running to the North
'e Western portion of Russian America, an
It thence by submarine cable across Behl
le ing's Straits;c in its connectio
) with the great Anglo-Russian Telegrap
h Line, running from London to North East
at ern Asia, land now in process of construe
a, ton under the direction of Hiram Sibley
at ESQ.,, and Perry Med. Collins, Esq.,) tb
!? project of uniting by telegraph the grss
lie commercial emporlums of the two cont
&, nents. --
al The president and treasurer of the CON
e. pany, while in Washington last winter. ha
he several interviews with Messrs. Collins an
e. Sibley (who are now at st. Petersburg), n
Of earding the establishment of this telegraI
line and it was with more especial refe
y. ence to this project that the present con
OF pany was organized. =.
q. The enterprise is a vast one, and wi
ch require great deal Of money and pers
or vering labor, to surmount the multiple
i'd difficulties which must be encountered; b
n under the direction Of those who now ha'
s. charge of it, we have no doubt of the su
be oessful contamination of all that is pr
all posed, and we can conceive of no one thil
en- that would be of so much benefit to q
in Territory at large, as the opening OF th
f. road to emigration, and connection vi
NO the east, by mail and telegraphic faoilitit
= GOLD IN CoNNEcrrcur.-Dr. Keith q W
known mineralogist and the owner OF
be tract of land in Greenwich, Conn, has a