The Montana post., 1868-09-11
JOUNEY JOTTINGS-
NUMBER FIVE.

ed-A esri9ham's secret OF success
crisis in Utah----Brigham Stili marryihs
The Press Of Salt Lake.
Salt Lake City is full oi railroad men
engineers. contractors. etc, anu the ar
Is freighted with carnal words, that we
NAV venture 10 say, sound strangely IN
tLs ears of the immaculate, isolated
ond .stonisbed Saints. They. who were
accustomed to the language of "revela-
ton prophecy" and the teachings oil
the sanity sanhedrim coming, as they
believed. with the fire of inspiration rom
the furnace of Deity, 10 purify their
thoughts and lead them tenderly away
from the temptations and aboinlnatlons
of the sinful world, now hear struck on
I . harm of n thousand strings, an lnhnl~
tude of variations on those common car
risrs of carnal ideas, conversations
touching gradiants. curves, tunnels,cuts,
trestIes, ties, timber, and through 10
Salt Lake by Christmas. den- DouSe,
| Chief Engineer, was there week ago.
with an innumerable host OF topograph-
| icaI engineers; and trom urauShtSiheh
| 70 chain carriers. there was a busy bus
tie that betokened the industry and en-
erry which have sped westward from
Omaha. in two wears in advance OF the
iron horse. and now pitch their moving
tents ION the other side of Jordan. In
June. 1866; Don Quixote iInbibed with
them the crystal waters OF Pawnee
Springs, far down the Platte, and few
days since eve drank from the same
canteen" by the shores of the inland sea
a thousand miles to the west.
We found Gen. Dodge preparing to
leave for another examination OF the
branch road, which is to radiate towards
the northwest, leaving the L. L. n. r.
at Salt Lake and passing up through
Idaho, Oregon and Washington Ierrlto-
ries, to Portland and Puget Sound. In
terested to know if the mercurial and
somewhat muddled advocates of
branch road TO Montana, had been cor
rect in their declarations, as asserted in
the Democrat, that il was Gen. Dodge's
idea to run the line northward to Mon
taua. and there defect TO the west,
through the Salmon River country pla-
cling us on a branch road with all the
advantages of main line, we inquired
directly OF General Dodge if he had ever
reported in favor of, or entertained such
an idea. His reply was that he had not.
He examined partially, and reported in
favor of two branch roads One directly
north 10 Montana, the other leaving fur
ther west and extending to Puget Sound.
He never proposed or gave any thought
twist as a few of the people of Montana
have been beguiled into expecting. If
there is branch road built to Montana,
il will terminate in Montana, and have
no connection 20 the northwest. In this
view of the case, with our forty steam
ers Transporting freights at one-half less
charges than the circumbendibus rail-
road could carry them for, the branch
road to Montana would be like a ladder
set up perpendicularly in an open space,
when its top would be reached there
would not .bs that there to Justify the
ascent. The branch road 10 Montana
will not be built except the government
subsidies il more than the actual cost
of construction, as il has the L. p r. r.
and if we ask for subsidy, let il be for
great Northern through line, many
hundred miles shorter from water 20
water, and natural highway that will
develop cur Territory and be for our
good. We can see no substantial ado
vantage but positive, short-sighted, and,
perhaps, irreparable evil, in giving the
voice of Montana in favor of this wahoo
project that twenty>one persons in Vir-
ginia. and half that amount in Deer
Lodge, have, we believe, unwisely and in
considerably expressed themselves in IA
yor OF, under a wrong impression as to its
purpose and connections. We have
only to stand together, act together and
labor earnestly TO secure the Northern
Pacific road a. the next session of Con-
gress. The Union will endeavor to Sc.
cure a subsidy for the Portland branch.
but failing in that, may possibly build
it themselves from the surplus capital
accruiDg from the building of the east
ern road, TO monopolize the trans-con-
al IL -,
render them independent of the Central
road, and as matter of course, the Gem
trail company will use every means TO
defeat the project.
The location of the Central
road has been made north of
Salt Lake, and accepted by the Presi-
dent of the United States. An engi-
neeriug party was to start a few days
since. tor the survey of the route south
of the Lake; but unless the President
revokes his acceptance, which is not
likely, the road will go north If this is
done, whether branch lines are built or
not, the great city of Utah must spring
up somewhere north of the lake, where
the Montana trade diverges, and Salt
Lake City will be left, a somewhat old
fogyish, Mormon town, with probably
branch running down.
Brigham Young said in his remarks"
last Sunday, that he was much aggrieved
at the conduct of the railroad company.
he thought this road should have been
built years ago, but instead of that, the
miserable, wicked. corrupt sinners who
build railroads and run Republics, were
visited for their iniquities and set about
killing each other. "Now, when they
do bniid IL, they talk of going north of
the Lake and leaving Salt Lake City
thirty or forty miles to the south. L
tell them here, this action is an insult
to me and my people" This he repeats
ed two or three times. We do pot pro.
fess to be able to comprehend the Lion
Of the Lord. He may have been sincere
or practicinR a little dinlomacx fnr.it ia