The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-12-23
RAILROADS,


RAILROADS.
At irregular intervals nations and CON:
munities are subjected to some subtle resol
vent process By which individual projects
ambitions and energies are precipitated and
become for the time the one predominant,
absorbing theme Of conversation, scheme
and effort. These have been known and
classcd as manias. Montana has not beer
an exception. The placer excitement con
squcnt of the discovery of Alder Gulch
The Vigilante, Quartz Indian and Chinese
questions have in turn monopolized public
attention, and excited tongues and pens, and
even tho considcratc dollar to unwonted nc.
fiyity and recklcssncss. Every land and
people and community of Intelligence and
enterprise is subjec to these semi. occasional
breakings out. To them may be traced
much of material development, for the fol.
. lys of the mania arc oft times but tho evan.
csccnt froth and bubble on tho great current
of advancement that, wearing through some
established humbug. carries the omnipotent
spirit of progression another advance into
the realms Of wooden pillow lethargy. There
are few that some great result docs not
evolve from; and those who sec only harm.
less vapor in the surging clouds, open their
eyes when tho lightning strikes.
The particular direction in which the
mania is at present developing in Montana
l., s,,.c ~ tim ~ - u u c,,a. V,.o,, ~ I;,,nc
The Cheyenne, Big Horn and Helena r. r.
Co. is organized in the metropolis of Mon.
taus, and tho capital Of Wyoming-a kind
Of Sanesc twin arrangement with an iron
umbilicus along the cast side of the noun.
tains-.hc immediate terminal points being
Cheyenne and Helena.
On the evening of Thursday, Dec IS,
meeting was held in Virginia City which re-
suited in the organization of company, with
John How, Esq, President, Gen. Add. II.
Sanders, Vice President, and Judge w. Y.
Lowell, Secretary, it's purpose being the con.
etruction of railroad from Corinnc, Ogden
or Cartcr-thc ultimate location of the
Southern terminus to he determined by the
amount of stock taken at the different points
nsmcd--to tho Gallatih valley, the route be-
ing through one Of the passes ut tho head
of the Madison river and thence down that
stream to the Three Forks of the Missouri,
where It is to connect with the N. p. r.
i. and the Cheyenne and Helena line.
The time was-whcn tho Northern Pacific
route was being ridicu!cd as impracticablc.
and the charter was liable to expire with
out extension unless the North. West press
united 10 dissipatc the falschoods and show
it, advantages re deemed tao diver.
sion of public sentiment from it in favor of
branch lines 10 the Union Pacific r. H. |
monopoly disaster to tho Territory. A |
main line trans. continental road through |
Montana was and Is Of lrst importance.
That Is now an assured fact The n. p. Il.
r. will be bull, and We anticipate the instru.
mcutai surveys will be made and the line |
located through Montana in 1871. There
10 little doubt the line will traverse this |
valley from Deer Lodge 10 Missoula. With
this main line through our West Side val.
leys Deer Lodge and Missouls counties arc |
for tho time content. It's building two
years hence will have commenced, while |
our placcrs arc yet richly productive. 1t
will be completed 10 the crossing of the
Missouri before we could reasonably expect |
the constr uction of branch road north and |
south, and will furnish rapid and cheap tran.
sportation for our exports of ores and our |
imports of merchandise and machinery.
Its building is guaranteed by ample land |
3sunts; its construction and financial manage
ment undertaken by great financial
House, commanding the confidence and
capital of tho Old World and the New In
tts bonds and representations, and 1t has
thus passed into the certaintics, even
though never dollar Of its bonds arc pur.
chased west Of the Mississippi. It IL the
line of communication Montana most needs.
Tho very building of it will develop the
necessity for transverse roads. Travel and
commerce and this half continent west of
the 94e Of longitude demand communica-
tion north and south, and the sooner It Is
done the better. .a /
The organization of Companies in Helena,
Virginia and Chycnue 10 the inception of
that which will one day, not far distant,
have fulAlmcnt In railroads from British
America to tho Gulf Of Mexico. We ore
glad to eco the era Of railroad furore. It
shows faith In the Territory On intention
70 stay with It. We wan: to hear OF these T
yailroaders In Washington asking land subsi. /
dice, forit viii convince skeptical thou.
Dands there are lands here esteemed worth
possessing BY residents, and II they get
them It only increases their price to $3.50
per acre while Il enhances the value Of oil
other property MANIFOLD ~ soon as the
rosds have progressed sufficiently to with.
draw tho lands from the government
Double the lands have been pre-empted in
Montana since the n. r. r. r. has become
In aasur0d fact that wosalA ham hcen haA