Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1876-01-27
No.

What YOU now pay out would keep railroad
alive. and your facilities for transportation
are so limited that only the very richest ores
can be worked, and the most necessary busi-
ness transacted If the railroad was in your
midst. this business would be increased an
hundred fold, and make full remuneration tc
the road, at cheap rates to yourselves.
The railroad company now desires TO ex-
tend its road from Bismarck to and up the
Yellowstone valley, not less than three hun
dred and sixty miles, at one move. 1t has
offered in the memorial before you, 10 build
to your easterly line, one hundred and sixty
miles, and to iron two hundred miles more
in extension of the same into your Territory,
if you will furnish the means to grade,
bridge, and tie this last two hundred miles.
For this purpose we estimate that we shall
have to raise five millions Of dollars on our
own account, besides asking you to loan us
two millions of your Territorial bonds, to be
used for the grading, ETC.. IN your own Ter
rltory.
As security for such loan Of bonds, to make
them desirable investment, and to protect
the people OF the Territory against direct
taxation to meet interest or principal, VIC
propose to pledge and place in trust semi-
annually, the gross amount received by the
railroad company for transportation over this
800 miles, OF all business to or from MOntana
The details of this proposal are partially set
forth in q draft OF al enactment, which l
have prepared for the consideration OF the
Legislature, and which l Will now read for
your general information. AS you will Oh
serve. it provides for full and complete de-
tails to be arranged in a written agreement
between the Territory end the Railroad Com
pany. You will observe, also, that under its
provisions, no bonds are to be issued, except
as the work within the Territory progresses,
from time to time, upon the order OF the
Governor.
commend this plan, gentlemen. to your
candid consideration. lis adoption will,
believe. enable the work to move on. 1t Will
inspire confidence that the great resources OF
this Territory arc to be developed, and yield
harvest to ull concerned. In helping us
you will help yourselves to much greater
extent. implore you not to hesitate be-
tween our great trans-continental, first-class
road, running lengthwise in the natura!
course of traffic between your extreme cast
! erly and westerly borders, opening up for
YOU q domain three times the area of the
great State of Now York, and north and
sonth line that in it's entire course of 500
miles takes you no nearer to the East, and
can afford at best but narrow gauge facilities.
Without greater transportation facilities
you cannot develop a fraction of your re-
sources. Youare now at a stand still. You
cannot afford to wait. Do not perish stand
! inc between opportunities, but choose that
which Is, in magnitude, in direction, and in
| prospective efficiency, the line for Montana.
| 1t you do this, we believe the Northern Pacific
Road will receive your helping hand, and
will, within brief period, be at your DOORS
OTHER sPEEoHEs
Al the conclusion of General Stark's ad
dress, several persons responded to his invi-
taton to question him. Col. Sanders, in
response to loud calls, neatly and wittily re-
sponded. The respect of himself and the
audience for the distinguished gentlemen who
had addressed the meeting, was heightened
by the pleasant acquaintance Of Montanians
with one OF them, and the historic associa-
tions connected with the name of the other.
He spoke in hattering terms of the clever pre-
sentiment of the railroad proposition laid be-
fore the meeting by General Stark. 1t was
forcihle reminder, humOrOusly added the
Colonel, that the typical Yankee was still
alive in the land, to be seen, and heard, and
felt by all men. He was disposed to 60 slow
in advising trade with Gen. Stark, suspi
cious that the railroad was liable to get the
best of the bargain. A farmer in Western
Pennsylvania had once driven his hogs to
Philadelphia. Looking over the whole mar
ket, he was obliged to sell for just what they
were worth at home. The farmer, in relst
ing his experience, said that while he hadn't
made any money IN the transaction, ,..he had
had the satisfaction Of the drive out of the
hogs. The COL hoped the gentlemen, if they
failed to accomplish all they wished or ex-
pected in their visit to Montana, would still
find their compensation in the enjoyment of
the novelty of the 400 miles of stage ride to
and from civilization.
Major Mccormick responded TO calls, and
spoke briefly in his usual forcible STYLE He
concluded by questioning General Stark, in
which he was joined by Messrs. Word, Wat
son, Voolfolk, and others. We would like
to report these gentlemen, but the Iateness of
the hour and pressure On our space forbids.
The meeting, at the hour Of 10 o'clock,
adjourned.
GOVERNOR PORTS is now clearly entitled to
be received into full Democratic fellowship
The Printing Bill-openly and continuously
urged and advocated by the Indfpeadent as a
partisan measure, and passed by the Legisia-
tive Assembly under the lash Of the party
whip, vigorously applied-is signed by pro-
fessedly Republican Governor who thereby
helps to enact an odious law. Make way,
there, Democrats, for Gov. Potts.
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