Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-03-22
THE RAILROAD.
A Letter from Beaverhead Valley.
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF MEAGHER
COUNTY TERRITORY OF MONTANA.
CHARLES Il. RADER Plaintiff,
SALISBURY, M. r.. March l

SALISBURY, M. T., March IL. y
ED. H~UsBANDMAN AS you invite free NJ
discussion on the railroad question through I
the columns of your valuable paper, / wish
to submit q few questions relative to the p
North aud South bill. o
Now, the bill, if | understand it right, pro- s.
vides for the turning over to to the Company i
bonds in proportion to the amount issued, 0
short twenty-five per cent. Chat is, on the :
first section of fifty miles,, and, in like man
ner, for every additional section Of twenty t
five miles, short fifteen per cent. Now, is
this fifteen and twenty-five per cent, held
back (aud that out of, as it were, our W
money!, all the security we have for the
faithful performance of said Company?
Again, if | mistake not, they are only re-
CURED to build one hundred miles Of road
per year, which, if they took the time allot-
ted, would take two years to reach our Ter
ritory. Now, the interest that would accrue
on the bonds covering that amount of road
(say two hundred miles), would amount i'll
that time to something near 100000. SO
much for a road through Idaho-can we
stand this? We taxpayers OF to-day will
have it to pay. We can't expect either cap
ital or emigration until the road is well into
our Territory, and would not this extra bur-
den put a pressure on every industry OF the
country. anil tend to keep back both capital
and emigration? Neither rich or poor are
going to hunt a country heavily taxed.
f Again, what is there in the North and
:. South bill to prevent the Company, when
/ they near our line, to stop work, and say 70
the people on the different routes that could
be taken. to bid up if they wanted the road
/ Section q CT this act leaves 1t in such shape
4 that that the company have the choosing OF
e their own route; Helena is the only point IN
the Territory they are or would be pledged
o TO strike. Now, [ wishto ask the voters OF
the Ruby, Beaverhead, Big Hole ana Je1er-
SON valleys. also those Of the West Side, Il
they propose to vote over $40 per mile to
% a summer railroad, and have it go down tht
ID Madison, leaving the best quartz districts @
rs the Territory out in the cold? l can hardly
lie believe YOU would permit the anxiety 1or
&c railroad to get away with your better judy
't ment.
ly Would it not have been better, IT we AT
q L. w oNA
he determined to aid Il railroad into our'coun
try. TO have rendered that aid to a road 9
lc- standard gauge, coming more direct, Q
,er three or four hundred miles, from any polr
Ks, Fast. saving, at the same time, the cost {
JUS ~reshipping all traffic to and from our co''l
a try. which, in heavy machinery, is an lten
lat and quite an undertaking OF itself, to sa
res nothing of the loss oftime, and at the san
NJ time opening up to settlement three or 1o'
hundred miles of what is claimed to be u
de- best portion of our territory? If we are aD
ous to carry the burdens talked OF, we are &c
the tainly growing out of infancy; if SO, give
ent a full-grown railroad; not but what a ma
and row gauge would do here in the mountal
the as a feeder. as they are used elsWhere.
bits Mr.. Editor, l think there IS a screw zoos
,un- IF what is said of Messrs. A. ana b
has is true, they have several silent partners.
ing T have about come to the conclusion III
be the HrsBANDMAN is the only true adyocs
the-tax-payers have. Stay with u.s. and J
the win receive your reward. KANcHER
kerS -Jpcrr NATIONAL BANK