Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-29
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Esd efshs Northern PaciAe Essssssss.
Correspondence Of the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Aandan, d. T.. Dec. 2l.-TLs condition
ahairs on the lins Of construction Of the
Northern Pacific o. this writing IL ~ fol.
lows: The grade 10 completed for . dis
tancs Of Q than q hundred miles west
the Missouri river, Or to the vicinity Of
Ireen river. Over nearly sixty miles OIL
this road the track hes beea laid, and the |
end Of the track is, therefore. in the Curlsvu
valley, sixty miles west from Mandau. All
the end Of the track Mr.. Quinn keeps .
stopping place or station, using the board.
ing cars belonging to Winston Brothers 4
LIZ May. the contractors for track.laying,
Who have stopped the work Of track.lsyin9
Tor the winter. Quinn has q dozen or fifteen
ooarden, n keeps . stopping place for
transient guests whose business calls them
up or down the line. The company
also has . depot for supplies at the
end OF track: Fifty miles beyond the end
Of The track 10 Green river, on the bank Of
which stands the campo Of Shields 4 Larson,
IN which there are about forty men. West
Of their camp 10 the camp Of NcNanny g.
Co., with about thirty or forty men. West
Of McNanny 10 Michael Keyes' camp, with
about twenty men employed. Wost from
Keyes IL the camp Of Newport & Lee With
about forty men, making more than one
hundred men employed between Grand
river and the bad lands. In the bad lands
are two camps Of Walker, Bellows & Co.,
Mr.. Bellows conceding $50 men employed,
while Mr.. Shields Of the 6rm Of Shielcs Il
Larson, informs me that $50 would be near.
er the correct figure. Thus it will he seen
that the number If four hundred given in
dispatch falls somewhat short Of the
real number employed at the present writ.
ing.
Now, for fear some pert ignoramus should
confound the end. Of the track" with the
bad lands, let US recapitulate: The end of
the track il in the Curlew valley, 60 miles
west of the Missouri; Green river 10 SO
miles west Of the end Of the track or ITO
miles wet from the Missouri river, while
the company's supply store is SO miles west
of Green river, or 100 miles west of the
Missouri river, and four miles into the bad
lands.
Since the storm Of Wednesday, the 10th,
there hiss besn nobody arrived from the OK.
treme front, and only two arrivals from the
Green river district. Que Of the latter, Mr..
F. h. Morgan. LEFT Keyes' camp Thursday,
The 9th inst, and arrived Of the end of the
track ON the Thursday following. reaching
Nandan Saturday night, the 18th inst. 81
10 positive 10 bis stateme n that Reyes had
scaut ten days supplies for both men and
horses. and asserts that it wss concluded
everywhere In the G.een river district thai
there was an even greater scarcity In the
bad lands than In the Green river locality
From the end OF the track there hsye been
several arrivals by wagon, though up Il
this writing there has been no train 10 iron
there. In my dispatch published on ths
18th. it was clearly stated that there was a
that date only two dsys' supply Of provis-
ions at the end of the track, and this hs,
been confirmed since, the Quinn hotel b .ina
compelled to go on snort iations until the
arrival Of the supply train. which took plac.
last Friday.
What may be the exact situation In III
bad lands 90 one can be positive. Mr.. B 81
lows, OF Walker, Bellows & Co, asserts thu
there we're 80 days' supplies on hand at the
time OF the blizzard. but others we'll 10
y I400 NOuSto 0SVS SuC 0k0NSU3Culs Nky u WI
view il. and l think the sequel will beer "a.
plies at the bad lands store at the time oil
the storm, 400 that the men there will b
punched BY hunger before the fresh supply
reaches them.
Now as to the present state of affairs: The
supply train, got through to the end of tie
track some time Friday last, it is supposed
a 4 on0 noNA - bod paanA>A ekA Dok. HGS~.
on its return Saturday morning, At 1880
Theirs the engines took |. supply Of coal and
left Immediately for Mandan. Since thai
time nothing has been heard Of the train,
there being no Geographic communication
between Msndan and Baby Mine. At this
writing (Sunday,2 pm )the wind Is blowing
almost . "blizzard" from the north and the
snow moving across the prairies in waves
that makes travel against it impossible fol
man or beast. Your correspondent will no
attempt to conjecture the condition OF affair
in bad lands, but let each reader picture TO
himself the probabilities based upon tn
iacts stated above. Absolute starvation is no
probable, Is there i large number Of horse
and mules and SOME oxen employed on the
WORK, but suffering and short rations ar,
almoet 4 certainty. From the end Of thl
track it must be RENE nbsred the dis.
lance to the company's supply store is one
hundred miles through . winding valley
road. How long will it take teams to geI
in with the supplies which did not start til
last Friday. Will they get in at all over ID
snow-drift~d prairie, almost destitute q
water and fuel, IL the existing stormy wealth
er continues? Your correspondent has n
disposition to be Sensational, bat cannot n