Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-09-04
EXTENSION ECCENTRICITY,
A Review OF the Residential SOjOurn.
ers.-Grading Being Pushed
The Keith Party Located
Pr Near "Hell With the
FireS OuE''
Bismarck Tribune, lGih ult.

4 bismarck Tribune, iGih ult.
The extension goes on. The iron rail i
stretching into the unknown land between
the Missouri and the Yellowstone. and be
fore the outside world knows it. the trnl,
great valley of the west will have beer
reached by the nightiest agency ofcivli
zation. Another Empire will then chal
lenge the admiration of the progressive
branch Of the thinking family of creation
Cattle ranges. such rs Colorado neveI
dreamed of. will be the commanding ut
traction. Exi,austless development sums
up the destiny OF the country that the
Northern Pacific is now reaching for.
There is a meaning in the dry details that
follow in this article. They make ls real.
ize that the greatest and shortest route to
the Pacific and her colossal commerce is a
living thing; that the mammoth failure of
Jay Cooke is changing into brilliant sue
cess. 4l,.. .- 81
Thursday the Transfer carried the first
iOaded cars across, and fully established
the important link that mas heretofore been
absent. The several thousand tons OF iron
will now go forward. and all other mate
rial will be quickly moved to the front.
The road that has been built is excellent;
the track is now out TWEEN y-three miles.
and next week the cars will be running to
the Coal Banks. LIE May has made wag-
er that the track will be across Badger
creek by the tenth of September, thirty
eight miles out. 1t is safe bet. When
the Curlew valley is reached. the track-hy-
ing will be on easy grade. The contractors
store ut the Coal Banks moved out this
week, to the head Of Curlew valley, and
carried with it the opera house, the thir-
teen saloons, the faro bank and women.
A new town will spring up at the stores
every hating place. Tented villages are
and in that respect differ from
railroad passes and thousand mile tickets.
The grading is two-thirfs finished for
seventy miles cut. The Keith locating
party is one hundred and thirty miles out |
just making their entrance into Pyramid
Park, or, n the erroneous but graphic |
speech Of Gen. Sully, ''Hell with the fires1
put" Keith reported that he was bound
Tor the Yellowstone, and would get there /
1 1t took all winter. He had not heard Of
li.e other locating party, who are on board I
The Josephine, steaming up the river for
he Glendivc. The Josephine took with her
company Of the 9Th Infantry, command
ID by Lieuts. Day and Bryne. who will
erve as an escort TO the locating party.
The two parties will meet before the snow
: very deep. The first engineering resi-
lency east OF Kieth's party is Maish's. His
esidency covers about thirty miles, and
taches ont to Young Mems Butte. one
hundred miles from the Missouri river.
he only contractors on that residency are
;allaghan. Miller 4 Co.. with about thirty
cams. Jonathan Barrels resitlency is at
he west end of the Curiew valley. and
overs about twenty miles. On his FEST /.
ency are e. A. Smith and II. q. TLomp-
%. with fiye miles each. Smith is about
ne-hah done and Thompson one-third. !.
he next reside1cy Is Darling's. with twen-
contractors at work and fifty bridges to |.
uild. The residency stretches over thlrty
lilcs. and is n very important one. Cum
lngham Red Jim) and Horriganaye prom
ent contractors under Darling. s.Ised
M has slept in his wagon for tour years
ID IL entitled to honors. The parties this 8
b 81 BalSer creek are Dobbins' and ID
res. Frank J. Mead completed his con- e
act this week. asd IN company with Pres Il
&C on = Understandable thing that s'bast- y