The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-02
Through the Black Hills.

The bill granting the right of way through
The publ: lands to the Cheyenne, Black Hills
and Montana Railroad and Telegraph COM
panv (by an amended title), as reported by
Nj. Teller, from the committee on.IailroaIs,
with Recommendation of favorable action of
the Senate provides:
That for the purpose OF enabling the WyO-
ming, Montana and Pacific Railroad and
Telegraph Company, u corporation organized
under the laws of Wyoming, to construct and
build its line from Cheyenne, in Wyoming
Territory, by way of Fort Laramie, Deaf
wood, and through the Territories Of Wye
ming. Das ota and Montana, to a connection
with the Northern Pacific Railroad, in the
Territory Of Montana, by the most advaHta-
geOus an practicable line to be selected by
said company, the right of way through the
public lands in the Territories of Wyoming.
Dakota and Montana is hereby granted to said
company. Said right of way hereby granted
10 said company is 10 the extent of one hun
z drel feet in width ou each side of the central
line Of said road where it may pass over the
public lands. There is also hereby granted
to said company all necessary ground, not TO
exceed ten acres in each tell miles in length
Of the main line of said road, for station
buildings, work shops, depots. machine shops,
switches, Side-tTacks, turntables, and water
stations. And whenever it is necessary to
use material from the public lands for the
construction of said road it may be done, but
no private property shall be taken for the use
Of said company, except in the manner now
provided by section > OF all act entitled g An
act to amend an act entitled an ACT to aid in
the construction of a railroad and telegraph
line from the Missouri river to the Pacific
ocean, and to secure to the government the
use Of the same for postal, military and other
purposes approved July /. 1862" approved
July ,, 1867.
Sec. ?. That said company shall be au-
tloriZed and empowered to mortgage in the
usual manner its franchises, road-bed and all
property belonging to said company, to an
mount not to exceed $3.50 per mile for
uarrow-gauge roads. and $500 per mile for
standard gauge roads, for the entire length OF
said road, upon such terms as shall seem to
item best, and upon said mortgage may issue
mortgage bonds not to exceed the same
amount per mile; but in no case shall the
United States be liable in any way whatever
for anything lone by said company.
Sec.3. That the rights herein granted
shall not preclude the construction of othel
roads through any canon, defile, or pass oil
the route OF said road.
Sec. 4. The said company shall at all time
transmit dispatches over their telegraph lines
and transport mails, troops, munitions OF war
supplies, and public stores upon said railroa'
Tor ~nnlellt Use, whenever required SO u
do by any department thereof; and the gov
! eminent of the United States shall at al
times have the preference in the use of tn
same for all purposes aforesaid, at rates o
isation not exceeding the amD1I
charged to and paid for by private parties 70
like services.
Sec. 3. Congress reserves to itself til
right TO alter, amend, or repeal this ac'
whenever, in its judgment, the interests G
the public may require it.
Sec. 6. Whenever any part of the presen
Territories of Wyoming, Montana or Dakota
through which the road may run shall b
admitted into the Union as a State or States
so much of said road and its appurtenance
and property as may be within any such Stat
or States shall be subject to State taxation.