Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-09
BEYOND THE MISSOURI.
Pacific Extension to the Yellowstone.
GBismarck Tribune.

Aho uoH w no are al w Ork on the northern
Pacific Extension to the Yellowstone.
Bismarck Tribune.
Maj. j. E. Walker, of this city, has
Just returned from an extended trip along
the limo of the Northern Pacific extern
sion and through the Bad Lands to the
cantonment in command of Capt. Baker.
The major says the construction of the
road is progressing with great energy. The
contract for the last one hundred mil es to
the Yellowstone, being worked by Walker,
Bellows & Co., who also were the contrac-
tors from MandaR one hundred miles
west, is being pushed at the rate of a
mile and quarter to mile and
a half of track per day, as large
a force being now on the ground as can be
proftabIy utilized. The work through the
Bad Lands is under a special contract "a far
west as the Little Missouri, with Mr.. s. @.
Walker, man of experience in railroad
building, as superintendent. The manner
in which this work is handled would astonish
even modern railroad men. The portable
railroad in operation on the dumps and the
patent wheel scrapers running in the cuts
marks now era in construction of railroads.
In fact force of 800 men fully equipped,
pushing through the Bad Land with such
regularity and system is a mastery piece
of enterprise in Western Dakota. Mr..
Walker, who assumes the immediate su-
pervision of this piece ofjwork, is the SEN
ior partner of the firm of Walker, Bel
lows d Co. He is a man of about sixty
three years of age and is as active in the
Of NC ha
was forty years ago when
building the Hudson River railroad.
Mr.. Bellows is a resident Of Rochester, New
York, and ripe with experience in road con-
struction. He manages the details of the
firms business with headquarters at the end
of the track. He is assisted by his son, Ira
Bellows, a young man of rare ability. The
silent member Of this firm is Jarvis Lord,
also of Rochester, N. Y, who is represented
at the front by his son, Geo. Lord, of the
firm of Lord, eFogarty & Co., now building
several miles east of Green River. Mr.. Lord
gives his personal attention to the contract
of Lord, Fogarty & Co.
The work between the Little Missouri and
the Yellowstone has been turned over to
Walker, Bellows IL Co., who will commence
it at once with large force. After leaving
the Bad Lands on the Little Missouri the
work is comparatively light. This will open
up magnificent belt of farming lands and
Stock raising will also be an important fea-
ture. Several large stock ranches are already
taken up by parties from Illinois
and Ohio with view of putting on large
herds of fine blooded cattle. A gentleman
from Bloomington, Illinois, is arranging to
herd 10000 sheep next year between the
Little Missouri and Yellowstone. Gen. A.
Anderson, the new chief engineer, who put
in an appearance a few weeks since, ex-
pressed himself as being satisfied with the
manner in which the work was progressing.
The General has had many years
experience in civil engineering and
railroad management. He was engineer and
general manager of the Kansas Pacific dur
ing the building of that road from Junction
City to Denver, and for several years after
ward had charge of the running department
His Fl rst change was to the vice presidency
and general management of the Toledo,
Wabash q Western railroad, which Office he
filled for several years.