The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18
Fr I'M Sundays ally.
CORRECTED STATEMH yTS
As to the U. & N, Road and it's
Approach to Butte. .....

A representative of the MINER called
at the office Of Mr.. Samuel Word last
evening and found Mr.. Word and his
partner both in. ,r
Mr.. Word expressed much surprise
when. his attention was called to an al
legged interview with him which APP
peared last night in an evening paper.
He was asked the following questions in
regard to language put into his mouth in
that interview, and made the following
| answers:
So far from being true that the ain
formation" purporting to have been
| given in the alleged interview was ''elic
! tied from him with but little difficulty
fact, Mr.. Word, that you stated that an
order had been issued recalling track
layers from the Helena branch?"
Mr.. Word. at is not. There are no
tracklayers on the Helena branch"
Us it a fact that you said perhaps
225 men would be employed in all on
the road to Butte?"
Mr.. WORD. "It is not. 1 said from
$50 to 200 teams would be employed,
with a few extra men, and l said moth
ing about work being begun not later
than next Monday. Nor did l say that
Il have not received the slightest init
nation about the location of the Butte
terminus, or that it grieves me to con-
fess my ignorance of the solution of that
question: 1 did say, as is a fact, that
the Butte depot might be near the n. Y
Copper Company's works, or the Colora-
do Smelter, or at any of two or three
places between them. In fact there
were scarcely half a dozen questions
asked me-, and the reporter mnst have
imagined the greater part of this alleged
interview"
What did you say about closing
down mines on account of the scarcity
of TIMBER"
Mr.. WORD. 81 said nothing about
it; 1 did not mention mines once. l
said there would be a chance to get lum.
BERN by the road but said nothing about
any 'unsupplied demand I never used
the term we once in connection with
the railroad company, l did state that
an understanding had already been had
with most of the landowners in the sill
yer Bow canyon. 1 did not say that
coal will be laid down at the Butte depot
at SIS per ton, for l do not know exactly
but do suppose that it can he brought in
f for SIS or $16 per tom"
, l said nothing about the price of wood
r but did say, as is a fact, that the Oregon
, Short line will this fall be completed to
: some point on the Utah & Northern
road near Portneuf Canon or Pocatello
and that from there to the vicinity OF
Blackfoot there will be a third rail laid
and the two lines will occupy that trac
: jointly. At some point near Blackfoo
the Oregon Short line will diverge ane
60 west. This is my information. Tn
paragraph supposed to have been suppl.
II ed at this point in the alleged intervie,
Il by some third person, is purely imagiL
e airy. Nothing of the sort took plac,
> and in regard to the shipping of freigL
% to Lakeside, the alleged interview.
equally incorrect. Freight from Dee
a Lodge and Missoula will, as a fact, |
hereafter unloaded at Silver Bow jun
ton, this being the name of the ne
station near Silver Bow. With the e.
ception of what | have stated, the intel
view Is entirely imaginary"