The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-01
VICKrS SEEDS
Are The Most Reliable.
THE UTAH n MOTH ERN.


Colonel Washington Damn, Superintend-
ent Of CONSTRUCTION Of the Utah a. Northern
Railroad, was in Butte a few days since on
business connected with the cxteDsion of The
road TO that place. An Incorporated railroad
COMPANY, under the law of Montana, II emil
tied, IN addition TO its grant %! public do
main to take 100 feet on each side OF the crn-
tire of the road track of The land' OF private
individuals for the USE of the said company,
beside room for stations. lu"h Gus. e'c.; Dut
II IN provided that where the company and
the individual owner cannot agree upon the
amount of damages, IL shall be- determined
by the appraisal of three dininirrr"trd COM
mi,sioner. who may be appointed on The
application OF any parry in'"r",'"d b' 'he
District Court or Di,trlc, Julg" OF thr dis
trict In which the lands rakem lie, ,hr APP
prai,rmrnt 10 br what rDe ya,uc OF Tue Iaud
would have been IL the road had not br"n
built. Provision Is also made forappral from
this app ais,.inent Heretofore, We beiiev',
damage. have been adjusted with out the
interpolation of n commission, but II j. att
tcipated the extension TO Bate will necessi-
tate the appointment Of one.
Recently iron for the extension has bet n
arriving al the Terminus at the rate Of ten or
twelve cars daily. The track was laid la
year two miles this side of Dillon, leaving
sIxty-right miles yet build. The Salt Lake
Herald says after the amount of iron rails ON
hand Ii exhausted the balance Of the track
to Butte will be laid with forty pound steel
rails instead of thirty-fve pound iron rarS.
The Company employs Z5 to 100 section men,
Al f.. FIR.
and engineers, 100 shop men and wiper, 10
Office men and operators and % workmen of
agenerai nature, making 100 in all, to whom
amonthly salary of about $4,000 Is paid. 1t
IL estimated 200 more will be brought into
employment ~ the road progresses. This
DOES not include those employed In conatruc-
ton.
Notwithstanding the expense Of operating
the road, IL il paying handsomely as fast ~
constructed-better, perhaps, than any road
ever built west of the Missouri, aud an ofii-
cial Of the company said not long since the
business, actual and fairly 10 be anticipated,
of Butte alone would justify the extension 10
that point aud the operation OF the entire
line.
As h given out by those presumed
10 know the purposes oi hf company
the prospect of the exten>ion Of the road
down the valley this years. not bright. Butte
IN rapidly exhaurting the available timber
within wagon haul gifts mines. Withintwo
or three years 1t will have to secure Its enor-
nous necessary supplies from elsewhere, and
the He'll Gate Canon, 30 or 100 miles from
Butte, appears the nearest and most desiris-
bic 30 work on by rail. The survey, how,v-
cr OF the Northern Pacific Company from
the mouth Of tae Little Blackfoot down the
river, with the almost absolute certainty of
the construction of that road at early day
over the portion Of route surveyed, IL not
entirely through the Deer Lodge valley,
doubtless causes the Union Pacific Company
TO hesitate about constructing parallel road
over an inevitable 40 or 90, or perhaps 100,
miles Of route where at places II would be
forced off TO expensive and difficult work.
When the route ofthe N p. X. II. Is definitely
settled through the mountain region, the
Utah & Northern will not be long in estab-
fishing connection with II. That win proha-
bly, b. done this year.