The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-12-08
Bonnie! &c.,
DEER LODGE.
RAILROAD CHESS.
One or Two Moves On the Construction
Beard.

The Utah and Northern railway company
has a snow shed. The intelligent travelling
reader Of the ever valuable, generally inter.
es,iug and frequently reliable NEW NORTH
WEST will DO prepared, on spelling out the
above sentence, to assert that IL Is one Of our
profound jokes put In merely to ill up space
without regard to facts or grammar. Webeg
leave to differ. We have not seen 1t but we
have the wsrd Of . prominent legal officer
Of the company that !: exists. II IL not as
serted that It Ii expensive or extensive,
or that the white-fosted angels Of
clsudlaad had tiuttersd down and burdened
the rails with 1.-The silence deep and white"
until the great sngines ceased to revolve
their wheels and the passengers had to give
up their tsoth-picks for fuel. But it exists
all the same. 1t il not between Deer Lodge
and Ogden, nor yes between Deer Lodge and
that nameless locality where 400 or 800 feet
off its extreme northern terminus lays Itself
down to rest, like . solitary mackerel on
broad fish plate, on the massive road bed Of
the Northern Pacific. In fact, come to think
Of II, IL In not Utah b Northern snow shed
ut all: but snow shed belonging to its fay
ored foster-child, "the U. 8 N. Railway In
Montana" 1t Il at or near Bedford. Bed
fsrd ID We believe in Jefferson county,
where the fierce light Of . locomotive head.
light has never beat upon the quivering
earth, or that penoniaed essence Of an earth
quake known IS q baggagsmaster had oppor.
sunity to spread his features in . demoniac
smile ever chaos Of cheap trunks and ex-
pensive undsrclothss. Bedford Is where the
Northern Pacific and the Utah & Northern
| "in Montana railways intend to cross each
others lines. The U. s. N. got there FIRST
| with the grade. The N. =. came along pretty
soon after Qscai tradition says about six
| necessity, matters not, concluded TO ''lay
over" It's waspish little rival by crossing
above 1t and bridging the Missouri river near
by. The N. p. built its grade. The U. & N
| engineers discovered the n. P. had only ele-
| waited its grade line some fourteen feet above
the u. s. ". track. We believe q U. b N.
locomotive IL about fifteen feet high, and
fourteen fest.wouid not give clearance even
for freight cars and braksmen. Something
had to be done. The U. & N. company did It.
1t has built . snow shed twenty or thirty feet
1
and high enough 70 give its trains good
clearance. The roof Of the structure Ia some
feet higher than the grade Of the Northern
Pacific road-bed So the ~. & N, In Mon
tAna" snow shed has to come down or the
| IN. p" road bed and bridge have to 60 up.
| IL In stated there are certain relations exist
| ing between the "U. & n. In Montana" and
the Union Pacific railway company, corpo.
raiioa Of some substance with general Offices
IN Omaha and New York.
1t u an open secret that the ~. P.' and
! IN. P" companies have not arrived at .
general understanding ~ TO their relations in
the North West. As relates to Montana, the
N. r. contenplates putting In \ branch from
| Gesrdt's rasch to Butte. This II to some ex-
! tent over line IL abandoned In favor Of one
via Helena The U. r. has ALREADY expend-
! cd $40, 900 In grading road-b from Sails
bury 10 Helena. the same making connection
| with the U. q N. NJ Dillon or Glen. A man
said not many days ago that within ten days
after the n. P.starss In TO construct its branch
70 Butte. the U. p. would start In to construct
the u 4 n. from Glen to Helena and thence
| 20 Benton. Wonder IL its true. 1t looks -
| though, each had the best OF the other Some
| Of thsae days though q couple Of quiet
spoken gsntlrmsn may sit down together n
. table in New York city aud * all these
things up and then the railroad companies
| will have the hsss Of ~.
In the Missoala county court last week
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