The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-08-11
RAILROAD NOTES.
As They Are Picked Up Promi.euousiy.

As They Are Picked UP Promiseuousiy.
Hallett's. Northern Pacific track layers do
not have respect for the Company's proper
ty. A train of fiat cars Il loaded with ties and
iron and pushed ahead of the locomotive.
As quick as the iron and ties on the head car
are used, the car In tipped over off the track,
the balance of the train pushes past, and so
on in succession until all the cars are empty.
1t Is proper to mention that the cars are then
again set back on the track
Hallett had 1000 Cinnamon and nearly as
many white men at work west Of Rock ISL !
and last week The road was completed this |
week to Rock lsland-153 miles west of Mis- |
soula. But little grading is done this side
owing to the difficulty of crossing the river.
The hull of the new steamboat was launched
ten days ago and it was anticipated that by
August 10Th the machinery would be in She
draws only two feet of water, but as the river
has been falling during the early part of
August at the rate of six inches day. there
were doubts Of her reaching the Falls.
We learn from DIR. Herman that company
consisting of w. Fl. Fife, +. Z. Smith and
]. p Tiernan-has been formed TO operate
| railroad from Rathdrum, a point on the n.
| p. II. r. in Idaho, to Lake Ceur dAlene,
distance of lat miles, and also to build
steamboat on Lake CGur dAlene and river,
and st. Joseph's river, for the purpose of
transporting lumber and other freight to and
| from the line of the Northern Pacific. The
surveys have already been made, and work
| will be commenced Immediately. 1t Is also
the intention of the company to construct
saw mill on the lake, with capacity of 1Oo,-
900 feet per day, the lumber to be shipped to
different points in Washington and Idaho.
The projectors are men Of means, and there
cannot be the least doubt it will be success
fully carried TO completion Ddd'es Tim
DR.. A. I'll. Mitchell, who returned from
Butte Tuesday, turned off the road this side
the Hump and drove over to where the Utah
and Northern track-layers We're Mt work
The track was then laid and trains running
TO the old saw mill in the valley. The mer
! were busily at work, ties were distributed
considerable distance ahead, and the culver
and cattle guard men were still in advance O.
| the ties He drove through Stuart without
l stopping and does not consider it formida
1 BILE rival to Warm Springs He thinks thu
2 road will be at the latter place between thu
l | 20th and 18th Mr.. James Goodwin, Oh
| whose upper farm the river is brldged, states
that the piles were being delivered there
Monday and the pile-driver was to arrive ant
begin work Wednesday evening. There ar
two small sloughs TO be piled between TIL
crossing and Warm Spring Creek,
John Morgan, Esq, constructing enginee
l. last year on the He'll Gate Division, and re
?, membered very kindly by all who made hi
e acquaintance, returned Tuesday from tn
d West to take a months vacation. Mr. MOI
Is gan was transferred last fall TO the Uppe
% Clarke's Fork Division, of which Mr.. Hur
n burt had been in charge, and has done som
D. very hard work on that line this snmme
10 About thirty five miles is through dens
T. forest of white, yellow, and red pine, tam
It rae, and hcmlock, and the engineers WEI
NJ employed in it several weeks doing very har
ii work. In June Mr.. Morgan fell, by the bar
Is cleaving from afallen tree he was walking AN
< received quite severe spinal injury, whic
a.
n- treatment Mr.. Morgan estimates Hallett
Id force at 900 men, and the average constru
n ton is about one mile per day. From Roe
ne Island TO the Second crossing" -four mil
IN below Thompson's FALL, the distance
ne thirty-six miles through the almost impen
nc trable forest just mentioned. On this strett
at supplies cannot we'll he carried by wagon
I'd IA it would be- almost rs expensive TO cut
IT. wagon road rs to build grade. The line
'e the track for the greater part Of the W;
| ranges from half TO one mile distant fro
r. the river. So the steamer is built chiefly
n like on supplies and men at Rock Island al
er deliver them mt points up along this stret'
ne with the object of emitting wagons roads o
in from the river ut convenient distances n
AT thus get at the grading advantageously.
I'M present the force Is piled up on itself a
cannot work 10 advantage. He thinks t
lat boat will start not later than August 90
ne. The boat will also carry mails, passengers
ill freight The Company will give throu'
at bills of lading from Portland to the head
ch navigation; here wagons will connectto
uc soula, and a line OF stages is ready to 81;
er- when the first boat comes in.
All Mr.. Morgan says body Of splendid ii
md Der extends along the road for 100 miles
SEES Is from five to fifty miles or more wide.
9th great deal of IL is hemlock and doubtless
he tensiye tanneries will be started. Thon
ar sons Falls Is III miles and Rock Island
rye miles from Missoula.