The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-01-14

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II uogeAn3 1ooe4o.
II q 1esbouG Nay ID, 1oQ, Mr.. Henry
! VlllArds = beholfo a himso1fan1 oOoof
, -, .bouGhe the soock q 1lE. Fxedes1oh
\ 1lntnGD and hi ftioads d tho Northern
J faei6e Company. Disooatinoenos a
! u onl1b bgoeghf By Nr. Willard relo
: Tive - tie iss0e Of 160. 80 shaeee of CON
. mon stook ~ consented to. Mr.. VII
lard WaD Givea ooutrol ofthe road. Two
of the diI0ctoD resigned, and were cue.
coeded By Thomas +. Cakes, vjCe-preoi.
dent and general manager Of the Oregon
Railway : Navigation Company, and
Artemus II. Holmes, . director In the
same company.
In the latter part Of June there waD or
ganised and Incorporated under the
laws Of Oregon . company known o.
the Oregon Trans Company,
with . capital Of go, OOO, 900, to which
was Transferred the control of the North
eru Pacific Railroad and the Oregon
Railway 4 Navigation Company. Mr..
Henry Willard is president and Thomas
/
pany. The two railway companies pre-
serve their distinctive corporate names
und business. There IL no consolidation
Of the three c0mpanie., but the manage
| nlent Is wholly in the hands Of the new
company.
immediately after the new Organiza-
ton was organized, the president and
| vice-president began to give their per-
s0nal attention to the more rapid COLI
str,,cti0n of the the two roads. Having
abundance of capital, being young men,
having everything to gain by the enter
prise, they put new life into the dircc-
ton Of affairs, ~ indicated by the record
of the season now closing. COnstruc-
tom work has l,een planned and exec,l-
ted with marvellous rapidity. The cal
culatiOn IL that t,y the end of 1882 the
track will be laid and trains running
westward to point 500 miles from the
mouth of the Rosebud, and on the Pa
cific coast three trains will h. running
ut the same time November, 1884, 80
eastward from the mouth Of Clark's
Fork, or beyond the MissOuia, leaving
This 3OO miles includes the crossing Of
the Rocky Mountains. Contracts for
,OOO, 600 ties for the Yellowstone ,livis- |
ion has tDcen let, and those needed along |
Clark's Fork have lDeen contracted for. /!
Fifty-flve thousand toms Of steel rails |
have been contracted for. for the next |
years delivery, in addition to- 81 900
tons to be delivered in III before Jant,:s-
~, 1852.
Work has 50 far progressed ~ to show
that the truck will be laid from Bis
ln0rck to point six miles beyond Miles
City. The distance from st. Paul to
Miles City il 40 miles. Grading has
been done along the Yellowstone divis-
ion beyond Miles City, I'D miles from
Glendivc, and heavy work done in adj
fiiti0n, but not continuously, for 13O
miles. The work that will h. done dur
ing the winter will he ut all the heavy
Joints on the Yellowstone division. On
the western division, sixty miles Of the
MissOula division are under contract,
including u branch tO Butte City. On
the Clark's Fork division, 1000 China
men nre at work in the employ If the
company, and not by contractors. Fiji
" miles Of Rad have l*tn let near Hell
ma. Contracts have )wcn LIT for two
the lOnge,t, 3,5tN, at the Null
an Pass through the koc<y Mountains.
= not under contract, hut viii! IL let
Turing January. 1897.
The number Of mile: Of track laid
lOrthwartl from Thompson Junction is
bout six, ON what is called the W'isCOn-
i'm division, but the grading has lN'en
nearly through to Superior
'ity, a distance Of twenty-five miles.
The total mileage of the Northern Pa
ific Railroad in operation January LIST.
S., will be FROM
Sites. O
t. Paul to ak miles beyonl Miles City, 7.6 9
NUN e 1r:insrd.. q.
ssiius to north shore Of Lake Pen t;Orc,.e
by January lst....... no
7:3s :
The total number "f miles il, opCn.- >
ion, main line. exclusive III branches, O
y January LIST, 1SS2., will H. |, ~; miles.
ot..l mileage IF feeders, 50 far :,s now =
Ompletetl. sixty-tWO miles. The mile =
~ on the Pacific cts,st that will hc =
omplcte.l by the lat Of January, lSS:,,
ill tx. ::;45 miles. Mileage If the Orc !
On Railway Il Navigation Company
rvn, Na!' Walla to Portland, -"
niles. Grand total vt the miles, ~ -.
he whole system, to TX. completed by
he lat If January, 1881. .47G miles. in
l,lding the Oregon Hallway X Nav;~,-
ion Company.
Fro,m Miles City t" the crossing. "f the
'eliowst"nc, near Een-"ns Landing, {
no distance will Tx 1YN miles. r:r !
!Ocky Mountain division from crushing !
{ the Yellowstone. to- Frcnri,wt.i,,un's,
l. Meadow Creek, will im l:NI miles
ON F'renchwonan'< to l'!ark's Fork,
0w constituting IT,, Njs>.'u!; division,
H. distance IL l'a' miles. The Ciark's Il
ork division is $50 miles, connecting
18th the end Of the finished r,mtl. This
i'll leave an unfinished gap, on the 1st
January, lSS:2,. Of ~, miles, 81, part 9
which u large amount Ut work has I.
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