The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-03

Dssss'y ooas'.n..s Ioes' '.'sr-
Broad 0ougo Routes Compared.
There is now and has been for tive
years pet such an outpoaring OF wealth
/ and energy into the construction d
railway, thatit b di1bcalt to realize
| their Antuso in1osace On tsade, eivilise-
ton and even domestic life.
There aresome startling facts In re-
s,rd to the transeontinental railway
linen whioh come directly homo TO the
citizens Of Butte, in their business -
we'll - In their traveb. For instance,
everybody knows that tho Northern
Pacific road b conceived and claimed
to be the shortest route across the cont
nent. Now Chicago IL the natural
eastern depot for Butte trace and travel,
and h . iact that there viii soon be .
broad gauge all nail route from Chicago
| 20 the Pacific Coost which win be ts0cn-
IN miles skortcr than this distance by
The Northern Pacific. Many people
will wonder at this and some will doubt,
yet there b high authority for the state
ment, and xhen the two lines are COM
pleted it, truth y . matter Of practical
demonstration. This short line, In fact
this shortest transcontinental line, h
from Chicago to Omaha by the c. B. 4
G., Chicago and Rock Island, or Rock
Island and Pacific, all lines leased by
the Union Pacific Company, then from
Omaha to Changer over the main line
of the Union Pacific, then from GIan-
ger northwest along the broad gauge
Oregon short Line to Pocatello, on the
Utah 4 Northern, and then to Portland,
Oregon, or perhaps some other Coast
point to be selected, also by the Oregon
Short Line and Oregon r. 4 N. Com
pany's line. This will constitute q
through broad gauge oil rail route from
Chicago to the Pacific Coast twenty
miles shorter than the Northern Pa
cific line.
But perhaps Butte Is more directly in
terested In the fact that by this line the
distance between Chicago and Butte
will be shortened ut least twelve hours,
even though the fas: mail trains on the
U. p. now contemplated by the U. 8.
Postal Department are not put on. If
they arc 70 be put on this distance will
be shortened more. AZ It is, the travel
er from Chicsgo westward will come In
. through broad gauge palace car direct
to Pocatello On the Utah 4 Northern
road, and viii then have only two hum
dred and sixty miles on the marrow
gauge road, saving twelve hours In time.
II he remained on tho Union Pacific
road from Changer to Ogden, he would
have four hundred and sixteen miles On
the narrow gauge, and would arrive In
Ogden by that route not IN hour sooner
than in -Pocatello BY the other.
There are now nix thousand men 1t
work on the Oregon Short Line, and
the enormous iron bridge over the
Snake River, northeast Of Pocatello, IL
being rapidly pushed to completion.
THE NARROW GAUGE.
The merchants and business men Of
Butte certainly should feel . direct in
terest In the location Of the Utah 4
Northern car shops. These shops will
necessarily employ several hundred
men, and viii contribute largely to keep
up the material industries, the supply
market, the labor market, Of the point
where they are situated. Into them win
he run ill the narrow gauge cars for 10
pains to wood work, iron work and up
holstefy. The repairs Of the engines
will necessitate extensive blacksmith
shops, boiler works, furnaces and coal
bins. All these things make business,
or ate . demand for certain staple arti-
cles and for labor, and keep In constant
circulation . large amount Of money.
The three hundred men employed in
these shops will earn each 1t least three
dollars per day, and their monthly pay
roll will consequently foot up about
twenty-five thousand dollars. Now II
these shops are located in this city
there will b. twenty-five thousand dol
lar More paid 1t than now. II they
are located elsewhere, there win be .
corresponding diminution Of circula.
ton. The only other point contemplate
ed by the railway ofleials Is at Silver
Bow Junction. with high explosive
mandatory and the car shops, Silver
Bow Junction will lea formidable in
dustrial and manufacturing rival. The
question h shall Butte men cit quietly
by and allow the opportunity to slip
them, or are the car shops worth trying
for?
The extension from the Junction to
Deer Lodge is being pushed - fast ~
nneaihle IT In niaf0n ON GOOD anfhOritv