The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-07-28

| force it into two tanks, one situated near
the main line for the supply OF engines on
the road, the other near the round-house
will distribute the water as it is required
in the buildings throughout the system Of
shops. Pipes are already hid in every
direction to convey the water where re-
o,,ired. The foundation of another build
ing is just now being laid, ,44x100 feet.
1t will, like all the others, be of brick,
and is designed for store-room and for
| the business rooms of the divisional
officers. It will be surrounded by plat
form extending beyond each end about
| fifty feet. Beside those engaged upon the
| walls of the buildings, workmen are busi-
ly engaged in preparing material, both
wood and store, so that it will be in
readiness as the work advances further
and more rapidly. Machinery is begin-
ming to arrive, and is being unloaded near
the shops ready to be put in position and
begin its work when the buildings are
ready for its reception. The following is
list Of the building which will form the
system when complete, with-their dimen-
sions:
Roundlhouse of fifteen stalls, seventy
feet deep, to accommodate the largest en-
gines in use On the road; wrought-iron
turntable, diameter sc feet.
Sand and pump house. ........ s0x40
Oll mouse. ............ SCx3O
(in its basement will be two tanks with
a capacity Of $50 and 100 barrels re-
spectively. On the upper floor will be
four smaller tanks). t..
Machine shops. .120x204
Engine room. .............. 26x35
Boiler house. e................. 4Ox4O
Chimney height. .............. 100
Blacksmith and boiler shops. -. 67x212
Store and Office building. ...... 44y1On
Two water tanks. -
These buildings when complete will
form system Of railway shops larger
than any on the line Of the road except at
Brainerd, and will employ force Of
laborers that, with their families, will
make good-sizedl community OF them
selves. Of their Importance as factor in
the growth and permanent prosperity Of
Livingston too high an estimate cannct
be formed. Bismarck had boom that
was rightly termed ''craze' upon the
selection of that town as the capital of
Dakota, but thebuildings now being erected
at Livingston by the Northern Pacific
would have been & greater actual benefit to
Bismarck than The capital will prove, and
will add more population aud more
wealth to Livingston than will the capitol
to Bismarck While the seat of govern.
msnt only attracts the presence of few
score OF Legislators and lobbyists at long
intervals these railroad shops viii give
constant employment to hundreds of we'll
paid artisans who, with their families, will
make Livingston their homes thus fur
nishing a large local trade to our mer-
chants from tli;s source alone. Visitors of
tie chronically grumbl1ng and invariably
short-sighted class sometimes say, Living
ston has already outgrown the country
upon which it can depend for support
The remark is merely absurd, even If the
town was only dependent upon the SUI
rounding country. But when the trade
which, i'll a few months. will result from
the necessity Of supplying 500 or eco
local wcrkmen in the railroad EMPLOY
alone is considered it must appear that
Livingston has Hardly grown beyond her
resources. The town is unusually pros
porous and still growing without this
prospective aid, and before the surround
ing country has been developed and it's
resources utilized beyond q mere fraction
Of their capabilities. This being so the
future Livingston must be a city of as
many thousands as it now possesses nun
dreds. Ne are confident the day is not
very far removed into the future when. to
the putting ciliinneys Of the railroad
works now being butt i'll Livingston, will
be added those Of mills and factories to
Convert portion Of the products Of our
farming lands and stock ranges into
articles Of commerce and reduction works
to extract the metals from our rich mineral
bearing rock. We arc confident that this
Town will have such establishments in the
years that are to come, but we would, if
n cur power. hasten their comingrand
allow Livingston to reach her ultimate aea-
any as great city within a decade.