Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-09-19

The Mercer Mining and Manufacturing
Company sent a special ear to town on Monday
evening, with a request to Sheriff Donaghy TO
come up to the Blocks and bring posse of
men with him. for the purpose of preventing
riot which it was expected would happen next
morning when the Pardoe miners would, as
they threatened, interfere with the miners a.
Blocks going to work The Sheriff and five
others went up and met the striking miners
next morning. There was large number OF
them. all armed with clubs and the Sheriff
seeing that it would be useless to attempt any
arrests went among the men and persuaded
them not to resort to force. The riot was
ayerted. and the men at the Blocks did not go
to work that morning, but at meeting resoIV-
ed TO 90 to work this morning.
The Northern Pacific R. r., OF the COM
pIetion of which we publish an account on our
first page. is 1880 miles long, from Duluth On
Lake Superior to Tacoma in Puget Sound and
there are also GA miles OF branches, mostly
completed, giving grand total of 1854 miles
of road. The charter for the road was obtained
by New England merchant named Perham,
in 1864 and sold TO Jay Cooke q Co. in 1863.
The panic of 1873 destroyed If. Cookies bank
ing house and left the road with large boating
debt and bonded debt of thirty million dol
lars and the earnings on the completed portions
hardly paid running expenses. The affairs OF
the road were reorganizcd in 1875, the bond
holders accepting preferred stock in lieu Of
their bonds, and the road was hurried through
the bankruptcy eo..rt. Mr.. Willard obtained
control of the road in 1884 and 2ecpred the
needed capital to complete it. The road has
two lake ports at its eastern terminus-Duluth
and Superior, but its principal eastern depots
will be at ST. PAIL and Minneapolis, where II
connects with three trunk lines to Chicago.
At the Pacific Coast, tide Matef Is REACHED al
Portland, Oregon and Tacoma on Puget Sound,
both of which ports are easily accessible by the
largest ocean steamships. On the entire route,
the hardest constraction work was done IN the
valley Of Clark's Fork Of tiS Columbia River
for a hundred miles from Lake Pend d'OfeIl!ct
the river there running through narrow
gorge, flanked by precpitous mountains. There
was also very hard work done in making a
roadway along the faces OF high bluffs of disin-
tegrating rock in the Yellowstone region
There are two tunnels on the line worth men
ton One $500 feet lorg at Bozeman Pass in
the Belt Mountains, and one $50 feet long at
Mullan Pass in the Rocky Mountains proper
The Bozeman tunnel is 5. .548 feet above tide
water, aad is the highest point on the road.
The Mullan tunnel is seFentpen feet lower.
The tunnels are not yet finished, and steep sur
face lines have been built overhead for tenn
porary use, with grades of 220 feet to the mile.
In crossing the mountains the grade of the
permanent roadbed never exceeds the prescrib
ed limit cf ll6 feet to the mile. The sum q
these maximum grades, ascending and descend
ing. is about thirty miles. Elsewhere on the
route the grades are generally easy. The road
has two reat bridges: at Bismark, across the
M;ssouri-so high as to require no draw-and
at Ainsworth, Warrington Territory, across
Snake River. These bridges are Of stone, iron
and steel. The Yellowstone is crossed three
times, the Upper Missouri once, and Clark
Fork of the Colombia three times. There are
tyo pile bridges, each mile long, across arms
of Lake Pend d'OreiliG, enc trestle in Marent
Guch, in the Corlacan Detile, 226 feet high.