The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-11

Railroad Racket.

Inc bOzeman tunnel Is One-thlr(
the way through the mountains.
Railroad men say the Northerr
Pacific will reach Townsend by Jun.
LIST.
Work has been commenced on The
large depot and other r. r. buildings
to be erected at Bozeman.
The National Park branch railroad
will be completed in time for this
summers crowd of tourists.
Three thousand Chinese have been
transferred from the n. P. front to
the Baker City branch road.
Thursday morning the Northern
Pacific tack reached a point fifteen
miles west of Bohemian.
The first train of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railway from Salt Lake City
to Denver ian through on Sunday
the 8th inst.
The first train moved across the
bridge at third crossing" of Pend
d'Oreille river on last Saturday at 4
p. m.
The third $4,000 sleeper ordered
by the Northern Pacific Company,
has arrived at Bozeman. The car
bears the name of that booming ter
minal.
Missoula expects to hear the whis-
Tie of the locomotive about June LIST.
Only sixty miles of track remain to
be built between that place and the
end of the track.
Passenger trains from the east to
the west, vi0 the Northern Pacific,
now are composed of six to ten coach
es, all loaded down with land and
fortune seekers.
The Union Pacific within the past
two years has added to its branch
system, including the Oregon Short
Line, $40 miles of track, all of it pay
ing handsomely.
The advance guards of the Win
ston Bros.' workers have arrived at
Missoula and proceeded to their field
Q labor. They will push the N. P.
building operations eastward.
The n. P. surveyors are laying out
a town at Lavalle creek, in Nissoula
county. 1t will be the "pushing sta
tion," where trains will be Joined by
extra engines to assist in pushing
over the Coriacan divide.
At Shoshone, the junction of the
HALEY branch of the Oregon Short
Line, twelve miles of side track have
been constructed. The freight going
into the Wood River country is said
to be very heavy.
The loudly proclaimed coal beds
near Livingston have proven to bee
of the boomers Imagination,
and the Northern Pacific Company
announces that it will this season
build a branch to the Bull Noun
The r. R. "front towns" Vent
nor, Cabinet Landing, Rock Island,
.hannonville and Weeksville, are
deserted. Last Chance is on its
last legs, and will soon join the list.
still has a saloon or two,
and the railway hospital.
Work on the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway, which is to form a direct
between Denver and Og-
len City, is being pushed rapidly to
completion and before the. close of |
The present month will have reached
its northern terminus.
The Northern Pacific railroad an
nOunces that = new time schedule |
will go into effect April %, when the
Pacific express will leave st. Paul at
$50 a. M, and the entire train will
through to Bozeman without
Another through train will
'e put on, leaving St. Paul at $50
}. m.
Daylight was let through Iron
Ridge tunnel Situated between Hell
ma ann Mullen tunnel) last Tuesday
morning early, at which time the
readings from the east and west met
n the center Of the tunnel. The
unnel when completed will he 533
Get in length. All is nov ready for
he track layers, with the exception
# about 100 feet in the center.
Last Sunday the track was laid
pom the Wood river branch of the
Short Line to a point twenty
We miles north Of Shoshone, and
My thirty.five miles south from
The track is being laid at
ne rate of one and one-half miles
ally, and allowing for all reasonable
will be finished to Haley by
lay l5th.-HaIey Times.