Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-09-01
Railroad Talk.

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road, arrived in Cheyenne on Frida,
and will Immediately set out for tn
Platte river country, accompanied b
Territorial Geologist Bailey. They eS
pect to reach Gordon's ranch befor
nightfall, having relays of horses ever
twenty miles Of the way. The route @
travel will be along the south side Of tn
Platte as far as the western end of Cas-
par mountain, about seventy miles ives
Of Fetterman; thence north, crossing
the river to Fairbank. From this poin
the party will proceed to Rawhide, t
Custer, to Deadwood, to Robinson an'
To the end of the track of the Sioux Git,
& Pacific railroad
Exactly what significance to attach t,
the visit Of Manager Hall is not known
1t is just as we'll not TO adopt the view
tha, the road he represents is to be rush
ed through middle Wyoming. His trip
is 10 make himself acquainted with the
timber, copper, oil and soda regions
along the Platte, and to make personal
inspection Of the country toward which
his road is pointing. But how soon his
company will build is q question he did
not answer when it was put to him by l.
Cheyenne Leader representative
Cheyenne Leader.
The party mention in the above ar.
rived in Custer yesterday afternoon and
left this morning for Dcadwood After
a days rest in that place they will de-
part for the terminus of their road via
Rapid and Buffalo Gap. Manager Hall
expressed himself as pleased with Gus
ter and surrounding country and init
mated that as soon as the 100 miles Of
road, mention below, was completed, a
branch would be started for the South.
ern Hills, which in all probibility means
Custer.
The Fremont Herald says: An ex-
tcnsivo legal document has been receiv-
ed for record in the county clerks Office
for Dodge county, which would indicate
that something more than talk was
about TO be done in the way Of railroad
building in Northern Nebraska The
document covers eleven pages OF closely
written legal cap containing about 3,0GO
words, AMI besides creating or affirming
Dewitt {. Blair aud David p. Kimball
trustees Of the road. and providing for
all technicaities and many other things
of no particular interest, sets forth the
intentions of the company us follows:
And Whereas, The party Of the frs:
part proposes and intends TO extend at
AZ early a date as practicable its main
line of railroad from its present ter.
minus at Valentine on westerly line to
Il point on White river ut or near its
junction with Chadron creek, a distance
of about one hundred and fifty l5O)
miles, and also in the future TO still
further extend its said main line of rail
road by the most practicable and eligible
route or routes to such point or points
on the north and west lines Of said state
Of Nebraska, and to such points beyond
the limits of said state and also to con-
struct such branches as may be hereafter
determined upon by said party of the
first part"
Including the branch from Norfolk to
Creighton this company now has 81
miles of railroad completed and in oper-
alton, which by the terms Of this docu-
ment can be bonded in any sum not to
exceed So, 900 for each mile OF complet-
ed road, or SIS, 900 in the aggregate.
The document or mortgage is signed
on behalf of the company by James b.
Blair, president, and Henry V. Ferguson
secretary, and bv Dewitt c. Blair and
David p. Kimball, as trustees.
This matter is one Of great importance
to Fremont, and one which cannot be
over estimated. 1t is evidently the in
tentiOn of the company to extend the
road as soon as possible 20 the Black
Hills, making the first line running into
the great gold and silver bearing region
Of Dakota and Wyoming, and it will as
a matter Of course Immediately become
a great thoroughfare for the transmission
of freight and passengers, which bust
ness is now exclusively done from vari-
Gus points by freighting teams and
stages. The farmer Of Nebraska will
here find new and ready market for
his products in which he will practically
have no competition, and the wholesale
merchant will find an extensive field
suddenly opened for his enterprise.
Everybody has noticed with feeling
akin to amazement the wonderful ad.
vancement in point of population and
wealth made by northern Nebraska
since the completion of the +. f. & Mo
V. II. r. to Valentine, and there Is nc
reason why this same rate of progress
should not prevail all along the line o.
the proposed extension to the very ter
minus. Every mile Of road built vii
make new practicable field for enter
prising settlers, the soil will be put in
cultivation, or herds of cattle will in
crease upon "the thousand hills" anC
like ell Nebraska that has markets opei