The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-02-16
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A fsceSseeper, If hef the Helena
Independent has flowing to say
concerning the building of u branch
Of the Utah and Northern from this
city to the capital:
Butte men who seem to know
what they are talking about, predict
that the Utah and Northern Railroad
will have a line in operation to Hell
eua fully as sOOn as the Northern
Pacific's Wickes branch to Butte Ia
completed. The Utah and Northern
line Is expected to come by way of
Red Mountain and Ten Mile, which
Is said to be quite practicable and
almost an air line. It will require
but little more than forty-fve miles
of roadbed. 1t is believed in Butte
that the Utah and Northern branch
now being built for the ostensible
purpose of facilitating the shipment
OF ore out of VAUDEVILLE, and wood
and fluxing material into that
camp, is in reality the commence
ment Of the line to Helena, and that
~ soon rs the spring opens the line
will be rushed along 80 as to reach
the Capital City by early summer.
The proposed line will run through
the heart o fTen Mile mining district,
which Is conceded to he a prominent
rival for the great Summit Valley
district, and will he the means OF at
last giving the mine owners of Ten
Mile an opportunity to realize upon
their property. 1t is regarded as like.
ly, too, that the. narrow guage will
compete with the Northern Pacific
for the traffic of Benton and the in
tervening country"
Should the Utah l. Northern peo-
pie conclude to build a road on the
line above designated another rich
mineral country would he opened up
to capital and enterprise. There is on
question concerning the magnitude
and richness of lodes which rib the
mountains through which the road
would pass. The line would in no
way interfere with the prop ,sed one
from Wickes to Butte. Each would
have q local freight traffic that would
not be disturbed by the other, and
each would develop a mineral region
of magnificent possibilities.
On the one hand lies the immense
lodes of silver-bearing ore in the
Boulder and Cataract districts which
cannot be successfully worked until a
railroad through them invites the
presence of capital and insures safe
and speedy transportation of ores
and bullion. On the other are the
great beds of galena Gre which have
30 long made Red Mountain and the
Ten mile country the objective point
of well-informed prospectors and
shrewd spectators.
We fear, however, the proposition
to build these roads is too good to be
true. Their construction would
benefit Helena, but would be of far
greater benefit to Butte. They would
make this city the great mining
center of the Northwest if our people
would grasp the advantages thus
pla ,ed within their reach. Thew
would more than double the business
and traffic of the city and make
Butte q commercial as well "a q min
Ing center. With those lines Ia oper-
alton and prosperous mining COM
mnnities built, as they would be,
upon them, the possibilities of the
city cannot he underestimated. 1t is
sincerely hoped both roads may soon
be constructed.