The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-17

Hon. Samuel Word spent several day,
IN Bozeman and vicinity last week. It i.
reported that while here he endeavored Il
| purchase the Bozeman coal company.
mines; consideration, $4,000 cash; and
that ne opened negotiations for the pur-
chase Of the coal mines ON Trail creek
belonging to Black, Stone, Ferguson and
Others. Courier.
Negotiations are completed for the sale
of the Bozeman coal company's mine te
the Union Pacific railway company. The
papers are prepared and the money will
be paid ON tide 18th inst. The purchase
price IS over $4,000 cash. This railway
company is quietly taking in the best de-
veloped OF the coal mines, and it is now
an assured fact that the Utah Sc Northern
branch of the Union Pacific will foot its
whistle in Bozeman before June next. In
addition to the above purchase, the Union
Pacific have recently acquired the Maxey
mine for q cash consideration of S23, 900,
and the purchase of the Mcintyre mine is
practically perfected, it is understood.
The line of the Utah Northern willcome
down the Jefferson, where they have some
grading done, and up the Gallatin to their
coal mines, and be extended up to the
National Park, either by the West Gallatin
or over the Trail creek. pass, and tap the
mines of the Yellowstone and the Gardi-
ner. Minneapolis Journal.
The above two productions of Bozeman
news reporters will or should interest the
people Of Livingston If true, theysindi-
cate the advent of the Utah s. Northern
Union Pacific railroad in the valley of
the upper Yellowstone, and as matter of
course its construction to Livingston. the
metropolis of that valley The Unlon
Pacific company want coal. with which
their present territory is i'll supplied.
within a radius of fifty miles of Livings-
ton are great coal beds in every direction.
On the eastern slope of the Belt range
from Muir to Gardiner, on Rock creek in
the Clark's Fork valley, and in the valley
of the Shields river are immense deposits
of the best coal found between the Mis-
souri river and the Cascade mountains.
The Northern Pacific is securing such
portions Of this fuel supply as itnceds
and now the Union Pacific is attracted to
the same great deposits and, if reports are
worthy of the least credence. is already
making arrangements to reach the Vel
lowstone region. The reported ncgotia-
tions for the purchase of the Trail creek
mines are significant. The pass over the
divide at Trail creek is comparatively
easy and would appear to be preferable to
that by way of Rocky canyon now occu-
pied by the Northern Pacific. The cross
ing at Trail creek would also closely tap
two coal mines now being developed and
would bring the road in the immediate
region of numerous other such mines in
the upper Yellowstone as we'll as the great
gold and silver resources of that country.
This done, an extension to Livingston
would becertain. and thence up Shields
md Smith rivers to White Sulphur Springs
md on to Benton, would be the next move.
The Union Pacific company is not insen-
ible to the desirability of Montana as \
abroad territory. It's narrow gauge sys-
em upon which the Utah s. Northern has
,een operated has proven itself well
dapted to the physical features as we'll as
he commercial needs of Montana, and is i
'ailt and operated SO inexpensively as to
cave large margin of profit. The people
t Bozeman expect TO hear the whistle of ,
Union Pacific train before June next
hat is perhaps a little too soon, but We !
elieye the resident of Livingston may
xpect u like welcome sound before very {
ing thereafter.
What Is It?
j. Z. Kccny this week located some sort j.
mineral spring on the rangs between
le Galla;in and Yellowstone. The loca- !,
on is about sixteen miles. southwest of
livingston. Mr. 2Keeny is.- not well in !,
rnicd as TO the value of the property,
it he asccrtained that the watcrIii it :,