Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-01-31

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Treat has also contracts for getting out
about $4,000 ties. They will be worked
from the Pine Ridge, and the work will
give employment to a large force of men.
Mr.. Treat inform us that prices will be
fixed and the work commenced very
soon, probably by February lst. Con-
siderable rock has to be moved in the
cut on Bordeaux creek, and that work,
as possibly some smaller cuts and fills,
will be commenced very soon, the in
tention being to complete them. If posi-
BILE, before spring opens.
Omaha Herald: Copies Of a mortgage
on the property ofthe Fremont Elkhorn
q Missouri Valley railway, are being
filed in the ten counties Of the land
through which til road runs. The
mortgage is given to Dewitt c. Blair,
and David p. kimball, TO secure the
payment of 81 $4,000 in bonds guaran
teed by the Chicago & Northwestern.
The money is to he used in building the
road west from Valentine. This move
shows that the Northwestern is in earn
est in its assertions about reaching out
toward the Black Hills and Wyoming.
j. s. Wattles. superintendent Of the
Sioux City & Pacific, among other things,
says to the Sioux City Journal "Shops
for repair work will be needed some
where west on the new line. probably
at the crossing Of White River" ].
VanDeventer, of Cedar Rapids, will
manage the townsite business on the
new extension.
Chadron Journal: The distance Of
the extension from Valentine to Chad
on, where the road reaches the White
river, is al miles. The first 90 miles,
under O'Hara Bros, is graded. Mr..
Treats contract for the last 81 miles
calls for completion July 18th. Track
laying will m about April LIST,
and from that date 40 miles Of track a
month will be laid until White river is
reached, which will he about Aug. LIST.
All possible speed will he made i'm get
ting to this point. until which time the
work will be entirely in the hands of
the construction department. No depots
will be built and no freight carried ex-
cept at the owners risk until the whole
work is completed, when the operating
department will assume chiirge of the
road, and regular trains will be run.
The grade work on this division aver
ages much heavier than that of the first
DO miles. Three cuts must he made,
two on the divides between Antelope
and Rush creek, and Rush creek and
Hay Springs valleys. The greatest work
is the rock cut Is feet in depth which
occur in crossing the Pine Ridge mt the
head Of Little Bordeaux creek. Several
heavy fills also occur, the greatest being
the White river gil Of IL feet. Mr.. Treat
says better wages will be paid on this
division than ruled last fall, and that
work will be opened all along the line
as soon as possible. He has now re-
turned to Chicago to perfect arrange
ments, and will soon he on the ground
again, ready to push matters.
Times, %: DR.. McGillicuddy favored
the Times with a pleasant and interest
ipO chat loot ovopipr i, urb;ob lo et,,ol
that contractors are now at work on the
Sioux City & Pacific between Gordon
and Chadron, on rock work. The road
will be ironed to Gordon by the first of
June, and to Chadron a month later.
when a halt for the season will doubt
less occur. Chadron, or rather the end
OF the track on the first Of August, viii!
he within 1875 miles Of Deadwood, or
about fifteen miles east Of the present
Siney road, near Big Cottonwood, re-
ducing staging to one day trips. All In
dian supplies will be received by the
new route this year, and consequent
good times. He says that the country
between the railroad and the Hills. is
far superior to northern Nebraska.
Times at the agency are unusually quiet.
The winter has been very severe, but
stock is wintering well. He says that
reports Of great loss of life along the
inc of the Sioux City and Pacific by
reason Of cold weather, were large exag-
gerated. One or two deaths only have
occurred.
In Luck.