The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-06-19
Railroad Notes,

J. Bonita, station on the Rocky Moul
tain division, has been opened for bushes
e The Minnesota board of railway an
) warehouse commissioners has issued a
d order reducing passenger rates in tha
!: l. state to three cents per mile.
Senator Dawes, from the committee O
Indian affairs, has reported favorably O.
the bill to grant the right of way through
the Indian territory to the Kansas CITY
Fort Scott & Gulf railroad company.
George Woodford has brought suit at St
Louis against Jay Gould for $5OO,OOO fo
breach OF contract. The suit grows out O
alleged bad faith on the part of Gould IL
an agreement to build road from Pacific
Mo-, to St. Louis in opposition to the
"Fnsco" line.
1he lncorporators of the Bismarck &
Southern railroad held meeting IN Min.
neapolis on Monday and elected officers
The general manager, 0. P. Bowe, states
that survey will be started in very few
days from Bismarck via Aberdeen to Wa
tertown, Dakota. The line will connect
with the Northern Pacific, Milwaukee.
Northwestern and Rock Island systems.
New Northwest Superintendent Blick-
ensderfer was at Garrison Tuesday en-
deavoring to secure 10000 standard gauge
ties from the Northern Pacific to expedite
the work of widening the gauge, the U.
+. not having as many ready tor delivery
as they could use. The track is LAID to
both gauges from Stuart nearly to Silver
Bow, and 1t is intended to have the line
ready for the Northern Pacific cars to run
to Butte on August 1st.
River Press: Mr.. Paris Gibson returned
to Great Falls from Helena Sunday. He
brings back word that if the Northern Pa
clf1c does not come to terms on the trans
portation of material, Mr.. Hill will push
the Montana Northern to speedy com
pletlon and commence building the track
from the Canadian Pacific this wav. This
is one way to defeat the obstructionists.
but the better plan would be to ship the
rails from Fort Buford to Benton by river.
A corps of engineers under the direc-
ton OF Alexander Mckenzie of Bismarck
has started out to survey line from that
city to Fort Buford, at the confluence of
the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. This
IS said to be a scheme to head off a CON-
between the Milwaukee & St.
Paul and the Manitoba, a project which
connection between the
main line Of the Milwaukee system in
western Dakota and the eastern extension
If the Manitoba at Buford.
Chief Engineer Rogers, of the Canadian
Pacific, who discovered the celebrated
Kicking Horse Pass on that road, has {
een at Butte the past week with his r
ephew, and apparently seeking pass
trough the Rockies between Butte and
1elena. Much of his time was spent in
he mountains towards Boulder and Hell
na. 1t is said that he is non-communi
atlve. in fact studiously retlcent, but 1t ]
accepted as a fact that the railroad v
'ute is being looked out for sharply bv Il
le Montana Central Manitoba Canadian a
acifc combination. =
A circular was issued Monday by the 4
orthern Pacific passenger department D
that it is once more compel = =
Or of San Francisco business. For sew ~
al years past, since the organization of y
e Transcontinental association, the b
orthern Pacific has not been San Frar B
SEQ line. 1t has refrained from CON- p,
ting for South Pacific coast business. W
cause of bonus paid it by the Trans AZ
association. Now that the as ~
Citation Is no more, the Northern Pacific !,
bound by no agreement, and consequent ~
announces itself a competitor for this az
siness. Va
An association has been formed at Hell al
a to build a railroad from that city up tlt
n Mile Creek to the Red Mountain m
ming district. 1t will be known as the fe
elena & Red Mountain Railway CON- de
ny and will have a capital stock of s.
100000. The incorporators will he Gov. 90
I. Hauser, E. L. Bonner of Deer Lodge,
lef of the Montana Improvement com 70;
ny; Col. W. F. Sanders of Helena, at Gil
ney OF the Northern Pacific; Gen. Adna - -!
derson, chief engineer of the Northern WI
citic and other prominent railroad men. 'ol
is stated the road will be completed WI
hin ninety days. ha