Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-12-27
The Rocky Fork R, R.
A Sure Thing That Forty Miles
of Track Will be Laid This
Winter.
Report of tn, Penitentiary War
den of the Territory Pope
Wants q Restoration.
MoSTANA's GREAT ENTERPRISE.

MOSTANAs GREAT ENTERPRISE.
The Completion of the Rocky Fork As
sured. steel Moving Westward.
Final arrangements have been made
to Immediately complete the Rocky
Fork q Cooke City railway. The steel
for the first section of forty six miles
l. now moving westward rs fast aa
wheels can carry IT and will be laid
within the next sixty days. With the
opening Of spring this road will be
pushed on tD Cooke City, and thu.
open up another great mineral pro-
ducing camp, which We predict will
rival Lradvill. or Bate. About one
year ago Dennis Ryan, of st. Paul, who
had contracted with the Rocky Fork
compsny To build It's road, became
finsncialIy embarrassed and failed to
carry out his contract. Simultaneous
with this set back, rival bill was in
troducei in congress asking Tor the
right of way, On which to build road
W. ich would parallel the Rocky Fork.
This bill finally passed, and as n nat
ural result delayed the projectors Of
the former road in securing financial
aid to complete their road, We can
not call to MUD Il parallel ease, where
a great aud deserving enterprise ha.
been carried through a successful issue
in the lace OF SO mauy difficulties Us
has beset the path OF the Rocky Fork
railway. Its projectors have been as
sailed by almost the entire press of the
territory. The new channels have
been manipulated against the enter
prise in an effort to poison the minds
Of the people and influence public
opinion, that assistance might be rem
dered TO rival and dangerous legisla-
ton. The Chronicle has from the
first stood by and defended the mana
gers of the first enterprise; first. be-
cause II was two highly respected citi-
zens of this territory, putting forth
their energies in Herculean effort to
build railroad from junction with
the Northern Pacific to Cooke City. Sec
ond. because it knew If these efforts
were crowned with success, several
millions Of eastern capital would flow
into Montana, open mp our mines,
create industries, employ labor and
consume our products. Third, because
We deemed IL our duty and the duty of
all good citizens to assist, foster and
encourage every enterprise calculated
to open up and imprave our great ter
ritory in the lifetime of the present
generation.
There is no doubt but what Montana
will derive more benefit from the COM
pletion OF the Rocky Fork q Cooke City
railroad, than from auy other line of
railroad that has been built here, or
that may be built in the years to come.
To Walter Cooper, Of this city, is due
the credit Of organizing this enter
prise. Samuel Word. OF Helena, be.
came interested, as he stated in
speech at Bozeman, Through the
kindness of Mr.. Cooger. For five
years these gentlemen have worked
increasingly TO complete this great
work and through them Mr.. Platt, Of
Fort Dodge, Iowa, Mr.. Brown, of Des
Moines, Mr. Hubbell Of st. Paul be.
came interested aud were the incor-
porato-s Of the company. Mr.. Cooper
and Mr.. Hubbell were selected TO 90 TO
Washington to secure right of way by
the aid Of congress, through the Grow
reservation. Congress allowed the
company but two years In which to
complete The road aud before the ex-
piralion Of that time rival company
were granted the same rights. The
Crow Indians have shown q more
grateful appreciation of energy, and a
higher sense Of justice than congress
in this matter, for they have stead
fastly refused TO ralify the act Of con-
gress granting the rival bill right OF
way through their reservation.-Boze-
man Chronicle.