The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-01-11
EIGHT PAGES
Red Lodge Items.
Rcd LHd-c, Jan. |, 1888.

| kcu LNirc. Jan. |, lSSS.
EDITOR CuRoNrcLE:-
We. of the last of the many magic
cities that have sprung into existence
since her birth, wish yon joyful and
happy New Year, and while we think of
it extend tn yon an invitation to come
down and get some subscribers for vour
excellent newspaper. Ynu will find "A
typical but substantial young city of
several hundred inhabitants and the
usual hustle OF new towns is noticeable;
houses are going up daily, and in our
Judgment the bulk Of the inhahi,ant. of
Park county will be here on the social
ed strip within the next six months.
Work on the coal MINIS is being plsned
night and day and tSr of the tunnels
have reached II depth Of COO feet; the
grade of the Rocky Fork Il Coke City
Railway is now completed, only few
teams being at work on the slt track
near the coal .tunuel., where the cbal
traps and screens are being erected.
This company has shown plenty of
nerve in pushing the grade with from
one to two feet of frost in the ground
All is activity around here; ties are be-
ing delivered on the ground piing:
timber for the bridges, etc In passing
down the line fow days ago was sur
rrised to find plow teams at work at
night and great fires burning in the cuts
to keep the frost out. Mr. Douglass has
his saw mill between the first and sec
ond crossings of Rock Greek, cuttiug
timber for the line. Mckenzie & Co.,.
with pills drivers, are up the line about
twelve miles, having finished the pile
driving for that distance. The Yellow
stone bridge was finished yesterday and
the bridge crews are pushing up the line
completing bridges as they gn. The
side tracks at the junction are being
graded and arrangements evidently be-
ing made to tap the main line.
The engineer are just in from the pre-.
liminary survey of the Cooke CITY ex-
tension, and it is understood Il satisfac-
tory line has been found from Red
Lodge to Cooke. Several large grading
outfits are going into winter quarters IN
the Yellowstone. In conversation with
the owner of cne of the largest and best
equipped outfits, who was expecting to
ship his outfit back to Dakota, we were
told yesterday that he had intended to
ship his outfit to his home where he had
plenty of feed for his stock, but that he
had changed his mlnd, having been re-
quested by General Manager Cooper to
remain so as to be in readiness to put
his force on the Cooke City extension at
an early day. He woull therefore go
into winter quarters on the Yellowstone
and be ready for business as soon as the
work is ready. A force of men are
cutting timber on Clark's Fork, which,
it is understood, is for use on the Cooke
City extension, the PARTIES being the
same that furnished the bulk of the
timber for the line to Red Lodge.
Everything seems to indicate that
work will commence at an early day in
earnest on the Croke City extension of
the Rocky Furs line. At the siding at
Laurel large quantities of material are
piled up, including bridge irons and
bridge slringers, from Tacoma; and
among other material, wheels and axles
for 100 coal cars, marked Rocky Fork
Coat company, are piled up on the
platform. This looks like business.