The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-18
Park Branch Notes.

switchman.-Inter Mountain.
Park Branch Notes.
Tri-weekly trains now run regular on
this branch, and each ;rain brings down
100 to $50 tons of freight, and often
more.
From the lookout of the caboose we saw
as follows: At Brisbin three or four par
TALLY loaded cars are yet snow bound, al
though few hours work would release
them
At Trail creek siding coal is being
loaded with considerable activity. This
coal is good article for domestic use,
being harder, and consequently coarser
than the coking coal Of other points near
by.
At Pfohl's ranch the switch put in
to accommodate the Saw mill of Gordon
Bros. present a lively appearance. This
is a new enterprise, and from the piles of
lumber on the ground we infer that it is
growing in magnitude.
Through the canyon to Yankee Jlm's, :
and what satisfaction it is to 60 by that
mans place without paying toll. One Of
the most exasperating experiences Of an
eventful life is to drag along rough
stub road, and to be suddenly brought to
stop by a toll gate and made to shell
out for the privilege Of pounding your
jaded horses on the back up another hill
further ON.
Do you know that there is NOR exhil-
Grafton to the square inch, riding in ca
boose lookout, than in riding in the best
Pullman? Well there is, and there is no
road that opens up a grandcr view, any
where in the territory, than the fifty miles
of the Park branch from Livingston up.
AT Mulhern's, Goughnour is loading a
car of lumber per day, which adds large
ly to the tonnage of the road.
Two miles below Cinnabar the town or
camp of "Horr,' named after the lrripres-
sible Harry" has suddenly sprang into
existence All trains stop at Horr. The
first striking feature of the place is the
loading station. A rude bridge spans the
spur, passing over the cars some three or
four feet above them. Up the incline we
watched heavily loaded four-horse team
until it stopped with the wagon put at one
side of the car. A trap door was lifted
making gap of some four feet in the
bridge. Some monkey-work was done
with lever when the forward wheels
suddenly went two feet in the air, while
the hind wheels went down as much more,
and there was an avalanche of coal pour
ing out of the hind end of the wagon into
the car. In an instant it is all over. The
trained horses take step forward, the
wagon comes to level and goes down
the incline ON the run. Within two min
utes from the time the teams stopped
on the bridge it is again in mo-
ton, toiling back to the mountain fol
another load. The loading to the wagons
is done altogether from chutes. From
what Is known as No. 2 chute ii curious
nondescrlpt tram-road runs up the noun
tain 500 feet to the No. 2 mine. This
road is built mostly on trestling, from one
to twenty feet high, the rails are round
poles and the rolling stock two boats. The
keel of the boat runs between the rails
and serves as a guide. The loaded boat
coming down leaves trail of smoke, but
gets there on time, that is probably at ex.
actly the same time that the empty one
| reaches the other station, where it il
loaded from the pit cars. All the vein:
here run nearly horizontal. No. 2 is opencd
| by tunnel now in some 35Oor more feet
From the entry of tunnel roads brancl
off every twenty feet, penetrating tlh'
chambers, or rather the chamber. as thu
work is done long wall. Down the fac'
of the chambers we crawled for villa
seemed an endless distance. The face il
solid wall of coal twenty eight to thirty
nix inches thick. Here we met men from