Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-03-07

/, bs uunt,i up 1t u convenient dis.
tAncs ani the Missouri river with It's
thpl'an Is of miles Of water highway
u trajVsi attention, aud Bismarck
Was selected. From thence, III lug a
little south of west ou the banks of tue
pext navlgaOls river, the Yellowstone,
MILES CITY followed q, natural
phut for commercial aud railroad
ceutsr ia The lrrepresslble rush for the
Wet; al hsre let ne remark, that IL
we take map u tue UiItei st ,tes
aud the tern ories, II is impossible not
10 notice the singular fact that the
points which have grown aud ale
growing intO large c.lles are ALL To-
c,ted aUbus 40b nile, iro n "a n other.
fiKlns New Y ,rx ~ the iuItiil poiut
of iep .rtuts. We had Cle5elaud, Coz
casr, st. Paul ani M,uneapols. 5. BIS.
msrak, MILES CITY, II lena, ) } kane
Fi.s aud PJftIind rs the 40 mile di.
yislpual points FIR bs cities Ia the
tran-n ,nt oent.l IN arch " tue west.
rh,t Mues City will Oe "a commercial
All rallroii center is inevitable. LIS
lJcatiun On tue banks of large nsvi-
gibls river, sltuat-d ia tue midst Of
well watered aui ferIIle valleys easy
oi asc-ss by railroads, the county seat
of u county larger tusn the state Of
IPeuu-ylvanis, a county stretching on
tneea,t To Dakota and on the south to
Wyoming, VITA the great Northern
Pacific running through IL, the st.
Paul, Minneapolis aud Manitoba,
about l20 miles north and likely to
build II branch here, the Chicago d
n nthwe.t.rn, the Minneapolis & 81.
l. iuis, The Burlington, tn. Cheyenne a
\ urth. RI, the Fremont, Elkhorn d
Missouri valley and the Wyoming,
Montana Il Pacific, all pushing north
and west aud entering Moutsns at
points leading to Miles Clty, it is M
absolute certainly that the town is d.s-
tined to be . great railroad C, nler at
uo distant day.
Tl-re 10 also the Montana. Kansas
& Texas railroad, the only through
north aud south trans sentimental rail-
r,sd In the mort b west, INCORPORATED
W tn n subscribed capital 80 s2a,OOO,-
0j0, having its initial point 4 Calves =
ton on the Gu of Mexico, and termi-
nu. at MILES CIfy, actively at work
suryeyiu a route which will join the
gcel cattle breeding state of Texs.
with the unsurpassed beef producing
ranges Of the vast northwest and de.
ve!op stock raising rs one Of the great
est OF our n ,tipnal Industries.
Wh. the NJ, X. Il +. railroad is
Completed, the hardy Texas steers
eau be brought froln their native
breeding grounds aud unlosded in
rodr or five days at Mile. City. fat
tened on our rich bunch grass ranges
aud shipped bsik to the stock yards
of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha and
u .se,ton; tue building Of this road
will develop an enorm bus traffic. and
knit together the great southern
states aud northern aud western terri.
tories.
The population Of Mile, City is
about 1900, and in the suburbs aud
valleys adjacent tn town there 10 a
large nu uber Of ranches with a con-
siderable population. The freight re-
ceipts from Miles City TO the North.
srn Pacific company are about SSOe, 900
per slnum; about fifty Insurance com
psnies have agencies in the town and
rates Of insurance are low.
The water supply is excellent, the
Tongue river having it's course
through the town and there are about
fourteen artesisn wells. besides almost
every house has an open or drive well
water being readily obtained at an av
erags aeptn of fourteen feet. A large
Irrig .ting ditch-nsarly completed
RAINING about twenty five miles, will
irrigit' 2lDJ acres of good laud 10
the vicinity OF the town; there are also
a number of irrigating dltches on the
various stock ranches in the country.
An inexh,ustible supply Of excellent
Ignite coal is found within radius OF
two miles from town, and quite
number Of mines are operated and coal
delivered anywhere In town at 81 30
to s. 90 per tln. The railroads enter
ing the town from the south will ira
verse very extensive coal deposits
with veins ten +, fifteen feet thick.
Land Is very cheap, the Northern
Pacific railroad company Offering
their lands at $3.50 to s. per acre at
1--WE aud ten years time Ia annual
payments, aud there are laIge tracts OF
the public domain, surveyed and un'
surveyed, open 10 settlement. There
are over 20 1000 900 acres of fnnsuryeyed
Lands i'm Montana aud "UUcle Sam"
hes good many tine farms In this vi
ciuity which only want TO be "tickled