Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-02
D~EP0T-sFfE CHOSEN.
TIE NORTHERN PAOIFIc DECIDES
TO BNTER BUTTE.
Proceedings for Right Of Way Begun by
Suit Entered Yesterday Against Forty
Nine Defendants Owning around
Southeast of Town-Colonel Sanders

Suit Entered Yesterday Against Forty
Nine Defendants Owning Ground
Southeast of Town-Colonel Sanders
Exhibits q Poor Memory.
The presence Of Colonel VIZ. Sanders
and Chief Engineer Kendrick OF the
Northern Pacific in town for the last two
days, and the mysterious hints dropped
by them, gave rise to q report that was in
circulation yesterday morning to the effect
that the gentlemen were here to settle upon
the site OF the Northern Pacific depot.
There being no longer any doubt that the
road will need the quickest and most di-
rect route to Butte, now that the develop
ment of the Rocky Fork coal fields is q
fixed fact, it followed as a natural sequence
that it would need a new depot. That por-
ton of the proposed new link on the
Northern Pacific from Three Forks no the
valley of the Boulder river to Boulder has
been surveyed and most Of the right Of
way acquired. The branch from Three
Forks joins the Helena. Boulder & Butte
branch OF the Northern Pacific half a mile
this side OF Boulder. The H., B. & B..
branch now stops at C~alvin's, t~wenty.six
miles from here in Jefferson County. The
route from Calvin's to Butte has been
surveyed to the point Of it's terminus in
Butte. The site OF the depot has been de-
termined, but none OF the right of way has
been acquired. This much leaked out yes
terday and occasioned the general anxiety
to know where the depot was to be To-
Gated.
Meeting Colonel Sanders and Chief Engi-
neer Kendrick yesterday afternoon, q re-
porter asked them if it was true they were
here to condemn right OF way for a depot
for the Northern Pacific. Colonel Sanders
stated that the Northern Pacific had con-
cluded to build the branch in from Three
Forks .'just to accommodate Johnny
Read,'' and intended to run it simply for
excursion purposes, without any intention
OF getting any profit out OF the road. As
to a depot, he said, there was no occasion
to build any separate depot from that of
the Montana Union. Asked il they would
erect a larger and more commodious one,
he said that was unnecessary. The best
roads in the country had the poorest de-
pots, and the building OF too fine depots
was what ran away with the profits OF
most roads.
Chief Engineer Kendriek said they were
here to feel the public pulse on the neces-
sity of building q separate line into Butte,
and desired to know how much it was
wanted here. He admitted that the line
had all been surveyed. In reply to- ques-
ton as to whether the completion OF the
branch from Three Forks to Butte would
interfere with the Montana Union agree
ment, he said he thought not. That would
on as at present.
Both gentlemen had much to say in ridi-
Guile OF the original location OF the North
ern Pacific line over Pipestone pass, and
Mr.. Kendrick said one of the absurdities OF
that proposed route was that it contem-
plated the erection of a suspension bridge
two thousand feet in length. The line now
surveyed from Three Forks has al easy
grade to Boulder and would be continued
on to Butte from Calvin's by an easy pass
from the Lowlands into Elk park, and from
thence down the Woodville canyon on
much the same line as the Montana Cen
trail. The principal object Of the road, Mr..
Kendrick admitted, was to get the coal OF
the Rocky Fork company into this mar.tet.
1t has already been announced in The
MINER chat q syndicate composed OF Will
ard, Haggin, Cakes. Hauser and Others has
bought the Rocky Fork Company out and
propose to enter the markets of the North
WGSU Will b uESUsCldb6 dTUlClO Vi iuOi OV O
price hat will make it impracticable for
other coal companies to compete with it.
When men like these undertake such q con
tract, there is no such word as fail in their
category. Mr.. Kendrick stated yesterday
that he had seen the Rocky Fork coal tested
and there is no doubt that it is the purest
article of it's kind in the Northwest. There
is no coal now in use in this market that
can compete withit and the supply is mex.
haustible. The position in which the Goa
beds lie make it the least expensive to
work OF any in the country.
Later in the afternoon it was learned
that proceedings for condemnation OF right
OF way to a separate depot for the North
Elm Pacific in Butte had been begun 10 q
suit against ~forty-nine def ndants, owners
of property On the Mary Louise lode and
others west of there. The western end o.
the future depot yards is bounded by Ari
IONA street and the plat shows that the
ground to be taken for yard purposes EN-
braces what is known as Hopkins add
| ton which extends on either side OF where
Porphyry and Gold streets would be were
they opened to travel. The route laid
| down shows that the road is intended to
| cross theMoptana Central cominginto Butte
| at a point near " here the Summit Valley
road from the Parrot mine to the smeltel
| crosses it, east OF town on Park street
The depot yards will be, according to THU
| plat, about two blocks north OF the Mon
tana Central depot. This will tend to en-
nance the value OF the old placer diggingI
ground thereabouts whose owners will fine
a new source of profit in it.
That Colonel Sanders was somewhat alb
| sentminded in his reply to the reporter
concerning the Northern Pacific depot wa
made evident later in the day from the fac
that the suit for right OF way referrt'
was entered by the firm OF Sanders, Cutler
& Sanders as attorneys for the plaintiff
More exact particulars as to the partie
against whom proceedings are brought an
the exact location of the road were with
held yesterday that the necessary legal pre-
liminaries might not be interfered with.
THE CHINESE NEW YEAR..