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Northwest Magazine: The year 1890
promises to be very active season for
railway construction il Montana. The
new mountain state is but thiuly settled,
but her great mining industries yield a
volume Of traffic out Of all proportion to
her population, i gauged by Eastern
standards. One fiourishing mining
camp, shipping it's ore to a distant
smelter and bringing in its fuel and sup
plies Of all kinds, including forage for its |
animals and food for it's people, produces
more tonnage for railroad than an en-
tire agricultural county, well settled.
Railroad managers appreciate the value !
Of mining districts to their traffic returns
and urge the building Of new lines to
reach new and promising camps. The
Northern Pacific, which is Montanas
great trdnk line, will no doubt do great
deal OF construction next year. The line
to Fort Benton from some point in the
Yellowstone valley, skirting the eastern
base Of the Belt mountains, which are
rich in minerals, will probably be built,
and 80 will the proposed road to Cooke
City. The latter will be an extension OF
the Park Branch from Cinnabar, il con-
gress will remove the embargo which
stands in the way Of building across the
northern edge of the National Park,
whore tourists never 60; and il not, a
route will be found from Red Lodge.
The Gallatin- Butte short line will be
finished and will throw of two or three
short branches to reach productive mines.
The Drummond and Phillipsburg road
may be pushed across the divide at the
head Of Flint Creek valley to new min
ing district. The Bitter Root valley road
will probably be extended fifty miles.
A road from Ravalli, near Missopla, to
the Flathead Lake country, is talked Of.
The line from Missoula to thek kCeur
d'Alene mining district, by waySof the
st. Regis de Borgia, is already uuder
contract and will be built as fast as prac-
ticable. This will form q link in future
cutoff line from Missouls to Spokane
Falls, which will considerably shorten
the distance over the old route by Lake
Pend d'Oreille. z4.
Under the local name of the Washing
ton and Idaho, the Oregon Railway and
Navigation company, leased by the
Union Pacific, is now building through
the Cmur d'Alene country and has sur
veyed line as far east ss Missoula, but
il has been anticipated by the N. p. on
the only good route across the Bitter
Root range to the Missoula valley and
will probably 60 no farther than Mullan.
The Manitoba company, soon to be con-
soidatsd with all it, affiliated lines un-
der the common namA Of the Great
Northern, 10 bound to 60 westward next
year and has been making active surveys
in the Rockies for an extension from
Great Falls to Spokane Falls. How
much construction it will do in 1880 il
not yet determined, but it will undoubt-
edly got ~ far q the summit of the
Rockies and mako beginning on Q tun-
mol Its efforts will bs hsstened by the
recent unceremonious termination Of its
arrangement with the Union Pacific for
through line to Portland by way Of
Butte and Poostello This was round
about route, but the Manitobs made
good uss Of it in advertising itself o .
transcontinsntal line. When tho Union
made ito alliance with the Chicago 4
Northwestern, It ont looss from ths Nan
itobs in rather rude and sudden fash
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Altogethsr, We should say that the
prospects ars good tor the building q q
tlsa1t ivs hundred milss of new railroad
IN the new state q Montans during the
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