Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
WILL 20 1T ALONE.
THE BOARD OF TRADE WANTS
NO ASSISTAECE.

Operate with the Northern Pacific
The Board OF Trade held q meeting a
it's room Thursday to hear the report
Of the committees appointed last Frida
to solicit funds for the survey of the Littl
Pipestone Pass route. The room wa
filed with an intelligent and level.headec
lot of business men, coming from the from
ranks of the professional and mercantile
community. Vice President Barrett wat
in the chair and James W. Forbis was sec.
rotary.
The first committee to report was that
which had cInvassed the city west Of Main
street, and through r. W. Leggatit reported
81, 140 subscribed.
The secretary read a communication
from citizens OF Bozeman expressing an
eager desire to be allowed to cooperate
with the Board Of Trade in securing the
most direct route from butte to Bozeman
with q view to open up the mineral regions
OF Ruby, Richmond Flats, and Red Bluffs
as well as Others, and also to get q market
for the agricultural produce OF the Gallatin
valley. Toe communication was signed by
ten OF the representative business men and
bankers OF the town.
Judge Knowles then addressed the meet
ing upon the objects for which the sum the
committees had been asking for was raised.
He compared the Pipestone with the route
by which the Northern Pacific DOW pro.
posed to come in from Gallatin, namely by |
way OF Boulder, which was ten miles the
longer. Certain men connected with the |
Northern Pacific did not give the Pipestone
pass route proper consideration at the
time when the line OF the road was selected. |
He repeated the statements made by him |
on previous occasions as to the practical
II IL &c AL4 ~ra- AL@ H.
believed that il the management OF
> the road could see the advantages
Of this route they would build over
it in preference to the Boulder route.
They were not so attached to this route as
to refuse a more practicable one. He set
forth the object Of the Board in having the
survey made. He believed that Butte
would be shipping out copper from it's
mines fifty years hence. The advantage OF
this Pipestone route would be that many
things would be cheapened to the citizens OF
Butte by it; it would benefit the commerce
Of the city; it would enable the mining COM
panies to make more money. II would in
crease the business Of the town by starting
other enterprises and new plants would be {
erected. The Northern Pacific had an !
n~ounced it's intention Of building another !
branch up the Jefferson and Ruby val !
leys that would come within twenty.
five miles Of this town and be
showed the disadvantages this would
be to Butte in taking that trade to !
Helena instead OF bringing it to Butte. !
If we have the road over the Pipestone the {
business OF the Jefferson and Ruby valleys !
will come here, the farmers will sell their !
GRAIN and produce here, and do their U
Grading in Butte. This will benefit the .
company as much as to carry G
that trade to Helena. He limited 9
that the Union Pacific was ready to avail 7
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Pacific ignored it's advantages the other 9
road would be prepared to seize on them. :
He then too up the figures OF Chief .
Engineer Kendrick as to the engineering Z
difficulties encountered on the Pipestone I
that in 27 miles OF the road there WAS q q
grade of 121 feet to the mile, that.it en- :.
tailed building a suspension bridge 1000 II
feet long, hat there were two miles OF rock Z
work that would cost two millions alone, \
and combated them with the knowledge OF j
the route possessed by himself and num- q
.bers OF other reliable citizens. He also :,
gave figures to support his statement and u
asserted that at the outside the railroad e
could be brought Town on this side from "
the summit on q grade OF not more than q
feet to the mile. o
II the men OF this city have been in error d
on this subject for the last eight or ten n
Years they want to know it now. They a
don't want to force this route on any road u
u it is not VIVA they have been led to be- et
lieve ever since Mr.. Keith made the survey. m
lie entered upon q recital of the strained 10
relations existing between that officer and u
Colonel Dodge, his superior, and could only W
Come to one conclusion on the subject W
bither that Mr.. Keith has been lying to him o.
and others here when he was telling them u
pf the engineering features OF the line he 81
bad surveyed or hat his figures had been C
booked when they had been submitted to 81
Mhn N ~ in thn EraI ox1@ II CI
lid not believe that any such figures as Mr..
kendrick reported to him had been furn- &C
Ished by Mr.. Keith. m
The report of the subscriptions collected
by the committee which had charge OF the
tity west of Main street was handed in by B,
Ar. Brophy and read by the secretary, is
blowing the canvass had produced $3.50. or
This makes a total, with two errors cor he
fected, of $2,295. an
Mr.. Maillet moved the appointment OF a IA,
committee to interview the different engi- in
Aeers wherever accessible, to report to the B,
board this friday evening, at 8 o'clock hi
harp. an
Agent McCaig OF the Nor5hern Pacific ia
1hid that when the committee had ap- tn
Preached him for a subscription to this w
object he had told them he thought it fo
prong to ask the citizens to find tn
route for the Northern Pa ey
pic. The road is well enough ab
pblet to pay for it's own surveys and has no sel
preference for one route over another ex- NJ,
eept as to it's greater practicability. He en- ia.
tered into u defence OF General Ahderson "
md Colonel Dodge, and the opinions OF the
hen in charge OF construction OF the North.
srn Pacific OF the impracticability of the
Keith report on the Pipestone route which ar
sas abandoned because it included a tn
s~reater grade than the charter of the road r,
sllowed, on account of which the Govern. -,
hsnt would not have accepted the road if VI
10 built. les
The best plan, he said, was to let the en-
Northern Pacific make the survey and let tw
BE Board Of Trade appoint it's own en- tn
lneer to accompany the Northern Pacific tn
~hgineers and supervise the work. Choose in
u engineer in whom you have confidence" on
hid Mr.. McCaig, land let him go out with wi
bose OF the Northern Pacific" ANY party NJ
Elected by the Board to undertake the sur Ia
ley could not accomplish it in tune. The fuI
Forthern Pacific engineers are ready to pa
Fart out now and the road hopes to have I'll
he connecting link finished by September er,
Rr October next. 1t stands ready to make Oh
he survey. The line from Laurel to the hi
becky Fork is complete | and the Northern tel
tactic is anxious to get this coal into on
barket as early as possible. He begged the I'll,
.entlemen to believe that all the Northern tic
Pacific wanted was to get the most prac- nj
zeal and direct route here from Gallatin. mi
Judge Knowles inquired as to the pow tn
b which the Board OF Trade engineer SO X
ping out with a Northern Pacific surveying GU
Ihrty would possess. wi
Mr., McCaig replied he could not say as m,
! that. He had undertaken the duty OF 30
, mmunicating with Chief Engineer Ken
. ick as soon as he learned of this project, Al
his own responsibility, as he did not be- 4,
we in imposing on the people of Butte g..
expense the road ought to bear. He q
90 seen Mr.. Kendrick last Saturday, and su
" then advised OF the desires and inten i'm
pms OF the road. The road was not un- &C
4 rtaking this for the sake OF the local fv
~ Plight at all but as part of a design to all
> orten the distance betw cen Butte and St.
4 hul to the least possible distance. He
pen read the following reply OF Chief Engi-
Der Kendrick to a telegram he had sent 4
Pm on Tuesday: wa
ST. PAUL. February 2O.-J. McCsio. Re-. Ne