Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-20

Territorini Pr1Jected LINES.
It was learned yesterday from q Union
Pacific railroad official that although the
the contract has been let to Fitzpatrick q
Collins to build the new Montana Union
line from the ca0Ssont to Anaconda, the con-
tractors have not yet begun work upon it.
There is some unexplainable hitch in the
way, but what it is the official would not
state. AT he would say was that some
ct r,I!ng information wUufTr be made pub
lie SOON. The line caa be built in four
or five months. There is NO hurry
for1its completion at present. The existing
facilities OF the Moptana Union
are amply sufficient to supply
| the needs Of the .orks at Anaconda until
the amelter that was burned down is re-
built. 1t is understood that one object oil
Mr.. Days departure for the East is to
make arrangements for rebuilding the
struture OF iron. There need be mo- appre-
hension that any longer delay will occur
in this work thanis unavoidable. Prepa-
rations are going on at the burned smelter
| to get things in order for the erection OF the
new building.
Meanwhile the work OF grading for addi-
| tional track facilities near Meaderville is in
full progress with a large force Of men and
teams. E+ s
Ex-Gov. HAUsE On RAILWAY EXTENSIONS.
A reporter of the st. Paul Pioneer Press
interviewed Ex-Governor Hauser while in
that city last week on his way home from
an extended trip East, during which he
concluded very satisfactory financial ar.
rangements for the extension OF the rail-
way system Of Montana. ~
ut may be stated as an assured fact, he
told the reporter, "that the Montana IL
Canada railway, as it will be called, will be
constructed this year.. Tnis road is to con-
meet Montana with the coal mines in the
Canadian Northwest, owned by the Gait
Railway and Navigation Company, which
areinow being operated on q large scalean
turning out coal Of q superior quality.
The Gait company has q narrow
gauge road from Lsthbridge where the
mines are situated, for a distance Of about
eighty miles, to Medicine Hat, q divisional
point on the Canadian Pacific railway. 1t
is proposed to build adirect line from Medi.
cine Hat to Helena, passing about eighty
miles north of Fort Benton, which was at
one time suggested as the Montana terni-
mus of the road. Tie line will run across
an almost level prairie, presenting few en-.
cheering difficulties. go that the work OF
construction car be pushed rapidly. Sir
Alexander T. Gait Of Montreal, the presi-
dent OF the company, is o in England
floating the bonds for the construction OF
the railroad, and q meeting with great sue
cess. as he wal formerly finance minister OF
Canada and has an intimate acquaintance
in the English money centers.
Another railroad enterprise which l
was furthering while East was the construc-
tion of a line from Butte to the Three
Forks, now known as Gallatin, a point on
the Northern Pacific, midway between Hell
ena and Bozeman. This will greatly
shorten the Northern Pacific line to Butte,
avoiding the necessity OF going along the
main line to Union Junction, west OF Hell
ena, where the branch line runs south to
Butte. By the new r.n1d that distance
will be reduced about two-thirds. This
short line be built during the coming sea-
son."
The last is the branch which Engineer
Kendrick decided should come over the
Homestake pass, last week. which will
prove OF great convenience to Governor
Hauser and other owners Of the fiue coal
deposits nenr Cooke City and elsewhere on
that side OF the range.
The Helena Independent OF yesterday
says hat the Northern Pacific is in the
most prosperous year of it's existence, and
Montana will feel her share of the benefits
accruing in the form of increased railroad
building. 1t is now officially stated that
this company will bui d its GalIatin-B Butte
branch, also the Boulder-Butte extension.
Besides there is a probability that
the proposed extension into the
Castle mining district may be con.
during 1889. The latest step
taken is to extend the Bitter Root Valley
branch from Grantsdale, the present ter
minus, to the Meadow Hill country, O dis
lance OF thirty-three miles. Work OF this
extension will begin Immediately. Con.
tractors were last week looking over the
ground and sub.contractors are getting
their teams and scrapers ready for action.
The field which this line will ira verse is said
to be highly fertile, and it is only owing to
lack of transportation and want Of. q
market for produce hat the country has
not been titled before. Up in the Meadow
Hill coun Try it is said that mountains If
low grade silver ore exist, which have been
but barely p%rospected. By meaps of cheap
transportation these mines will pay TO
work, by shipping ore 10 some reduction
works on the main line.