Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09
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VIVA R1moEs II Wax Between b Union
and Naxthern Raea6e RarHes Far Ex-
elnsive Rosseasisn ef II.
a number Of vitd. improbehis rumOrs
Hers current In town yesterday conserving
thrsatensd hostiIities said TO b imminent
between the surveying party Of the North
sm Pacific and the working party Of the
Union Pacific now in or on the . to the
Canyon VI the Jefsrson. The latter %
Some miles west Of Gallatin and il the
avenue through which the Northern Pacific
branch hither from Three Forks musteome
Pacific must traverse in its branch from
Dillon to Helena The Onion Pacific
branch 20 Helena was surveyed several
years ago and enough work has been done
on this particular piece Of the road TO bold
il. There il said to be plenty Of DON in
the canyon for both roads except that the
line surveyed by the Unicn Pacific ID the
better of the two. This seems sufficient 10
warrant the rumors OF = conflict between
the employees Of each road TO securs or
maintain the supremacy.
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that the Northern Pacific seat q party Of
six hundred graders who had been working
on the Rocky Fork road TO the canyon 10
question with Instructions to h0fd if against
the Union Pacific men at all hazards.
IL il known that Mr.. Kinney, belonging
to the constructors engineer corps OF the
Union Pacific, has been shipping an outfit
OF graders supplies, camp necessaries, etc,
to Boulder Tor the week past, and that he
left on the Montana Central yesterday
afternoon With a number OF men for that
point, presumably With the canyon as his
destination.
A Union Pacific official stated to q re-
porter yesterday afternoon that bis road
had bad men In the canyon ON rock work
for the last thirty days. he explained the
Union Pacific road beginning work on its
line from Dillon to Helena nsa the middle
by saying that the road ID anxious to be
gin with the grading a. early AZ possible in
the spring and had begun on the rock work
in the canyon, which is the only kind of
work thai Fan be done at this season, to
nave time. He asserted thar the survey Of
the Northern Pacific runs parallel with
the Union Pacific, but that the Northern
Pacihc ID using underhand means to force
the Union Pacific from their grade by DC
cupying the canyon with an unnecessarily
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surveyors. He did not hesitate to say that
the Northern Pacific ID putting every OBJ
staeie possible in the way OF the Union Pa
ciie going to Helena, although the latter
road had placed no obstacle in the way of
the Northern Pacific coming to Butte. The
Helena people want the Union Pacific tn go
there N much a the Butte people want
the Northern Pacific to come directly here.
According to this gentleman the Onion
Pacific party in the canyon propose + hold
their rock work at all hazards.
Rod LeRgat was over there a late as
Thursday last and said yesterday that he
saw no evidences of large parties there, and
be sav mo- Union Pacific party engaged OF
rock work either The canyon is seven or
eight miles long. however, 90 that it would
take q pretty large party to make much OF
o showing.
On the other hand Mr.. Calderhead oil the
Montana Union said he had Just returned
from Omaha, and found that the most
emieable feeling existed between the North
ern and Union Pacific management, which
would make such q thing al q conflict be-
tween working parties Of the two roads
n impossibility.
Another railroad man suggested that
there was likely some rivalry between the
two roads to secure the best line through
ahead Of the other it was going to do so.
but that the idea Of IN armed interfeeuce
OF one party with the other
was an absurdity unworthy
OF q second thought. Both
roads we're bound to carry out their re-
spective proiects-tbe one TO reach Helena
and the other to reach Butte independently
Of the Montana Union. The existence of
the latter 10 u~nimpaired, an amicable I'M
derstanding to break the contract ON which
the Montana Union was incorporated hav-
ing been reached by the Union and Northern
Pacific, which does not affect the Montana
Unions separate continued existence.