Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-27
NEARING IN END.
The Pipestone Survey TO Be Finished
Next Week-A Rnmor From Boulder
-Governor Hauser Said to BE Taking

The Pipestone Survey TO BE Finished
next week. Rnmor From Boulder
-Gevernor Haaser Said to BE Taking
. Hand.
Engineer Ray returned to town night be-
fore last to get relief from an liberated
tooth, and his place on the Board Of Trade
survey Of the Pipestoue pass has been
temporarily taken by his partner, Mr..
Moulthrop, who has worked with Mr.. Ray
90 much that be will continue the work on
the same lines that Mr.. Rayewould.
In conversation yesterday about the eur-
yey, as far as it has progressed, Mr.. Ray
expressed himself as already satisfied that
he had attained what he had set out to
accomplish. Nobody supposed the Board
Of Trade was going to build the line il the
Northern Pacific did not. I was sent out"
said Mr.. Ray, "to demonstrate the ieasi-
bility of q route across the P~ipestope, and
/ have already accomplished that"
.Wben do you expect to complete your
work."
II expect to have it finished by the end
of next week" said Mr.. Ray. "Then the
line will be br~oughtinto Butte. The work
on this side ia more difficult than it was on
the other side OF the range. There are two
ways to come in--by keeping to the right
or by coming in on the west side by Basin
euIch. The former entails the necessity OF
crossing several r~avines. but is the shorter
and more direct route"
"What grade have you obtained?"
! ssThe grade will be about 2 per cent. 1t
IL demonstrated that it is q better grade
than can be obtained coming ia be way OF
Boulder, besides s wing fifteen miles longer
haul"
"Have you heard anything OF the work
being prosecuted on the Homestake pass
by The Northern Pacific party?"
Nothing definite, bnt I know that the
Pipestone pass is nearly q hundred ieet
tower than the. Homestake which would
entail nearly a mile less construction work.
It will cost about forty or fifty thousand
is a strong argument in favor OF the Pipe
Mr.. Ray added that when the road from
Three Forks is built to Butte it will neces-
sarily 90 operated as q division from Liv-
and as q train made up there
would have to be made up to encounter
the heavy grade at Bozeman, nothing
woull be gained by making a lower grade
than 2 per cent. on this end OF the
division. Il
From q reliable source it a learned
Yesterday that a contract for ties had been
advertised as open to bidders, the ties to
be delivered between Boulder and the effer-
son canyon. 1t was stated that Gov.
Hauser is trying his utmost to induce the
Northern Pacific to build as at first in
by way OF Boulder, his interests
lying in that direction and he having
nothing to gain by seeing the road come
over the Pipestone. As MI. Ray has dem
onstrated, the latter.is infinitely the pref
route for the Northern Pacific in
point OF grade alone, in addition to which
saving in actual distance OF fifteen miles
is gained, which is an item the Northern
Pacific cannot well ignore. The fact that
have taken the same route as Mr.. Ray in.
sures the fact that the truth of the matter
will comet to the knowledge Of the board of
the Northern Pacific.
A report came from Boulder yesterday
that the route selected is. via the Boulder
valley and that q report had been cir.
there that the Northern 1acifc
survey has established the impracticability
of both the Pipestone and Homestake
passes. Nothing that has transpired here
or in the course Of the survey warrants
assumption. No definite information
as to the views OF the Northern Pacific
engineers has been received, but as they
are in daily communication with the Ray
party it would seem plausible that some
thing OF this nature would be known before
now.
The fact that the branch from Three
Forks is being built as a more direct route
to Butte for the coal of the Rocky Fork
region to this market is the best warrant
for the assumption that the shortest and
most direct route from here to the main
line will be chosen. The coal syndicate
that will operate these beds OF coal is COM
posed OF Willard, Haggin and others, whose
for the shortest and cheapest haul
be more likely to prevail with the
Northern Pacific directory than those OF
Hauser, sven if inimical to him
his interests. The surveys will be
finished 10 a very short time now, so that |
the matter cannot remain 10 doubt beyond
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