Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-29

Move Them E1sewhere-Futile Efforts
of Rival Railroad Magnates to Induce
Him to Stop.
ibid you ever notice." remarked q gen.
tleman to o MINER man yesterday evening,
with what ease and rapidity the Inter
Mountain reporter projects, constructs and
equips railroads all over the West Sidef
Hardly a week passes that the energetic
young man does not build one or more
roads and project several more. To-day
he was not feeling very well, and instead Of
building q road he simply satisfied himself
by starting negotiations between the Mon
taua Central and the Union Pacific, by
with the latter in the Montana Union. The
probabilities are that he would have closed
the deal, but hitch arose when Stuart was
reached, for he suddenly concluded that the
Central didn'tcare to make connection with
the Northern Pacific at Garrison. This
hitch, however, will prove temporary only,
for with his fertility OF and magni-
ficent experience in r~ailroading on the Viii
lard or Gould scale, he will overcome the
difficulty and you need not be surprised if
Oy US>mOEEOW JOu buOulO SCO ulu Wdlk
around with the contract signed and the
o in his pocket, fo- he is a ~rustler.
Only one objection exists to his railroad
ing-he never operates any OF his roads,
and what becomes OF them after he has COM
pleted them no one seems to know. The roll
ing stock, no doubt, he uses over and over
again taking it from one new road on to
another, but what he does with the grades,
buildings, bridges, etc., no one appears to
know, for they, too, disappear.
SIT may be fun for the young man, but
to the people who live IN the line OF his
roads it is anything but funny. One day
he nounc q road from such and such
a place, and the people living at any Of the
towns which he so favors feel happy and
rejoice to think that at last they are in
communication with the outside world,
and some of them, perhaps, prepare to go
on q trip. They pack their grips and
bright and early repair to the depot,
only to find q sign, This railroad is dis
continued. 1t has been moved to Red
Dog and Crackerneck,' staring them in the
face. OF course nothing remains for them
to do but to 60 home and wait until he
10 in humor again, and brings the road
back, or else come to Butte and take one
OF the more permanent roads, not oper-
ated by the Inter Mountain scribe, and
then the chances are neither OF the roads
here strike the particular place to which
they intended to 60, and which was in a
direct line of his railroad.
"The reason SO many prominent officers
OF different roads have been in Butte re.
Gently was simply to see the young man
and reason with him on the sinfulness of
his ways. Every time he builds a new
road, the roads those gentlemen represent
begin preparations to extend their lines so
ne to connect with his, but about the
time they get ready to begin grading he
loads his road on to q wheel barrow and
pushes it to some point SO far away that
connection is out of the question. "A
railroad man, who ought at least to be
given credit for being or the inside told
me, only a day or two ago, that Hill, Van
Horn, Cakes, Colonel Broadwater and
Holcomb called on the young man individ-
ually and collectively, and attempted to
either buy him off and induce him to quit
building railroads entirely. or else join in
with them and help them to build up one
OF the grandest systems OF railroads the
world knows, but he declined, and the
probabilities are that he will continue in
his erratic course until he is killed in q col.
lision On q OF his own innumerable roads.
or is put out OF the way by some rufian
hired for that purpose by some of the
many lesser magnets whose paths he is snow
continually crossing. What his future will
be is hard to tell, but I tremble for the
young gentleman every time l think OF it,"