Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-03-29

reports that are TO be found in the pa
pers, all tending 10 the one conclusion
that the present management, If no
overthrown at the coming election
will prosecute the work Of railroad
building into northern Wyoming anC
southeastern Montana with much
vigor. In fact, Mr.. Courtensy, Of thi'
city, has letter from Pres't Adams
substantially declaring this to be the
program Of the company and to be
carried out at an early day. Before
leaving the question of the coming
contest In the directory 1t is not out OF
place to quote an extract from a
lengthy article on the subject found in
the Omaha Bee which is as follows:
1t is said that Judge Savage, of this
city, who is one of the directors repre-
senting the governments interest In
the U. p, will when il comes TO an
issue, support the policy outlined by
President Adams, which is in accord.
snce with the views OF the Ames ele-
ment.
The government Is naturally op-
posed to dividend paying before debt
paying. Whether its influence will
be sufficient to carry the day remains
10 be seen.
A queer rumor In regard to the fu-
ture intentions of the Union Pacific is
put in circulation by the Cheyenne
Leader of the 18th met. After recit-
ing the fact that the directory Of the
road was becoming weary Of the
numerous rebuffs received from the
government IN its attempts to affect a
settlement Of the bond question, the
Leader asserts that:
For more than q year IL has been
whispered that II pressed too closely
the company would make the Oregon
Short Line its main line and yield the
overland route 10 the government, II
Its enemies still insisted upon an i'm
mediate settlement.
And this program the Leader thinks
has now been definitely entered upon
by the fling with the territorial secre-
tary of amended articles Of incorpora-
tion Of the Oregon Short Line rail-
way, one Of the amendments. and the
most important one, being the right
to build, lease or purchase branch
lines as follows:
From q point on Its line In Idaho or
Wyoming through Idaho and into or
through Wyoming and Montana or
either Of them In Q general easterly or
northeasterly direction.
The route described, says the Leader.
is the missing link in . new river
coast route via Kansas City. Denver
and Cheyenne over the Kansas Pa
olfic and Cheyenne and Northern, as
suming the extension Of the latter into
Montana or its connection with some
Montana line yet to be built.
If the present overland line Of the
Union Pacific IL abandoned it will be
for other reasons than the one given
by the Leader, though that In itself is
o good one, II by 1t the debt to the
government could be unloaded; but II
is we'll known that the Union Pacific
is badly hampered In its transconti-
mental business through not having
an independent Pacific outlet. That
1t lie seeking this in various directions
is well known. A gentleman now In
this city who has the means Of getting
information on which = base an opin-
ion, is. he tells US, inclined to believe
that the extension Of the Cheyenne
q Northern will be continued to Miles
City and that at this point o junction
will be formed, one branch Of the N.
p. reaching out north TO the Canadian
Papific while one will 60 west from
here, presumably to the point in
Idaho, (Pocatello), where connection
will be made with the Oregon Short
Line.
Another theory and one which in
c,udes the intentions Of the Fremont,
and Elkhorn, is that the Cheyenne q
Northern will push north until il
meets the +. a E. branch now report.
ed to be building west from Spearfish
and that from the junction Of these
two n nee, . road will be built 10 Miles
CITY by company composed of both
corporations, by means Of which they
w,ll enter the territory now controlled
by the Northern Pacific and compet,
for the Chicago beef shipments. Tit
country 10 be trsvsrsed by this rout'
"a the most desirable In eastern Mon
,ans, Offering superior advantages v
the settler, and along the line Of whicl
n large local traffic would spring VI
like magic. II is unsettled now solel,
and simply because OF the absence 0
railroads, but their coming win mari
lts Immediate settlement and improve
ment.
Now while 80 many rumors ar'
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