Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-09

The Montana Central VIII Extend Its
yards Over the Ground Wanted by
the N. P-Why the N. r. Preferred TO
Commence Condemnation Proceed
ings.
General Agent Dawson OF the Montana
Central was served Tuesday with q copy
Of the summons in the suit OF the Northern
Pacific against property oW, ers On the
right OF way it seeks to obtain into Butte,
which he handed to Colonel McCutsheon,
the attorney OF the Montana Central, who
was over from Helena yesterday. He said
the Northern Pacific wanted three Thousand
feet Of right OF way through property that
the Montana central has bought for yard
room. He did not think the court would
condemn for the use OF one road what the
other had bought and intended TO put to
legitimate uses as soo as spring opens.
"Just rs soon rs the frost is
out OF the ground" said Mr..
Dawson, we will have men and
teams at work fixing the ground for
extending our yard room, and the North
ern Pacific will have to come into Butte
some other way, for they won't think OF
crossing the Montana Central yards. /
don't see why the Northern Pacific could
not do as the Montana Central did when it
came into Butte and enter into private
negotiations with the property ners
We had no trouble in getting q good title to
all the land We wanted andssI'mi sure they
would not have had a~ny~either."
A good m~anyapeople seem to think SO,
too, and the subject was broached to a
Northern Pacific official yesterday, who
but q question Of ownership with the
Northern Pacific. II there were no doubt
about the title OF the claimants to the
land over which it wants to enter Butte, it
would have been unnecessary to ask the
appointment OF commissioners to condemn
the right OF way. But there il q certainty
OF dispute as to the title OF much OF the
ground. There are conflicting placer and
quarts titles to the claims. There are re.
locations aud patents set aside, and moth
ing else than legal proceedings can settle / !.
1t was the only way to 60 about it. The
Northern Pacific intends tospend consider
able money ON it's terminal facilities for
roun6houses, machineshops, depots and
so forth and cannot afford tn take any
chances about who owns the land now.
It would look well, wouldn't it, alter it had
its elegant buildings erected to have some
one come along and say; These are pretty
good buildings. I'll just take t'em,' and
find out he Is the actual owner who had
never been consulted. The Northern Paci-
fc people don't want any donation OF land.
They can pay for all they need. But they
want to buy it from the owner n get a
clear title. They are asking no favors,
and they are going to confer q great favor
gu the owners of sl that reproductive
waste ground down there to which their
road will give q value it would not have in
years otherwise"
But what's the use of this branch, il it
is only to be built here from Jefferson in
Jefferson county, Is there 10 be a separate
branch running into this one 10 tap the
main line at Three Forks?"
why. OF course there is. That line was
surveyed a ear ago and the right OF way
secured to this side OF Boulder. That will
be the line par excellence when it is finished.
cutting off about seventy-five miles to st.
Paul. Wait till you see the vestibule trains
running into Butte over it and you'll think
SO. There would beno obiectin simply COM
plotting the line between here and Helena.
That would save nothing over the arri-
son route. This branch when completed
win be q material cutoff and will enable
the Northern Pacific to do the bulk OF the
business for Butte when it is finished"