The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-03

unQeVelOpeO uaCur6l resources give promise
of substantial return for the enterprise dis
played in placing them in communication
with the markets and cities of more popu-
lous regions. Cattle coal, oil. petroleum,
marble, mineral and agricultural lands
asa thus ,a reached S ht BY the new a rail-
will be developed and become a field for
heavy traffic and will tend more than any
other means to open up this area of hidden
wealth. A railroad company that will pen
citrate wild and unsettled country is 9
public benefactor. It sees no immediate
and the results obtained fully repay them.
such is true of the Northern Pacific, and
such will prove true of the Great Northern.
But the Burlington & Northern will not
be cropping in the dark, metaphorically
speaking, as the other Montana lines did.
ing they can see a fairly we'll settled re-
gion, where great droves of cattle run; with
vast herds of sheep and limltless and we'll de-
veloped mountains Of mineral extending a
Welcome hand to the approaching iron
horse. Populous cities and grow
It come and among these none
will extend q more hearty greeting
than Helena, the queen city of the noun
tains. The coming of the Burlington Il
Northern has already passed beyond the
realm Of doubtful expectancy; it is realty.
that 1 leaves ss not EVEN possibility Of doubt
AZ to its present lucrativeness and certain
future as business proposition.
The incorporation Tuesday of the Mon
tana q Wyoming railroad is nothing more
or less than movement of tho Burlington
d Northern to secure its right of way for a
oming terminus, to Helena, its prospective
goal. The new incorporation has capital
ization of six million dollars. More than
ordinary interest centers in this enterprise
as its course will take it into the rich min.
early. activity displayed in .furtharing
o the vorf e tie Heena Board Of Trsas
Realizing that two new transcontinental
lines were heading towards Montana the
Board Of Trade addressed letters TO the
presldents Of the two roads, presenting to
both the advantages to be obtained by build
ing via Castle and on to Helena. The ag-
gressive Burlington was the one to respond
and the fruits of the Board of Trades ac-
ii IN is already manifest. Not only has an
ing corps is in the field, and it may be conf
IDENTIFY expected that Helena will have
direct connection with Castle before an
other twelve months rolls around, and it is
understood that work will be started from
this end Of the line, thus insuring connec.
t1Ou Will S&oVA0 AOuk O04O1o tAo AV0U 6uHl1
be built from the Wyoming end. The
proposed r9ute from Helena is due
east via Stubs ferry, there crossing the
Missouri; thence along Whites gulch and
the Judith basin to Castle; thence east
through the great Musselshell country,
turning to Billingsi there crossing the
Northern Pacific and passing through the
Grow reservation, which will be opened for
settlement before many years. and continu-
ing south until it meets the present Wyo-
ming terminus. This new railroad will re-
ceiye the moral and financial support of
Helena as we'll as all of central and middle
Montana; and since its coming is assured
the outlook for continued period of rail-
road activity was never more encouraging.
And the Northern Pacific will not be idle
while this work is in progress. It will un-
doubtedly be in Castle long before any
other railroad, and its system of lateral
feeders, which has done so much to de-
velop Montana will be continued as vigor-
ously as they have been in the past both in
central, southwestern and western Montana.
During 1891 also the Great Northern will be
engaged with all the energy it possesses in
pushing its main line to the Pacific sea-
board.
Montana is big state and the field she
Offers for Competing railroads 10 being
rapidly appreciated. 1891 bids fair to prove
the busiest year that will ever be expert
enced, not only from railroad, but from
general business view, of the situation.