Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-07-03

Ing previously determined on o road
from Livingston to Castle.
This moves the Helena Herald q
discuss tn Feasibility Of Helena build
Ing the road itself, which it proceeds
to do In the following language:
Another reason why Helena would
lose nothing by build Dg this road, but
would, on the contrary, bring to ber.
self many tunes the money invested Ia
to he found In The prts.nt railroad sit-
uation in the eastern part Of tue state.
A railroad corporation known ss the
Big Horn Southern" and composed
largely Of Montana men, has secured
thu only right Of way across the Crow
reservation. They have surveyed y
line from Custer Station on the North
ern Pacific ~ fer south ~ Sheridan,
10 Wy"Dipg. or coune Sheridan IL
not contemplated o. the perusnent
terminus OF the Rad, and while those
connected with the scheme are reti.
cent 1t takes very little guessing to
see that the idea Is to form connection
with the Chicago q Northwestern
system. The latter hs already reached
ss far a. Fort Casper, in Wyomii z.
which 10 something In 'he n-ightor-
hOOl ~ only lC9 miies south II Sheri-
dan. To run the Big Horn Southern
r. ad rom Sheridan TO Billing inst al
# to Custer Station would present no
increased engineering difficulties and
wOuii not increase the distance.
From Billings To the Mus.el-h.lI river
and up that valley to the Castle Noun.
'ain district there Il q natural grade
tor railroad, aud once vt Castle. Hell.
ena's own road from Helena to that
point would bring the road on into the
capital. 1t would also make this line
the shortest and most direct route he
tween ~. Louis, Kansas Cry aud
other points and Helana and he great
northwest. l. will be seen that road
direct from Helena tn Castle would
prOhsbly In time become part of main
trunk line and would in consequence
he corrspobdinely valuable. The
Herald offers thi. suggpstiyn a. hap
py solution of the Castle railway
scheme. and II there are anv imprsc-
liabilities about II. II will be glad to
hesr Of them, from those competent tn
spesk.
The practicsbiliry OF q combination
with the Big Horn Southern is all
right, a. the latter road, or franchise
rather, 10 q Helena institution, but
when the Herald proceeds to outline
the connection beyond the terminus
of the Big Horn Southern at Sheridan.
Wyo., II shows woful degree Of ignor.
snce Of what may now be conceded
to be facts. The road that the Big
Horn Southern will meet a. Sheridan
h the Burlington and Missouri, now
pledged ny contract whereby II &C.
quires valuable property lights to en-
ter Sheridan next year, end not the
extension of the Chicago and North
western that is now at Fort Casper.
The latter point is some two hundred
miles due south of Sheridan and the
road that now has its terminus there
can have no object In making short
turn to the northwarc, more especially
as the territory will within q year be
occur led by the b. & NJ, while still
further TO the north will be another
branch of the G.. 4 n. w. (the Fre-
mont and Elkhorp) headed for Miles
City. It is patent to everybody who
has studied the situatlop that the Big
Horn Southern hope and expect to
make their franchise across the Grow
reservation an extension of the B. q
NJ. to the Yellowstone either at juno
tion or Billings, though IL has lately
teen rumored that the prospects OF Q
road extending one hundred and ffty
miles through sn Indian reservation
10 not inviting enough, and that from
Sheridan down Prairie Dog and
Tongue river, the b. 4 M. may point
for Miles City. This Of course !, pure
speculation and only warranted by
the TACT that for some years to come
no local trsfYic can be built up on the
stretch that crosses the Crow reserva-
tion. The Herald should, however.
acqusint itself more thoroughly with
the railroad prospects Of eastern Mon
tana, which are ct the present time
very promising. To sum up briefly,
they are that Livingston will get the
Castle road. Billings or Junction the
Burlington and Missouri. end Miles
City the Fremont aud Elkhorn branch