The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-10
AMONG THE RAILROADS.

AMONG THE RAILROADS.
Current News of the Movements OF Those
in the Northwest.
The outlook for railroad conrtruction in
Montana and more particularly in the Vi
cinity of Helena, for 1891. is brighter than
ever. Plans are maturing for strokes in
this direction that will startle the natives
when they learn the nature of the enter.
prises now being formulated. A railroad
to Castle will be among the most important
of these.
That alleged Hill interview is still at
tracing considerable attention, says tho
Pioneer Press. It is responsible for the
following, which is said to be fathered by
a we'll known official of st. Paul.
Six little traffic managers very much alive:
Along came Jim Hill, and then there we're i've.
Judge Cooley called for one. then tn ere were
four.
Four little traffic managers said we are free,
The grand jury called them in, and then there
werp three.
Three little traffic managers thought they had
the "Soo.'
When III, smoke cleared away there were only
two,
Two little traffic managers to keep things Oh the
Paid big rebates on wheat, thon there was one.
The little traffic manager thought now to have
Jay Gould bought his road and hos in the con-
somme.
The little traffic managers being now non est,
Tho world draws !oog breath and takes
needed rest.
Northern Pncific.-On tho extension of
the Cor d'Alene division from
Mullan, Idaho, eastward to the st.
Regis pass, McLain 81 Janse, who
have the contract have completed that part
of the work and trains are now running for
eleven miles. West Of the Idaho state line
over ninety miles of track has been laid
from De Srnet, near Missoula. Mont, and it
is expected that the entire extension. which
will be 100 miles long, viii be finished about
January l. The road in Montana ia being
built under the charter of the Northern Pa
cihc d Montana.
Seattle q Montana.-Rapid progress ia
reported OH the grading of this road be-
tween Seattle and Jarman Prairie, about
nine miles north of tho Skagit river. Con-
nection is made at that point with the Fair
haven 8, Southern, which is controlled, as
we'll as the Seattle g. Montana, by the Great
Northern. The grading has been finished
through Marysville and Mount Vernon.
The line will be seventy-seven miles long
from Seattle to the connection with the
Fairhaven & Southern near Sedro.
Calgary and Edmonton.--The locating
survey from Calgary to Edmonton, N.W.T.,
;oAo SO ,r1o< tad
Gently, and the surveys are being made for
the bridges on the northern part of the
line. About 100 miles of grading is at pres
emit finished north of Calgary and track has
been laid for about SO miles to near the Red
river. When the line is completed to Ed
monitor it is to be extended south to the
Old Man river near Mcleod, N. w. T.,
distance of 40 miles from Calgary. No
work has been done on this latter line.
however, except the surveys. James Ross
q Co., of Montreal, have the contract.
A report Is circulated that the Great
Northern will soon place orders for about
100 engines. Specifications were issued
last October for new locomotives, but not
for a definite number, and it is probable
that no further action has been taken.
Pacific Short Line.-Oficials of the
Great Northern say that close traffic rela-
tions are being established between the
Short Line, the Sioux City and Northern
and the Great Northern, which will prac-
tically establish through route between
Lake Superior ports and Ogden when the
line is completed to that point. The Pa
cifc Short Line is being built under three
corporate titles. viz: The Nebraska and
Western. extending from the Missouri
river to the Wyoming state line; the Wy
oming and Eastern. across Wyoming to the
Utah line, and the Salt Lake Valley and
Eastern, extending into Utah to Ogden.
The Baptists in the northwest are to have
chapel on wheels, which is to travel all
over the northwest, carrying two mission
aries. The chapel car is sixty feet long and
ten feet wide. At one end a space about
eighteen feet long will be fitted up for liv-
ing purposes. The remainder of the cal
will be fitted and furnished as chapel