The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
Reports that a Deal Has Been
Made With the Anaconda
Company.
VIII the Refinery be Built at
the Little Giant, Great
Falls?
Probable that the Road Will Have Two
Western Montana Outlets-A Right
of Way Purchased.

and Assistant General Traffic Manager
Shelby, of the Great Northern, have come
and gone and what they have accomplished
on their visit remains as silent as the tomb.
There is hut little doubt that their visit
was one of importance and their interview
with Marcus DAILY at Anaconda has started
all sorts of new rumors. It is we'll known
that the Anaconda company, or at least Mr..
DAILY, has bought and paid for large tract
of land at Thee Forks, where the mighty
Missouri has its beginning, and that the
purchase was made with view to building
a copper refinery of the electric process at
that point. It is also known that the Great
Northern people have been making repeated
overtures to the copper company to build at
Great Falls. and at one time last
fall it seemed certain that they
had been successful in Undue
ing the company to build TO that
point. The visit of the officials is believed
by some to have resulted in an agreement
by the Great Northern to build to Anaconda
from Butte and rumor has it that the same
company has agreed to pay to Mr..
DAILY all the money he paid for the Three
Forks property and make large concessions
of land at Great Falls besides. Many other
things might be conjeetured IN connection
ital Significance. Only time will reveal,
however, just what has transpired as regards
the refinery, but there seems to be little
doubt that the Great Northern will build to
Anaconda. And then. whore will it go?
While it is known that the Great North
route which it shall pursue is what is inter-
esting everybody, and upon which point
there is no certainty, though recent move
nnents and doings have advanced good rea-
son for believing that it will continue west
ward from Anaconda through some OF the
to the Bitter Root timber section to Mis-
soula, and west to the Occur d'Alenes and
Spokane Falls. While it may do this there
is no reason for believing that it will reject
the other proposed route from Fort Assini-
boine west, where there is a rich farming
who have traversed that route say that it is
almost impossible to build a railroad
there on account of so much
mountainous country; that it is
not by any means the level section, free
from mountain barriers, it is made to ap-
are confident that their thrifty city will be
favored with the presence of the Great
Northern, and find additional assurance in
the fact that the recently fled suit of the
Manitoba (now Great Northern) road
againse the Washington & Idaho has been
W1COfaWu from Uu0 COuIGS duu I1kut-Ol-
way purchased by the Great Northern. In
this connection the Muscular says:
About four months ago the Washington
& Idaho railroad company had restraining
order issued by the district court to prevent
the Northern Pacific railroad company
right Of way Of the w. q I. The case was
called in the courts, but its hearing post.
poned. In the meantime the Missoula office
of the division engineer of the w. d l..
which is a branch of the o. r. d n, was
closed and its force of men recalled to the
headquarters of the company at Portland,
A rumor was current that the Manitoba
was negotiating with the 0. R. q N. man
agement for the purchase of the right OF
way of the w. d I. from Missoula to Muir
ray. This matter was considered merely a
rumor, but now it comes to light that the
OF the injunction case mentioned has
demonstrated. About two weeks since
the case, which was delayed SO long
was to be heard. Fully . dozen civil
engineers were summoned to give expert
testimony, but upon agreement of attorneys
referred to G. P. Connolly, Esq, of Helena,
for settlement. II is now understood that
the Great Northern has secured the right OF
way, and it was agreed the matter of set
thing the differences regarding the surveyed
lines between Missoula and Mullan should
D0 T0IoIIeu 10 tuo OuA01 cu&lucOE VI odCu
road (the Great Northern and N. P.), who,
after passing over the surveyed lines, agreed
upon satisfactory changes, and the case has
been withdrawn from the courts.
The matter shows beyond doubt that
the Great Northern will build its line
through Missoula. Once to the Cpul
d'Alene country and Spokane Falls, with
the control Of the Lake Shore & Eastern
and the Pacific Southern lines. the Great
Northern will experience no difficulty in
reaching the coast within the next two
years.