The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-05-29
The New Railroad.
Philipsburg Nail.

Philipsburg Nail
The ong-talkcd-of railroad from
Butte to Anaconda and Philipsburg
seems - have at last assumed
tangible form, and is now an almost
positive fact that it will be built.
The engineers began the work of
surveying the line in dead earnest
Monday morning, and that part of
the work will be completed in short
order. The intentions, as we'll as we
can learn, are to have the road COM
pleted as far as Philipsburg this
year, which will make the burg a
terminal point for some little time.
Then it is the intention of the COM
pany to extend its lines across the
range into the Bitter Root valley,
therce north to Missoula and then to
the western boundary line Of the
state. The new line will be of in
estimable value to Flint Creek dis
trict, as it will open up one of the
best mineral sections in Montana as
we'll as one of the greatest timber
81 f tteee tee dGsnpitcE have The easss nean}}s L
congratulate themselves upon the
probable acquisition of the new road
OF the new road the Inter Mountain
has the following to say:
Prominent citizens of Anaconda
have Incorporated company for the
construction of railroad between
Butte and that place, and west via
Philipsburg. None of the officials Of
the Anaconda company figure among
tho projectors of the enterprise,
though its chief engineer is said tc
have charge Of the survey which be-
gan today. But two supposit;'
are tangible in regard to the propos-
ed line. Either the Anaconda com.
pany is backing the enterprise o,
else the Great Northern is doing So
So long as the result shall be the
establishment of the needed connec.
ton between the smclter city and
the mines which supply its furnaces
it makes little difference who is
meeting the expenses of surveying
and constructing. The important
fact is that the work has been begun
and that it will give ample assurance
if completed, that the business of the
two principal cities of Montana will
not again be injured by the arbi-
trary exactions of other railroads in
the matter of freight rates. The
business in terests of Butte and Ana.
conda involve too much money and
the welfare of too many people to be
ignored and depressed by a few men
like Thomas F. Oakcs, who hitherto
could calmly sit in their Offices in
New York and with stroke of the
pen throw 5000 people out of en-.
ployment, upset real estate values
and reduce the mineral output of a
great mining center like Butte. The
Anaconda company has spent s4O,-
100000 since it began business in
this state, and it is entitled to some
decent consideration at the hands OF
the railroad companies whose traffic
and profits it has done so much to
enhance. If it is denied such treat
ment, its only resource is to look out
for itself and establish some indc-
pendent communication through
which its operations may be con
tiuued. The effect of the building
of the new line, whether it be an
independent enterprise or an enten-
sion of tho Great Northern, will be
extremely beneficial. In the first
place it will give employment to
many of the idle men of the district;
secondly it may induce the Union
Pacific to resume charge of the Mon.
tana Union and shake lose from the
Northern Pacific which has been q
dead weight around it's neck; thirdly
it may compel the Northern Pacii,
to build to Anaconda and pcrhar: