The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-16
70 ROUTES IOTHEW WEST.
May Go to Spokane BY
the Northern Pacific or
Great Northern.
netting About the Country
Through Which tho Latter
Road Passos.
Burlington Will spend Two Milton
Dollars on His Extsnsios to This
City.

elena psopls now have tho option Of two
tsa to E~pokans-0ne BY she Northern
INC. via Garrison. Missoula and Hops.
the othsr By the Great Northern, vic
(at Falls. Vavrs and Boomers Ferry. The
train ovsr the Great Northern for
kane lefs ~. Paul Sunday might. and
arrive q Havrs this morning Il 6:bo.
} Montana Central psopls In Helena
: NOT - vet received ths tarid sheets
ne the fare between Helena and Spo-
10, and II 10 pretty hard to tell whether
ill DO higher than the Northern Pacific
Or not. BY way OF the Montana Con-
and the Great Northern the distance
be much greater, and the trouble arises
liking the rate from the fact that II II
made the same ~ BY ths Northern Pacific.
10. II Will have i. tendency to Affect
al fares, and give the soalpets a big
lncs to get their work In. OF course the
Rsst business the Great Northern will
10 out Of Helena will bs ~ those places
ng the extension in Montana, not
ohed BY tho Northern Paeihc, and II
mot sacrifice the rate there In order
pasoh the much smaller spokane bust.
10. The rate sheet, however, will be out
few days, and then all uncertainty will
over. Helena people who desire to 60
points west Of Helena, will take the
(ntAna Central. that leaves here At 1918
M, arriving ut Pacific junction at 6:18
%. Tho next day they will take the west
lnd train at 6.6O a. N. III 3 probable new
10 card will be issued in q little while.
In a circular to agents, announcing the
sninR Of the western extension. General
sssnger and Ticket Agent Whitney says:
On August "A We begin daily passenger
vice from st. Paul and Minneapolis TO
okans. Wash. Our line to that city 10
! only the shortest, but 1t has the light
grades and easiest curves Of any trans
atinental road. The extension is bal
ted from n end to the other with rock
avel. Much new and valuable mining,
nberinp, farming and stock raising ter
DRY ia opened up in western Montana,
rthern Idaho and eastern Washington BY
10 new line. Tho distance from Havre.
ere tho extension leaves the Great Fails.
Plena and Butte line, to Spokane, 10 512
les. The line runs through . ranohjnR
nntry to the Rockies, crossing the mount
ID ~ 0A Va aootS sAV sVwVoV
81 in the, range. The Ftathsad valley,
bt west Of the Rockies, IL mi Of tho finest
ricultural sections of Motnana, and offers
e Inducements to farmers and stock
Users. and lumbermen also, for the sur
nnding mountains are covered with hns
dies of timber.
West ofsthe Flathead valley the road fol-
he Ashley creek and Fisher river TO tho
botenai river, n Of the large and impor-
ht tributaries of the Columbia. From
innings the Kootensi is navigable north 10
phaoco Plains and Fort steele, b. @. The
potenai is followed sixty-two miles, the
hck passing en- route through Libby. the
int Of supply for the Libby creek mining
untry. At Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, con-
3ction 10 made with steamers for the West
botenai and SLOGAN mining DISTRICTS in
fitish Columbia. Continuing westward
. road opens up the Priest river country
ose to Lake Pend d'Oreille, crossing the
yer of the same name ut Albani falls,
Jar Newport, and then skirts the Little
bokane and spokane rivers to the metrop-
10 of eastern Washington.
1.-THE way 10 very picturesque, and the
ute will be q popular n with tourists.
hs country abounds in magnificent rivers,
kes and streams, afording splendid water
bwer and unlimited fishing. while tho for
ts are filed with deer, boar, elk, moose,
I'D smaller game. The deposits of gold,
vsr, copper. and lead, when developed,
i'll make many prosperous towns. The
mber industry will also become a large
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