The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-12-23

or driving the last spike, does il not?'
was the newspaper mans query.
we shall doubtless be driving spikes
OF tnat aay-,we have a good many of
tnem on hand now--but we may be re.
duced to the last one at that time"
ME- Hhlelds thus evaded stating the
uate Wneh the track!aycrs, working from
both slcos, would meet and the road he
completed. But it is expected that this
Will occur about that time.
LOOKING at the work-train with its
men material and apparatus which com
pletely flled the spare between the snov
walls, the vice president said: ..WelI.
Shields; you have blocked IN thn wav
back pretty eifectually. how are we poing
70 get dow to the car, you don't suppose
WE are gong 10 spend the day up here
im sorry, Colonel: but I'm afraid Won
WIN nave To do like the rest of us-cIimb
up vi INC tram and walk back oycr tho
rails and tics" "'N W ''c
high official was equal to the oc-
caSlon and climbed with agility over all
s"rts oil INSTRUCTIONS, As he reached the
ear ahd took a fTe-foot leap from the
tie car INTO a snow bank, sometime
cracked. He rubbed Il bone and said
nan audtbIy, THAT Joint needs more
exercise. He fastened down past the
PnIihhg engines. lodging the Jets Of steam
anu water to the open track below with
your correspondent close behind. Here
were more Interesting sights. For
several rods directly behind the rear
engine the new laid track swarmed with
inc spIkers who were playing d trcmcn.
aous anvil chorus, Close upon them was
beng pushed the wire car which was
slowly unreellng ii Western Union line
lhump! goes ii timber on the hillside
ahorc and a pole has fallen into its rocky
hoIe ana "A man with spurs is already |
cllunbing up with the wire and insulation. |
rs mat the way it's donr:'' cjaculatcd
the TRIBUNE man.
es' we nave 4 contract with the
Western Union Telegraph company to
carry thls me along with our CONSTITUTE
tion work and establish an Office every
evening at the end Of the track. 1t is
easy IN this country to 90 beyond the
ChltGd States mails, but its nard to get
ahead OF the telegraph.
We had arrived at a long side-track
punt INTO the hillside and occupied by
an extended train Of Gals.
"ihatsa queer looking affair. Strange
enough IN fact to astonlsh oven Il news
paper man and make him stand still. II
was a gigantic threc-story car.
80, that's a sleeper and diacr com.
piheu; ulnlhg-room occupies the lower
or platform floor. and the slerpinr
berths are above. You see now thr man
90 up stairs. (Just at that moment a
workman sprang upon the platform and
climbed hand over hand un TO n door
IN 1nn nnH of fI,a ,..r b I . =, l.-.n
upper berth principle. FOR in this car all
the berths are 'uppers. This plan does
away with the OId-fashioncd bivuuac of
tents and logs. Camps Of this latter
sort are q used only 10y the graders.
Ncstlgcs Of them now arpcar at inier-
'ale. They were abandoned last month
wien the grading was somplctpd and
The contractors outfits broke IN.
1h" raiirDad company provide board
and sleeping accommodations. for their
at five dollars Il week on fine board
ing trains. Two dollars d day are the
for common labor on construction
work.
The character and quality Of tho men {
employed by the Great Northern are a {
striking contrast to the gangs of coolics +
largely composed the construction {
forces on the Northern Pacific a few /
ago in this region. L was Their I
saii that a Pacific rajjrnaJ ,nnld mot Ia , ,
,uIll witnout rbran Cbinasn lahn"
Here is the contradiction prLI;,. ",im ,
on and government rnetri.tinrn ninn"t -
.muortation has nov stamnnI nnt tIot ,
Objectionable element Tho man that q
sc passed coming Town tL. graJ. n"
MOSTLY intelligent looLinr and yorna +
oreIgners largely. with Srand;rar. n
nd irish nred1minat;nn -
Nrc.Prrsident Clough's private car p
TODD near the switch Just where w had I
1T 1t thr"" hours before. at i o'clock II
= "" started in the dark Of early morn. a
lg and walked up to the front. il
The engine from Wcnatchcr which had =,
cen ordered up had not vet arrived Tho +,
rIOu"l seated himself in the large r},air =
3 the observation end Of tie ear mo oI
Jnyersatiui turned on the trptl, nrtlnnk %
D the Great Northern for the ~cnuinr GO
JASON. when the road would ba com. al
.rtcd to tine Pacific coast. Colonel II
Tough had Iust returned from fine Pm. 81