The Helena independent., 1893-10-26
THE MONTANA SOUTHERN |
The Work Of Grading the Line Be-
ing Pushed Ahead at
Lively Rate
Figures That Show the Resources
of tho Country 1t VIII
Open Up
BIr. Lomnx Tolls what His Road VIII 10
About Immigrant Businsss--Em-
ployes Want Thoir Money.

A gentle reminder 10 volunteered for The
Information sctsp book Of some OF ou'
iealously disposed neiahbors who cannon
refrain from firing equine jokes a. ou'
railroad project. says the Maaison'an'
II matters not whether the promoter be
Sam Word or Zamuel Of the internal
regions; that some Of the Jim Grow
spure-built to boom jim Grow idsa-in
this state have failed 10 pay Running sx-
p~nses; or that the universe should ap'
pYeciats annexation to Anaconda; Madison
county proposes to have railroad, TO buha
railroad. to own il and withal. make II
psy. Substantial, conservative business
men are at shs back Of IL. A force OF grad.
ers was rut on near Parssn's Bsid&e Mon
day last and the intention 10 to g.aas . dis
tsnce Of twsnty-fivs miles between This
date and December. that will complete
the work to point in the vicinity OF Twin
Bridges. There 10 NO difficulty in securing
tsams-there being more rendered than car
be utilized at present.
The route blocked out will tap one Of the
hnsst and richest agricultural aAd mineral
districts Of the great northwest. Eventu-
ally its destination will open coal mea-
surs sufficiently extensive TO support q
road, and Of . quality far superior TO any
deposit of bisuminous coal west Of the Mis-
aisaippi. Ibis measure 10 first encountered
about twenty-eighS miles from Virginia
Citv. but the formation at this point
10 areatly broken or displaced. However.
Il is continuous for over twenty -nve
miles and soon assumes y tFue po-
sition whore the country rock sleng sheep
mountain range shows no dissu!ba wnat
ever. Tho veins are all "oiind ana Nils
In ono instance vein from fourteen TO SIX
teen inches thick is exposed; again three
GOOD sized yoips from four to seven feet
ehick have been stripped BY slide action,
While another one from ten to fourteen
inches 10 traced for over five miles. The
best vein diseloses thirty-tnfee inones IN
thicknsss Of solid and perfectly pure coal
and can be traced for eight miles or over.
The for n alton 10 in sandstone. dip OF vein
about tVeuty-tWo degrees. clay salvage on
1he foot wall and about three inches OF de-
conn posed shale OF slate matter on the hang
Ing wall.
IN the vicinity Of Alder Ruleh 2.34b tons
making 4 total of 1O.245 tons. This esti7
mate is not what tho mines will guarantee
TO do. but what they are capable OF doing.
Merchandise carriage in Virginia City
amounts TO over 2,257 ton. per year. in
sinded In which are over 1000 tons OF pro-
duce that is hauled in by wagon t anspor-
tation. a. present.. from Ruby valley. In
sddition. Sheridan and Laurin team
I. f.sixhtsss bring in about 5000 tons per
gear. -,
The road up the Ruby Will pass shrongn
sc, ,O6S acres Of cultivated and hay and 49,
684 of pasture lsnds. The total under the
head Of cultivated. were . market afforded
by railroad transportation, would exceed
81. 752 acres. In the stock line the Ruby
valley can show up over 1O'0J0 head OF
cattle.
With these few general figures, II n safe
20 presume that the people OF southwestern
Madison know pretty neatly what they
want and what they are able to support
after they got it.