Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02
More Indications Which Point
Directly and Certainly Toward
Coming of the 500.
An Unpublished Interview With
Thomas Lowry Which Lights
up the Subject.
An English Syndicate Has Taken a
Contract to Furnish the Roll
ing Stock.
Hail the 500.

Why certainly. There isn't a person
in town who didn't know it all along.
The only question upon which opinions
have differed is that of the time of it's
arrival. Some have argued for 1900,
while others rather favor the spring of
1886. But of its coming, ultimately,
there has been never a doubt. Not one.
OF late there have been several cir
cumstances which have pointed to the
coming Of the 500. These are not gen.
orally known, and a recital of some of
them may tend to solidify the suspicion
of the coming of the 500, which now
exists mostly in a gaseous and uncon-
fined state.
An interview with MI. Thomas Lowry,
as yet unpublished, sheds q sort of
electric light on the subject. The inter-
view is something as follows:
Reporter-Mr. Lowry, at about what
time do you expect the 500 road to be
finished into Bismarck?
Mr.. Lowry-That, of course, depends.
Ii it takes all summer to complete the
road from where it o is to Bismarck,
and if the work should begin next
spring, then the road would be COM
pleted to Bismarck next fall. On the
other had, if it takes longer than this to
complete the work, or it the work should
not be begun until next year, then it's
completion to Bismarck would be later.
1t you can tell me just what time the
work will begin, and how long, approxi-
mately, it will take to build the line
from where it now ia to Bismarck, I can
tell you, almost exactly, when the line
will reach Bismarck.
Reporter-Wlll the farmers of EN-
mons county, in your opinion, MI.
Lowry, ship out their next falls crop of
wheat over the 500 road?
Mr.. Lowry-That, of course, depends
to considerable extent on circumstances
also. The contingency of crop failure
may arise, and the.farmers may not have
any wheat. Then again, the contingency
of 500 failure may arise, and the farmers
may not have any 500. Or again, there
is a possibility of a plague or an earth
quake, and there may not be any farm.
ers. Still, despite all of these posslbili-
ties, [ do not mind being frank with
you, and saying boldly, that the farmers
in Emmons county will ship out next
falls crop over the 500. But I must
be permitted to qualify this rather
broad statement, and say that they will
do this, always provided the 500 road
is builded in time for them to make use
of it next fall. Otherwise, I must with
draw my first statement.
Reporter-Do Do you believe, Mr.. Lowry,
that the people of North Dakota will
get Mclean county coal over the 500
for their next winters use.
Mr.. Lowry--That question must also
be answered, Econditionally. One condi-
ton is, that the people of North Dakota
want the Mclean county coal. If they
do, and We are so situated as to be in
shape to haul it to them, they will get it,
provided again, that they pay our freight
rates. OF course, if they should not
want the coal, or if we should not be
fixed so as to be in shape to haul it, then
they will not, naturally, get coal over
our road.
Reporter-Then I may say, Mr..
Lowry
Mr.. Lowry-Oh, certainly, if you wish.
Reporter-And your opinion is, Mr..
Lowry
Mr.. Lowry--That the 500 is a very
good road, yes sir.
Reporter-And you think MI. Low
Mr.. ~Lowry-That's 1t exactly. That
is just what I think to a t-y-ty.
Aside from this circumstance, is
another. The following is from Steele:
States Attorney Joseph W. Walker has
received a communication from an English
corporation. advising him that it was about
to close a contract to equip the 500 line to
Bismarck, with rolling stock, and asking
his opinion as to what it should take to
protect it's interests after doing so.
No one should ask any more than this.
1t is ample proof that something is about
in a position to drop"
Will it "drop?"
Certainly.
The Death of D.. w. Hutchinson.
Captain w. S. Moorhouse received this
morning a copy Of the Erie, Pa, Even
ing Telegram, cotaining an account of
the death Of D. w. Hutchinson. The
article also give a history of MI. Hutch
inson's life and this will be interesting
to his old friends in Bismarck. The
Telegram says:
David ". Hutchinson was the second
son of the late Hon. Myron and Nancy
(Wells) Hutchinson, of Girard, Erie county
He was born in June, 1880. in Girard. His