The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-29
In OLD LOGAN TOWN
At Last It Shines as Typical West
ern Booming Camp.
THE HOME OF RAILROAD MEN
Mr.. Rowland Screw Up" with the
Place and Now His Faith In IL
le Doubled. Thanks to En-
gineer MoHenry.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman. Nov. T.-Logan, Montana,
was located when the Northern Pacific
built west through the Gallatin valley,
a station being built "a miles west of
Bozeman. to which was given that
name. but for years the place amounted
to little more than a depot. 1t had
been thought that the Northern Paci-
fic would some day build a branch linz
from Logan to Butte, but the hopes for
this were blasted by the reports of the
company's engineers to the effect that
a road could not be built UP jefferson
canyon, where it now runs, without
boring an immense tunnel, where the
road should cross the divide. Then
Chief Engineer McHenry stepped In
and demonstrated otherwise and with
the commencement of operations upon
the short line commenced also the his
tory of Logan, Mont.
w. A. Roland and John England, two
old-ttme residents of that section,
bought up the townsite and consider
able land surrounding 1t and Mr.. Ro-
land settled there with small stock of
general merchandise to wait for the
town to grow. The Madison valley, 25
miles long and eight miles wide, has its
built UP fine trade with the ranch
men of that valley during the last six
years, having shipped 90 carloads of
hay, besides grain and other produce,
from Logan this fall. Then the town.
site has increased in value, over FIVE
times the price paid having already
been offered for this ground, but
Messrs. Roland & England do not care
to SELL
When the Butte branch was built II
was Chief Engineer McHenry's idea
that this place should by right be the
end OF a division, instead of Bohemian,
as the large engines known as hogs"
would have to be used on the heavy
grade from Logan to Bohemian to make
any time, and If used they and their
crew would have to he at Logan. With
this in view, a round house was built
and bunkers erected and side tracks
put in, all of which have been lying
there unused until this fall when those
old IDEAS of Mr.. McHenry's were car
rted out and to-day Logan Is one of
the first towns in Gallatin county.
More than go men, nine of them TAX
ing their families with them, have
lately moved to this promising railroad
town, four new houses going up in the
past two months and two more in
course of construction to-day, while
the necessities of life are furnished by
a store, livery stable, lunch counter,
boarding house, two saloons, and a no
tel. The hotel Is feeding 75 people
every meal, and with the wild and
woody features of a new western town
to enliven 10 and q fine business for the
few houses started. Logan has an APP
pearance of great activity the past few
weeks new side track has been put
IN and another long siding will be
built as soon as THE ground will allow |
an uhe spring, as the yards are crowd |
ed with freight cars at present, while |
the round house is always full of en- |
gines.
w. A. Roland, who runs the general |
store at Logan, says he has great faith |
an the future of that place; that ne has |
put every dollar he could hustle in /
past years into Logan realty and bust |
ness projects, and that his faith has |
'oeen increasing each month since hts
d1rSt investment. Mr.. Roland is a Young
looking man, but Al years old. and has
peasant family and home He start
ed life as bootblack in Washington.
u. e., and when he left there was a
reporter on large Washington daily.
ne tnen spent number of years in IL |
hnols, and in travelling over the West.
coming TO Montana 16 years ago and
settling near Logan, and he is TODAY a
typical energetic western business man
who. while he is building a new town
Is also making many warm friends and
laying up bit of cash through his
pleasant and persevering methods In
ms business. In his 16 years residence
az Logan, he has never been east of
Ailles City, nor west of Helena and
Butte, but will take his first trim East
next month, when he hopes to meet his
people and old-tirne friends.