The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-14
FROM ARKANSAS PASS.
What Former Montsnsns Are Doing Dowr
In Texas These Days.

IN Iexas THESE Days.
Arkansas Pass. Texas. Herald: J. II.
Mccarthy, who arrived last week from
Butte. Mont. says n considerable num-
Der of citizens of that great mining camp
will come to Arkansas Pass after the hol-
idays and join him in a tour of Mexico
He comedies with the Herald In the be-
lief that a great deal of the winter trav-
Ell to California will swing to Arkansas
Pass and Mexico
Engineer Frank Bickenbach and party
are setting stakes for the steel drawbride
to cross the Morris a Cummins channel
The terminal railroad is now all cross
sectioned ready for the contractors. The
embankment for the first three miles be-
ing already built requires but little dres-
sing, and when the rails are received II
will be the work of about a week or 10
days to lay the double track to the cham
mel. IL the grade is completed across
Harbor island before the erection of the
drawbridge the rails will be conveyed on
barges across the channel, and there will
be no slelay in tracklaying until the road
is completed to Mustang island.
There is as yet no report this week Of
soundings at the Pass except that sound
ings taken from tug boat show a
depth of IA feet s inches on the highest
points in the channel, where II was u
feet at the last official sounding. II this
report is true IL shows a very satisfac-
tory increase in depth.
Mr.. r. A. Bell. a prominent mining OPP
orator of Helena. arrived Tuesday night
to spend a week or 10 days looking over
Arkansas Pass and vicinity. He says he
learned on the way down that the Chi
cago syndicate, who recently purchased
the Fort Worth stockyards, intend to
put in great plant at Arkansas Pass.
where the beef business will be concen-
trated. They deemed 1t advisable to con-
troll tine Fort Worth business for strate-
gic purposes, and as a feeder to the stock
yards and abattoirs at Arkansas Pass.
While heretofore cattle have been shipped
north to Fort Worth, thence to Kansas
City and Chicago, in future they will be
shipped south from Colorado, Iowa, Me-
braska, Kansas and Indian territory TO
Fort Worth. and thence to Arkansas Pass
Thus will Arkansas Pass revolutionize the
cattle trade with all the commerce of the
West.
Though living at a long distance from
the gulf coast, Mr.. Bell has for some
time taken a deep interest I'm the pros
poets of a deep harbor that would give
Montana's productive industries the ad-
vantage of a radical cut in freight
charges by cutting off 500 miles of rail
haul He made a close study Of the sit
uation. and finding that Arkansas Pass
possessed such advantages over all gulf
ports as to assure IL practical monopoly
of the western commerce, he foresaw the
erection of a great city at this port an
inevitable result. Some months ago he
made extensive purchases of Arkansas
Pass real estate and II is his intention to
establish his winter residence here.
Like other successful mining men, Mr.
Bell places his dividends in conservative
investments, where they will bring large
returns in the future He is a member
of a company who recently secured con-
troll of the wonderful gas. ascetylene. for
the state of Montana. This compound he
says, is rapidly displacing all other lights
in the cities where its manufacture is be-
gun. 1t is produced from coal dust and
lime. fused by electricity. The product,
combined with water. generates a gas
which furnishes a light far more brilliant
than electric lights at a much lower cost
than any other light. Each user has his
individual plant. including a small reser-
voir. which is filled when emptied. like a
soda fountain. One of these reservoirs
will supply the lights for an average resi-
dence for five or six months, so the new
light can be enjoyed on the farms as well
as in the cities. 1t generates great heat
as well as light, and will revolutionize
transportation. A small reservoir charge
will run a street car for months.