The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-01
CHANGING ITS COURSE
The Missoula Is Eating Away
the North Bank.
STONE WALL is NEEDED
Passenger Business on the Northern Pa
c!f1c Continues to Be Very Heavy.
Many Buildings Being
Erected In Ms oua.

Missoula. July 31.-The bed of the
Missoula river is changing its course
and it will be but a few years that
property owners on the north side of
the river will have to move or build
a stone wall the length of their prop
erty to save it. The property owners
who have property just west of the
bridge have in sort of cribbing that
is helping some toward the saving of
their land. Last year this cribbing
was partly washed away and if there
should be another year for high water
like it was this year. the present crib
bling will not hold The south fork of
this river this year has washed away
a large amount of the island west of
the bridge and if it continues to do
this each year it will be but a short
time that the island will be greatly
reduced in size. After the river unites
and passes under the Bitter Root rail-
road bridge is where the most damage
will occur in the future. This land is
of gravelly nature and seems to
yield easily to the washing of the riv-
er. Last year it is estimated that at
least eight feet of this land was
washed down the river and the high
waters of this year took at least eight
more. The owners of the house
in which Samuel Garrick is
now living and the one on
the west of him have moved their
fences in several feet. and before an
other generation passes away this land
and the houses will be floating down
the river. 1t is here that the river is
changing its bed.
The passenger business on the North
N he hoo
and it makes one think that the man
asement made a mistake in taking off
the double train service that was in
vogue a short time ago. The trains
are running with from 10 to 16 cars
each day and in each direction. Sew
eral times in the last week or two the
trains have arrived in two sections
which is an evidence that the manage
ment should return to its double SER
vice. 1t is understood that the reg
ular trains arriving in two sections
from the West this month is the first
time in the history CT the read that it
has occurred, and speaks we'll for the
increase in the amount of travel that
is coming from the West. 1t is report
ed that the eastbound train has a
number of times run in two sections
from Portland as far east as Spokane
and there consolidated. The trains
have been making pretty good time
the past month and IN fact ever since
the adoption of the white card" All
rumors Of a change in the time card
have not been heard of lately, and ii
is thought that the management will
continue the white card" system I'M
til the winter weather sets in.
The boom that was predicted for
Missoula this year has failed to ar
rive, nevertheless Missoula is doing
more building than any other city in
the state with the exception of Butte
This year will see more residences
erected than in any other, but the
erection of business blocks has been
very slow. The majority of the resi-
dences have been erected on the south
side, but the west part of the city is
not much behind. A number of homes
have been built across the Rattle
snake and big change has taken
place in the Rattlesnake valley. This
year will not see the erection of any
large building outside of the business
block that is being erected by Il. w
Schilling. The warehouses of the Men
trum-Brigss and that of the Missoula
Mercantile company will come next
The largest residence that will come
in on this year is the beautiful man
sion of T. L. Greenough. situated on
the banks Of the Rattlesnake. This
building represents a larger outlay of
money than any building, either resi-
dence or business block, since the fln-
ishing of the university buildings