Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-09
More About the Short Line
Branch to the Park.
THE BURLINGTON TO BUTTE
A Second Party of Surveyors are
Supposed to be Running a LIN e
In This Direction.

Much has been said in railroad circles
of late concerning the proposed branch
Of the Oregon Short Line from some point
between Lima and Pocatello to the Ma
tional park, and that the officials of the
road are seriously considering the ad-
visibility Of building the extension there
is no doubt. A recent issue of the Ere
mont County News, published at st.
Anthony, Idaho, a town that expects to
be on the line of the new road, says:
"The right of way for the proposed rail-
road to ST. Anthony has been sec ured,
except through the land owned by out
siders, and it is considered no particular
trouble to secure the right of way over
those tracts. After the work was CON-
pleted Monday at noon Mr.. Evans, the
railroad right of way agent, left here for
Salt Lake City, expressing much salts
faction and assuring those in whom he
had most confidence of his candid opin-
ion that work would be commenced at
once, and that it would be completed in
time to move the fall crops. The News
is informed that the route is now beng
surveyed and that a large force of men
o1iA tSosAtS wall 0SaA cSA ~"
days. Probably nothing has ever so gem
orally interested the people of this valley
as the assurances of the railroad officials
that a railroad would be built to St. An
thony at once, providing a free right OF
way was granted. The farmers can
gather almost endless quantities Of grain,
vegetables and produce, but, above all
things, they need a railroad to give them
easy access to the market. Many Of them
found that it costs more to haul their
crops to Market Lake than it does to
raise them, and so, when the railroad
company asked for a free right Of way
through their lands the eques was
quickly granted, even though it almost
destroyed some fine farms. According
to the printed contracts for the right of
way, the road must be built within IS
months or they are null and void. 1t is
hardly reasonable to suppose the railroad
company will let such a valuable acquisi-
ton as a right of way through a fine
farming country slip through their fin
gers by failing to build the road within
the specified time.
The Cheyenne & Northern is said to be
preparing for the biggest rush of cattle
since the road was built. The first ship
ment will come north in a few days, and
thousands Of cars are now being sent to
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona points to
load. The cattle will go to stock up the
ranges Of eastern Montana and northern
Wyoming, depleted by the high price s Of
last year.
Charles Clifford, general agent OF the
Union Pacific for Butte. has just return
ed from Salt Lake City, Mrs. Clifford ac-
c~ompanying him.
A second Burlington surveying party
has been sent ont from Lincoln, Ne
braska. to Sheridan, Wyoming and is
now engaged III running a line south and
west toward the Yellowstone Park. The
party is located at Toluca, about thirty
miles south of Billings. Mont. 1t is the
general belief that the Burlington is now
surveying a route to Butte, work upon
which will commence as soon as the COM
pany has finished building the Alliance
Denver and Ailianoe-Hartville lines. Gem
eral Manager Holdredge and General
! Superintendent Calvert, We're here not
long ago and spent some days in the
country west Of this place. The utmost
secrecy has been maintained, but the
news leaked out that the Burlington will
build through the Big Horn basin to the
national park. thence On west to Butte,
and ultimately to the coast. Not long ago
a large quantity of rails We're unloaded at
; Billings, and material is arriving every
day and is being piled up there.-Cor-
respordence Salt Lake Tribune.
A distinguished visitor cou,1 not have
received a more enthusiastic welcome
than the one given '720' in the Short Line
yards yesterday says the Salt Lake Tri-
bune. 'I2U' is one of the new tcn-Wheel-
er, heavy freight engines recently receiv-
ed by the read for service on the idaho
and Montana divisions. She was brought
down from Pocatello to give the mechan-
les on the Utah division a chance to view
the latest piece of motive power. The op-
portunity was evidently appreciated, for
al lay the sidetrdcks, where '720'' proud
ly looked down on the 500 and 400 and 600
class engines, We're well filled by engine
men, yardnlen and mechanics, who care
fully and Intercstedly e over the new
machine. A description Of "721' a sister
engine, with cut, was published last Mon
day, and other descriptions, with general
} dimensions, have also been given in these
columns '72O' stands high on her drivers
> and is built to combine speed with draw
D ing power. She is not q thing of beauty
or grace, but what is lacking in these re-
spects is made up by it's power. She has
been creating much establishment at
Paris, Ida, where from sixty to eighty
cars have been pulled out Of the valley.
The engine returned to the north last
evening with her crow sheet probably
swelled by all the attention paid her dur
ing the snort visit to the metropolis.
H. I. Wilson of the Short Line is in
Salt Lake City.
j. w. Kendrick, general superintendent
of the Northern Pacific, is expected to
arrive in the city tomorrow from st.