Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-31
Senator W. A. Clark May Build
a Railroad.
TAX AGENTS IN HELENA
All the Roads in Montana Are Repre-
Sented--PreSident Mellen on the
Northwestern Situation.

seems to be assured, say the Salt Lake
Tribune. Behind the sale of the April
Fool mine is seen the hand of w. A.
Clark, and this fact, with other recent de-
velopments, form the basis for a state
ment made yesterday that the mining
camp would soon lave it's line of rails
connecting through to Salt Lake.
Those who have followed western min
ing matters know the friendly and official
relations existing between Senator Clark
on the one hand, and A. H.. Wethey,
Frank Sizer and William Thompson of
Butte, new directors of the April Fool.
The Tribune has stated. that Senator
Clark was willing and even anxious to
take hold of the railway project from
Uvada to the mi Fe tracks, or on to
Los Angeles; also, that the Montana SEN
ator was about to join hands with the
Utah & Pacific people in completing the
line. One of the last men Senator Clark
was with yesterday was Colonel A. W.
McCune, and it is a significant fact that
the two Travelled together across the At
lantic recently.
W.. A. Clark has never operated a mine
without a railroad being built to it in
SuOlL OIueI. IL Is SLdlGN THAI lIc OuLpuC
of De La Mar mines and vicinity would
amply repay the builders of an ~inexpen-
sive branch. 1t is given out that the
probable route of such a line would be to
build from Uvada to Clover Valley juno
ton in the Meadow valley wash over the
old Union Pacific, with a branch from
Glover valley to De La Mar.
What makes the story more probable
is that MoCune and his associates are
said to have an option on the April Fool
No. 2 and Mono, also located at De La
Mar; also that a branch to De La Mar
as well as to Phoebe has ever been con-
sidered a part of the plan of those pro-
jecting the line through Lincoln county,
New.
The Northern Pacific will run a special
excursion to the Yellowstone National
park on August IL. From Butte the trip
will consume a week, five and one-haif
days of which will be spent in the park,
and the fare for the round trip, including
meals en- route, sleeper, staging and ho-
tel accommodations, will be $40.
Speaking of the railroad situation in the
northwest, President Mellen of the
Northern Pacific recently said: 1--WE have
offered the O. r. & NJ, which is the Union
Pacific system, to let them run into Ia
NoiIie oNSI Jul ldChS ITOIu fOrlldHO, ana
to give them terminals here, so far as we
have any say in the matter, at very rea-
sonable rates. It would b. to our inter-
est. as well as theirs, to let them run in
over our tracks. rather than build an ad-
ditional line. We would rather divide the
cost and expense of maintaining one line
than to pay all the cost ourselves. The
traffic between here and Portland for
many years can all be done over the one
line and not be crOwdad
1.-THE war between the Northern and
The O. II. & N. is mostly in the newspa-
pers. Many of the stockholders are own
ers in both roads, and where we can save
money by such an agreement it will be
made. And / have NO doubt this arrange
ment will be made as soon as the Union
Pacific gets around to take the matter
up. They will have their own TERMINALS
here, and be entirely independent of us,
both roads using the same track. The
Northern Pacific will continue to make
Tacoma it's main terminus on the Pacific,
and the place where the Oriental COM
merce is carried on as long as we have
our docks and terminals here. If we had
the same facilities in Portland and Seattle
as we rave here. we would take the bust
ness to the town that was the most en-
terprising. and where the people were the
best hustlers. We ave already acquired
large terminals in Seattle. The deal has
been closed. though it has not been given
to the public. We shall naturally utilize
the and"
Several thousand railroad 1aborers are
said to be badly needed in Idaho. where
much new railroad work is in progress or
is contemplated. There is also a scarcity