Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-25
RECENT I
RAILROAD GOSSIP
THE OREGON SHORT LINE MAY
BUILD FROM DILLON TO TWIN
BRIDGES.

Residents of the ambitious little city
Of Dillon and of the B~eaverhead valley
are very much elated over the prospect
of the building of a branch of the Oregon
Shore Line railway from Dillon down the
Beaverhead valley to Twin Bridges. Sew
eral rumors of a similar kind in the misty
past have caused Dillon as many former
spasms of ecstasy, but in his one Dillon
has high hopes that it will realize on it's
expectations. Previous to the construc-
ton of the Gaylord and Ruby valley road,
a branch of the Northern Pacific road,
from Whitehall to Twin Bridges, the
freight and business of a large scope of
country was enjoyed by the Oregon Short
Lin Co. and the merchants Of Dillon.
This business naturally ceased with the
completion of the Northern Pacific branch
last summer, and the Dillon people have
since been yearning for that which they
once had but now have not, and have
been casting about for ways and means
OF once more capturing this trade. The
ACCESSIBILITY of substituting either the Ore
Son Short Line company to build down
the Jefferson valley, or the Gaylord &
Ruby Valley company to continue it's line
up to Dillon has been much discussed and
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ment, but nothing has been done looking
to this end as yet.
a prominent business man of Dillon
was in the city yesterday and in an in
terview with an Inter Mountain reporter
disclosed the intelligence narrated above,
and also stated that a corps of Oregon
Short Line engineers arrived in Dillon
about ten lays ago and are now at work
along the proposed line. He also said that
during the past three months experts
known to be representing the railroad
company have examined into the re-
sources of the section which will be
tapped by the proposed branch, and went
away more than satisfied with the figures
on tonnage obtained. Following the visit
of these officials came the company's en-
gineers, and naturally the residents of
Dillon have since been hopeful and happy
over their railroad prospects,. They be-
heVe, too, that should the branch road
be constructed, and Dillon be made the
junction with the parent line, that the
company would of necessity remove the
railroad shops from Lima to Dillon and
make the latter place division h~eadquar-
terS.
The proposed branch would pass
through one of the most fertile valleys
in the state, which heretofore has been
somewhat handicapped by the absence of
modern transportation facilities. The
road would follow the water grade Of the
Beaverhead river, the original route, by
the way, selected by the Union Pacific
surveyors when the road was being built
into Montana in the early sos, but which,
later, was ~bandone for the more noun
famous but shorter route to Butte. How
ever, the local officials of the company
disclaim any knowledge of the c~ompany's
intentions.
a recent circular issued from the gen.
eral offices of the Northern Pacific Rail
road company announces the promotion
of j. w. kendrick, general manager, to
the post of second vice president, and
j. NJ. Hannaford to general traffic man
ager. The Butte friends of these two
well known railroad men will be greatly
rejoiced at their good fortune.