The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-28
AMONG RAILROAD men.
Extension Work That the North
ern Pacific Will Do.
BUFFALO HUMP DISTRICT
Will Probably Be Tapped by the Road,
A Great Impetus to Farming
Along the Line OF the Great
Northern. gs

President c. S. Mellen and other Off
Gals of the Northern Pacific have fin
ished a tour of the Clearwater. country,
and the Lewiston GdahoJ Tribune, in an
interview with Mr.. Mellen. has the fol-
lowing:
"A summing up of the work that
President Mellen announces his CONS
pany has decided upon is, as folows;
The Clearwater extension, which will
be completed go miles by, NOV I, Viii
be extended on to Camas prairie and
probably to Buffalo Hump; the Lap
wal extension will be pushed on to
! Nez Perez: branch will be built up the
Potlatch from Kendrick rs miles into
| the white pine timber, and if the Ore
gon Railway & Navigation does not
make suitable arrangement with the
Northern Pacific for Joint use of the
| track along the Snake river from Lew
| iston, the Northern Pacific will bridge
! the river at this point and build to
connection with the Eureka fiat line,
thus giving them through line to the
| coast"
| F. T. whitney, general passenger
| agent of the Great Northern, says farm
| ing, mining and siockraising have re-
| ceived a great impetus along the Great
| Northern, and the Northwest is filling
up with the best class, of people-Ameri-
can immigrants-from the farming
| states east of the Mississippi valley,
| who buy up homes and proceed to inn
| prove the lands as though they meants
| to stay. Crops along the route are in
excellent condition, and he predicts a
fine harvest. The trip was delightful,
so far as climate was concerned.
immigration from southern Europe
| is heavy, but very few of the newcom-
| ers go out as far as the Great North
| ern. Italians, as a rule, prefer ito bur.
row in the great cities, while the Ameri-A
| cans pull up stakes and proceed to i'm;
| prove the great prairies of the Dakotas,
| Montana and Washington. Mr.. Whit
ney is particularly pleased with this
state of affairs, as producers are what
| the road wants. s
| Although no new branches are being.
built by the Great Northern, consider
| able work is being done along the line
| The great tunnel through the Cascades:
| between Leavenworth and Wellington,
| is being worked on from both ends. and
| will probably be completed within a
| year. This tunnel will be nearly 14,O00
| feet, or two miles and a half long,
| through solid granite, which needs no
| timbering. When completed the tun-
| mel will be made as light as day by cleo
| tricity. The present switch back will
| be discarded although he regards this
great make4shift. as being one of the
| engineering feats of the world 1t is a
series of zig-zag trestles IL miles long,
making a rise of 1000, feet in order..te
| cross the surknfit of tfiefc.aseades, while
| the tunnel is under construction. H..
The. directors. of the, Utaha& Pacific
| held a meeting in Salt Lake Tuesday.
The most important business trans
| acted was the decision to mortgage}the
| road and issue series of bonds to.coyer
| the mortgage. The bonds. will be for
| 81 900 each, and VIII be made payable
| in gold in 20 years, with interest sattthe
| rate of 5 per cent per annum,, payable
| semi-annually. Secretary Hpge' was
| appointed to procure the bonds and
prepare the necessary papers, 1ookiiigss
| after all the usual Legal formalities. ia
| The matter of building into Nevada
or extending any branch lines wasfnotH
discussed, and the issuance of bonds
has no significance in. this direction, it,
being merely the step that is takens by
all such corporations to secure theanst'n
who put up the money to build 'Athe
road. -1ss ="
Chief Engineer James. "a, West was
in the city yesterday rpa king h 81 report 4
to President McCune, Saysst Che Herald.
From his report it apEkalest that evely-
thing is progressing srIoethiy on the
new road. The business is still on the
increase, and far exceeds the eXpecta-
tons of the directors tof the company.
Track-laying is going forward steadily,
there being enough ties now, to com
plete the line to Uvada without any
more delays. 5tiio 10 psttT
Director Lund stated that, they, ex-,
pect to reach Uvada now in a very
hi. 1afp a.
the week. A new time card is being
prepared, also "a new freight tariff. Both
will go in operation as soon as the line
reaches Uvada, and trains will be run
through to that point.
The Burlington & Missouri railway
has transported a court house 20
miles, and those railroads which have
been boasting of how they carried such
little things as chunks of granite or
marble will have to take a back seat"
This court house is 40x50 feet, and two
stories high. The county seat of Box
Butte county was removed from Hem
ingford to Alliance. The court house
was safely hauled fro Hemingford to
Alliance. 1t has a heavy truss roof,
with heavy hard pine frame. AS there
were two cuts to pass through, the
building was raised on timbers high
enough to clear the banks, and when
ready to start it was so feet from the
track to the top of the deck on the,
building. The weight of the building is
estimated at 100 tons. 1t was handled
on four 50,000-pound capacity trucks.
The building was moved at the rate of
six miles an hour. Six hours after leav-
ing Hemingford the building was clear
of the track at Alliance.
Vice President Bancroft stated to a
Salt Lake Herald reporter that work on
the construction of the St. Anthony
branch is now under way, and that the
road will be in operation some time
between the first and middle of october.
There are rs teams at work, and Mr..
Bancroft stated that there ought to be
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The right of waV is now secured all