Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-08-12
Advantages of. Short Haul to River
Over Fifty Mile Haul to
, e, =. s.-, t,.~g-. New Salem. : .., ~
Party Of Washburn officials Return
From Several Days Trip Through
.'F North Country.
Railroad Will be Completed to Wash
!. burn BY September 1oElevator
Soon Finished. , 49,.

along the upper Missouri river, re-
turned to the city Sunday afternoon.
With the party were General Manager
E. G. Washburn, Auditor and Traffic
Manager E. H. Walker, Chief Engineer
J. M. Dixon, Superintendent of Bridges
E. ]. Erskine, Land Agent w. P. Ma
comber, Joseph DIETRICH, travelling
freight solicitor, Captain John Blood
good and Adam Sailer, Of the Mann
haven Mercantile and Transportation
Company. The party went from Bis
marck to Washburn and Coal Harbor,
across the river to Mannhaven, up to
Expansion, down to Krem, and thence
to New Salem, from which place they
returned Sunday afternoon. 1t was
an interesting and profitable trip, af-
fording the officials a better insight
into the resources and advantages of
the country and giving them an idea
of the expansion of their railroad traffic
that could be made by closer commun-
ication with points west of the river.
The Importance. Of the building of
the new railroad into the country up
the river, in Mclean, Oliver and Mer-
Ger counties, is not realized until it is
seen that with the means of communi-
cation soon to be established, the
localities about Coal Harbor, Mann
haven, Expansion and other points in
that locality will be within twelve
hours of Bismarck. The trade that
has heretofore gone down the west side
Of the river over fifty or sixty miles of
bad roads, will be diverted to the east
side Of the Missouri. Where farmers
in Mercer and Oliver counties have
been forced to haul their grain by team
fifty or sixty miles to New Salem, they
will after the railroad and elevator are
completed at Washburn. be enabled to
fine a market for their grain at all
points along the river, within five to
twenty miles Of heir farms. The av-
erage haul to market for this falls
crop, with the lines of communication
that will be established by the Wash
burn road, will be about twelve miles
over good roads. This will be an i'm
mense advantage to the farmers, and
| to the whole country. It will lead to
an increase of acreage, and to addi-
tional settlement by farmers who have
| been deferred by the fact that market
was so long a distance from the farm.
1 The present trip to New Salem with
la load OF grain and the return trip oc-
4 cupy about three days. This fall it
will be possible to leave the farms in
Mercer and Oliver counties in the
morning and reach Bismarck on the
AFTERNOON trains of the B., w. & G.
/ b road. The same is true of ship
ments OF cattle, butter, and similar pro-
duce that it is essential to get to mar
Iket as rapid as possible. 4: 4:
he present plan OF the road. said
General Manager Washburn this morn
ling, Sis to establish system of fiat
houses and barges at Mannhaven, Elk
pansion, Hancock Coal Harbor. Fork
Clark and other points. At Mann
haven we will build a fiat house to hold
about 2t,, 0O0 bushels Of grain. Farmers
that Vicinity may deliver their
grain there BY d short haul. AT Coal
| Iarbor, also, we will build a smaller
fiat house, with a. capacity OF aboalH
1 no. 900 bushels AT Expansion, Han
cock, Stanton and Fork Clark. which
is opposite ash burn, we viii put u
1barges. eaehs with j. grain buyer
Farmers may deliver their grain aa
Ithese barges and receive their money
These barges viii collect. their plil-
ehases ait the elevator at Washburn
where IT will De loaded for Bismarck
The AVashburn elev ator will be com.
pieted soon and We will be- buyine
l grain there IN about four weeks. This
system OF transp ation To be estah,
Ilished Will bring ali of the country