The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1901-07-03
RAILROAD BOOM FOR noNTANA.

Lines Projected Will Open Up rIuch
New Territory.
II the railways now operating in
Montana carry out the plans this year
they have under way, the new rail-
way mileage in the state in 1901 will
exceed any year for some time. TIE
Northern Pacific is going to extend
it's line in southern Montana from
Twin Bridges to Laurin, distance
OF Is miles, opening up mlnlng and
agricultural country that is rich, but
now without railway facilities.
The Burlington is pushing work on
its branch from Toluca to Cody,
Wyoming, and already Fifty miles
have been completed, and the oper-
alton Of that section will begin today.
The largest amount Of building,
however, in the state, will be done by
the Great Northern. The recently
incorporated Montana & Great
Northern Railway company will at
once proceed to build line from
Jennings, on the Great Northern, to
the international boundary. there to
cOnnect with line to be built at once
by the Crows Nest Southern, from
the Crows Nest coal fields.
| The other line to be built by the
| Great Northern in this state will ex-
tend from near Kalispell, on the
Great Northern, to Jocko, on the
| Northern Pacific, and will be about
i GO miles.
& The date of the beginning Of con.
struction Of this line will depend upon
the progress that is made with the
construction of the line from Jennings
to the Crows Nest. The latter line is
desired open for traffic at the earliest
possible date, but if it should bt
found that it can easily be completed
by October 1, then work will be a
once begun on the line from Kalis
pell to Jocko.
Its expected that the line to Jockt
Twill start from -the O'Brien Lumbe
company's sawrnill and the Grea
!. Northern picking plant, few mile
!, from Kalispell. Jocko is about 6:
miles from Kalispell, almost du'
south. It is on the Flathead Indial
E reservation, and the line will be bull
$ almost entirely across the reserva
ton. The secretary of the interio
last November granted a right Q
e way for the line. and there are nov
: being :papers prepared transferrin;
the right of way from the Grea
Northern to the Montana 4 Grea
: Northern.
The line from Kalispell to Jock
a will give short haul: for Flathea
n timber to the mines.of Butte. It wi
i also!givesa haul or3Crow's.:Nest Coz
e that wil)Ibe..usediln Butte.land Ban:
Il conda.
It will also be beneficial to the pee
. pie Of Flathead valley. For yeal
: they have beer. compelled to,ldepen
< upon the limited markets of Kalis
pell, althoughsable to produce muc
- more than::..could bel consumed
Kalispell. 1.-THE newss: line1 willis 'gi'
20 Helena, Butte, s:AnacondaRand Mis-
IS soulasas markets for their grain, yes
Is etables and and fruits.
~ The Crows Nest aud Jocko lin
:. ~ will aggregate about 225 miles
on length and will cost more than 50
- 100000. Hundreds of men will
,6 employed in the construction, al
60 they are now being employed
N Montana, in Washington aud in ca.
20 tern cities. Japanese will be emplo
rs ed in some OF the work, but the expe
ience contractors have had with the
'4a has not been very satisfactory a
30 they will not be employed whe
white men are available and can
le used to neutrality-suspicious. Indepe
- dent.