Fergus County argus., 1902-10-22
THE MONTANA
RAILROAD
Grading is Now In Progress on the
Harlowton End Of the Road and
Will be Pushed Rapidly.
A PERMANENT SURVEY FILED
The Names of the Various Land Own
ers Through Whose Property the
Railroad Will Run.

F. ]. McShane. the representative
of the firm of McShane, Elmore &
Co, railroad contractors of Omaha,
Neb., was in the city last week for
the purpose of looking over the line
OF survey of the Montana railroad.
The grading contract having been
sub.let to his firm by the Utah Con
structlon Co.. who secured it in the
first place.
Mr.. McShane. in an interview with
the ARGUS, stated that the grading
outfit was expected to arrive at Har-
lowton on Friday and that work on
the Harlowton end of the line will be
commenced at once. In the neighbor-
hood of 200 men will at once be put
to work and sub-contracts will be let
t. any responsible parties.
II the weather remains fine opera
'Cns will be commenced on this end
II the line this fall. but it is most
probable that most of the work ac-
complished this winter will be be.
tween Ubet and Harlowton. where the
grading is light Mr.. McShane is of
the opinion that grading can be push
ed all winter and is confident that the
contract will be completed long before
the time set, July lst.
The plat showing the definite loca-
ton OF the road has been filed and
shows every forty acres through
which the survey passes and as the
exact location OF the line is of con-
siderable importance to the residents
of Fergus county the ARGUS has pro-
cured the names of the different own
ers through whose land the line will
run. The names of the various own
erg in rotation from the county line
to th. city OF Lewistown, are as fol-
lows:
In township IL range l6 east the
road will run through the land of the
I.asin Live Stock CO., both of the
George Finch ranches and other prop
critics in the following rotation: ID.
II. sherman. John A. ]. Dawes, Ed.
Teach, Mrs. Tina S. Lutz. +. b. Has
sett. j. j. Sigafoos. Emmitt Marcel.
lus. In township II range Is east,
John Alexander. Frank Alexander. uni
versity land leased 10 ID. 5. Hastings.
the Hastings ranch and the w. o.
Straw place. II strikes the ID. S. Has
tirgs holdings in township l3 range
IL east and crosses the w. o. Straw
land and the university land
in the same township. and after touch
ing. the Dadmun ranch runs through
the school land under lease to ID. 5.
hastings and starts across township
range IL east at the Olsen place,
crosses the Ross Brown ranch and
runs through the numerous holdings
of l1gbreath Olsen and in the same
township runs across the ranches OF
Sadie Burns, Levi Burns. Stone &
Long. Evan A. Ross. J. w. Kincaid.
Ctto Sievert. Thomas Coffman, Steph-
en- Belcher. Carl McCay, Mary S. Sew
right. Angus Mcmillan. The follow
ing ranches are touched in township
L. range IL east: Columbus Regli,
Chris. Stoudt, Cyril Koos. Robert Kel-
Ter. Leo Diezeger. Frank Yaeger, An
gus Mcmillan. J. NJ. Power. Felix Nc
Ginn. A. Hopkins, julius Petersen.
James +. Hopkins, Eugene Wilson.
Edward Stewart, Howard Whipple,
w. NJ. Able. Herman Often, Rudolf
Won Tobel, w. w. Watson. Peter Wey-
dert and Daniel A. Meagher in town
ship IL range Is east.
The terminus Of the new road will
be at the Crowder ranch for the pres
ent. though it is almost a certainty
that an industrial branch will be run
across the upper end of the town and
toward the east side in the near fu.
ture.
One interesting fact in connection
with the extension of the Montana
railroad to Lewstown Is that in the
first forty miles of Inc ..ne out of the
city only three hundred acres of gov
eminent land is crossed by the sur
Eyey. This will shocw conclusively how
rapidly the country in the limits Of
the Judith Basin is being taken up
and the rich soil used to advantage