Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-07-21
new line 70 THE COAST.
Bismarck Will be in Touch With Pro-
posed New Transcontinental
.e..
Line to the Coast.
Milwaukee Road Preparing to Extend
its Line Across the Missouri
River and West. 81.
Importance of the Proposed Extension
to Bismarck and the Surround
ing Country.

In its railroad news, the St. Paul
Pioneer Press has the following: =
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
has ordered the members of it's engin-
eering staff in western telritory to rem
devious at Miles City, Mont, and await
orders. The engineers and surveyors,
who eighteen months ago ran line
from Evarts, S.. D., on the Missouri
river. to Boulder, Mont, have also been
ordered west. Crews with unusually
complete equipment and a large }quan-
tity, of supplies. are already there. do
iEg nothing but waiting. r. .....r
The action is said t. r,ean active
work within a month OF tie pror.ise,l
llre~into Montana and Through to Sc
attic, in competition with the northern
coast lines. The preliminary surveys
are the basis of plan of action,
which, if the Milwaukee carries OUT it's
threat, will give it 1000 miles of new
line and the Pacific northwest a new
railroad. ....
An official statement of what the
Milwaukee purposes to do, IS that a
line is to be extended westward from
Evarts on the Missouri, paralleling tl,e
north. and south boundaries of South
Dakota, to point north of the Black
Hills; thence northwest to Miles City:
thence west. through the heart Of the
famous Judith Basin wool growing
country to Ubet, Mont; thence south
west to Townsend, where it will cross
the main range of the Rockies ~ a
grade even lower than that Of the
Northern. Pacific. The line will thence
be carried southwest to Butte, west to
Anaconda, thence northwest to Mis-
soula, Mont, and south across the Bit
tel Root mountains through Lo Lo
pass, thence directly across the pro-
ductive Clearwater valley to the Wash
ngton line and northwest across the
Cascades to Seattle.
The Black Hills will be tapped Jy
branch line. and Helena will be cached
by second branch from Boulder. The
L. Lo pass route is one Through which
the Northern Pacific has already made
surveys, and is the only passage ever
found across the Bitter Root range
available for railway construction
"Evarts, the base of the proposed
construction, is the western terminus
of direct line from ST. Paul west
through South Dakota to the Missouri.
Should the Milwaukee carry out it's
present plans it would increase the
system to total mileage of $500 and
give st. Paul it's fourth line to the Pa.
cific coast. ..
The Importance of such move to
the territory tributary to Bismarck
cannot be overestimated 1t would
mean that Bismarck would have, in
stead of two three great railway sys-
tens at her door, ., The Milwaukee
railroad already has extensive ter
minal facilities in Bismarck secured
some time ago and held for many
years. Already a line is being built
from Eureka to Linton and this will
without doubt ultimately BE- extended
to Bismarck. The entering of this
territory by the Milwaukee system
would do much further to develop the
country in this vicinity. and benefit
Bismarck by adding to its distributing
territory. ] 81