Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-08-19
NO RAILROAD
FOR THE FAIR
Very Improbable That Trains Will be
Running Into LewIstown by
That Date.
PROGRESS OF THE GRADERS
Trip Over the Right Of Way Shows
Much Work Yet to be Done by
the Contractors.

INTO i."WlStown the business manager
and reporter OF the Argus drove over
the route from the city cemetery T.
Garneill last Thursday. The entire
day was consumed in taking the trip,
as the route is well Tenced up and
the travellers did not think 10 take
along a pair Of wire clippers or a
"como-along, and were put to num-
erous shifts to get a fence down and
up aguiu.
one crew. that of Cazier Bros. is
now in sight Of town, having come
around the point of the hill Thursday.
The CATERS have. done some heavy
work on their part of the road and
are yet far from done. They struck
much harder work than they figured
on and this has delayed them to a
considerable extent. All around the
hill from the Morrison place they
have had to blast their way through
cement gravel. which requires almost
as much work and time as solid rock.
As stated in the Argus of last week.
CaziCr has sub.let some Of his con-
tract and expects to receive help from
McShane with the rest. They have
about forty teams at work and would
put on more If the men could be So.
cured.
Between the Cazicr outfit and Beav.
err creek are two or three little two.
four and six team crews. working on
light construction across places where
the grade is almost with the level OF
the ground. The next big outfit Is
Hunts, now working this side of
Beaver creek. Hunt has about 20
teams and is making good Roadway.
bur has a big contract, as the work
all along Beaver creek is heavy. Leav.
ing Beaver creek and going on up on
Rock creek bench TO what is known
dS NOllillbNS tDulit' Nnt ouNHl vi III
leg Fredericks expects TO be working
along where he now is for the re.
maindcr Of the month. He has had 4
big fill to make and. as in the case
of Cazier, is striking cement gravel
which requires shooting.
About three miles beyond the Ri
ley outfit is the outfit of May & Miles
consisting of 30 teams. They are work
ing in a deep cut which they say will
take them two weeks 10 complete.
Ertwrcn the Riley and May & Miles
Oitita is a small outfit of ten teams
doing light work.
McShanc's outfit No. .. Oh GO teams,
Is now al work around the new sta
tion of Moore. A double track will
be- put in here. n passenger tracE
and a freight track. This outfit is di-
vidpd into two crews. which are work
ing along this side of Moore for about
a mile.
Il is claimed that Moore is to be
made an important station II the eff
forts OF the railroad company In that
direction are of any avail. II has "A
splendid location, the only difficulty
likely TO be encountered is the water
supply. a well has been dug lei
the track, however, and the men say
that water was reached al a depth
at which will allay all fears of no wa
ter. The station is in the center of
a prosperous and rapidly growing ag-
r%icultural community and If the right
sort of business men go 10 the place
there is no reason why il should not
become a thriving little village in Il
short while. II will take crew No. .
two weeks to finish the grading work
around Moore, after which IL will be
moved down on Cottonwood. where
there has, as yet. been but very little
work done. Considerable heavy work
Is tn be done along Cottonwood cross
ing and crew No. 2 has its work cnt
out for il ii il intends to complete
the job all alone this fall. Crew No.
|. of ~ teams. was Just finishing up
the work about two miles the other
side Of Moore and moved down To
Beaver creek and joined the Hunt OUT
III Sunday or Monady. This puts over
60 teams at work on the Beaver creek
section. and one of the bosses SAID
that the work at that place " ne
completed within ten days or ,wo
weeks at the latest. With Beaver
creek out of the way one of the crews
will come in and help out CaZier AMI
then all of the outfits of about q
teams will be concentrated on this
end of the line and fast work will be
made of the grading. McShane IS
quoted as saying that he will complete
the grading into the depot In Lewis
town by September 10th. but this
looks hardly probable. They still have
lSO.OOu yards of dirt to move and two
hundred teams ought to do IL within
thirty days. hut things are constantly
coming up 10 retard the work, Some
times Il n scarcity of men and at
other tines il is harder ground than
was figured on.
Taking everything into considera.
tion IL Is the opinion of the writer
that ! ewistown may consider herself
fortunate If the graders have the track
ready for the ties for a distance o!
twenty miles out OF Garneill by to.
day. The track Layers are making
about threc.quarters of a mile a day.
and last Thursday were three miles out
from Garneill. At this rate they will
not see L.ewistown much before the
middle OF October. Behind them Is I
big gang of Jewelers.. who are not a
ly into Garneill yet. Taking into con.
sheraton the progress which has
l.,,, E,al, -, thA raa1 an IN date u
seems improbable that there VIII be
a passenger train into LewistOwn be-.
fore November lst. The contractors
nay lo able to ocure more hands at-
ter The harvest .s over and a larger