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n aawool Magce l6,-Black Hill:
people liaye been greatly interested
in the announcement from time L
time taat the Chi axe, Milwaukee
& st. i'aul railway company vii
build across from Chamberlain OF
Eyarts to the Hills on the way tt
the coast Your correspondent has lie
ceiyed i letter for publication from a
well knowu business !,an IN the east
ern part OF his state who Tor several
years past has been ia close touch
witii the officers of the Milwaukee
company. The letter states most
emuhatically that the Milwaukee
people are now ready to push the
road across the western portion of
the continent to the coast. The road
is TO start from Chamberlain ana
from the western terminals at Seat
tie, Tacoma, Portland ADD Beliing-
ham on the Sound at tue same time
in the spring, as soc as the weather
will permit. Within the past thirty
days terminals have been secured at
B~ellingham on the sound and arrang-
mentS have been made for the cree
sion OF freight depotS, round houses
and such passenger stations as Will
not lie taken care of by the station
in Seattle. Already the trackage
facilities at the terminals have been
surveyed by the engineers and every
thing in detail for the eutire line has
been finished.
The writer states that the organ
Ration OF the White River Valley
railroad company Was necessary on
account of the agreement existing
between tie presidents of the differ
ent railroad companies in the Unite j
States Ia which they pledge them
sevleS IT, not build into each Others
territory without tia consent of the
president of the road whose territory
was being invaded. Eventually this
White River raillold company will
be absorbed Or purchased ly the Mil
waukee company. The writer states
that the road will stalt from Cham
berlain and work northwestward
following points of least resistance
and will entur Wyoming through
Sundance PASS, which is the most
accessible ilace for crossing the vest
ern dividesof the Black Hills. The
line will touch Belle Eourche and
Spearfish, and a spun will be dropped
southwark to DeadwOod and Lead
through the Maitland mining dis.
1rict. From Belle Fourche there is
an open valley up False Bottom tt
Maitland gulCh and down Deadwood
gulch to the city of Deadwood. This
soad from Belle Fourche into the
Hills proper would not cost as much
as the W%hitewood spur of the North
western line. 1t would penetrate a
very rich mining dlsrtict at Matt.
land.
The writer states that a promin emf
official Of the Mil waukee company
stated to him that there is yet room
FOR but n more great transcontin-
entail line, and the Milwaukee pro.
poses to build it. "Ne see nthis ter
ritory to be invaded by u company
q vast country yet to be opened. 1t
is rich in agricultural and grazing
lands, gold, silver, coal and immense
quantities of valuable TIMBER
The eastern South Dakota mar
states that the building of this trans.
continental line was decided on by
the Milwaukee company SONS time
before election last fall, but the pres.
ident refused to make the fact public
for business reasons. Had it become
Known the Pacific roads which would
be affected by this. new line. would
have diverted their freight from the
Mil SaulSee to the competing roads.
which would soon have cost the Mil
~aukee Il million dollars in traffic.
The writer states that the Rookie
seller people were compelled to extend
this line to the coast since the Hill
people had control Of the merger road
and Hartman has control of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific.