, 1905-10-19
CODY, WYo., OCT. 10, 1905.

THE RAILROAD AT lastw e are able Ito definitely announce that the grading
PROBLEM. OF the proposed B * NJ railroad extention from Franne to
Worland, has commenced. For more than a year past railroad talk has been in
dnlgedin n and many YER the speculadons a o which of the many routes would
he selected.
From Frannie to Lowell via Cowley is about seventeen miles. IDS the
Frank Strong ranch at Lowell, has been purchased by the Lincoln Townsie &c.
and will De the site of the new town. From this point III road will run almost
due easton the south side of the Shoshone river, a distance of ter miles to its
confluence with the Big Horn river. From this point the distance to the pro-
posed TOWNSHIP, at the mouth Oft the Grey Bull river, is about thirtythree miles,
Il large tract of land has been purchased by the Lincoln Townite Company
rivers, the Shell Creek and Grey Bull, here flow into the Big Horn, on IN
pected to support a large a prosperous town.
Basin seven miles u the Big Horn, and the county seat Of a county larger
in area than the state of Massachusetts and Delaware combined, will be the
e of Importance o. this nw line. Unfortunately, Basin has only a
very limited agricultural area to aid its future growth, tut it being the ount
seat, and there being n o statutes in Wyoming permitting the change or relo-
cation of a county seat it is fair to conclude that Basin will continue to
grow n wealth and population.
Worland. thirty miles up the river, will be thu nearest town of Importance
and probably for several years to com will be the terminus of the Franne
branch. Wonand is in the midst of two large and prosperous canal enterprises.
The Hanover, DIV nearing completion, and the Big Horn canal, that has been
recently financed by ONE of the best and favorably known capitalists in the
No Wood, No Water the Ten Sleep, the Paint Rock and other splendid
at these points, o these streams ire some of the weathest ranchmen in the
county. Worland is the natural point o command the trade of all this region.
We ire sure in the near future, Worland will rank among the foremost towns
IN the Basin country. w e are not the recipient of inner railroad secrets, but
o "a The surface it would seem that the n. w. and the E. & NJ. management have
sacity agreed OIL a division of the territory lying between Wonand INT the B.
q N terminusa and the Lander line of the Northwestern.
Thermopols ant Ter famous hot springs, with adjacent territory will be
midway between h W roads, 1t may be ONE years before this distance is
spanned by a railroad. There is som verye expensive work in the canyon above
Thermopons and the engineers of both roads have made exhaustive surveys
and estimates a to the cost of construction and maimaiuence, and the figures
ave been such that neither road has been found anxious to construct the line.
There has been much talk of extending a line from the mouth of the Grey
Bull up that river on to Otto, thence to Burlington. Fenton, Meeeese and %
the Krwin mines, but it is generally understood in railroad circles hat the
time is lot yet ripe for this extention. Railroads aep roverbialy liberal, and
always generous,a and so ia as we are informed they are an will be fol some
timet charitable enough 10 allow the dear public to construct this line daily,
weekly ors enthusiastically as best suits the public taste.