The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-19
S0O'S EXTENSIONS
OPEN EN- !. NEW / 7 TOWNS
NEW COAST ROAD INDICATED IN
MARKETING or SITES.
Flaxton and Drake Extensions Already
Under Contract. Are Expected to
Form Links Of Another Transconti-
mental Service Milwaukee
Has Bought; Montana Road, 20

Cyrus A. Campbell, Industrial and
townsite agent Of the 500 line, is pre-
pairing to sell off new townsites to be
established on the. Flaxton and Drake
extensions, both of which the company
already has put under construction con
tracts. At least twelve new stations
will be- established on these lines, and
they will afford remarkable opportuni-
ties for pioneers.
Inasmuch as the Montana and coast
extension Of the 500 is still I'm the dis
tant future, it undoubtedly will be
made continuation of the Drake arri-
son line. It is expected that communi-
ties will spring up rapidly on the ex-
tension line between Drake and Garri-
sop ~ .. g.
The soo's Montana extension is ex
miles north Of Culberfson, almost par-
abiding the Great Northern, thru Val
ley and Chouteau counties, touching Sat
Havre. From Havre the line will run
north and west, passing thru the Sweet
Grass hills, whore there are quarries of
the finest granite of untold quantities,
thence to Browning in the Blackfeet
reservation, an oil and coal section,
a an , Incidentally, to tap the Canadian
sections will be touched. With direct
line to the coast the 500 would be
able to make bid and secure a share
of the immense oriental trade,
What Milwaukee Is Doing.
Passing thru rich grain country in
Washington, It would tap the principal
livestock sections Of Montana; would
Duluth, and thus open the New York
and European markets to Montana with
this road. Transportation would have
an outlet from all southern Montana; in
fact, from Salt Lake City.
From Winnipeg, the 500 has an out.
Jet by means OF competitive roads to
Duluth, and from this point it has wa.
York and The European continent.
When the Thief River Falls-D Duluth
line Of the Duluth, South Shore. 8 At
lantic is. ccompleted, the Duluth con
| nection would be even more direct than
by the Winnipeg route.
In connection with the proposed ex-
tension Of the Milwaukee from Evarts,
$. D. to Seattle, it is the general belief
in Helena that the company has bought
Lombard. to Lewistown. Vice ,Presi-
dent E. D. Sewell of the Milwaukee s
Montana company, has made a per-
sonal trip of inspection of the Mon
tana road, and after reaching Harlow
ton, Immediately departed for Billings
over the survey which the Montana
road made for it's own proposed exten.
sion to retain control of traffic in
central Montana.
Contractors at Work.
There has been d survey COMPLETED
from Helena to point on the Montana
road near White Sulphur Springs, AID
if the Milwaukee takes over the Mon
tana, the supposition is that it will
build west from Miles City to the Mon
tana, thence to Helena and Butte, with
a branch line to Lewiston being made
available thru the Montana railroad e
present main line. 49,.
Brady Brothers, the we1l-known rail
road contractors of North Dakota, re,
Gently took forty cookcar shanties
together with crew Of cooks, graders
and other workmen, as we'll as a. herd
Of horses, to Flaxton, N. D., prepare.
tory to actual construction Of the 500
line. Foley Brothers & Larson are the
main contractors for both 500 extern.
sions. The distance from Flaxton to
Havre is $50 miles, r. 49,: -.: