Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1906-06-26
Vice President Sewe Of the Chicago Milwaukee ST. Paul Comes For
Briet vsitSays FERGUS County the Typical Land of Golden
Opportunity.
GREAT NORTHERN OFFICIALS PAY THEIR RESPECTS
Max Bass General migration Agent and George Coe Freight
Passenger Agent Drove Across From Great Falls cypress
light With Country.

That Fergus county is just now re-
ceiving the attention of the big rail-
roads of the country is shown by the
number of prominent railroad officials
who have been here during the last
few weeks. Since the Milwaukee and
the BurlingtonG Great Northern rail-
roads commenced to build through
Fergus county, large number of the
prominent officials in those companies
have been out here and looked over
the ground.
Vice President E. D. Sewall of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul r. r.
company came in Saturday afternoon
on a special train with General Man
ager F. I. Robertson of the Montana
R. r. company Mr.. Sewall rode over
the proposed route from Miles City to
Harlowton, inspecting the grade, the
pass and the work which has already
been accomplished by the contractors.
Upon arriving at Harlowton he decid-
ed to come on into Lewistown and see
what the town is like.
Although Mr.. SeWall was in the city
for less than an hour, he was seen for
few moments by a representative of
the Democrat. He expressed surprise
at the substantial appearance of the
city, saying that he had never seen a
city of the size of this one with such a
large proportion of stone and brick
bushes houses. He was shown
through some of our large stores and
ropolitan appearance and general up
to-dateness.
At the request of Mr.. Robertson,
David Hilger accompanied them as far
as Moore on their trip and the Lewis
town man was closely questioned by
the railroad official concerning the
crops raised and the resources gener-
ally. He candidly expressed his am
azeme mt at the progress the country
has made and said that he has never
seen a country as prolific of possibili-
ties as the portions of Fergus county
through which he had travelled.
| Concerning the Milwaukee road he
said that the work of construction is
going to be pushed with all possible
rapidity and that as soon as it is COM
pleted through the state, the road will
certainly become an important factor
in the speedy development of the en-
| tire state. He thinks that Fergus
county is destined to become one OF
the greatest wheat growing sections
of the country and ventured the pre-
diction that it will be but few years
until millions of bushels of grain will
be going straight from here to Duluth
the great wheat distributing point OF
the United States.
Two other important visitors to the
city are Max Bass, general immigra.
ton agent and George G. Crosse, as.
ent of the Great Northern R. R. com.
pany. The gentlemen drove across
country from Great Falls to Lewis
town Saturday and remained hera ovel
Sunday, leaving on the train yester
day morning for the east.
1t has been stated by those who are
in position to know whereof they
speak, that Max Bass has caused NOR,
people to come west than any othel
man or half dozen men in the country
For over a decade. he has beea send
tuer exploiting the possibilities of tn