Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-27
EXTENSION
OF THE 500
THE LINE WILL PASS THROUGH
A VERY RICH CoUN.
TRY.

Minneapolis, March 26.-Cyrus A.
Campbell, industrial and townsite az.
ent of the 500 line. is preparing to sell
off new townsites to be established on
the F1axtOn and Drake extensions,
both of which the company already
has put under construction contracts.
AT least twelve new stations will be
established on these lines. and they
will afford remarkable opportunities
for pioneers.
extension of the 500 is still in the dis.
tant future, it undoubtedly will be
made continuation of the Drake Gar.
rlson line. 1t is expected that com.
munities will spring up rapidly on the
extension line between Drake and Gar.
rison.
The Soo's Montana extension is ex.
pected eventually to pass about forty
miles north of Culbertson. almost par
alleling the Great Northern, through
Valley and Chouteau counties, touch
ing at Havre. From Havre the line
Will run north and west, passing
through the Sweet Grass hills, where
there are quarries of the finest gran
lite of untold quantities, thence to
Browning in the Blackfeet reservation.
an oil and coal section, and, inciden-
tally. to tap the Canadian oil fields.
Thence it will proceed into Washing
ton, where rich agricultural 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 through a rich grain coun-
try In Washington, it would tap the
principal livestock sections of Mon
tana; would give stockmen almost a
direct line to Duluth, and thus open
the New York and European markets
10 Montana with this road. Transpor-
tation would have an outlet from all
southern Montana; in fact, from Salt
Lake City.
From Winnipeg, the 500 has an out
let by means of competitive roads to
Duluth, and from this point it has wa.
ter-shipping facilities to Buffalo, New
York and the European continent.
When the Thief River Falls-Duluth
line of the Duluth, South Shore & At
lantic is completed, the Duluth con-
nection would be even more direct
than the Winnipeg route.
In connection with the proposed ex-
tension of the Milwaukee from Evarts.
S. D., to Seattle, it is the general be-
| lief in Helena that the company has
bought the Montana Railroad, extend.
ing from Lombard to Lewistown. Vice
President E. D. Sewell, of the Mil
waukee's Montana company, has made
personal trip of inspection of the
Montana road, and after reaching Har-
lcwton, Immediately departed for Bill
ings over the survey which the Mon-
| tana road made for it's own proposed
extension to retain control of traffic
in central Montana.
Contractors at Work.
There has been a survey completed
from Helena to a point on the Mon.
tana road near White Sulphur Springs
and if the Milwaukee takes over the
Montana, the superstition is that II
will build west from Miles City to the
Montana, thence to Helena and Butte
with a branch line to Lewistown be.
ing made available through the Mon
tana railroads present main line.
Brady Brothers, the well.known rail
road contractors of North Dakota, re
Gently took forty cookcar shanties. to
gether with a crew of cooks, graders
ands other workmen, as well as hert
of horses, to Flaxton, N. D., prepare
tory to actual construction of the Sol
line. Foley Brothers & Larson arr
the main contractors for both 500 ex
tensions. The distance from Flaxtol
to Havre is $50 miles.