, 1906-01-19
CHEYENNE TRIBUNE DECLARES
BURLINGTON WILL BUILD
FROM LYONS THROUGH
THE CITY SOON.
Amended Articles of Incorporation Fill.
ed at Cheyenne Yesterday and
Signed by General Manager Hold
reee-WilI Start in Big Horn coun-
ty and Pass Through Fremont, Ma
trona, Sweetwater, Carbon, Albany

The following from yesterdays Chey.
enne Tribune is given without further
comment, and when added to the posi-.
tive statement by Secretary of Stace.
Fenimore Chatterton, who is the presi-
dent of the Denver, Yellowstone and
Pacific, that the Burlington has moth.
ing to do with his road, has some inter
est for the people of this county:
Today amended articles of incorpor-
alton were flied in the Office of the
county clerk by the Big Horn Railroad
company, which solves the deep mys-
terry surrounding the plans of the Bur-
lington in Wyoming and put at rest the
countless conflicting stories as to the
intention of the %" in this state.
The Big Horn Railroad company was
organized by the Burlington people
with George w. Holdrege as president,
to construct a branch line now being
built by the 20" from Frannie to Wor-
land in Big Horn county. There has
been considerable speculation as to
what the ultimate plans of the company
really were, reports conflicting as to
whether or not the company proposed
to build south of Worland. The amend
ed articles of incorporation filed today
reveals these plans in full and form an
official announcement on the part of
the Burlington that it proposes to con
struct a north and south line through
Wyoming from Denver to the Sho-
shone reservation n connecting with
the Frannie-W orland line at a po.nt
near the new town of Shoshoni.
The amended articles, which are
signed by George W. Holdrege. general
manager of the Burlington, as presi-
dent of the new company, are in part
as follows:
THE Big Horn Railroad company,
IN addition to the powers set forth in
it's original certificate of incorporation,
shall have the power to construct,
maintain and operate a branch of its
railroad beginning at the junction OF
the Big Horn river with Muskrat river,
in Fremont county, Wyo., and running
in a southeasterly direction through
the counties of Fremont, Natrona,
Sweetwater, Carbon n Albany to a
point on the Wyoming Colorado state
line between the 1O5th and 107th meri
dams of west longitude"
This statement indicates that the
Burlington intends to construct a north
and south line through Wyoming. This
will undoubtedly start from Lyons, the
terminus of the Burlington's branch
north out of Denver, running through
Laramie and up to the Shoshone reser-
walton and from there down the Big
Horn river to connect with the branch
now being built south from Frannie to
Worland. These plans indicate that
the Burlington as well as the North
western will reach the edge of the res
eryation, and this at about the same
point, the junction of the Big Horn riv-
er and Muskrat creek being the site
Of the Northwestern's new TOWNSHIP
shoni.
Last fall the presence of a large
corps of surveyors in the employ OF
the Burlington in this city created a
sensation here. The surveyors went
west and since then have been work
ing in the vicinity of Laramie, being
now camped within a few miles of that
city. The object of the engineers in
this section of the state has had many
explanations but the mystery surround
ing their movements and plans has
been unsolved until the official a n
nouncement made today by the Bur
lington in their amended certificate of
incorporation.
With every prospect that the Colo
RADIO n Southern proposes to extend
its Cheyenne branch on north through
the state Wyoming will have two great
north and south trunk lines, the bene-
fit to the regions to be opened up and
the entire state being ~incalculable.