The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-19
ROUTE Of c. N. {
ST.P. TO PACIFIC
New Yorker Gives Outline of 1t
in the Wall Street
Journal.
ROAD WOULD DEVELOP
NEW MINING REGION
Believed Terminal Facilities at
Coast Could BE Secured
Without Difficulty.

Captain w. L Pedrck of New York
City. president OF the Western Anthracite
Coal and Coke company, is quoted I'm the
Wall Street Journal as outlining the route
OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul 3
new limo to tho Pacific as follows
Route From Evarts.
The route from Evarts, s. d. north
westerly into Custer county. Mont. will
have no difficult grades. but worthless,
non-producing country TO enter. Unless
the line parallels the Northern Pacific up
the north bank of the Yellowstone and
Gallatm rivers. there Will be more cN-
pcnsive construction and poorer country
TO traverse for local traffic except for the
spring and fall shipments OF live stock,
unui Deer Lodge valley, the prettlcst val
ley In the State, is reached and the Butte
region with It's mineral tonnage.
Fighting for Lolo Pass.
From there on, heavier grades and con-
structlon work are necessary across the
Eittcr Root range. where st. Paul en-
EtncerS and Northern Pacific engineers
are now battling with each other up 10
their necks In snow for precedence over
Iolo Pass. From the pass the ST. Paul
surveys run down fork of the Clear
water river and to the western line OF
Idaho, in the neiShborhood OF Lewiston.
whence spur north 10 Spokane Is prob
able. ADproNimating the foregoing route,
articles OF Incorporation OF the Chicago,
milwaukee, & ST. Paul Railway company
Ia Montana were placed on record last
week In Silver Bow county defining the
route through Custer county on the cast,
md thence through Rosebud Carbon,
1cllo%stone, Fergus Brondwater, Jener-
son. Madison. Silver Bow, Deer Lodge.
Powell, GraUitc and RaVali, the border
counties of Montana on the west
West End Location on Snake River.
III The ,l3,} location of the west end
er near Lewiston Ida; thence from n
point near Lewiston. Ida. west to Wal
lula, thence northwest TO North Yakima.
Evarts os l65S miles.
Wheat Fields Are Scarce.
There are no wheat fields az In the
Yields to the acre which gave such i'm
pctus 10 the building OF the Northern
Pacific, have now dwindled 10 that OF
Ohio. or perhaps less From Spokane
west a rolling prairie country has the
appearance OF the scmi-arid lands of the
states west of the Tooth meridian, for in
stance near Pierre. S D; North Platte,
Neb; Garden City, Kan: and Wash
burn Tex. But In the State OF Washing
ton this semi-arid land yields fine crops
OF wheat and furnishes a million bushels
mixed farming would fare as badly for |
lack of rainfall as In the Dakotas west |
OF Eyarts. 1t is the same south of this |
parallel from Dakota to the Rio Grande
border In Mexico.
Wait Development of Mines.
Therefore, there IS not much to expect
from local traffic until new precious metal /
mines are discovered which Is not likely |
In western Montana. has happened re- |
Gently in Nevada Before Pasco is reached !
I ls IVRr gN.,sV
passed The entire Yakima valley has
special possibilities. The altitude is but |
a thousand feet, more arid than Colorado.
rainfall often but six inches a delightful |
very year, buying untouched soil at high |
prices, and paying for II from two years |
crops Ii ls only forty miles from this
arid climate west TO the peak of the
Jat,saoe range, wncTe Unere is raintau I'm |
abundance and the Vapors from the pa !
cihc ocean hug but do not cross the
passes. Great veins OF anthTa.
cite coal appear after crossing Cowlltz |
Pass south OF Mount Rainier.
Terminal Facilities.
The St Paul can, as the Northern Pa
cific does. continue to Seattle from Ia
coma, or reach Seattle by branching of |
Of Mount Rainier II is well enough TO
note what has been done this year as to
terminals for possible transcontincntal
lines: First there is the Pacific railway |
which filed Incorporation papers in De
g mber. Its route is from Seattle south
ca dsterly through North Yakima and Yak
Ina valley To Wallula, Wash, on the Co
luTbia and touching the Oregon Short
Line This would serve for the northern
route OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST
Paul. Next We have the Spokane IL Co
Umbin River Railway & Navigation com.
pany, its route from Spokane through
Spokane, Whitman, Adams and Franklin
counties to WallUia. This would also an
swcr the ST. Paul for It's Spokane con
Dection. Then there Is the North Coast
starting from the Yakima river
IN the north Side OF the Columbia near
t<iona. Wash on the Northern Pacific
hence up the Yakima through Nortn
Yakima and UP the Matches TO the foot
1lls OF the Cascade range, over CowIIt,
Pass through the coal fields and down tho
Carleton and CowlltZ rivers on the v.est
slope
Surveying Parties Do Diligent Work.
Three surveying parties have pcrfor,,c,
jiIigent work there this season Tho
have halted at the anthracite coal U---
where they can look westerly and 50,
smoke OF :he locomotives at Ashfcr,
terminal of the Tacoma Eastern ana .
paying lumber and coal business Tnc
GfchaSe three months ago OF S7o1in,
Wharfage and tide water natlauds nj ,ra
coma, In addition 10 tho transfer or go
acres more last week, Tor the former oy
which the St Paul gets the credit hy r,1l
NOR, and for the latter Mr. Hartman
and the twenty miles OF completed rra6'
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