Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24


North Dakota, Bulletin, which has
had to suspend publication because
of a snow blockade, last week sent
a letter to the Valley City Times
Record, from which we print the
following
On New Tcars-ninc days ago,
the last train came down this
branch of the N. P That night
it showed a few and blew scme and
the cuts got filled with the beauti-
fu1 snow-the fairy, airy and
fluffy stuff, so that all trains
were abandoned. Four days later
a snow plow and two engines
started out of Fargo and got some
where near Nome Saturday night
and meandere1 off the track into
a bank of the beautiful They
are still there so far as Litchville
people have any personal knowledge
for we have seen them not nor
has the joyful toots of the engine
rcgaled our ears-for we are mostly
ears now listening for the sound of
the vanished cars. We'd rather
, shake hands with a mail train
than the president.
When the telegraph and tele-
phone lines are not reported bust
ed, we hear that so men are SHOW
cling snow and that the snow plow
is back on the track; that the rotary
is coming and that Jim Hill has
ordered ten engines to relieve the
monotony on the Casselton branch
and get the patent innards to the
Bulletin and then the telegraph
lines go down again and we want
to commit nanslaughter and skip
out to California.
The Bulletin has made arrange
ments for bob-sled-Clydesdale
news service from Valley City,
when the telephone is busted and
few meager scraps of more or
less important happenings of the
past ten days are boiled down and
presented herewith.
This branch line of the N. P.
runs through more hills and hollows
and has more grades and places foI
trains to get fast in than a pacl
trail through the Rocky mountains
and when the snow blows little
the right of way disappears and the
faint hearted railroad people forge
our feelings and just let US swear
What they need is a few reckless
Irish engineers and less regard fo
next years dividends
The last freight train sine
Christmas, brought in a half dqze,
empty grain cars, and pulled then
out again empty-this the new an,
latest Jim Hill style of railroading
hauling in cars one day and hauling
them out empty the next wit
every elevator full of grain an
100, 900 bushels piled on the groun
in open bins covered with snow a
Litchvillc and Marion. Not
tenth of the grain around thi
inconcsquentia1 spot on the North
crn Pacific map has been shipped
We raise and sell at Litchvill
somewhere near million bushcl
of grain every year and only abou
100, 900 bushels have been sent out
We've had five or six freigt
trains since the first of Decembei
and most of them came in an
went out with local freight only.
We have been told it hurts tn
town to talk this way; we've bee
told ic hurts North Dakota if low
and Wisconsin people hear abol
the absent minded way the raj
roads are treating us and letting l
keep warm on our feelings and fls
straw, and refusing to haul OIL
grain out. We don't care poll
damn whether it hurts Litchvi1
and North Dakota or not.
We are quite willing to be ro
bed by high freight rates-rates
least three times higher than tn,
would be under government owne
ship; we are quite willing to
treated like scrubs and let the raj
roads run our politics and boss o.
country-we are quite willing
let the railroads lie out of payil
their honest share of the taxes, b