Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1907-03-05
Chicago, Milwaukee g. Paul Rail.
road Company Will Develop
This Part Of Montana.
GREAT FUTURE FOR ltwlsTOwN
High Officials so Inform W. D. Sym
mes---Wlll Take Stock Shipm ents
by the First of October.

w. II. SymmeS, manager of the
Power Mercantile company, returned
Saturday evening from a business
trlp to Chicago and st. Paul and as
a result of his trip, the genial man
ager of the big store is in very ex.
cel!ent frame Of mind.
While down east Mr.. Symmes talk
ed with number of the high Of
ficials of the Milwaukee railroad COM
pany and was told that it is the in
tention of that company to have their
road completed through to Butte by
the first of the coming October. Over
three-fourths of the grading between
Miles City and Harlowton is now COM
pleted and the track will be completed
to the latter point by the middle of
the summer. The construction COM
panies are now having less difficulty
in securing men and they expect to
have not fewer than four thousa nd,
laborers at work down in Sixteen
Mile canyon alone within few weeks.
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are sure they will be able to handle
stock shipments from Fergus county
this year without any trouble
The company have very high
opinion of the future of Fergus coun-
ty and Lewistown. 1t is their ex-
pressed intention to push the develop
ment of this country with all pos
sible energy. With the improvements
which will be made on the track be-
tween this city and Harlowton. it will
pe possible to run over to that place
IN TWO hours and on down to Bill
lings within another three or four
| hours.
! Mr. Symmes also saw John O.
Adams, who purchased 240 lots from
| George M. Stafford in this city and
bought over one hundred thousand
dollars worth of country real estate
IN this county. Mr. Adams spoke
| glowingly of the future of this city
and of the county, stating among 9TH
er things that there will be thousands
OF new settlers in the county within
| the next five years.
The Helena Independent of Sunday
confirms this information given Mr..
~ LII Iuc lOllOWlnE drClcle.
The Milwaukee will be hauling cattle
out of the Musselshell valley this fall. |
If their plans are carried out. Orders
have been given recently to the division |
engineers, instructing them to have a |
certain number of miles of roadbed |
completed and ties and rails laid with.
In certain length Of time, some Of
them having been given until April l. |
Nnv &c, haiy,
North Dakota, and from Harlowton
on the Pacific coast extension, it being
the expectation that the two forces
will meet with one another in the Mus.
selshell next fall.
The most gigantic piece of work the
Milwaukee is undertaking is the re-.
building of the Montana Railroad in
Sixteen Mile canyon from Lombard
north. This is made more difficult by
the fact that the company is endeavor-
operation while the new road is being
built far above it on the clif.
The Milwaukee road through Six
teen Mile canyon Is said to be one Of
the most expensive stretches of track
on the entire extension. There are
thousands Of tons of rock to be blast
place for the roadbed. Eight tunnels
will be bored. almost through SOLID
rock, but when the new road is built
the grade will be one per cent and the
heaviest trains can be hauled easily.
There is another big force of men at
work across the river from Lombard
on the Butte extension. II
1t is said that before the summert I
passes men will be working In GEN.
trail Montana, perhaps in the vicinity |
of Helena. Up to the present. work +.
has only been done in eastern Montana :
on the line to Butte, and in western [
Montana, leaving a gap in the center, {
but work on this gap will begin in the
near future.
Considerable interest is being mani
tested among the railroad men in this ,
city in the prospects for good jobs on !
the new line of the Milwaukee rail-
way through the mountainous portions
of that lines road. It is confidently
predicted that when the Milwauk e {
shall have started trains running on |
it's line through Montana that a num-
ber of men now employed on the North I
ern Pacific will accept positions with /
the Milwaukee 1t is known that the {
western agents Of the Milwaukee and {
of motive power are
looking for men of experience onI ,
mountain grades and application