Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1907-04-09
Will TRY TO
GIT RAILROAD
Lewistown Citizens Determined Tha,
the Billings & Northern Shall
Come to This City.
TRACK NOW BEING rArn
engineers Expect to Have Rails Laid
to Fergus County Lines Bv
First of June.

The attention of great manv nec
pie OF Lewistown is just now center
Cd upon the railroad situation. w
nave one railroad all right but W
want another and if there is anv
thing that the citizens of this plac
can 40 to get the second line. it viii
be DONE
Ihe Burlington surveyors are nov
Surveying line into Kendall. th
Party beng ous couple of mile
from that busy burg. Just wha
route will be chosen in getting int,
Kendall is not known but som.
think that it might be necessary \
bring the road up Spring creek al
most to the fair grounds in order f.
| get good route to the mining camn
II this is the case, Lewistown will
undoubtedly be on the line, but i
the company should take notion tc
go up between the North and ooutl
Moccasln mountains, Lewistowu
would be several miles away.
lhe Burlington people have prom
ised that road will be built to this
city but, SO far, they have made no
surveys on such project.
| ~ order to get at something def
lite, a meeting of citizens was held
tuesday evening for the purpose Of
talking railroad J. l.. Bright acted
as chairman and w. D. Sylnmes as
secretary of the meeting.
A. w. War; was appointed to
gather data as to the value Of the
te!ght traffic in and out of Lewis
town during the past year. A com
mlttee composed of S. S. Hobson. w.
>. Symmes, A. w. War;, G.. J. Bach
and Louis Lehman was appointed to
take up the matter with the Great
Northern company.
1t IS confidently expected that the
road will be built into this CITY but #
would add to the stability of business
conditions to have positive assur-
ance OF this fact at this time.
The following article from tn :,
Great Falls Tribune tells of the pro
sress which the Bil1ings-Nortllern
company is making on the line be
t cen Billings and Great Falls.
Within two weeks from today track
laying on the Billings & Northern
between this city and Billings, will be
commenced at Arlington and within
~ days or six weeks from that time
the rails will be laid to the Fergus
county line in the vicinity OF the bio
Surprise creek tunnels just west of
Stanford.
Such was the announcement made
III the city yesterday by Great North
crn officials who are engaged in the
construction Of this line and as bridge
tinbers, ties, rail joints and bolts are
being delivered in large quantities at
Armington, and there are many cars
of steel rails in sight between this
CITY and St. Paul, there is little doubt
but that the program will be carried
out as has been announced
There are already large number of
boarding cars stored in the railroad
yards near Arlington, where the new
line will connect with the present Nei-
hart line and everything is being
placed in readiness for this work.
For about year past the contract
ors employed by the Great Northern
in the construction of this line, which
VII form connecting link between
the Great Northern and the Burling-
ton lines, have employed large forces
os men and horses in grading the
roadbed up Otter creek from Aiming
ION through the Judith gap and down
the eastern slope to the town of
Laurel, where connection will be
made with the Burlington
During the cold period of the past
winter but little work was done, but
with the arrival of spring large addi-
lonal numbers of men were employ
.d and the grading is now nearing
Two weeks from today the laying
'f the track will be commenced out
'f Arlington, and according to W. c.
smith, engineer in charge of the
construction of that line, the track
will be laid to the county line near
Stanford between May Is and June
The distance from Arlington to
he county line is 80 miles, according
o the route followed by the railroad ,
md this will be covered at the rate {
,s mile day. No delay is expect j
d in the delivery of the steel rails, as ,
he rails for this line have been lying ,
It West Superior, Wis, since last
October awaiting insxuctions to load {
hem and send them out here. These
ails are now being shipped and will