Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-09-26

OuO MAWduhCo NO0SL oAG0uSAOus "CoU
of the Missouri river, in the past six
or seven months, is marvellous. 1t
shows the most systematic railroad
building preparations ever made in
the history of the country. Grading
was no. commenced until last spring,
but now the 58-pound steel rails are
laid into Lennon and two trains
daily are sent to the end of the line.
Rail laying is going ahead at the rate
of two miles per day.
No engineering for any coast line
compares with the Milwaukee. A
fonr-tenths grade was what the COM
pany wanted.and its engineers found
it for 600 miles west of the Missouri
river, even through the Bad Lanus.
In the Rocky mountains. too, The en-
gineers found a pass far better than
it had been supposed existed.
In the rough country: particularly
near the Little Missouri river and in
Montana, the work has been heavy
large cuts and deep fills. But the de-
sired grade has been secured. The
road is wide, free from sharp curves
and, when the one foot of balatsing
has been completed, no road bed will
be better and few as good as the Mil
waukee's. EveryGhing.is constructed
along lines of permanency. Heavy til
ing pipe has been hauled overland
! from Dickinson, Sentinel Butte and
Glen Ullin, distances of IS and 100
miles.
In constructing the line, the COM
pany has made..it a point-to''make as
many artici6al ponds as possible. Ex-
perience has taught the Milwaukee
people that surface water is the best
for engines. These reservoirs usually
run back a long distance from the
road and will prove.very beneficial to
farmers and rancherS.
1t was said when the Milwaukee
commenced grading in March or
April that the road would be CON-
pleted into Seattle within three
years, and there is no reason now to
doubt the accuracy of this:statement.
If the. November and--early December
weather is favorable, steel will be
laid as far..west as Miles City before
Christmas.
For 80 miles after leaving the res
ervation, the milwaukee runs close
to the state. line.
The new coast line passes through
splendid stretch of country,already
settled in most part by a fine class
of homesteaders. There are no land
grants on the Milwaukee and it is a
good thing for the development of
the country.
When the county of Hettinger was
carved atssBismarck last winter and
Adams county created out of the
southern portion, the county seat of
the new county was given the name
of Hettinger. The town is "a miles
west of Lennon, and has bank,
two newspaper good stores and any
number of law firms and real estate
dealers. The road..will be ironed that
far by the middle of October. Het-
finger has the finest site of any of
the towns along the line.
Seventeen miles west of Hettinger
is the famous L F ranch, owned by
Albert Left. Mr.. Left has hotel
there that will easily take care of 70
people and his store will do credit to
quite large village. People come to
the L F ranch for Is miles around to
get their supply of coal which is
easily mined from the creek bank.
The c division of the engineers is
quartered at the Il L place at Buff
alo Springs, and there the party stop
ped for dinner the third day out. J..
Lee Smiths In charge of this divi-
sion. This engineering force is like
ly to be quartered.. for the winter at
the old o X camp on the Beaver near
the Little Missouri river.
The Consolidated Coal company has
valuable coal and clay beds near
Scranton, east of Batralo Springs. A
large force o.. men are nov opening
coal mine and will have coal ready to
Car as soon as the road Is ironed this
far probably In October. It is said
that the G. G. Co. has here the best
combined clay and coal beds, for prac-
tical use, 10 the state.
Details of Well ,Accident-The
accident that happened ..at the well
Tuesday on the old Lloyd farm in
(which Herman Sorenson met his
death, was one that could have been
averted had Sorenson kept the rope
tied to his body when he went down
In the well. He was urged to do this
BY those working with him, but did
mot think II necessary. He took q
pick to remove the fragments Of the
stone which had been dynamited the