The Dickinson press., 1908-08-15
northern PACIFIC BUSY
REPORTS FROM BOTH THE NORTH AND
SOUTH
N. p. ABSTRACTS

Adams County Record: There have been
developments the past few days that
would seem to indicate that the North
ern Pacific will build up the Cedar val
ley at no very distant date. The latest
action on the part of the railroad COM
pany that leads to this belief is the fact
that they have employed Brown Bros,
an abstract firm of this village, to pre-
pare an abstract of the company's right
of way through Adams county. This is
taken to mean that they are getting
ready for business. In fact there seems
to be but one plausible reason for their
wanting an abstract and that is that they
are getting in shape to build the road.
They have had this route surveyed for
some time and the fact that they recently
filed plats of their right of way at the
United States land Office at Dickinson
was construed as meaning that they in
tended to begin building the road soon.
The fact that they are now getting ab-
stract of title would seem to emphasize
this as their intention.
The road if built in accordance with
the abstracts will enter Adams county
just east of Showers post Office, extending
in northwesterly direction along the
Cedar to section g. town 1872. range 90,
which is the extreme northwest corner of
the county. The road as outlined will
tap rich and we'll settled farming dis.
trict and will bring joy to many Cedar
valley homesteader.
RIGHT OF WAY
Mandan Pioneer: Neil Currie, right of
way purchasing agent tor the Northern
Pacific railway, was in Stanton, Mercer
county, over Sunday. We understand
he has closed deal with Mr.. 10y for
the right of way through his land to the
south of town. The survey cuts through
nearly every building Mr.. 10y has on
his place. We hear that the company
raid good round sum. This is pretty
sure evidence that we will have rail-
road before long.
A LITTLE OFF
A Bowman paper, comments on the
new Northern Pacific lines south in an
article headed dickinson on the Spur"
as follows:
"Itwas stated here this week that one OBJ
ject of the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany IN building the new line west from
Mandan and through Hettinger, Adams,
Bowman and Billings counties, was to
shorten it's line to the coast and thereby
be better able to compete with the Mil
waukee, which when completed, will be
much the shorter line. A glance at the
map will show that this is not outside
the range of possibilities, as it would be
a much shorter line between Mandan
and Miles City than the present one, and
would result in a considerable saving of
time and money to the company. The
buying of right.of-way would be about
the only expense the company would be
put to, as it is but question of few
years when they will have to double
track their main line in North Dakota as
they are now doing farther east" 1t is
given out from St. Paul that four hun
dred miles of road have been authorized
by the directors of the Northern Pacific
and it is probale that this means western
North Dakota branch lines at once.
A glance at the map, as suggested,
shows line down the river from Man.
dan thirty miles; then southwest south
twenty and west some thity-6ve miles-to
the mouth of the Cedar or the Cannon
Ball; thence northwest to the edge of
the Bad Lands. This does not look like
shorter line between Mandan and
Miles City, even if way were found
through the Bad Lands and the line
pushed through to some point on the
main line. 1t would not seem that Dick.
inson has any great worry coming about
being left on spur-even if Bowman
county does have pipe dream of two
trunk lines through its confines.