Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-05-07
RAILROADS NOW
A SURE THING
Road to Be Built North Of Beach
This Year--A|so Road to
the South

AAO SOutu AOOIC AIOEll Mdllu6Il
which is supposed to head for
Miles City. will probably be built
as far as New England, just east
of the bad lands, this year. 1t is
impossible to get any definite in
formation as to when it will be
continued through south of Beach.
Contracts for the grade out of Man
dan have already been let according
to the Mandan Pioneer which says:
As the outcome of the bids on
the subcontract for the road south
out Of Mandan, the contract was
let on last Monday to Porter Bros.
& Welch, contractors of Spokane
by the holders of the main contract,
Simms & Shields, of St. Paul.
These gentlemen arrived here on
No. 3 on Thursday and will open
up their Offices and begin to get
things in shape for work.
Offices for part of the engineers
have been secured in the Pioneer
block and others are making ar
rangements for location in town.
Material is being sent out all
along the line every day now.
A great deal of lumber has gone
out this week to the various camps
for the purpose of building tenn
porary structures to house the men.
The road will go almost directly
south of Mandan to the state line
and thence turn west and run to
Mott, where it will join the line
to be built out of Miles City. The
contractors out Of Mandan will
build about one hundred and sixty
two miles of road. Many con-
tractors are still in the city from
various parts of the country, but
they are now particularly interest
ed in the north line"
Both the north and south roads
will no doubt be completed by the
fall of 1910.
The north route from Mandan to
Glendive is now an assured thing
according to the Glendive and Man.
dan papers of last week. The Man
dan paper says:
ION top of the fact that the
south line Of railroad out Of Man
dan is being constructed, comes
the news that the Northern Pacific
will also build the north line this
summer.
''These facts were learned by a
representative Of this paper this
week while in conversation with
A. B. Cook, a contractor of Hell
ena, Nominal. He and party of
contractors went North on We'd
nesday afternoon to look over the
ground in order that they might
intelligently bid on the grade
construction work. He was to
bid on fifty miles of the road out
of Mandan. simultaneously the
work on the road out of Glendive,
Montana, will begin and the two
roads will join
And upon taking up a Glendive
paper we find the following:
''The long looked for and much
anticipated railroad from Mandar
to Glendive is certainty of the
near future. That statement ma,
be made. emphatic and uncondi.
tional. Runners have been rife o:
late in regard to the building o1
this line, which was surveyed near.
ly two years ago. 1t was stated /,
few days ago that a number O
contractors had arrived at Mandan
and had gone out north from tha
point to look over the prospectiv,
route, with a view to bidding OF
some of the work. But, as far a
Glendive is concerned, speculation
was reduced to certainty yesterda!
when nine prominent contractors
from various cities arrived herr
in a body, under the direction O
C. P. Simms of St. Paul. In tn,
party were the following: P
Welsh, Spokane; j. H. Ellison
Minneapolis; j. A. Caughren, st
Paul; William Winters, Spokane
E. V. Hauser, st. Paul; Thoma