The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-10-06
Forty.five Men Working at Dixie
Cross Sectioning Above.
NV. r. R. MAIN LINE
Now Pushing Track Laying Rap
idly at Armstead.

y
who returned Monday noon from
business trip to the Dixie country,
avs the Gilmore & Pittsburg COM
pany is not allowing any grass to
erow under its feet these days. He
was informed at Harpster by Tom
Suridge that the @. & P. engineers
we're operating above there on the
South Fork. At Dixie there are forty
Ave men at work on the Salmon river,
and it is stated that other crews are
cross sectioning a short distance
above there. They are using large
boats in their work, that being the
only means of ingress and egress
through some of the deep gorges the
line is to traverse. Everything is
liyening up at Dixie, the people are
taking on new courage, and the 'fut-
ure seems to hold roseate promises.
Road Building in Montana.
The Dillon (Mont.) Tribune,
whose editor has just been over the
route about Armstead, says: The
Gilmore & Pittsburg railroad has just
completed its large round house at
Armstead, about half a mile west of
the Short Line depot and work will
soon be started on the G. g. P. COM
pany's new depot. which will be
built not far from the round house
and which will be of very generous
size.
Within the next week or ten days
the Gilmore g. Piusburg company's S
contractors will have track-laying
machine in operation out from Arm
stead, capable Of laying one and one
half miles OF steel each day. When
the machine is started, about 300
more men will be put to work with it.
The grading is completed for miles
out of Armstead and the steel is laid
TOR distance of six or seven miles
from the town. There are between
8 and 10 miles of sidings in the G. &
T. company's yards near Armstead
and more than a million dollars worth
OF steel rails are piled ul in the yards
now.
The G. s. P company's telegraph
line between Armstead and Junction,
Idaho, is iscompleted. 1t has two cop
per wires and the line is now being
utilized as telephone line.
The land the company has bought
and deals that are attempted to be
consummated, now point very con-
vincingly that the new railroad will be
built down the Beaverhead river and
there are other reasons TO believe IT
will, which cannot be given at this
time. This paper feels safe in pre-
dieting that within year the people
OF Dillon will see the new railroad
headed this way.
Northwestern Main Line to Coast.
Robert E. Strahorn, the Spokane
railroad promoter, around whose ma
neuvering so much mystery has gath
cred, in recent interview in Seattle,
gave out Information that has conclu-
sively connected his railroad work
in Washington with the construction
Of the Gilmore g. Piusburg; and
leaves little doubt that the G. & P. is
one section of the Northwestern man
line to the coast.
Strahorn says construction work
will soon be started out of Walla
Walla east and after striking the Sal
mon river will continue on up to
Salmon City. This line will enter
Seattle under the name of the North
Coast, crossing the mountains
through Teton pass. Continuing. he
said: "While the north coast may
seem a mystery to many persons, II
need not worry them, for we are
building a line in this state to get bus
mess, and are tapping the districts
that furnish tonnage. Every road
here is doing the same thing.
We are huildino with the Coast line: