Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-11-26
NEW TRAINS ON GREAT NORTHERN
Increased Freight Traffic Out Of Billings
iJecessitates Better Service


Billings Gazette: The wholesalers
and jobbers of this city have hailed
with JOY the installa ton Of three new
trains Il week over the Billings &
Northern to the town, between this
city and Judith Gap, where connec-
tions are made with the Montana
railroad for LewisIown and the Ju-
dith basin. The trains have been
running for few days. three trips a
week being the schedule, and the
effect the new service has had upon
the trade of the whoies ,lers of this
city is said to be astonishing.
The tri-weeNly local freight, in
stalled bat Il few days ago, was ac-
cording to General Agent q. l..
Blalsdeli, necessitated both by the
Increased through freight business of
the road and the incessant demand
on the part of Billings shippers for
better service between Billings and
the towns in the rich dry farming
country. Mr.. Blaisde!l says that
the new train has been taxed to capa-
city since it's ilrst run and that, in
his opinion, it is only q matter OF
few weeks before the Service will be
made daily and will probably be
augmented by IL local passenger run
ming from this city to the Gap with
good connections at that point for
IeWistoWn.
1.-The announcement of local
freight running three times Il week
may not sound very big to the aver
age Billings citizen, but it means IL
lot to the city ANA to the wholesalers
and joDbeYs. Heretofore we have
been hampered in our efforts to sell
goods to the northwest by the some
what arbitrary manner in which our
shipments were delivered. Until Il
few days ago a shipment of goods
from Billings to Commanche, the
nearest good-slzed point on the line,
was taken by through freight to .J,l-
dith Gap, over a hundred miles, and
occupying nearly a Week.
This manner OF doing business, of
course, did not please the merchants
of theneW towns and as Il collse,, lencp
they would order from Omaha, and
would receive their goods as quickly
If not quicker than they could from
this city. We made Il big kick about
it. and the road has accordingly put
on the new train. That tri-weekly
freight means the spending Of thou
sands of dollars every week in this
city which have heretofore gone to
Omaha, Kansas City and other east
ern markets.
~ am told that the service will he
made daily very shortly. and that
there is good prospect for local pas
sanger train as far as Judith Gap
The retailers of this city should get
together and see that tie passenger is
installed. OF course, the people of
the towns along the Great Northern
can reach Billings all right now. but
4 local train with connections at !. ia
VIVA aud the Gap would put Billings
in direct touch with I.ewistOwn and
the MnssaIishall valley. and am
sure that those people would Just as
soon come to Billings to buy their
goods, to see the theater and to spend
their money as they would 90 the
longer distance to Helena
The Mole.
The most courageous of all living
things is. 10y common consent of nat
UraliStS, the mole. Seemingly with
out any sense of fear whatever, the
mole will tight anythin. that crosses
its path. 1t never raises the white
flag. Neither giving nor asking quar-
Ter, it tears away Il; its adversary un-
til it kills ii or is itself killed. The
mole's appetite is in keeping with its
courage. and it thinks nothing of eat
ing its own weight. In appetite the
spider is Il close second to the mole.
i but when it comes to fighting the
mole carries the palm.