Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-01-20
n. P. SURVEY IN
BAD LANDS
CONTENIPLATES A LONG HIGH
BRIDGE OVER THE LITTLE
MISSOURI.

A. dispatch from Marmarth, N. D.,
in the southwestern corner of the
state, says: After running many
surveys the N. P. has finished such
preliminary work for route thru
the bad lands for a new coast line
cut off. The line runs parallel with
the Milwaukee.
From 90 to 14O men have worked
on these surveys for months, with
the engineers Office located at Mar
marth4 The survey calls for a line
through the bad lands with 0.3
per cent grade. Some of the heav-
lest railroad work ever done in this
country will be necessary. The line
will cross the Little Missouri at this
point at an elevation of 210 feet
above the water, making necessary
a bridge nearly mile in length.
1t is estimated that their line for the
ten miles through the bad lands near
this point will cost about $6,O00,OO0
and will consume three years to
build.
Assurance has reached the city
that the Milwaukee will start work
this year on their proposed line from
this city to Rapid City, S. d., over
200 miles in length, surveys of which
were made last year. 80.
The Milwaukee, has large improve
ments In view this year for the bet
tterment of their line east and west of
here, which work will start as soon
as the frost is out of the ground in
the spring. Fifteen crews will be put
to work hauling gravel, and 1t is ex-
pected to raise the entire TRANSMITS
souri, division nine inches. Large i'm
provements In terminal facilities. in
order to- handle a fast increasing bus
mess, will also make an immense
amount Of work. Through passen-
ger services will be established some
time during the summer H.
Regarding the reported extension
of the N. p. west from Edgely, the
Linton, Emmons County Record,
said last week:
Northern Pacific surveyors are
numerous in Linton and. vicinity.
Last Saturday about twenty Of them
arrived here by the Linton-McKen-
zie branch train. As is not usually
the case they are not under instruc-
tions to keep still; and in fact the
N. P. authorities have not at any
time been at all reticent as to what
was to be done regarding the build
of the Edgeley extension.
Part of the company of surveyors
went down to Emmonsburg, taking
with then drill, or what you may
call it, for testing the bottom of the
river as to the depth required for
digging before heavy clay is reached.
It seems that all the talk we have
heard for SO many years about "a
rocky bottom" being required where
on to build a bridge across the Mis-
souri,, is moonshine; that the rock
under the Missouri is usually in lay
ers and thin, not being thick enough
to bear a heavy structure unless the
rock is underlaid by a thick stratum
OF clay, and that what the engineers
require is a great thickness of clay,
which can be found without going so
very deep pretty much anywhere in
the Big Muddy.
Another party Of the surveying
crew that came to Linton are work
ing up Beaver creek east Of here.
Edgeley is little north Of east Of
Linton. The surveyors say the road
is to run from that town to point
at or near the head Of Beaver creek,
in Mcintosh county, and then follow
the creek valley to Emmonsburg. In
case better crossing can be found
at or near q point opposite the Can
and too much Of grade is
not found in leaving the Beaver
valley and entering the Horsehead
valley. 1t may 60 that way. The OBJ
6lective point is connection with the
new line now being, built up the Cam
nonball river to Mott, and that will
be built from Mott to q point on the
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