The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-02-10
RUSH WORK
ON G.&P. ROAD
Construction Crew Makes 2
Miles a DAYS. Hill
Behind 1t.
dispatch from Salmon City, Ida

dispatch from Salmon City, Ida
no. says;
"The tracklaying machine on the
p,ttsburg & Gilmore railroad has
,aft the new town of Leadore and is
r,nning rapidly down the Lemhi val
Law toward Salmon City, laying an
oserage of two miles of track per
dav. This rate of speed will be
maintained until it comes to within
IL miles of the city, after which it's
nrogress will be somewhat slower,
owing to the incomplete condition of
the grade. But 1t will reach Fort
Lemhi in the latter part of Febru-
arv and allowing for all possible de-
law the steel will be spiked into
Salmon City not later than the first
day of April.
"The past winter has been a rec
ord beaten in severity, yet notwith-
standing the hindrances from cold
and snow the Pittsburg G. Gilmore
company has always had about 1900
men at work, and the organized army
OF this enterprising company has not
lest single day by reason of the
weather. There appears to be plent,
Of money back of the project. The
cause of the midwinter hurry is a
mystery to all at Salmon City, where
the most plausible explanation is
that the Pittsburg & Gilmore is de-
termined to beat the Short Line into
the upper stretches of the Salmon
rievr in Custer county, where a pro-
digious tonnage awaits the invading
railroad.
IF this explanation proves correct
then the Pittsburg & Gilmore railroad
may reach Stanley basin by another
twelve months, and if the Boise-Butte
road should be pushed from Boise
with similar energy, the two lines
may meet at the head ,of the Salmon
river within another year. Thus the
chain may be completed, and a road
from Salmon City to Boise become a
realized fact at no distant day
"The theory that this is Hill
road appears to be we'll grounded.
The tremendous resources back of Il {
movement are matters of marvel, and
the tenacity of the construction force
during most rigid conditions is most
admirable to behold. The company
has all this winter spent money like
water, and it is safe to say that II
this work had been deferred until
milder days 10 cents would have done
as much as a dollar has accomplished
in the winter campaign.
The program appears to compre-
bend completed system of railroad
lines with their indispensable feeders,
about as follows:.
There will be a railroad from
Boise to Butte, connecting there for
all Montana points, as well as for the
Twin Cities, Duluth, Winnipeg and
Chicago. 1t will traverse Custer and
Lemhi counties. There will be built
railroad from some place on the
Northern Pacific i'm Montana via the
beaverhead river crossing into Idaho
at the Lemhi valley, thence to Sal
mon City and on down the Salmon
and Snake rivers to Lewiston and
thence to the Puget Sound A branch
hne will tap the famous lead-silver-
copper districts of Gilmore, Spring
Mountain and Birch creek. Another
will ascend Big creek in Lemhi coun-
~ to serve the copper mines of the
biackbird district. Another will be
quilt to Dixie, Elk City and Camas
rrairie, and the suggestion is plausi-
Die that the Pacific & Idaho Northern
VIII be extended to the Salmon
river"