The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-01
FOR new
LINE MA7ERAL|zE
Engineering Crews are Busy
at Work in Western Part
of North Dakota.

Plaza. y. D.. Aug. 1.-Plans for the
immediate extension of the 500 line
in North Dakota. which includes forty
miles OF road west from Plaza to the
east bank of the Missouri river, are
about to materialize, according to a
Well founded report, and the 500 will
strike into the new territory lying be-
tween the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific early in the fall.
President Carl r. Gray. of the Great
Northern, is in New York. says a Min
reapolis report. for which he left hur-
riedly Saturday after meeting the
union station committee. and Presi-
dent Edmund Pennington OF the 500
has just returned from New York, but
plans.
Ryder, \. D.. and Max, two stations
east of Plaza. report the passing
through there of engineering crew
bound west, and it is reported that
they are now located at Blacks ranch
on the Missouri river Mr.. Pennington
whose accidental meeting ten days ago
with President Gray of the Great Nor
thern while travelling through eastern
Montana by automobile. is believed to
have caused Mr.. Gray's hurried trip
east to meet James ]. Hill declined to-
day to make any statements of the
plans of the 500.
Pennington Won't Say.
AT the Minneapolis meeting Satur-
iday of the union station committee
Mr.. Gray was willing to talk of the
EN- for which Winston Brothers of
Minneapolis have the contract, but
was mum on new plans. Today MIR.
! Pennington laughed when told of re-
ports of prospective building and said:
You can not expect ME to tell what
we are going to do. One mans guess
is as good as ~another's."
The building of forty miles of new
road by so big and strongly financed
a system as the 500 line would or
dinarily be matted OF Importance only
to the territory affected and would
have little significance in the big rail-
road world. But if the 500 lays rails
this fall 10 Blacks ranch. it will prob
ably stop there only long enough to
bring up material and bridge the Mis-
souri,. After that it would he a seven
" mile build to the Yellowstone river
at the Montana state line. If the 500
pushed that far it would make the
fourth line to cross the North Dakota
Montana boundary the Great North
ern now coming across between Bu-
ford and Mondak, the Northern Pacific
between Beach and WibauX and the
Milwaukee with its new Puget Sound
extension etNee MhTlndTlH ana
Dodge.
May Hit Montana Line.
The 500 line. to avoid the wide and
irregular ramifications of the Missouri
river between the point where the
Missouri flows into the Fort Berthold
Indian reservation and Williston.
would ave to strike a southwesterly
course for some distance after cross
ing the river. 1t would probably hit
the Montana line after crossing Nc
kenzie county. n. D.. at a point to
bring it across ear the center of the
eastern boundary of Dawson county.
Montana. a. great sparsely settled part
of the state without railroad facilities
other thar the Great Northern far to
the north and the Northern Pacific far
TO the south. until recent years. when
Great Northern building plans for its
penetration We're developed.
Montana has the greatest crop this
year that it has ever raised. n it is
the report In western North Dakota
that the 500 line intends first to strike
into eastern Montana. and eventually
to build through 10 Spokane where its
rails will meet the rails of it's great
affiliated company. the Canadian Pa
lotto