The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-01-01
COEUR D'ALENE SAYS
NEW ROAD MILWAUKEE
COMPANY MAKES BIG ExPENOl'
TUREs-PLANS SHORTEN.
ING ITS LINE.
Especial Correspondence


Occur dAlene, Idaho, December %.
It is said that In securing right OF
way through the city and terminal
ground on the lake front the cost to
the Milwaukee Railroad company In
Occur d'Alene City was in the neigh
borhood of half million dollars. This
does not include any buildings beyond
temporary warehouses in connection
with the present freight business be-
Ing handled.
Milwaukee and o..W. r. 4 N.
The recent filing Of plats designat-
ing definite right Of way FOR railroad
between Wallace and Occur d'Alene
seems In the latter place to be ac-
cepted without question as in the In
terest of the Milwaukee railroad. In
addition, however, there Is some evil
dence to indicate that 1t is Jointly in
the interest of both the Milwaukee
and O.-W. II. & N. roads. The Facts
are cited that the two roads are
Jointly building a depot In Spokane
and ho Milwaukee runs It's trains
from Plummer, Idaho, to Spokane over
The O.-w r, & N. track. And 1t Is
olso ,Io'meh the two roads, with east
--,~notions. could operate
t,q. hee in new and old territory IN
9ia Occur d'Alenes with much ad-
vantage.
Seems Certain Next Year.
That the distance Of near SO miles
between Wallace and Occur d'Aiene
will be covered by a railroad during
the coming year, most or all OF 1t
newly constructed, seems settled so
far as opinion goes at Occur d'Alene.
Just what the eastern connection VIII
be. II such connection is made with
the Milwaukee, Is not so plain.
Rut the Milwaukee railroad com
panv is doing much construction work
In Montana aside from its main line
ocross that state.
Several weeks ago the Coenr
d'Alene Press printed some informa-
ton on probable railroad construction
which It claimed came from semi ON
cal sources It said:
A-"oss From Thompson Falls.
ut Is learned from semi-off1cial
sources that the Milwaukee Is pre-
pairing plans for construction work
early next year extending their track
now being constructed west from
Iewistown and Great Falls to Poison
Mont, on westward to Thompson
Falls, Mont. Thence westward II
would be only matter Of a short
piece Of track and negotiating the pass
through the Bitter Root mountains,
small amount Of tunnelling being ne
cessary. to get into this state. via
Murray, Cataldo and into Coeul
d'Alene City. connecting with the
track into Spokane.
"This cutoff, taken as a whole anf
including its track already laid be-
tween Great Falls and Miles City
would give the railway an air line
practically from the Missouri river t.
Puget sound on the west, and the
shortest route of any transcontinenta
line now serving the transMissour
river districts.
Further predictions are that b!
trackage arrangements between the
Milwaukee and Oregon Short Line the
latter will In time send Its trains from
Butte over the Milwaukee tracks int:
e'no'--re via It's present line down the
St Joe river, thus eliminating the
round 7NNu. route from the east into
that city"
Milwaukee Reaching for Business.
Reference to the map shows this to
be pretty direct route. and 1t would
no doubt afford considerable saw
ing of distance between Missouri river
points and the northwest coast. Such
a road by the Milwaukee would puf
it on both the north and south sides
Of the Northern Pacific across thu
state Of Montana, and in the Occur
d'Alenes 1t would also take share q
the eastern business. For over q
years, or ever since the Northern Pa :