Fergus County Democrat., 1916-07-13
G. N. TO BUILD |MMED|ATELY
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(IOHLlUuoQ from rake OHc.
istown to the other side of Gras,
Range.
t,s The Eastern End. .@5!f.t1
Guy L. Scott, the Great Northern
right of way agent, is now at New
Rockford and vicinity buying the
right Of way for the line eastward from
that point OF course the 81 miles OF
track III western North Dakota and
eastern Montana, which will be com
pleted about October I, will be big
thing for that part of the country and
it is important to the state, too, as
representing that much work done on
the New Rockford cutoff, but it will
not be felt here. There will be mum
erous new towns along this Lambert
extension, as it is called, and it will
be carried on through Circle and Jor-
dan, and the extension from this end
will meet it over in Dawson county
A fairly large force will be employed
from the start in the grading and tun-
mel work and this will be increased as
the situation permits it, It is under
stood that both at the long and short
continuously through next winter,
n confirMatory to the earle,
announcement of the decision reached
by the Great Northern to Immediately
resume work upon the long tunnel and
the extension of the New Rockford
Lewistown cutoff from this end, Cap
tain Riley, who initiated the work
on the tunnel and has general supervi-
sicn of it arrived here Tuesday eve
ing. He comes for the purpose of
getting things into shape to resume
work there.
1t will, OF course, take some time to
get everything in readiness, but this
summer will witness tunnel and track
construction work in progress here.
Mr.. Riley will be followed short
ly by others connected with the work.
The Blackfoot Road.
Butte may no longer be on the main
line of the Milwaukee road when the
Rlackfoot branch, work on which was
started Tuesday, is concluded, accord
Ing to announcement from Missoula,
says the Butte Miner.
The new line will eventually lead
either to Great Falls or to the Leth-
bridge coal fields, the report from
western Montana says. 1t is further
concluded that if the line is extended
to Great Falls, the Milwaukee will
I make the new section part of the
main line. 1t is presumed that the
main line would then turn the limited
trains over the lesser grade of the
Mlssoula Great Falls line instead OF
| through Butte. No authority is quoted
for this presumption, which appears in
the Missoulian, however
! The article says. in part: "The work
OF grading the first 22-mile, section
will be completed and the steel laid
not later than Dec. l. Superintendent
Willard OF the Missoula division will
lay the steel and will follow imme-
diately upon the heels of the graders.
Much Of the work on the new line
will be let by the contractors to small
er sub-coEtractors, especially station
work Men are being sent up the
Blackfoot river from Missoula every
day to the construction camps and
there will be ready market for local
labor and team owners for the next
five months
1T is the announced purpose of the
Milwaukee management to build the
line through from Missonla to Great
Falls and eventually make it the main
line OF THEW transcontinental road. just
kcW much further work will be done
this season beyond the mouth of the
Clearwater is not definitely known
hut there are many indications that
more grading will be done and more
steel laid during the coming months
than Is indicated by the first contract
that has been let.
1T Is known that the Milwaukee sur.
veyors We're busy this spring and all
last winter in locating the line across
the divide and it is understood in rail
road circles that the line as located
permits the Milwaukee to cross the
ROCKY mountains on the Missoula-
Great Falls line with one per cent
Grade, which is much less than the
present line to Butte and much bet
Ter grade than that of the Northern
Pacific.
There are certain indications that
The Milwaukee may undertake within
the next few months the construction
ef the line that was surveyed in 1910,
from the mouth of the Clearwater
aoWn the Swan river, up the North
Fork OF the Elathead into the Fernie
coal fields, which lie just beyond the
international boundary line. about $50
milcs due north of MiSsoula."
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