The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-02-23

be necessary by the engineering dc
partment before the whole line is fir
ally decided on, still it has alway
been claimed by the engineers that tn
istown could not be made in less thai
300 miles.
Another thing, Ben, we will mention
in passing. Competition between
towns, as we all know, is beneficial
but tell your Circle people to play
fair. Tell them it will not get them
anywhere to keep up all this talk
about Brockway not being "perman
ent," and all this bosh that they try
to keep in the air about the right OF
way deed to the Railway Company be-
| ing turned back, etc., etc.. etc. Just
tell them, will you, that the editor of
Ibis paper and others are here at the
suggestion of Great Northern officials.
Would the officials of this great rail
| road send men to locate in our town
and later tell them it was all a josh
and that there would be no town
here Refer them to certain deeds
recorded August 3rd, 1915, in the re-
oorder's office in Glendive, transfer
ring $3.50 acres, or strip 400 feet
wide across the townsite of Brockway
"a wider right of way than taken
over at any other townsite along the
entire line. Ask them how they ac-
count for the fact that some of the
strongest financial interests in Mon
ana are buying lots here and preparing
to go into business here in very
strong way as soon as spring opens
up. These men get their dope direct
from the Great Northern regarding
The status of this town.
Perhaps constant repetition of these
ridiculous things has become a habit
with these people, from which we will
have to give them a little more time to |
break off. In any case it will prove
boomerang if persisted in further.
Of course we all know that no favor
itism was shown in plating Circle at
he time they did. The peculiar con-
1itions there at that time enabled the
people of old Circle to force this ac-
ton on the railroad company. This
is matter of history.
We claim the sole privilege-by
right of discovery-of doing all the
locating of division points in this To-
cality, and we will resent strenuously
any infringement on our rights.
Keep off, Ben.
JAMES A. BROCKWAY.
Our friend Mr.. Brockway, says
hat the extreme cold weather
must have had serious effect on ,
he Banner editor, but we don't i
hink that that had near the effect
N us that our little mention of
Iivision point must have had on
Jim," being that it should cause
i'm to go to so much bother and
7rite long article trying to de- ,
end their assertions that the di-
ision point will eventually be at :
nat town. We must say we en-
,yed reading the communication :
cry much, and although ofcourse !.
re had better get the railroad first
efore we attempt to secure any :,
vision points, we will in reply Z I
1deavor to mention a few things !:
lat might be of interest. 6 6
Mr.. Brockway tells us that fig >
rse are very dangerous and that ?
e had been rather careless in US Il
G them. Maybe so, but then he n
'oceeds to state that our figures h
r e substantially correct for n
raight line distance, but that we
ould have added to them 13 per- al
mt for curvature. This he did .,
the 270 miles, making the total ii
S miles to Lewistown, but then n
opped back to our figures as the W
stance to Brockway of 102 miles, q
being IL miles from Circle to .,
'ockway. What seems strange 9,
us is that if Ii percent is to be "a
ded for curvature why wouldn't at
be alright to figure that to our 60
miles to Circle as well as on the hs
tai of 270? Let's see, 90 miles,