The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-02-23
Interesting Communication
Regarding Division Point

peared in the Banner three week
ago, relative to the excellent pros
poets for the location of a freigh
division point at this place:
Editor Bulletin: The extrem,
cold weather for the past few weeks
| seems to have had serious effec
on our friend the editor of the Cir
Gle Banner, and caused him to breal
out and establish the coming G.. N
division at Circle. AS the locating
of the division points on a new line
! is quite task for the Chief En-
gineer Mr.. Hogland will undoubtedly
appreciate very much having the
job taken off his hands. So in order
not to be behind our sister town in
this great effort to help out the rail.
road officials, we will do a little so.
eating" ourselves.
You are stealing our thunder Ben,
for the writer claims to be the only
original "predictor" in the Redwater
country, as witness: In 1910, four
years before the town of Brockway
was established, we predicted an i'm
portant town at this point. 1t came
along naturally in due time for the
simple reason that it is the logical
point for the town of this locality.
In 1909, year before any railway
survey had been run thru central
Dawson county, in running ditch
line around the point of hill in Sec
10-18-47, we set a stake for bench
mark and said at the time that when
a railroad came into this valley, if
it came either from the east or south,
it would run within 100 feet of that
stake. The present survey runs within
fifty feet of it, Some predicting, that,
what? We came here for the express
purpose of getting in the way of q
a year before any of the pre-
sent homesteaders had even heard OF
the Redwater valley.
Then we have a large assortment |
Of other important predictions" pend |
ing that are not yet made public
Iii of which will come true.
We hate to say it, Ben, but you are
wrong-unless, per-
,hance, your figures are typograpi-
;al error, or you are talking in Nor
yegian miles instead of Montana mil
IS. Figures are dangerous things to
Ise unless handled with great care,
nd Ben seems to have been rather
areless in the matter. Ben you were
crafty" in the way you handled your
igures, but we are going to call you
luch as we hate to do so.
The figures you use are correct as
ar as they go, and here is where your
craftiness" comes in-they don't go |
IT enough. You use the established |
ne, with all curvatures, in your dis
lnce from Fairview to Circle, and !
ON Circle to Lewistown an air line | j.,
ou don't mean by this, Ben, that
ON Circle on it will be an areoplane q
ne do you? Your 80 miles and 270
lies, are substantially correct for
raight line distance, but you should
Id to this 270 miles about 13 per cent L
r curvature, which is the average V
r roads across this state, scaled from C.
le important point to another along j
cir lines. Add this 13 per cent to v
e 270 miles and we get 305 miles v
the probable distance the line will h
tai between Fairview and Lewis 4
wn, and Brockway is just 102 miles q,
,m Fairview according to your own 4,
,ures. Or take another set of fig
es. An air line from Fairview to
ockway is S8 miles; from Brockway u
a point about IA miles of Mosby is W
miles and from there to Lewistown IN
SS miles-three times SS-count 'em pl
urself. You can prove this on any a
I'd map, and the curvature will be ST
the same ON each of these sl
,tions. co
Use any set of figures now available, !,
, them fairly, and you will find in 3r
Try case Brockway Just one-third
y between Fairview and Lewistown =.
IS we have always claimed The ui
,ineers who have always claimed II
division point would be about Dl
ere the road leaves the Redwater" to
re not talking through their hats. ad
ile the survey from Brockway to it
Musselshell has not yet all been 0O
'pted, and more field work will to