The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-05-24

famous SeCt1On 80 IN the salt CREEK
oil fields of Wyoming by the state
board of land commissioners of Wy
oming, are matters of that states
history, but 1t is interesting to note
that the first proposition contem-
! plated the following of the water
grade of the Powder river into Mon
tana. In spite of the fact, as stated,
that the railroad would cost an adj
ditional $1,500,000 and about 80 to
40 miles of additional trackage,
Sheridan won out and was designat-
ed as one Of the principal cities and
where the celebration of throwing the
first dirt for the construction of the
new depot was observed in the latter
part of March, 1923. With the prac-
tical selection of the route to be tray
ersed, the Haskell interests announc-
ed the ALLEGATIONS made for Miles
City at s175,0O0; for Sheridan,
$250,000, and Buffalo $4,000, the
bonuses in each instance being raised,
within a comparatively short time.
Keeping in mind that Governor
Haskell has asked that the new rail-
road be completed during the season,
the building of the line is a prodig-
iOus undertaking. On February Is,
1923, not a stake had been driven
for the survey. A semi-mountainous
country is to be traversed. Many diff
ficulties of location and construction
will be encountered. The grading
will require the moving of nearly 10
million yards of earth and solid rock.
! There will be many steel and wooden
bridges and countless culverts to con-
struct. Nearly $4,000 tons of steel
rails will be laid upon over one mill
lion ties. A multitude Of accessor-
les will be needed.
Opens New Territory
The new railroad will also serve
to increase the general population all
along the line. New townsites will
be opened wherever they are needed
to facilitate the industries and acti-
vities of the people. Many acres of
good farming land which heretofore
has been, in a sense, isolated, will
be brought close to transportation
and the farming industry will receive
a great impetus. In this connection,
many mines that have been handi-
capped by reason of distance from a
railroad will spring into life again
and become a. important part in the
occupation of men engaged in min
ing. The forests will be brought
closer to market, and so far as the
Immediate territory to be affected by
the new railroad is concerned, there
will come an era of prosperity which
will be accepted as one of the re-
markable effects of the construction
of the line. 1t is a matter of general
pnmmnnf fhof ilIcf of fhiC ffp1o tho /
country is on the verge of a revival {
of business and prosperity and the {
inspiration of the building of this
new railroad will have added mater s
tally to the furtherance of an import !
confidence to people everywhere. I
Another factor enters which is con- :
as important as all the facts !.
connected with the building of the !
projected railroad. With the formal q
announcement of the startling inten-
ton to build, it is recalled that the =
north and south railroad, to connect /
Montana with Wyoming and running :
for a distance of 326 miles, is the |
only considerable railway building l
program being carried out in the
country at the present time. The at
tention of the entire country has been
Drawn to that fact. A further study
shows that the future line %traverses
of the greatest rail-lacking Sec
ions in the United States. Conse-
luently, it is logical and built on the
ound principle of necessity.
1t is apparent that success will fol-
to the section the railroad aims
% serve. A boom will follow. This
s to be expected. People from the
east will inquire, and
iome will travel far to become iden-
flied with a new country. A ma
ority of them will remain. The flot-
and jetsam will move on, as they
lave always migrated, and in the
processes to follow a new era
will dawn and become fixed when
transportation again will prove the
that !. is a great develop
r.
Another advantage is to be noted.
glance at the maps of both the
of Montana and Wyoming will
that the railroad systems
reversing these commonwealth al
nost invariably run east and west.
here is practically no connecting
running north and south. In
eed, it is not an idle dream to Wis
alize for the future the extension Of
his new railroad now being built to M
be north and south and eventually .;
eaching termini located on the Cana
ian border and the Gulf of Mexico. &c
t lies within the realm of possibility tn
nd the entertainment of the idea is ye
o more daring than the thought in
hitch, wrought into action, spanned Pr
ne continent with steel ribbons with er
1 the memory of the generation still tn
wing.
The success Of the new railroad ye
as been secured from the very be- "a
Traffic arrangements have 70
made with the Chicago, Milwau- Cd
ee & st. Paul railway. A new and 81
lore direct, outlet and inlet to one ca
xteenth of the population of the OF
States and to a much larger en-
r~oportionate area of developed coun-
y will have been provided. Ton "a
age is in sight just the moment the nj
rst whistle responds to the cord on ma
"a 1ocnmotivQ which will iuauOur- m