The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-11-04
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL
(Great Falls Tribune)

The proposed bridge across the
Missouri river at Wolf Point is
called a "nefarious project" by
the Dawson County Review. It is
''nefarious." says the Glendive
newspaper, because those who are
promoting it desire "to kill the
north and south or Canada to Mex
leo highway through Plentywood,
Bainville and Glendive in favor of
a highway through Scobey, Wolf
Point, Circle and Terry"
AS is usually the case, the Glen
dive folks who are imputing i'm
proper motives to their neighbors
are just as selfish as those they
accuse. They would have no OBJ
lection to a bridge r. the Mis-
souri, at Wolf Point if they be-
lieved it would benefit them; but
as it might divert some north and
south traffic from Glendive they
see no justification for its on
struction. In this they reveal them
selves as human and perfectly nor
NAL. But are they wise? Can
one community afford to block the
legitimate progress of another?
The Tribune does not believe so.
While boosters of the bridge
project at Wolf Point undoubted-
~ believe that it's construction
will encourage travel from Canada
through Wolf Point, this traffic is
not their principal objective. What
Wolf Point folks desire most is
that their town should become a
railway shipping point for the ag-
r|icultural country north of Circle
Just as Glendive residents, a
year ago, were bending their en-
ergies in cooperation with the
Northern Pacific railway to make
GIendive the outlet for the agricul-
tural country south and east OF
Circle. Glendiye, with the help OF
the Montana railway commission
ers. secured its GIendive-Brock-
way rail extension. Why should
it's residents now try to prevent
Points efforts to even things ]
up?
The construction of the Glen
e-Brockway extension will only
remotely help Wolf Point, where
as construction of the Wolf Point
bridge will definitely aid Glen
dive. Circle and Glendive are
11l - +bo fadara1 old high
way system, though the road is
vet to be built. If any great a.
mount of Canadian southbound
travel came to Circle, as a result
of the Wolf Point bridges con-
struction, it is reasonable to eX-
pect that Glendive would get some
of it-perhaps as much as Terry
if road conditions were equal and
undoubtedly more than Terry if
the federal project from Circle to
Glendive is completed. In fact, it
is easy to see that Glendive might
get more traffic from the Wolf
Point bridge than it does from the
Snowden bridge because the route s
from Plentywood via Bainville, {
5nowden and Sidney to Glendive I
s more circuitous than the route &
rom Scobey, Wolf Point and Cir i
lie to Glendive. t
Even if Glendive got none OF 2
he north and south travel that v
went through Circle, it still would d
be the gamer from the construct O
on of the Wolf Point bridge, for ?
4 larger, more prosperous farm t
population in northern Nc Cone C
county. such as the bridge will h
make possible, will be reflected a
n the railway business that goes P
through Glendive. Il
Community selfishness does not
ay. Montana is a state of I'M
opportunities, and it is not
for one town to fight c.
mother on development projects et
Or there are more than opportuni- w
les for all towns. While it is not in
D be expected than the Glendive N
esidents will turn out with their oil
pats off to help make the Wolf tn
oint bridge a reality, it is hoped of
will see the folly of trying
throw cold water on it and of
FIRING up ill feelings by calling it
"n~efarious project" an
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