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The contract for the extension of the Great Northern railroad, from Assinniboine to the summit of the Rocky mountains has been awarded to Shepard, Siems Co. The)' are now busily engaged in preparatory measures for the active prosecution cf the work, which will be commenced within a fortnight. Men and horses are being engaged and will be sent to the seer e of operations without delay. •About eight hundred teams and . two thousand men will be requiredThe Great Northern railroad awarded the contract for the construction of the Seattle M ontana road, a subsidiary corporation from Seattle to the connection with the Fairhaven Southern •rai!road, a distance of seventy-seven miles, to Shepherd. Co. d-q St. Paul. Under this contract work is to be commenced hin five days and to be pros-Rented vigorously. Colonel Clough Vic e-president of the Great Northern, said that the work would be pushed to completion this year.to within ; bow, supj umns, anc curtains b whole bc»c making it her passei the bow a under the visions, this line \ be made.But tinis what es Engineer is the fin of the kii boiler is lt;vvhat BolThe flue:ens'.urmg“T iqrdiwhiSPLEENEY[f the Great Northern road isconstructed across the country far to the north of Missoula, no tears will be shed hereabouts. Under the present situation of affairs the Flathead people haveto “rustle’1 to make both ends meet and live comfortably. They have no market to speak of Jbecause they are still in an isolated Iccality. Any change will be one for the better. That country, although naturally rich in many respects, is of little benefit to Mis-souln or any other trading center, under present circumstances; nor can the industrious people there expect to become very prosperous until there is a change. A road north of them will help some; but . what they want and must eventually have is the tramp of the ironhorse running straight through their valley and transporting their freight and passengers through the ra.tural outlet of the country.That outlet is this way.—Missoni-ian.boiler he jacket lt;black w* is rurnis valve to should boiler clt; a few in upright,Knowle:so that either s; with an exhaustcarried burning at eagre ment ishaving4 In noble minds some dregs remain.Hot yet purged off, of spleen and soar disdain.”SO JR. SOUR GRAPES-If the Great Northern builds its western extension across northern Missoula county, as now seems probable, this city will sustain no less. The nearest station on the Great Northern will be farther from Missoula than Philadelphia is from New York.The above item clipped from the daily Missoulian published'at the county seat of the largest county in Montana, calls to mind it simple and sour grape story we once heard in our youthful day’s which runs about as follows:“A colored elderly man who was very fond of possums, chickens and i;ich, one day caught a cotton tail rabbit and was conversing to sard cotton tail: Yum, yum, dat is a nice ;:at rabbit, you make a nice pot pie; a fine stew; a good roast and jioup. Just then, said cotton tail suddenly jumped from his arms and bounded away, when the astonished darky qui ckly exclaimed. Go it you damned cotton tail bas-itard, you haint no good no hojv, your flesh am dry and strong I would’n : eat you no now.and t with a s the ste; o.ut an the qua have Bor get c tors ar feed, on so t either ssit on tthe stework moving tion, at a siphc that th in roug in by a the bo from d pipe fr is furi: joint, jarring breaka Engim Drape La Fn ery, ar There the m* accide placed The* -.and hlt;i size, fc Her st; maple has n:igalvanstaff iiThev/ith a and onShe Wc hour aand in
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Demersville Inter Lake
Demersville, Montana, US
Fri, Aug 08, 1890
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