There has been recorded in the office of the clerk of Missoula county a voluminous document, originally in a pamphlet of over fifteen pages, and which is an indenture of a transaction between the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba railway company and the Central Trust company of New York, by which the party of the first part has secured from the trust company the sum of £6,000,000 sterling, guaranteed by the Great Northern Railroad company, for the purpose of completing the extension of the Great Northern railroad from Port Assinnaboine west through the counties of Cascade and Missoula in Montana, and Kootenai in Idaho, on to Seattle and the Paoifie coast. The bonds and interest coupons run for fifty years and are made payable at the office of Baring Brothers, London, in British money, or at New York in American money, at the rate of four shillings one and one-half pence for the dollar.