Show GREAT NORTHERN SUSPENDS EXTENSION BUTTE Mont Au Aug 17 A A special from Kalispell to the Miner taye The Great Northern has bas called off all the surveying crews engaged d on the southern extension which is to connect with the Northern Pacific at Dixon or Ravalli and O. O C. C Clay ri right right- ht way of-way agent a was Wall ordered to Great Falls lalle The work of securing ot of right way along ot the lake shore will b Iw be abandoned aban aban- dotted temporarily at least It is claimed by the company that landowners landown landown- era ers along the route are demanding excessive ex cx- o prices for lor ri way right of bt which will make snake it prohibitive e for the Great Northern to push through the territory Twenty thousand dollars a mile is the tIle company's estimate of ot right of at atthe atthe atthe the terms demanded by bv owners ownen and unless unless un un- un less leu more reasonable fi figures s are quoted the project will be abandoned alto altogether gether according to advices from head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters in St. St Paul |