Show IJ I 1 I I I I I I t I i i c I 0 d j 4 MiI Milwaukee t r Wa ik I St Paul I I R I a JIl t ti J t i tj w wI if i nI nII I i 0 i it ii I i n i ii 4 i i I i iu j u J JI 1 fi d 4 3 c r 41 j f fI 1 i f ft fI z zi t i t t i I I t i it i l L 1 I I fI t t 4 J l lJ lJ i J 1 I 1 I It J T j jT jIt t ff ti f 4 fr 4 I J Ji It 1 u i 11 4 I u 4 ii iiI li G I ij fi v l j i v ft i x w j JS w i j i I I i t k I I II II 1 1 d Iii I ii 11 II III I SCENES S NES ALONG THE NOW THROUGH H MONTANA TO THE COAST T A A NEW EW transcontinental tra line flue reach re rc ch chi i out thc tho tr del of tho thoI I richly timbered districts and anil virgin of ot tIne ilio i o great gret northwest t tas t I as as us for tor tho thit th business of ot tho the ver the tho broad of the Pacific Is s rapidly rl approaching com conf completion co f and in Iri the year ear 1909 it Is con coti confidently announced by the tho officials of the road that the Chicago 1St Paul railroad will ed od with steel ribbons the stretches stretcher bo be b Chicago and the tho CitIes on the thin cast anti and l Seattle on tha tho west vest The C M has born been building but surely surel the his history tory of railroading has a great pro project project tho tIm coast extension lot of this road i ad carried ot olt with ith so eo noise ado In this great undertaking un which moans s 50 so to the thc P Pacific northwest muro I than th n one onehundred hundred millions of ot Js I is being beling expended with as little fuss tuss na Os ns an ordinary business b s e would make in expending a u n Tow few thousands But the road Is building through h a u country which needs no promoter n I td 1110 th b r shipments promis promised ed ell tho the road U through rough Montana Idaho and arid Washington will I approximate carloads cu loads a I year ear Tho coast coa l n ot the rot rou d l was ww vas c unto Into Butte Butto Mon Man talia tt Ln 1 l trains t were run over ocr the lie completed id track oh Oct Oot E 0 1 1908 Some Sorno of o the tho thi features Ics of df f tIne the construction lf thin tho h n arc marvels in Ih jho ho engineering line lIn Tint Thc road Cl the Ui river In iii in lit it a l of f lP s ur timi 8 on n account lecount of curves of ot o the tho canyon the road roa Cl l at Mont Munt which cost coat i thin tho lI o gradient iJ slon through gh tho U o Rocky Rpcky Mountains Is In only 1 per 1 r ont t tho summit of ot tho the at an elevation elev of tunnels 1200 1 OO foot feet long l ng rind u d oror vor hao boon b on corn con constructed coo tho the longest l lacing through thin tho mountains a II e of feet havo hayo been b en constructed con constructed hundreds hundred of ot feet Iii ij and as tW high as ah 18 tao ICO feet above thin tho I water somo or ot l work ork n Urns linus cost tut liB nt HM us mils mile tt toi to inn lid which ml n lab Is H 0 li highest in cOli con construction cost ever recorded But 13 tho he C M 11 S t cost pr cli or other obstacles It wants want to get l Seattle and tim tho prospects arb that this will be CCO 1 I I c d The Tho Ino over the thi mountains for will 11 bin b i run by br b I motive power and a engines HI lr s iy ili tio DC ton motors motors und nail i permanent l ht lIn tho road Is concluded c ono j l Is s to o tin lid li constructed through th Pass In King county nty Washington Wi toll bo ib two to H in Ii length Iel at nil elevation lori of f i The pictures give some somo 1 idea Id a ot tho work w oik rk under way w y last link line ugh to the th and anui soni 1 of e country 11 ti traversed trav by b the tl st Paul eaul through Montana No ill ii fallows typical aI nn uni II rt der cr way LY No ro 3 Is a l ot It ItI a m I photograph of the tho home of W r and family f unu situated near near t the ej U Uw L ninny w of ot lI s n in ljj th JudIth J fl Basin Basi No 3 IS reproduction r p od photograph taken In tho the uneQualed fA Judith Basin In Fergus county I tana tanti rth fomo Turkey rod winter wheat where they ito 60 acre I photo ph to vast taken t June une 29 2 i 1 n when l n ho t t 1 to head out mit t |