Show i I j PROPOSE LINE I TO OIL FIELDS I J Survey Started From Miles City Montana Toward Wyoming t tHELENA HELENA Mont Feb Tie 22 22 Tte Montana Railway Co Incorporated to construct a railroad line south end and west of ot Miles City Mont Into Chia west Salt Creek oil oU field Held ot of Is 19 collecting a survey surrey crew which Is already al- al al already ready working south from Miles JIles City I The proposed route approximately 2 0 I miles long will l follow either cither Une Tongue or Powder rivers to a conne connection connection tion with v Ith the ChIcago Burlington d i Quincy Quincy railroad at Sheridan W Nye or at some point east cast of ot It At Mont openIng of ot or- or or flees and collection of ot a crew has hILS 1 revived rested ed rumors that thel I Great Northern railroad further work ork on the route east from fromI I surveyed before the wee war i I From Le Lewiston LeIston Iston the old survey runs east through a IL stretch of ot country ii 1 miles long lont and ond 2001 I miles wide which Is without a rail rail-I rail rail- rail load teach load At the th eastern ens cn en 1 l or the thc pro pro- proposed pro proposed posed route about 60 CO miles of ot tr trel el was S I built SC several eral years ears ago aco l which Is 13 already in operation from Sidney tr l Richey On the survey are two coun- coun count t ti feats bents which have hate ha e no railroad c I and Jordan and nd the Cat Creek oh oilfield field of ot Montana now only tapp tapped d by bya bya a 0 Chicago Milwaukee s R St Paul la railroad rail rail- railroad rail railroad road branch out of ot Lewiston ton I In connection with reports report of ot In- In intended In Intended tended activity on the part of ot the Great Northern Is a report that a IL sur- sur survey sur survey vey Is lj partly made for tor ant In line which would leave lave e the L Lea o w Iston cy route at angles at nt Jorda Jordan l and strike south to Miles City on tn tho thu Northern Pacific and the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul lines Montana Montano newspapers pub pub- publish publish lish reports th that t the IhO Northern railroad Is s preparing to seek seel a nc nes ne route through central Idaho to Lewiston o Lew- Lew-iston Lew Iston Idaho Idalio and down the th Shale riser rh er to 10 connect with the tho present Pacific lIne to the coast const at Past Nash SuCh a line it if built constitute a off cut which would sas sa sae e a several hundred miles of ot line and I many heavy graes grae on the present transcontinental line nn I |