Show FROM THE NORTH IF ciarci particulars ofilio kutait A northern railroad this evening I met s win wm all merrill and thomas ricks who gave me a pressing invitation to go with w ith them to the end of the extension which I accepted will w ill be the next temporary terminus of the U AN N it it it is thirty miles north of dillon and about the same distance on oil this side of butte income in siame respects it will be a more important 1111 town than the present terminus about 25 buildings have already gone up including business busine feS offices vie ho blacksmith shop and the ubiquitous china washhouse wash house A post office lias has been established there and charles Sh shrivels is ap pointed postmaster glendale is about five miles cast of melrose and many of odthe alie people there will move to tile new end of the track which is now completed it is expected acted that an all immense abi shipping pa business es will be done one over the rails southward this year all bill the bullion from the glendale and other mining caan camps s will be sent that way I am informed that walker bros will ship croul their mines this season one thousand tong tons of bullion before winter sets in the road will be completed to butte when the melrose terminus will ivill bo be played out P but it will be oi q permanent station and considerable business will be done there tile land in that pa rt appears appeals to be of a better kind than that in the neighborhood of dillon and I believe much odthe of the land around will be brought under cultivation and will yield better crops and find a ready outlet dillon will not be entirely deserted as moro more or less freighting will be done front there to virginia and other parts of Montana for some time to come coine besides its now n ow being bell the county scat seat of beaverhead Beave rhea county will ivill attract leg legal business to it the last thirty miles of track laying was commenced on the of last april grading is done ten miles beyond melrose and a large force of men and teams are still at a t work vigorously pushing the road ahir ahead ad the contractor actor for the grading is wm will AL merrill esq and the contractors forthe for the are W D hendricks and thomas rides ricks they give rive their personal per attention to their respective parts of the road building they are efficient and responsible men I have traveled over the greater part of the tho utah and northern railroad very many times and recently to the end of the tile track and have seen it all from ogden to melrose I have traveled on the C P R asi R from its eastern to its western terminus and have been many times up and down over the U P and U but bu t I can confidently say I never traveled over a better or a prettier road than the utah northern the grade is well built the dioz tics and rails are firmly laid the last fifteen miles of rail arc are steel and in fact good judges concede that it is the longest and best built narrow guage railroad in the world passengers ride over it with case ease and co comfort stort ottisa s a blessing to mankind and it shortens tho the distance of travel from the far nora and northwest to the tile far east gestand west and south the following w t j OP may bo he of interest to the lif public generally F from rom den from to jhc i td dt dil apoi Por incur 1405 pocatello Po catella 1663 willard hillird ill ird 11 14 ross ro foik fork 1659 brigham 21 11 V fort 28 sid 1907 11 Hon civilly llo dew CY ill 55 S lake 1115 Colllns coll I ton 11 ll lava ava 23 summit 15 anas A 51 dry dr cibek 21 logan 58 S i ari dge hyde park elt china jua foin W G beaver li 71 pie want vly ly 2773 franklin 78 alonidas hand bitici ge 85 b Will billianis Wi 1119 ianis bittle creek W spew hill 02 Ov Oxford ford 1008 cited rock WI kan swan lake 1013 Gny liOS nine lile 1113 dillon dill on i wi belle marsh latt the tile last named place haa has not yet been officially measured and may nay not be exactly correct t but it is sufficiently so for the traveler lra elci yours truly H M 31 T june ad 1881 |