A New Business Enters Clearwater

 

Future Home of Williams Bros Metal Recycling

    The Clearwater town council woke to two surprises this morning. A foot of snow and a request for a scrap yard to the west of town. Well neither was really a surprise as it IS December and the Williams Brothers have been looking for a place to stash their "vintage" vehicle fleet for awhile. 

    It took only six months of notices for the request to appear. It was requested that ~70' of track be constructed between the end of the team track and MT 20 for the purposes of a metal recycling concern. The fact half a dozen rusted automobile hulks will provide one fence of the place is neither here nor there. In the proposal was also that the petitioner would provide the track work and ensure it is "suitable for purpose". The council agreed in a 4 to 1 vote over coffee at Melba's Diner and an email was sent to Roger Williams, the elder brother. 

    Within hours the Williams' cousin Vinny from Helena showed up with a flatbed dually Ford 250 piled high with track building material and a dream . The next day the extension was finished. Sure the curve is the sharpest we've seen yet and the grading is suspect but it might work. That is until the state man shows up and checks how it works in proximity to the state highway right there.  

    In the proposal as well was projected service as "A car maybe every two weeks possibly" and when asked if they could provide that level of service the Clearwater Pacific superintendent responded with a laconic "We can. Maybe, possibly" Time will tell if the scrap-pardon recycling yard will become a going concern but it's provided no end of speculation at Melba's. And maybe that's the best outcome we can hope for.