Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-11-17
RAILWAY RUMBLES.
Pick Ups Along the Tracks of the Va
riOus Lines In the Land.
Salt Lake Tribune,

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& Northern in the Upper Jefferson and
Big Hole valleys, Montana.
Engineers are at work between Ten
Mile and Deer Lodge looking out a
route for the narrow gauge to Helena
The Oregon Shor! Line Railway
from Granger, Wyoming, to Baker
City. Oregon, will be $50 miles. if the
present surveyed route il used. The
road is completed 26O miles. leaving
1876 miles to build. The grading on
100 miles of this is nearly complete,
and large force of men and teams
are engaged on the work.
The 0. r. & N. Company have 900
men grading on Burnt River, and have
possession of all the narrow passes,
intending to dispute tho right or pos
si.ility of the passage Of the Oregon
Short Line through the Burnt River
canyon. The contractors have built
store, boarding house and hay barn at
Weatherby's station, and intend to
work all winter.
The happy idea Of distributing the
mails in postal cars enroute, thus saw
ing vastly in the time of delivery,
which was inaugurated few years
ago, has developed into a fact of large
proportions. Now there are in SER
vice 1863 railway postoffices running
over 1866 miles of railway, making
Is, 742.43S miles of annual service, and
employing 1922 railway postal clerks
and 44S local clerks, or $3.50 in all.
The Pennsylvania railroad has
locomotive Familiarity called "Jumbo,D
which is said to weigh 100, 900 pounds
and the Central Pacific company is
having several, engines built which. it
IL said, will weigh sixty-three tons,
and which are called "mastodons,"
These latter have eight driving wheels
and fcur wheels under the forward
truck, and the cylinders measure 90 by
30 inches. Engines of sixty tons and
upwards are truly monsters, anu their
effect upon a track would be something
terrible il run at high opeed-for
which, however, they of course are not
intended.
None of these monsters are built for
beauty, hut to climb steep grades and
pull heavy loads, and this no doubt
they do to satisfaction. The only To-
comotives approaching these in weight
are several built for the Atchison, TO.
peka & Santa Fe company, which also
weigh sixty tons or more.
The Union Pacific issued circular
ON November LIST, saying that the Or
egon Short Line was now open for
business from Granger to American
Falls, aud ordering that all freight for
Montana and Idaho, reached bv the
Utah u Northern, be shipped over that
route. All freight going north of the
crossing of the road, at McCammon's
junction, will DO transferred there
from the broad gauge to the narrow
gauge road, and all freight for Wood
river will go either to American Falls
or Blackfoot. Rates are to remain the
same as if going via Ogden.
We learn that officials of the Ore
gon Navigation & Railway Co. have
, lately been at Boise, Idaho, and have
arranged for extending their line from
Baker City, Oregon, to Boise. The
route is to pass through the Burnt
River Pass, which is too narrow for
occupancy, we are told, by more than
one road, and this operates to shut out
the Oregon Short Line, which it was
supposed would pass through that
way and be operated in connection
with the Oregon Nayieatiop and Rail.