The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-09
THE BANQUET.

MI. Marcus Daily was called upon tx
preside at the head of the main table
and Mr.. Willard was assigned thu
seat of honor at the Chairman's right
Col. DeWolf was called upon to wei
come the President and his distin
guished fellow travellers. In 9 few
we'll chose IN Sc. words Gel. De
Wolf welcomed the Railroad
Chieftaln to Butte, expressing
the trust which tho people OF Mon
tana had reposed in the Northern
| Pacific, to extricate them from the
thraldom of high freight rates, and
the disappointment o I the citizens Of
Butte a. the location of the main line
fifty miles away from the city. Hit
remarks were exceedingly pointed
and happy in their vein, and were
received with rounds of applause.
PRESIDENT WIZARDS REMARKS.
When Mr.. Do Wolf resumed his
seat, in response to loud calls Presi-
dent Willard arose, and in his pecu-
lisrly easy and fluent, though bust
ness like manner, expressed his graf
ification at the cordial reception of
which he had been made toe recipi-
emit in Butte, and the intentions of
the Northern Pacific Railroad with
regard to Butte business. Hesaid he
had felt some hesitation about COM
ing to Butte, as the newspapers
had given him the impression that
the people Of Butte held a grudge
against him-not against him per-
sonally, but against the corporation
which he represented-becaus they
had been left off the main line. He
had had but little to do with deciding
upon the location of the line; that
matter had been decided by the man
agement, after careful d~eliberation,
with the reports Of skillful engineers
before them, and he felt sure the
business men of Butte would not OBJ
ject to . decision which was believed
to have been arrived at upon purely
business principles. But although
Butte was off the main line, and on a
branch road, her people should be
deprived of none of the adj
vantages of the main line. When
the first train was run across
the continent on the main line, he
hoped to see the . setting train roll
intu the city of Butte. He recognized
u vast resources, immense business
interests, and that those interests
were IN the hands of business men;
and 1t would be the policy of the
Northern Pacific management to tos-
ter the trade of Butte in such a man.
ner n to secure their share of its car
rying trade. Butte could not suffer
by the divergence of the main line.
Her trade would be nursed by two
great transeontinental lines, the bene-
ft of WHICH she had already expert
enced in some degree in the reduc-
ton Of freight rates by the Union
Pacific. III did not claim all the
credit for the reduction which has
been made, but the well-k3own
policy of the Northern Pacific
probably had something to do with
1t. This nursing process would go
on, and between the two roads Butte
would ultimately be the gamer by its
position off the main line of either.
Referring to the question of future
freight rates, he pointed to the dis
position evlneed by the Norihern
Pacific management heretofore rs an
earnest Of their future policy of lib
erality toward the people along its
line.
MI. Wizards remarks were emil
satisfactory to his audience of
business men, who received them
with plaudits Of approval. Some
very happy and felicitous speeches
were made by Mes ,rs. Anderson,
Muir, Stapleton, Knowles and Buck
ley. Mr.. Buckley, who has charge
Of the operating department; in the
course of his remarks, explained that
although Butte would be reached
oy q third rail the branch would be
entirely independent Of the Union
Pacific management, the only respect
n which the two roads would CO.
being in the arrangement of
he time schedule, which was neces-
AIRY on account Of both roads run
ling trains over the same line.
At 3 p. m. an adjournment was
lad, Col. Lamborn Offering the final
cast, "The beauties Of Butte, they
Ne the Silver Bellies Of Montana"
which was drank with applause. The
'entlemen again entered the car
iages, and were rapidly driven
the principal streets Of the
and to the Montana Copper Co.,
and Bell tmelten and the
liver Bow mill, all of which were
inspected, and were the
,urce of renewed surprise at the ca
acity Of our reduction works and
10 extent of our mineral output.
THE DEPARTURE.
Mr.. Willard had designated s p. m.
the hour Of departure, and prompt-
at that hour the visitors, accomps-
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