The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-04-30
NEW York, A pril 24.-Sidney Dillon

NEW York, A pril 24.-Sidney Dillon
President of the Union Pacific, said yes
terday in explanation of the decreased
earnings of the road. A year ago the
earnings OF the st. Joseph & Western
were included in our report, but now the
road is operated independently. The
earnings were over hundred thousand
dollars month, but this sum had to be
returned to the company in the end. In
addition to this, We were building the
Oregon Short Line, and for that and
other new roads were buying good deal
Of construction material. Our present
earnings are reported in comparison
with these large earnings, but the COM
parison is not so unfavorable as it APP
pears to be, because it is largely a matter
of bookkeeping. The result at the end
of the year will show that the business
of the road has not suffered severely.
ST. PAUL, April 26.-The volume of
stock shipped over the Northern Pacific
from the states to the ranges in Montana
increase rather than diminish as the sea-
son advances. 1t is now estimated that
some seventy five thousand head will be
shipped west over the Northern Pacific
this season. These include thorough
bred bulls and stations, as we'll as young
cattle.
Yesterday twenty car loads were sent
out to Mendenhall, O'Fallon Creek, fiji
teen cars to Robert Miller, Billings, thir-
teen cars to PiersOn, Eastabrook T. Co.,
Glendive.
To-day's shipments include three car
loads of cattle and one of stations to the
Green Mountain Cattle company, Amell
creek, ten cars of cattle to Montana Cat
tie company, Billings, f. G. Walters three
cars, Glendive, F. NJ. Oliver, three cars,
Glendive, w. E. Crosbie, Dickinson, six
cars.
Thirty-two cars will arrive tonight
with cattle consigned to various parties
in Montana. As each car contains about
ferty head of young cattle. some idea
may be had of the volume of business Of
the kind flowing westward on to the il
limitable ranges of mountain.
NEW RAILWAY PROJECT.
In an interview with J. Z. Hubbell,
enc of the incorporates of the Minneso-
ia Northern, the Journal learns that the
projected new lines is practical extern
sion of the Fort Dodge road. The idea
is to connect the coal fields of Iowa and
the lumber districts of Minnesota and
Wisconsin. In Iowa they want the lum-
Der of northern Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin, and in the lumber regions they want
the coal of Iowa, and it is to develop this
trade that the road was projected and in
this interest it will be built. Construc-
ton work will be begun May LIST, and
pushed rapidly to completion
Peter Larson, a well-known Northern
Pacific contractor, has sub-contracted
with winston Bros, general contractors,
for section of twenty-five miles on the
western extension of the Minneapolis &
St. Louis, east of Lac Qui Parle lake, and
will begin operations May LIST, complet-
ing the work in two or three months.
Winston Bros. have some eighty miles of
this work under contract They have
sublet other sections to. Newport. Grant
and other reliable rustlers who have
made good record as railroad builders.
The Rock Island will extend their lines
rapidly this season, reaching far out into
Dakota. 1t is the plan to have the road
ready for the wheat haul as soon as the
crop has been harvested.