The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-08-12


territory, operated by the Northern
Pacific, was closed to business IN
March on account of extensive wash.
outs, expense Of operating and diff.
Guilty in keeping the line open at that
season of the year, was reopened for
business last week.
From the advance sheets of POOr's Rail-
road Manual it appears that there were in
the United States at the end of the fiscal
wear 1883, 12O,552 miles of railroad, the
aggregate share capital of which equaled
$3, 7OS, ,OGO, ,5S3; funded debt, $3,455, ,O4c,-
1888; floating debt, 1882, 2,31O,345; total,
$7,495, 5,471,311. There were CONSTRUCTED
and opened during the fiscal year. 6,O91
miles of new line at a cost, represented by
stock and debt, of $479,721 ,2O2. The
gross earning of all the railroads for 1883
were $S23,772, ,924, against $770, 0,2O9,399
for 1882. The current expenditures
were 1926, ,4O6,359; net earnings from
operations, $298, 8,366,565; earnings from
other sources, ST. ,432, 1854; making total
of pet earnings of $369,7Ss,729 out of
which were paid, interest, $173,139,O64;
dividends, 2,05O.54s. There were
transported upon the railroads of the United.
States the last year 400, ,453, ,439 tons OF
freight, the value of which, at only $25 a
ton, would have exceeded $10000,O00,
600 The total length Of all tracks was
149, 1873 miles, of which 78, ,491 miles were
laid without rails The number of loco
motive engines employed was 23,S23; of
freight cars, 748,661; of passenger cars,
1889; of baggage, mail and express cars,
5,948. The total number of passengers
transported on the railroads of the United
States the last year, not the New York ele-
vated roads, was 312.686, ,641-a number
equaling more than six times the popula-
ton of the United States in $780,. The
number of passengers who moved one
mile in the New England group was L.
187,719,G57, at charge of 2.15 cents per
mile; in the Middle States group, 2,489,
766, 1904, at a charge of 2.17 cents per
mile; in the southern group, G13 3,991,O85,
at charge of 2,S2 cents per mile; in tie
Western groupe, 1884, ,0S2,S95, at charge
of 2.56 cents per mile; in the Pacific group,
415,849, 1873, at charge of 2.S4 cents per
mile.
Pioneer Press: John Mulvany's idea of
the scene of the hills of the Little Horn,
where Custer and those yet living made
their last stand against the surrounding
Sioux, is set forth on huge canvas,
eleven feet high and twenty feet long,
now on exhibition at the Hotel Livingston,
Wabasha street,opposite the custom house.
The artist has not depended upon mental
picture of his own onjuriDg, but during
months of residence ON the plains and at
the forts in Dakota and Montana, gathered
! from Officers and men of the Seventh
cavalry all the facts known to mortals OF
that terrible scene. All the figures i'll the
picture had living models except those OF
Custer, Cook and Yates, the only officers
in the picture. Their faces and figures
arc portraitures for which photographs
served as models and the result is success
full. Custer and Cook are living in the
pitcher, and both arc ready with their
reyolvers for one more shot. Yates body
is lying, partly covered by his dead horse,
in the extreme left foreground. Some of
the soldiers figures arc mastcrly in pos
ture and suggestivcncss of action, and
grouping, armament and uniform are ex-
cellent. Ofcdlrsc there are Sioux, though
not in individual plenty. the smoke from
the burning prairie in the rear concealing
most Of the attacking force. 1t is much
to be questioned whether each OF the
| warriors had war bonnet Of eagle fcath-
ers, as represented in the painting. but
the -plumes add to the pictures que effect.
The painting bears close and continued
;nsncction. and its merits are undeniable.
Rrainard Tribune: We are informed,
ly those who should know, that after the
present week the n P. shops will run on
| full time, and that the present force will
he retained the cofling winter. The shops