The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-06-12
Railroad Notes.

Railroad Notes.
All the railroads in Georgia and South
Carolina were changed to the standard
gauge last week.
It is stated that the Montana Northern
railway company has two surveying par
ties in the field locating line from Great
Falls to the international boundary.
Geo. NJ. Cummings, late assistant to
Col. c. B. Lamborn, land commissioner of
the Northern Pacific, has been appointed
land commissioner of the Union Pacific,
with headquarters at Omaha.
Independent: The grading on the Rim
ini branch of the Montana Central is all
practically done, the bridges are being
set up, and all that is lacking are the rails
and the rolling stock which are promised
soon.
The Northern Pacific will sell round
trip tickets from Billings to this city,
good for forty days, at one fare, provided
the purchasers procure tickets to the
amount of ten dollars for transportation
through the Park.
The Union Pacific will sell excursion
tickets from all their. stations in Montana
to Topeka, Kansas, at one fare for the
round trip to all bona fide teachers de-
string to attend the National Association
meeting to be held in Topeka in August
The Oregon Transcontinental began on
Saturday last, in the supreme court of
New York, an action against Winslow,
Lanier & Co. and Drexel, Morgan & Co.,
of that city, and Drexel & Co., of Phila-
delphia, and the St. Paul & Northern Pa
cifc, to recover $2,O0O,OOO capital stock
of that company, which, it is alleged,
belongs to the Oregon Trans
continental, but which Is wrongfully re-
tanned by the defendants.
Kittitas Localizer: The sub contractors
moved out on Wednesday to establish
their camps on the line of the railroad
above this place, and soon the shovels
will begin to fly the dirt. All the grading
work between here and the tunnel has
been let and the whole line is under con-
tract Messrs. Smith, Hale, Burns & Co.
have the contract for grading from Ellens-
burgh to the tunnel. also the switchback
and seven miles on the west side, which
is to be pushed to completion with all
possible dispatch. Nelson Bennett has
twenty miles of unfinished road on the
west side Of the mountains to grade
This, with the tunnel, will keep him ac-
lively employed fer several months.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad
was held at Chicago on the Sd inst. All
the officers were reelected The gross
earnings for the fiscal year ending May
31st will be about $24 300, 500, which in
cludes the estimated earnings of the month
of May just closed. The operating ex-
penses and takes. estimating those for
May, will be about $1S, 100000; interest
on bonded debt and sinking fund about
IS, 100000 ; making the estimated net
revenue $4,7O0,000, from which dividends
of per cent. on common and per cent.
on preferred stock, amounting to $3,444,
500, have been declared: leaving surplus
Of $1,255,5OO exclusive Of the revenue
derived from the sale of lands.
Walla Walla Statesman: The proba-
bilities of the capture of the o. r. & N.
company by the Northern Pacific at the
election on June Goth, in Portland, grow
stronger every day. 1t is now whispered
that economical John Muir left the COM
pany as he had premonltion of what was
coming. and hunted up another place, as
he hal antagonized the Northern Pacific
and had nothing to expect from them.
We have other reasons for thinking it IS
almost a foregone conclusion. In such a
case the benefits accruing to this country
will be large. The arbitrary rate OF $1.lO
per 100 pounds from Portland back here
will be done away with at once, and the
rate on wheat reduced proportionately to
the rate to Duluth. Should the lines fall
into the hands of the N P, the prosperity
of the country will commence at once and
will not be deferred until the completion
of the Cascade branch.