Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-24
Railroad NOte.,

Butte Station, for the month OF October
showed an increase OF $50, 900 pounds Of
freight over that of September. It is ey.
pected that there will! be a correspondent
i%ncrease-in November over October.
Gov. Hauser is now in New York Civ
making ready to turn the Red Mountain
road over to the Northern Pacific. which
road is expected to be ready for business
to-day. The company will shortly erect
round houses, yards, ETC., at Rimini.
Manager Galloway, OF the Union Pacific
and President Harris, OF the Northern Pa.
cific, arrived at no conclusion in regard TO
the new manager for the Montana Union
Both roads being satisfied with Manager
BlackwelIs management, they would pre-
fer to have him stay. Mr.. Blackwell, how.
ever, desires to join his family soon at
Omaha and be relieved OF duty at this
place.
Our railroad, says the Wardner News, is
now complete and running into Ceur
d'Alene City. 1t starts from the Northern
Pacific from Hauser, a new town lust built
about midway between the Idaho line and
Rathdrum, but leaving thelatterp place out.
By Saturday the rails will be laid from Old
Mission to Kingston. Things are moving
now on the line and our people will soon
hear the whistle at their own door. Good
tidings this unto Israel.
The work OF grading the frs: seventeen
miles OF the Helena, Boulder Valley e. Butte
line is progressing rapidly forward, ard
pile driving, truss building, ETC., will be
commenced early next week. 1t is said
that as soon as the tracklayers now EN-
ployed on the Red Mountain finish, they
will no i'm nnaHIafp1v francforro1 IN Toffnr
son and begin the work of tracklaying on
the former road, in order to complete as
much of the line as possible before cold
weather sets in. Graders will soon reach
the first tunnel, the boring of which has
already been commenced and may be
finished by the time the tracklayers reach
it, which, it is thought, will not occur this
year. Draughtsmen are still at work pre-.
pairing profiles, maps, estimates, etc, Of
the proposed line, at which they will be
engaged for some time to come.-Independ.
emit.
Among the latest reports among railroad
officials East is that the Union Pacific is
preparing to surrender its main line to
the government under a foreclosure OF
its first mortgage bonds. In the event OF
such a step the proposed plan is to run
another track from Valley Station in Ne
braska, which would give them a direct
line to Denver, by way OF Lincoln. thence
to Kansas City, and then over the Kansas
Pacific. From Denver, by relayins the
rails on the Fort Collins & Cache La Pou-
Dire branch, they would 90
to Laramie. By building Il line from
there to the Oregon Short Line at Grainser
which would give them a direct route east
the Pacific ocean, and would relieve
the Union Pac' tic OF the burdensome mort
which are now piled upon its main
line. At the same time it would be mex
thing for the people. The govern.
ment owning and operating a railroad
half way cross the continent, it would
serve as a check on other great lines, and
prevent pooling and placing OF the rates. OF
tariff at sc high a figure.
The Northern Pacific Company bavlng
raised the rates OF transportation OF ores
rom the CGur d'Alene districts to Port.
and, Oregon, and San Francisco, has Grip
,led the mining interests somewhat in that
1t is to be hoped the company
will soon see the narrowness OF their policy
Ind remedy the evil.