Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-10
RAILROAD MATTERS.
Something New About the Montana
Uni0n-General Notes.

The preliminaries of the Montana Uuior
Railway Company, preparatory to alb
sorbing the Utah & Northern north o
Silver Bow. and jointly operating the tract
OF the Northern Pacific between Garrison
and Helena, are now being perfected" say
the Anaconda Review, land the first trair
| OF the new management will run over thu
! line from Butte to Helena, Sunday, Auqus,
l. The exact time schedule has not beer
! completed as yet. The ofieers OF the com
pany have selected Gen. Dana, formerly
with the Erie Railroad, az general manager
and it is generally understood that Mr,
Choate, now Of the Denver, South Park &
Pacific, will be general superintendent. We
have not yet learned who was to be train
dispatcher. 1t is generally understood
among the railway men that there will be
two passenger trains on the division be.
tween Butte and Helena via Anaconda.
leaving Helena and Butte each morning.
1t is said that Conductor West, now oper.
ating tho passenger train between Butte
and Garrison, will have one OF the passen.
ger runs, and the conductor now running
the mixed train from Garrison to Helena
will have the other. We have not learned
any thing yet concerning the freight runs, {"
In addition to the above The MNER
would state that the headquarters of the
Montana Union will be at Butte despite
the assertions OF its Helena contemporaries
to the contrary. The Montana Union Rail-
road extends from Silver Bow to Garrison.
and it is not at all likely that Helena.
dfty miles from the end OF the line, would
be selected as the headquarters OF the Com.
pany. Besides, the Montana Union shops
will be established at Butte, and the man
ager wiii endeavor to have his Office as
near to the shops as possible.
THE NEW ROUTE.
The Anaconda Review says that the
Union Pacific surveying party which is now
in the Bitter Root Valley have located
line from Fort Owen, south to the west
fork OF the Bitter Root River. The engi-
neer In charge reports that it is one of the
most magnificent countries he has ever
been in. At no place along the line have
they been Obliged to use over a 2O-foot-
to-the-mile grade. The party surveyed a line
up into canyon west of Como, and report
that they think they have discovered
pass which will take them over on to
Snake River. from which place they can 90
anywhere. 1t is thought the grade over to
Big Hole will not exceed 100 feet to tho
mile in crossing the summit.
GENERAL NOTES.
The Montana Railway Company have
ordered the immediate construction Of the |
from the Anaconda mine to Wal |
kerville. Engineer Maxwell, now at Butte. !
will have charge OF construction.
The train dispatcher's office at Silver |
Bow will be removed to this city when the !
Montana Union is completed. Chief Train |
Dispatcher CALVIN win probably be re-
moved to Pocatello, and Mr. HUI has been |
offered position at Denver.
. The Montana Union Directors are
;harles Francis Adams, Jr., Frederick L.
Ames, 8. r. Galloway representing the
Union Pacific, Robert Harris, Benjamin
:. Cheney, j. Lewis Harris representing
he Northern Paeife), and N. J. T. Dana
neutraD. These gentlemen will hold all
he stock OF the Incorporation.