The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-20
RACKET OF The RAILS
II is Said The Montana Western 4 Pacific
viii DO Built At Once.
Facts that are Taken TO Mean that
the Union Pacific Will Build
Through Missoula on Its
Way &c the Coast.
By the standards Special Vine.

By the STANDARDS special Wue.
BUTTE, May 1s.-The recently organized
Montana Western & Pacific Railway
company In evidently determined to have
more than q mere paper existence. As
all great things have small beginnings,
the parties composing the company are
hopeful of seeing their road in operation
and extending across many miles Of terri
tory long before the close OF the present
century.
Under direction of the construction
ton department surveyors were ordered
TO Anaconda to-day from which point the
proposed M will extend westward. A
preliminary survey Of the route will be
made in order to ascertain the grade,
probable cost, etc.. of the line. Until this
survey Is completed nothing further will
probably be done.
Talk is again heard of q line to he built
by the Union Pacific from Garrison west,
through Missoula to the Oregon Short
Line in Idaho.
Belief in this project has beer greatly
strengthened recently by the fact that a
rather important document was filed for
record with the clerk of Missoula county
a short time ago. The instrument
was an assignment to b Oregon
Short Line and Utah 4 Northern
tween the Washington & Idaho Railroad
company of the Oregon Railway q Navi-
CATION company. BY the terms of the in
denture, the lease is to run for a period
OF ninety-seven years, which Is virtually a
complete transfer TO the Union Pacific of
panies between whom the original lease
existed. The assignment bears the sigma
lures of Elijah Smith, president OF the
Oregon Railway q Navigation company,
and Charles Francis Adams, president Of
the Union Pacific, for the Oregon
Short Line and Utah 4 Northern railway
company. The wonderful growth and
rapid development of Montana, Idaho,
and in fact the entire northwest as far as
the coast, il beginning to impress upon
the Union Pacific the necessity of having
a through line i'm that territory, IL II de-
sires 70 retain its prestige as a trans-con-
tinental route. In a short time the u
try now being opened to the northwest of
here will be n of the richest and most
productive i'm all branches of any on the
western slope. of this act the differ
ent railroad companies operating In
this section are not ignorant, hence the
apparent haste Of several of them to build
main and branch lines as rapidly as pos
sible or to secure control of the minor
roads already constructed.
Tariff schedules Of new passenger rates
of the warning Iowa roads have been filed
with the Interstate Commerce commits
sion as required by law. Under the inter
state laws the rates n n be
advanced until 10 days notice has been
given the public.
Undera recent order of the passenger
department of the Northern Pacific, the
through sleeping car service via Wallula
Junction to Portland, has been discon-
tinued. Through sleepers are now being
run over the Cascade division only, there
by making W. sleepers daily to Tacoma
in place of one, rs was the case before
the new order was issued. Lightness oil
travel was the cause of the order, only a
very few through passengers for Portland
purchasing tickets direct.
T.. NJ. Fairbanks has been appointed So
Letting agent of the Northern Pacific
vice 4. e. Morse, assigned to other
duties.
An order has been received from o. c.
Greene, superintendent of telegraph OF
the Northern Pacific, announcing the ap.