The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-28
ONE OF THE TROUBLES
What Is Learned In Butte About Stop
Over Tickets for niSSoula.
Some of the Objections Which the
Railroad Company Ought to
be to Put Out OF
the Way.
Src,.iai 10 thc standard.

sNtNNE - ~ WV hh&sst
Butte, Feb. GA ~rs!"rtcr
talked Tonight with Genera Agent James
Mc<.aig as tn tho probability at the North
crn Pacific Railroad company granting
through wcst-,Dound pas
scnRcrs stop-over privileges at MissOUla.
Mr.. McCaig was not prepared tn state the
views of the authorities at 81. Paul i'm ~
gard tn the matter, but said, 80 far as he
himself was concerned. nc would like to
seq any course adopted that would tend
tn aiyan-c the interests of Mis-ouia
ar any other Montana city. He felt
certain that the management OF
reasonable demand in furtih"rance OF the
wclfar, of Mis-oula."
'lBnt," said he personally am of the
not possibly afford to grant stoIrover
privileges at Missoula to passc myers
bound FOR the coast. My rcas9ns for think
ing this are such as may rcadil bc under
stood iy any person who will reason. the
matter. In the first place il the Northern
paeiiin w'r, :" allow ,hc c all It's p"S, scr.ni
class tickets stop over AT Missoula,
it would practically make :, limited ticket
largely dealt in by brokers at Helena.
Butte. Anaconda and Missoula. Take
the instance of n passenger at 81; Faui.
purchasing n second class ticket through
tn Portland via Tacoma with 10 days stop
over privilege allowed at Missoula. The
cost Of such q tickle at ~. Paul won'H be
So. When the passenger arrives at Mis-
soula he might decide to stay and settle
there and Le would naturally :n.icay"r to
dispose Of the unused p"r'i%' " ,h ms
Ire would ao., ha"' Inc Successful.
because with such an arrangsInent SCALP
scalpcr in Missoula purchasing s,ch "a
ticket would notify tho %scalpers i'm Butte,
Helena and Anaconda that he could sell q
ticket from Missoula tn Portland for much
less than tho local fare. Few
passcngcrs at 1T. Paul destined to- Hell
cna, Butte. Anaconda or Missoula would:
;, D,s., stn.A1x-s.r ..rivilstrs,S wssprs allowed
place OF his destination. TIC would
simply buy IA ticket through, from
tia, ,hes calpcr at MissouIa could afford
t,pay him say SD Tor the unused part.
Therefore, you see. people ~ Helena,
coast wotid purchase a ticket to Missoula
aud then buy ~ scalper's ticket through tn
Portland. Thus the whole passenger
Traffic over ~. N1r,n.r,i nic I'M u r,;i
road would loose annually many
thousand dollars. The only remedy for
such II state of affairs rs this would seem To
the original purchasers of ~ railway ticket
could use il and thus do away with ticket
s~calpcrs entirely. In III. dominion OF Ia
NADIA there is u law which makes IL "A mis-.
dcmcanor for any one but the authorized
agents OF the railway compnny's Z" sell q
railway ticket: IL a man buys = tichc,
| sise II he can dcmand aud obtain his mo
ney back. or IL he uses half ar any portion
of the ticket and does not desire :"
u refund for the unused portion. hut IL
\ lac sells ticket to anyone without the au-
thority 81 the iai 1;p, =" "hhapa Ans ISSUING n
imprisonment. Ticket scalper arc there
! fore unknown In that land. Such n law
NO. SS"'d sfsm w, to inc r. f :" @e l i"r. in i'm! Mo Guiana,
there would be no difficulty about Mis-
soula obtaining the favors asked"