The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-21
NEWS OF THE rail- WAYS
The Butte 4 Galltin Short Line is
Ready For Business.
Warning Roads Reduce Their Pass
enger Rates Still Lower
Prominent Railroad Men
Who Are In Butte.
by the Standards Special Wire.

BUTTE, May 1.-The Northern Pacific
q Montana or, as Il Is better known, the
Butte & Gallatin branch. has been COM.
nIetod and the road IL in shane IN be
turned over 10 the operating department
Surfacing and baliasting the track its en-
tire length has been finished, about all
the work remaining incomplete being
construction OF yards at this end. Sufii-
cient yard rOom, however, has been fin
ished already tn enable the company TO
carry on business uninterruptedly until
the whole Is completed, which will be
within n very short time after the operat-
ing department assumes control.
AT present about 100 men are employed
In grading, laying tracks, ETC., at this end
and all possible speed and diligence are
employed to rush the work as fast as can
he one consistently with good workman
ship.
L. n. McHenry, division engineer, I'M
der whose supervision the board was
line 10 the operating department June 1.
Before doing so, however, he has decided
TO give the merchants and shippers Of this
city a free ride over the road and has ar
ranged to run an excursion for that
ext Monday, the objective point being
Bozeman. The train will leave at & o'clock
in the morning and will be the first pas
regular train service will he iuouour-
ated and the Butte Il Gallatin will then
be indeed another route in the magnifi-
cent railway system SO rapidly being built
up I'm this state,
...,..I..a a.. Nou.-. p..;a.
iii :" -, o an -; LII, h.ann
y, Dun ~ .wJ ,I ~ All Rush a,y Ell,
LII. "shsse.'" ~. po.n"
u the probaDllity Is mat connecting
ualhs VIII DC run petween nut.e anu tne
eastern ernlnus OF the Saiiatin Drahcn'
thus giving TINS city Two direct trains Tor
.ne eas. each uay. Inc uis,ance uo .n..
caRo ana other eastern points wa the new
more direct, II Is expected that the bulk
OF the passenger and express business
o being done by way, OF Garrison Will
gotten that with the completion of this
road Butte will he nearer To 81, Paul and
Chicago than Helena. located on the main
line.
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| the Duluth, south shore q Atlantic rail-
way. visited the city TODAY. The road Inc
represents is a comparatiyely new one.
| being recently formed by The consolida-
ton under one manavcment- of N num-
| Der of independent lines. Nr. Fiatiey's
headouarters are AT 81. Paul.
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+. $. Easterbrook, northwestern agent
| of the Commercial Express Fast Freight
line arrived from ST. Paul to-day and is
| interviewing shippers i'm the interest of
| his
iet'eT was recei'eu mere ,o-uas iroIh
hahsas ,ny which conyeyeu iair luea
OF t'e iiercehess WIN winch ,he passeI-
g9r rale wal II waging III tiiat secuoh;
Inc letter Is rom a gentleman employed
~ one OF the raiiroaa OFFICES anu contaihs
Tue s'nteIneI' tnat tne rate from olhana
ny h"Isas IVY " 81 Louis, nrs. aIa Ua
cents. No official announcement of the
cut has been received.
d. T., lawson, Eenerai agent OF tne
ureat >ortuerh q NiontaIa ,en'rai' VIII
return from the coast to-morrow.
Ow;,o IN tho fact tia, claims ,r. s,;,,
b.;n, snh,,;,ted tho aen.rai sra;,h, otiica
~ tha Wontana irn;on Is ms ,,e, mnahIe to
80 the go, ano,,n, - ,ha loss
srst,innd by tho recent ire ~
The question most generally discussed
i'm local railway circles is the probable
management of the Butte 4 GalIatin
branch, Under the agreement entered
into between the Union Pacific
and Northern Pacific at the time
of the formation of the Montana Union,
that road is To have the management of
aII lines built into this territory by either
OF the two companies. According to this
contract General Manager Baldwin, of
the Montana MOI will also be general
manager of the new road, should he de.
the premises are is, however, not known