The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-13
TIES AND TIME CARDS
Gossip About the Events of the Week
In Railroad Circles.
ALL THE TRAINS LOADED
Traffic on the Northern Pacific
Has Been Heavier of Late
Than II Has Been for
Many Months.
ALL THE TRAINS LOADED

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The passenger business has taken a
sudden start, and is heavier that IL has
been Tor months Pullman cars have
All been full on both the cast and vest
bound trains, and, best OF all. with this
heavy traffic. the trains have been run
ming well on tine. and Their, has .cen
no mishap 10 mar the weeks rectrd
The freight business also has. shown
gratifying increass. and the iehain-
gang crews have been on the Jump all
the week. The business of the branch
INES which center here has been unu-
sually heavy for this season CT the
year, and IL has requl ed hard work
70 bring the mixed trains IN on time.
There has been no break, however. I'm
the scheduled connections. although
night to make the east-bound connec-
ton, draw-head pulling out Just as
the Buckhouse crossing of the Bitter
Root was reached. 49,
John Cleary's troubles, however. are
at an end. SO far as delays are &C n
cerned. He will start out tomorrow
with straight passenger train that
VIII make the run to Grantsdale in two
hours. and he will not be annoyed by
the way freight and switching busI-
ness. Conductor William Dyson will
run the new train, the way freight that
is to be put on the Bitter Root branch.
The time card for the new service is
announced as follows: Train No. Ill.
first class. daily except Sundays, leaves
Missoula at $50 p. m; Lou Lou, 5:54;
Florence. GIG; Stevensville, 6.55; Vic
tor. 6:54; Corvallis, I'LL; Riverside, S:1s;
Hamilton, 1928; Grantsdale. 1880. Re-
turning as No. liz. this train will leave
Grantsdale at $3.50 a. m; Hamilton,
s;s7; Riverside. s;42; Corvallis. s.4s;
Florence. 1880; Lou Lou. 11.2i
Missoula, Has. The freight train will
leave Missoula at 8:45 a. m, and will
reach Hamilton at 1859. Returning,
1t will leave Hamilton at 2:45 D. m.
and reach Missoula at GAS. The meet
ing points are Lou Lou and Stevens
Vile.
This service is exactly what the Bit
ter Root people have wanted for a long
time, and the fact that the railroad
people have put on another train indi-
Gates that the business of this branch
is all that has been claimed for it. As
soon as the season for berry shipments
begin two special fruit express cars
will be assigned to service on the Bit
ter Root branch. This will enable the
berries to be sent straight. throukh Ito
Butte and Anaconda withol1G the
changes and transfers that shav8here- 4
tofore been so detrimental to the fruit
The shippers will be in this way great
ly benefited by the change, and the
be fully appreciated by all who have
been bumped about on the mixed
trains. h nx. IA
On the Occur d'Alene branch 30 cars
are being loaded with ties every day.
These are shipped to the Montana divi-
sion an dto the east end of the Rocky
Mountain division, and are being hand
led more rapidly than usual on ac-
count of the shortage in thesupply of
A a a he.
branch are loaded the crews WI be
brought in and put to work on the
division east of this point, where sew
eral thousand ties are piled along the
grade from Bonner to Drummond.
When this is completed the tie ship
ments for the season will be about
wound up. eW |
There has been a let-up in the ship |
ments of stock during the past week |
but the indications are that they will |
be resumed this week on the. same |
large scale that prevailed last month. |
Orders have been placed for 800 stock |
cars for the Pacific division, and these |
are being hurried forward as rapidly |
as possible. Three hundred carloads /
of stock will make a big lot of business 1
for the road. The stock shipments thus |
far have been handled in a manner
that has won the commentator of the |
shippers. and when a stockman says |
because there is no possibility for a
kick.
The work of the track department |
this spring consists principally of gen /
eral light repairs. The tie work done
last year was very thorough. and there
is but little of 1t necessary this spring. |
The work of surfaciug and grayeIing |
is being done very thoroughly, and the |
roadbed. when this seasons work is
mi N 1ta
ever before Roadmaster ''Cinder''
Russell predicts that when his men get
the east end surfaced the track will
ride easier than the New York Gem
trail" On the west end. Roadmaster
Hartman's work is somewhat heavier.
as the floods of a year ago washed
away many miles of his roadbed into
the Pacific ocean. In addition to the
surfacing work, considerable rip-rap-
ping is being done on the west end. |
Superintendent Crimson spent. two
DAYS on the Occur d'Alene branch last
week, along the st. Regis, where the
damage to the track by high water
was so great last year. Roadmaster
Burdette has been on the jump all the
spring getting in rip-rap work to pro-
tect the roadbed befpre the water was
high enough to denny damagesaH He
has been successfur4n this, and Mr..
crimson does not anticipate any seri-
Gus trouble this seaaSn % |,
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The division officls6 have been adj
vised that. on May 1eH they viii receive
from the Montana Unlpn. Northern Pa
cific business car No. 8. having on
board a party of editors from the East
in charge OF David Ward Wood. The
party will reach Missoula on the AFTER
noon of Mayr1s. and VIII spend the next
day In the Bitter Root valley. May q
they will go over the Occur d'A1ene
branch to Wallace. where they will |
leave the car and go tQaSpQkapss by L
way of. Mission and the 4ek<. m<ot1p8 r
the car again in Spokane. |.
More confidence Is felt in the con-
struction OF the new depot since the L
announcement In the Standard that the