The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-29
RAILROAD BUSINESS
Gossip About Happenings In the Local
IS Realm of the Iron Horse.
EVERYTHING is LOVELY
Floating Of Ties. Sheep Shipments
and Other Business of the
: Northern PacIfio--Movement
of Some OF the Employees.


department being too busy to bother
with anything not necessary to the
handling of the roads business. Heavy
trains have been the order of the week.
and there has been no time for any ex-
element outside OF the rush of bust
ness. The Northern Pacific, and the
Rocky Mountain division in particular,
IL making a splendid record this spring
In the rapid transit of stock shipments.
Readers of the Standard will remem-
Der the opinion of Senator Cooper of
Hamilton. expressed in an interview
last week. In which he complimented
the management upon the excellence OF
the roads service In this respect. The
same statement has been made by 9TH
er stockmen to a Standard reporter,
and the company has set a pace which
1t win have to rustic to maintain.
Two trainloads OF sheep passed
through here to-day from wallula,
Wash, en- route to Dickinson, where
they will be sheared and turned upon
the range for the fall mutton market.
They were In charge of J. O. Phelan,
formerly superintendent OF the Cas-
cade division. They were not fed here,
the intention being to make a quick
Vii W A<ifinkSAOn anu unlOdu there.
This evening nineteen loads of cattle
were unloaded here to be fed at the
stock yards. They were consigned to
Tussler a. Robertson. Miles City, and
were loaded at Uniontown, Wash. f.
A. Lisk Is in Missolua experimenting
the feeding. and will accompany the
train from here to Miles City. Other
heavy shipments of stock are expected
A. al 4Ix.~x y
been sent to the Idaho division during
the last few days.
The tie loading machinery at Clarks
Fork has been started again. about 100
car loads of ties having come down the
st. Regis from the branch streams the
past week. This lot will be cleared up
by Wednesday, and there will be moth
ing left except the ties that are piled
along the grade. The loading of these
viii be FASTENED as much as possible,
as the dryness OF the season renders the
liability OF fire very great. as was illus
trated at st. Regis Friday night. when
Contractor Greenough lost 1900 ties,
the fire having spread from blaze In
the timber.
One of the finest equipped specials
ever seen In Missoula passed through
here. eastward bound. at 1 o'clock this
having on board a party of
car accountants of the Eastern roads,
who have been making a tour of the
South and West. The train was made
uprof Wagner sleepers and drawing
room cars. and the car accountants
we're travelling in the best style. Moth
Ing Is too good for them.
The retirement of Chief Clerk Hob
itzell from Superintendent Br1mson's
office to engage in mercantile business
IS generally regretted by all local rail-
road men. Mr.. Hoblitzell has been an
attentive and efficient man and has al
ways been popular. both with rail-
'oaders and with the patrons of the
Dad The best wishes of all his friends
or his success. will go with him in
his new venture. He will remain in |
for time and will make a |
rip to the East before going to WAL
ace to assume charge OF his store. |
His successor. Mr.. Mcbride. is an ex- |
,erienced railroad man. who has been |
with the western divisions |
or a long time. He will enter upon |
lis new duties May, 1.
Roadmaster RusselIs work train.
hat has been loading rock on the d. |
p. branch. has been taken out OF |
service for a time. the repairs on that |
,art of the division being well under |
way. The trains on the Snake river |
md on the West End are still at work |
'epairing the damage wrought by last |
ears foods. and there is enough |
work ahead of them to keep them |
busy for long time.
The verification Of the report that
he anti-Oakes directors had succeed
d in removing the receivership of the
Dad is awaited in Missoula with much
interest. The general opinion here is
hat such step would be productive
II much good TO the country through |
which the road runs. The receiverxhip
aas never been popular here. although
I is admitted that the road has been
operated in a more business-like man.
her since the receivers have controlled
{ than ever before. Locally railroad
matters Were never before In such good
'hape. nor has the service ever been
70 satisfactory as at present.
II is now generally believed that the
lew depot is a go. The revised plans
or the new building are said to be
bout perfect. and the structure win
,e a great Improvement TO the COM
,any's equipment at Missoula. Frank
}. Higgins will have charge OF the
OF the building. under
lgreement with the railroad. and he
las been busy for several days arrang-
ng for the beginning OF the work In
he immediate future. The brick for
he building are being manufactures |
Is rapidly as possible at the Riddel
lilns. and IL is said that the lumber
viii be on the ground before next Sun
ay-
People near the railroad have been
tartled for several days By a queer
Machine that has been putting up and
own the line with three or four men
n board The machine is not an en-
inc. nor is IL a car. IL looks ike a
ross between Bill Bancroft's wood