The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-20
PLANS Of ]. J. HILL
He Is Out of the Northern Pacific
Reorganization.
OTHER ROADS TO CONTROL
About the Time War and What Is
Icing Done About it-Raii-
road Building In the
West I his Year.
OTHER ROADS TO CONTROL

1t Is now accepted as a settled fact
in Butte's railroad circles that Presi-
dent Hill of the Great Northern. will
not have any hand in the reorganiza-
ton of the Northern Pacific. and this
belief causes a great deal of satisfac-
ton to the employees of the latter road,
some Of whom have been in doubt for
several months as to the management
they would eventually be under. The
following paragraph, which appeared
in circular letter just issued by Bray
ton Ives, president of the Northern
Pacific, to the stockholders in regard
to the reorganization plan, Is regarded
as conclusive evidence that there will
be no union between the two big sys-
TENS:
I'm view of the prominence given last
year to reported efforts to reorganize
the property on lines which, IL followed
out, would have destroyed its indie
pendence, and would have been unduly
severe on stockholders. ii is proper to
say that in the present plan every pre-
caution has been taken to insure the
preservation of the autonomy of the
company and to reorganize 1t ON strict
ly independent basis"
Railroad men who keep pretty close
track of the run of things believe that
the time card war which has been in
augurated against the Northern Pacific
| is que 10 TTeSlQenL Cnd6TlH dt HiS
failure to secure a hand in the manage
ment of Northern Pacific affairs. Hav-
ing failed in that direction it is now
reported that Mr.. Hill has a leading
part in the efforts that are being made
to reorganize the Utah Northern and
Oregon Short Line on a strictly indie
pendent basis and that IL these efforts
are successful he will be the power be-
hind the throne. In this event, so the
CT railroad who
claim to have some inside Information
in the matter, the Great Northern's
restless president will become the con-
| trolling factor in the new road that is
to be built from Salt Lake to Los An
| geles, by which means he will secure
full swing over a line from St Paul to
| California via Butte and Salt Lake At
the time of the previous efforts to Sc
cure a separate receiver for the Utah
| Northern and oregon Short Line, Pres
! ident Hill possessed sufficient influence
to secure the appointment of John M.
Egan, whom he was backing, by the
federal judge at Salt Lake, but the APP
not confirmed by the court at Port
| land.
Nothing more has been heard in re-
gard to further reductions in time by
| the Great Northern or Northern Pacf-
| fic, but as neither road has yet issued
| time tables to conform to the latest
| schedules, IL is supposed that they are
! each waiting for the other to make an
other cut, and that something will drop
] very soon. 1t has been officially an
nounced that If the Great Northern
| makes the threatened reduction of five
| hours between ST. Paul and the coast,
the Northern Pacific will reduce the
present time of its fast trains 10 hours,
1 4Aat <ac
necessary. Passenger traffic over the
| Northern Pacific this spring Is heavier
| than it has been for years, and the road
is in good shape for a fight; and 1t
seems to be perfectly willing to have
the war continue.
In commenting ON a further reduc-
ton in time on the Northern Pacific,
| the Billings Gazette says:
| THE Northern Pacific can easily
| make 10 hours faster time between
ST. Paul and Portland than even the
| new fast trains are now making. When
| Tuesday nights No. pulled in from
the west the two conductors-the one
who brought the train from Butte and
the other who took ii on to Glendive-
engaged in a short talk about the ru-
| mored cut in time. One said: The
Northern Pacific can make even 20
hours better time, II they want to. than
that being made by the fast trains.
Why, i have the hardest time mag
Unable trying to kill time between Butte
and Billings. We have to stop between
stations so as not to come in ahead OF
time
The other conductor replied: That
about right / know that IL would be
easy to make up an hour between Bill
ings and Glendive. The last trip,
had to stop between stations in one
place nearI 10 minutes. We car
make 60 miles an hour without sweat
ing a hair
Railroad building is already very ac.
tive in the West, says a prominent
railway official. in the st. Paul Pioneer
Press. Work will be begun at once or
the construction of a road from Nam
pa. Idaho, to the Snake river. This
road will be an outlet for the great golc
mines in the Owyhee mountains. The
length of this little railroad is only i
miles, but when IL is finished II will 4,
one of the liveliest little roads in exist
ence. A great traffic is already assured
and very soon IL will be extended to Sii
yer City a distance of SO miles. Anoth
er extension will be made north from
Nampa to the heavily timbered regior
of Idaho.
A very large force is already at worl
on the road which is being built by Mr.
Hammond of Missoula, Mont. Thi
road will run from the point where tn
| Northern Pacific crosses the Columbi;
river at Astoria. ore. 1t is expected
that this road will be in operation b,
June /, and when IL Is finished IL vii
be one of the most important feeder
of the Northern Pacific.
Another road which has been PLANES
for some time, from Helena. Mont, &
the Castle silver mines. will be bull
this season. The capital for prosecu
ting the work has already been Sc
cured, and the work will be begun Il
a few weeks. This road Will be 20 mile
in length, and will be OF great import
ance TO the silver mines mentioned.
Since Governor Sheldon and the larg
delegation Of SOUTH Dakota bushes
, men and others met in the Twin Cite
last December. I'm the interest Of build
, | ing a read from ST. Paul TO the Blac