The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-16
DILLON TO GAYLORD
Engineers Surveying a Railroad to
the New Parrot SmeIter.
PROSPECTS FOR MUCH WORK
Extensive Operations Contemplat-
ed I'm This section of Montana
ore for the MiIls-Imp- owe
ments In the Billings Yards.

Word Games from Dillon that a corps
of railway engineers are running a
survey from that point to the new
smelter town of Gaylord and the matt
ural presumption is that il is the in
tention to connect the latter town
with the Union Pacific. The new Par
rot smeiter ait Gaylord will use, Rock
springs coal and II is supposed that
one of the objects in building the new
line is to supply that product and to
avoid the heavy grades on the Union
Pacific between Dillon and Butte and
on the Northern Pacific between Butte
and Whitehall A railroad along the
line of the survey would also do a prof
liable business in hauling custom ore
to the new smelter 1t is predicted that
the new smelter will so increase the
mineral output of that section that
there will not be enough horses in the
country to haul the ore from the mines
to the mill.
The proposed road would have an
easy river grade for the entire dis
lance. There are hills covered with
timber on both sides and the resources
are such that there is no place where
a road could be built any cheaper or
more quickly. Twenty miles of road
bed which was graded in 1892 by the
Montana Southern railway, in which
Henry Filing was the controlling fac
tor, is available and will doubtless be
used If the line is built. This leaves
only 40 miles to grade through a level
country.
If the road is built local capitalists
will build a line from Salisbury, which
is about midway between Dillon and
Gaylord, TO Virginia City, through the
beautiful Ruby valley.
A circular has been issued by Chair
CLo1l - a. w
ger association, notifying the passenger
and ticket agents that the last mileage
ticket proposition has received the af-
firmative vote of every road in the as
ISOLATION. The measure will become a
rule of the Western Passenger asso-
citation June Is, when the mileage ticket
scalpers will be cut off from a great
portion of their business.
The proposition, which has been
adopted by the Western Passenger as
ISOLATION on a unanimous vote, pro-
vides that all mileage tickets shall be
controlled by the chairman of that as 1
ISOLATION with a view of enforcing very
strictly the rule that these tickets shah
be used only by the persons to whom
they are issued. 1t also provides that
every ticket found in improper hands
shall be confiscated Immediately, and
that all 1000 and 100 mileage tickets
shall be issued on the punch description
plan. Besides this every means posi-
BILE will be taken to insure the legiti-
mate use of these tickets.
The 2,00O-mile tickets sold for $50 will
be entitled ito a rebate of $40 upon the
presentation of the covers to the chair
man of the Western Passenger associa-
ton, who alone has power to pay this
rebate When this rule becomes a law
with the railroads of the Western Pas
senger association 1t is believed that
all scalping in mileage tickets will
cease and that the mileage tickets will
be used legitimately.
The lines of the Western Passenger
for the purpose of clearing
the market Of outstanding 1000 mile
have resolved that the chair
man shall be authorized 70 redeem all
such unexpired tickets of the issue of
lines parties to the agreement issued
prior to June l. 1896, which may be pre-
scented to him by anyone between June
and June 8. 1896, inclusive, at the
best figure obtainable, not to exceed the |
basis of redemption as fixed by the |
agreement, viz, cents per mile, plus |
$40 refund. The lines will honor the |
draft in redemption of such |
tickets of their issue at cost to the |
chairman. The provisions of the agree
ment as 10 giving notice Within time |
limits for all such tickets to be sus-
pended during that period. Nothing |
In the resolution will prevent any road |
from taking its own tickets off the |
market with the period named, but II |
Is not intended that any line shall ne |
gotiate for any other lines issue OF |
tickets during that period.
The Northern Pacific is building a |
large wood warehouse of several hun
ired thousand pounds capacity at |
N. d.
The Burlington road has put in sew
eral miles of new side tracks at Bill
ngs and is making other preparations
10 handle it's share of this years wool |
clip with its usual promptness.