The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-11
BUTTE News.
n RAILROAD CIRCLES
REDUCED CATTLE RATES
The Northern Pacific to Encourage Stock
Owners to Keep Their Herds Upon
b Ranges-Ticket Commits
sion Regulations.


Rates and arrangements On account
OF the Trans Mississippi exposition.
which opens at Omaha on the list of
June, have been completed by the
Western Passenger association lines
and correspondingly low rates will like
ly be adopted by the Northern Pacific,
Great Northern, Burlington and other
roads to apply To the Northwestern ter
ritory. While il is claimed that rates
on the whole. as adopted by the West
ern association lines. are more liberal
than those made for the worlds fair.
Il In not likely that the exposition d.
rectors are much pleased with
was given them. for while the rates for
special days n occasions will be low
enough. for the greater portion of the
big show they will be no lower than
are granted to any summer resort.
Kansas City roads. for some reason,
desired the charges to be SO high as
TO be practically prohibitive. and the
Omaha terminal lines had to fight hard
for all they received. 1t was agreed
tha Omaha should be made a regular
summer tourist point and that the reg
ular tourist rate of so per cent of double
liz ny IatC Fhai ePIhs oeh' ~ -
Of the exposition.
These tickets will be on sale from
June 1 to Oct. 81. and will have a re-
turn limit of 80 days. 1t was the un-
~derstanding. however. that from the
territory adjacent to the cities named,
h round-trip rates should be no lower
thar the following: Chicago, $40: Pc
oria, Sl7: st. Louis. 81: Colorado COM
mon points. SIS: st. Paul and Mime
apolis, SIS. rs.
For the opening day a rate of one
fare for the round trip is to be made
from all points within a radius of $50
miles of Omaha. and from points out
fares. For special days like rates are
to apply.
All tickets reading through Omaha
will have with them the privilege of a
five days stop at that city. To secure
this concession holders must deposit
them with the joint agent of the roads.
procuring them again before taking up
the second stage of the journey. Bands
IN uniform. consisting of 25 or more
members. will be transported at a rate
of ] cent a mile.
The Northern Pacific Is b to en-
courage the cattle owners Of the North
west to keep their herds upon the
ranges, says the st. PAT Pioneer
Press. The rise in the price of beef has
induced many owners either to sell cat
tie outright or to ship them from the
Northwest to Nebraska and to other
adjoining states for f%attening. Thus
the Montana and Dakota ranges are
now comparatively bare. But in order
to induce a restocking OF the ranges,
IN Northern Pacific has made a reduc-
ton of % per cent in rates on stock
cattle from the Twin Cities to the live
stock stations in Montana and Western
Dakota. The reduced rates will remain
In effect for 80 days.
The Western Passenger association
adjourned its Chicago meeting without
deciding upon definite regulations for
ticket commissions. II is reported that
the ~jealousies of rivals prevented an
agreement. Elasticity in commissions
develops powerful arguments in favor
of the lines willing to do the stretching.
Nor was any conclusion reached as to
! the restoration of passenger rates to
the coast by way of Omaha. The as
4 s~ociation. indeed, felt unwilling to
: adopt any important measure until
latter the New York conference on April
us between the Canadian Pacific N
the American lines. Then the existing
rate war will either be ended OF ag-
gravated. Which result will follow
s concerns deeply the Western roads.
I 1t was said that the Canadian Pa
cifc was not without friends at wash
ington. In the a~nti-scalping bill now
before congress is a clause permitting
the agent of any line. not an initial
line, TO buy tickets from an initial line
point for passengers going over his
line, thus enabling such passengers to
reach the junction point. While this
clause allows the Western Dad to
maintain offices in Eastern territory
and vice versa. IL is claimed hat the
Canadian Pacific was the real author
of the section i'm the bill. A precisely
similar cause is found in the anti
scalping bill of the state of New York,
which became law last year.
The Baltimore X Ohio railroad has is
women in it's employ as station agents.
and the superintendent are very much
pleased with the way in which they
perform their duties. These women
act as both freight and ticket agents.
and. IL is said i'm their favor by the
travelling auditors, that their accounts
are always perfectly straight. An
other prominent feature of their EN-
pioyment is the fact that their stations
are kept heater and cleane han those
presided over by men. OF the Is now
in the service. sig are unmarried. n
Of the other 10. a large majority are
widows of former employees of the
road.
Western ines have agreed upon an
advance i'm rates between North Pa
cifc coast points and Missouri river
cities proper. After April 20 the first
class rate will be $50, instead of $50. as
at present, and the second-class rate
will be $40. instead of $40. Very little
Alaska business has moved through
these gateways. and the Western lines
considered IL advisable to make the SO
advance.