The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-26
COPPER CITY LIMITED
The Train Has Done an Excellent
Business From the Start.
BITTER ROOT FISHING
None Better in the west-Klondikers
Are StiIl on Their Way to
Alaska Work on the
New Station.

M~issoula, June 25.-The Copper City
Limited continues TO be the principal
theme OF discussion in railway circles.
for years by the people of Missoula and
the valley, and they have made so
many assurances as to its being a sue
cessful venture that they are watching
IL with deep interest. The local rail-
way people. too. are keeping tab on
the train very closely, for they are
proud of the Copper City" which is
one of the finest trains i'm the West i'm
the matter OF equipment and they want
TO see IL continued as a permanent
number on the time card. There was
some scare started regarding the train
at the time the local service was aban-
doned between Helena and Garrison,
but there was at nc time any thought
of disseminating the run between Ham,
ilton and Butte. II has done an excel
lent business from the start and now
that the berry rover are shipping 80
heavily there is business To spare. The
local creamery is adding to the express
business of the run by shipping daily
milk and cream to the cities up the
road. and there is to be more business
of this nature soon. All of these things
help and Will make the train n q
the liveliest business makers on thu
whole road.
There is no better fishing anywhere
in the West than hat which is found
up the Bitter Root, and the attraction
that this sport offers ought to bring
anglers from Anaconda and Butte who
have n few days 10 spare. A two-days'
vacation will give a pleasant breathing
spell in the Bitter Root inc will enable
the fisherman to take home to ms
friends such a string of trout as Will
make him want 20 come again. There
is little doubt of the desire of those
who come nee to come again. Their
testimony Is all one way. They dcn't
like to go back. Thu fishing, the camp
ing, the good living and the great
change are attractions hat will. ii Is
expected. bring to this part of Western
Montana plenty of pleasure seekers as
the season advances and the days get
scorching hot.
The business that his train is doing
seems TO be largely new business.
There are many people travelling this
way now who never thought OF the
trip before. The overland trains do
their full share of business and all If
them are well filled these days. There
are still Klondikers on. their way TO the
coast and there are Klondikers return
ing. Those hat are coming back these
days are not bringing many nugget
with them, but they help to make
business for the railway. 1t looks, too,
as II the prediction as to summer trav-
Ell coming this way this year would be
verified. for there are already more ex-
cursionists en- route than usual. They
are coming west instead of going to
Europe. The railroads are receiving
the benefit Of this too.
The new locomotives, both freight
and passenger. continue to attract
much attention on account of the inn
mense loads that they pull. and pas
who alight from No. | these
mornings: after the swift run down the
canyon. all have something TO say
about the way the big engines run.
The greatest change, though. Is in the
freight business. The trains that are
being hauled by this new power over
the mountain grades are causing the
old time railway men To scratch their
heads and to wonder where the thing
will stop. The new Glass Z" engines
are the strongest and heaviest that this
has seen, and they are keeping
the track departments busy with their
great weight. The new roadbed, how
ever. is standing the strain all right
and the work of the engines seems 10
be satisfactory to the operating depart
ment.
The station IL changing form rapidly
AAAS WIN "AA' Nv " ~ - 49,
tiers I'm remodeling is now assuming
shape. The outline Of the work
on the ground floor Of the old station
was given in the Standard his week.
Supervisor Weed has completed his
for the changes on the secon
floor. which will be made as soon as the
first hoor is finished. When the wo-
mems waiting room is finished the
dispatchers will be moved down
and given temporary quarters in that
room, while the second floor is being
remodeled. The dispatchers' present
will be all torn out n new par
put in. The dispatchers will be
on the north side of the building,
near where they are at present, and
will be given much more room. The
telegraph operators will be moved to
the south side Of the building. where
there will also be a new office built for
the chief dispatcher and his clerks. The
floor hall will be shortened and
the extra room thrown into the divis-
ION superintendent office.