The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-03
N RAILROAD CIRCLES
The Burlington Road Breaks
Another Record.
SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR
The Road 10 Doing More Business
Than Ever Before in Its His
tory-orsin n Cattle Ship
ments Heavy.

The Burlington railroad broke anoth-
err record on Tuesday. according to ac-
counts brought to Butte yesterday by
passengers who came over the Billings
branch from Omaha. Al Sheridan.
wyo., the train was over two hours
late. The distance from Sheridan to
Billings IL l46 miles and the schedule
time for that run Is J hours and ~ min
utes. In order to make connections
with the Northern Pacific at Billings
IL was necessary to make up the lost
time on the run of lag miles. and 1t was
accomplished. 1t Is claimed that the
train made over 20 miles an hour for
the whole distance. and made all the
regular stops and one extra. six in all,
getting into Billings almost on sched-
ule time and made connections with
the Northern Pacific.
Phil Daniels. the hustling agent of
the Burlington, zane i'm from Omaha
yesterday, where he had been for a
week on business connected with the
general Offices. Mr.. Daniels says the
Burlington is doing more business han
IL has ever done within its history. and
in fact has more than IL Is able to han
die. The freight business Ii enormous
and the company finds great difficulty
in providing cars. Grain shipments
and cattle shipments from Billings are
testing the capacity of the road. The
passenger business is equally heavy and
all trains out of Omaha. both east and
west. have lately been run in two Sec
tions.
Mr.. Daniels was at Omaha on the
closing day of the exposition and says
IL Is estimated that fully 100. 900 people
were on the grounds. The B~urlington's
great exhibit at the exposition Is to be
sent to Paris for the exposition there in
1900.
Eastern railroads discarded all SEM
blanc OF maintenance of authorized
rates Immediately after the supreme
court of the United States handed down
Its opinion that the Joint Traffic asso-
citation Is an Illegal organization. The
result Is seen I'm the statement of east
bound traffic from Chicago. Freed
from the restraining influence of the
big traffic organization. the lines lead
ing to the East out of Chicago added
over 10000 ton of freight to the aggre-
gate of the preceding week. That still
greater increases will be shown from
now on is expected.
The reorganized Union Pacific yester-
day took in all the small roads recently
acquired. These are the Omaha Il Re
publican Valley and the Kearney a
Black Hills. a total Of 545 miles. COM
prising all the branch lines in Nebraska.
m the Union Pacific. Lincoln & Col
orado, pa miles On Kansas. This leaves
out Of the ownership of the r~eorganized
company only the Junction City a. Fort
Kearney road in Kansas. so miles long.
The Kansas road, while still i'm the
hands OF receivers, is I'm process of sale.
The four fast trains Of the Atchison
q Santa Fe limited. between Chicago
and Los Angeles-2.2 65 miles-are to
be lighted with electricity generated by
the axles. The equipment of each train
will aggregate 1925 candle power. All
berths will be provided with lights. II
Is the biggest trick of the kin ever
tried. 1t will include a large number
of storage batteries to supply the train
when it is standing still.
Lines interested in the immigrant
agreement adjourned yesterday with
out having settled the questions before
them. but after making satisfactory
progress" II is said that the Northern
Pacific. Great Northern and Canadian
Pacific refused to sign the compact. but
did agree to cooperate with the clear
ing house in its work. The Union Pa
cific's opposition has not been made
clear. Adjournment was taken to Nov.
3. when a meeting will be held at Buff
falo.
II the much-rumored story is true
that the Union Pacific Is TO throw open
all gateways, the most important ques-
tion to all the prairie lines and Coiora-
do roads will he whether the Silver
Bow gateway will be opened to let the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
into Southern Idaho.