The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-17
BUTTE News.
II RAILROAD CIRCLES
UNION PACIFIC POWER
The Way the Wind Blows In short Line
A0hins-Frsight Diverted-A Big
Change Il Thought to
b Coming.

A Great Northern circular was re-
cetved in Butte yesterday announcing
the following changes on that SYSTEM:
c. Shields. assistant general super
intendent western district. vice F. II.
Britton. transferred. The western dis
trict will hereafter include the Mon
tana division.
r. H. Britton. superintendent Dakota
division. vice j. Russell. resigned.
]. N. Davis. superintendent Montana
division, vice L. ID. Button, resigned.
w. T.. Tyler. superintendent Breckin-
ridge division. vice ]. NJ. Davis. trans
ferred.
Il. r. Lillee. assistant superintendent
Fergus Falls division, vice w. T. Ty-
Ter. promoted.
E. Il. Liniee. assistant superintendent
northern division, vice w. d. Scott, re-
signed.
General Superintendent Ward ap-
pointed William n. Neff as his chief
clerk. to succeed +. j. McLein. who
leaves to become chief clerk to Russell
Harding. vice president Of the Cotton
Belt.
One by one changes take place quiet
ly in railroad circles, tending to show
the increasing Union Pacific power in
local affairs n more particularly in
the Oregon Short Line policy and man
agement, avs the Salt Lake Tribune.
Between amusing cut-rate discussions
on the street yesterday two officials
gave away a secret which has been
kept very quietly by those in author
fty. But although IL Is two weeks old,
IL Will be none the less interesting and
certainly shows which way the win
blows in Short Line affairs.
After the Provo gateway was opened
by the Short Line to the Rio Grande
Western. the latter road secured 100
per cent. of the bullion shipments East
from Utah shelters. The road had it,
self always controlled so per cent. of
these shipments, n the Oregon Short
Line so per cent, but the latter turned
the portion IL controlled over 20 the
Western and the latter, therefore. got
the whole.
But lately a change has come. A
few days after the fateful Oregon
Short Line directors meeting in Octo-
Der, the latter road commenced TO send
its portion Of the bullion east over the
Union Pacific. and now the Western
has to be content with its old share.
1t In further asserted that although
no open rupture has taken place, yet
Oregon Short Line officials do not give
the Salt Lake route the cordial treat
ment as of yore. but the Union Pacific
relations are day by day growing
closer.
The latter's absolute domination is
also shown above ogden. where the
Rio Grande Western and it's conne
lions have double work to perform in
order to secure shipments. AS far as
the closing Of the Ogden gateway is
concerned. grave fears are being ex-
pressed that the change will be made.
n the opinion has been expressed
that the gateway will remain open
only just as long as a certain clique
wills II so. There Is a coterie of secur-
fty holders in the Oregon Short Line,
IL Is now claimed, hat will hold the
gateway open for a period. as by such
an action its security interests are
made more valua Bile. When IL can
dispose OF these securities at a good
figure. then will the portals at Ogden
be closed. IL is said. to the Rio Grande
Western. or such action will be taken
as will practically shut the road out of
Northern territory, even though the
gates be left ajar.
1t may be some weeks. possibly some
months, before anything is decided
upon but in the opinion OF several the
big change is coming.
The election of Russell Harding to
the vice presidency and general man
agership OF the st. Louis Southwestern
calls attention to the immense number
of men who have graduated of late
years from the Great Northern to i'm
portant positions in other companies,
says the Railway Age. Looking back
ward. the first conspicuous case was
probably that Of Allen Marvel. when
ne came to Chicago to take the presi-
dency OF the Santa Fe. Mr.. Marvel
was succeeded on the Great Northern
by A. L. Mohler, who was afterward
general manager of the Minneapolis &