The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-14
ANACONDA NE w ).
"COPPER" CITY LIMITED
a Brand New Train to the Bitter
Root Valley.
SERVICE TO ST ART MAY1
Omcaal Notice Has Not Yet Been Re-
ceived. but It Ii Confidently Elk
! psctsd That the Train viii Be
Put On-A Good Thing.

( News of the fact that the Northern
Pacific has decided to run a daily train
to and from the Bitter o valley was
received in Anaconda yesterday. TIL
new service will be begun about May
4 and will be one of the greatest things
that the Northern Pacific could possibly
do for both Anaconda and the Bitter
Root.
: Agent Beebe of the local Office of the
company said last evening that as yet
the new train service was merely talk
'tion had yet been received. Mr.. Beebe
was confident. no ever, that the train
would be put on, and he thought the
initial trip would be made May 1, or
whereabouts.
. The neW train. 1t Is said. will be
named the Copper City Limited in
honor of Anaconda. While he time
has not yet been definitely fixed. it is
generally believed that the train Will
leave Butte at 1880 or ! o'clock in the
afternoon. reaching this city in an hour
and arriving at Hamilton bou 6 O'Clock
in the evening. Returning. the train
will leave Hamilton at s o'clock In the
morning. arriving at Anaconda at IL
land at Butte at IL o'clock noon.
I, This new train service Is what the
people of the Bitter Root valley have
sought to Obtain for a long time, and
now that II is assured the farmers OF
the rich valley will be happy. The
Bitter Root m find h best mar
ket for their products In Anaconda and
Butte and with the new train they will
be enabled to send their strawberries
and other products to big markets in
five and six hours. But the Bitter Root
sers will not be the only ones to reap the
benefit of the new train. The people
both of Butte and Anaconda will ap-
preciate IL as well. To eat fruit and
vegetables for dinner six hours after 1t
has been picked and gathered in the
Bitter Root will be an experience new
TO people in these cities, where garden
truck comes packed in ice. and stale
after having been on the o all the
way from IL TO "a hours. to say moth
ing OF being thrown around by husky
sexpressmen at three or four transfer
points.
Not only will the new train be well
coined as a carrier of fresh vegetables
ito market, but travellers will also he
quick to take advantage OF 1t. The
!. passenger traffic between Butte and
Anaconda and the cities In the Bitter
Root has of recent years become quite
a factor in the earnings Of the railroad
companies. and II can be said that
never since the Bitter Root came int
prominence have the railroads given a
train service that was IN any wtse sat
isfactory. Heretofore the taking of a
trip TO Hamilton was a matter that re-
quired considerable skill In maytering
time cards and being handy at chang
ing cars. The changes that now have
to be made are at Garrison and Mis-
eoula, n at Zach Of these points a
delay OF an o or two can reason
ably be counted upon. With the Copper
City limited. however. these changes Of
cars will be entirely done away with.
The train will leave Butte and go
through to Hamilton without a change.
The Copper City Limited will be well
coined as a boon to both passengers and
people who like Bitter Root vegetables
and fruits. and the Northern Pacific
cannot inaugurate the service any too
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