The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-28
RAILROAD CIRCLES
w. M. Tuohy Resigns as Agent
for the Northern Pacific.
HE WILL GO TO ANACONDA
II Is Supposed That j. o. Dalzsll Will
Be His Successor-Great Northern
Express Company to Oper-
ate on the Short Line.

w. NJ. Tuohy. who has resigned rs
general agent for the Northern Pacific
in Butte, did SO TO accept a very inn
portant position in Anaconda as gen.
eral n for the Street Railway
Water Works company, An
aconda Townsite company and Electric
Light company. His resignation was
sent to the Northern Pacific about a
week ago and will take effect on Aug
10. Mr.. Tuohy desired to keep the mat
ter from becoming public until he had
closed up certain business matters IN
Butte and his resignation had been
acted on by the company, but a man
from Butte CHANGED to be in Hanna
ford's office at St. Paul when the resig-
nation was discussed and on his re-
urn to Butte he made the matter. pup
lie. Mr.. Tuohy's successor with me
Northern Pacific will most likely be j.
o. Dalzell of St. Paul, commercial
agent for the company in the East.
Several other names have been consid-
cred, but Mr.. Dalzell will most likely
receive the appointment. Mr.. Tuohy's
resignation was accepted yesterday.
The change means a good thing for Mr..
Tuohy and will better his condition IN
many ways 1t was desired that ne
should assume his new duties on the
LIST of August. but he is unable to ar
range his other affairs by that time,
but will enter upon them Immediately
after his resignation with the Northern
Pacific takes effect. on Aug. 10. when
he will remove with his family to An
aconda.
A special to Omaha IN
good authority that the Great North
ern Express company will soon be oo-
Grating over the oregon Railway and
Navigation company's lines. 1t is said
hat a deal is on foot which will be
| consummated this month whereby the
Great Northern Express company will
divide the Oregon Railway and Navi-
cation mileage about equally with the
| Pacific Express company the latter part
of next month. This will increase The
formers mileage about 500 miles n
give the company a direct entrance into
Portland.
When the Union Pacific, the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
bought the control of the Oregon Rail-
way n Navigation property the
Great Northern had ii understood that
it would develop its express business
by getting an entrance into Portland,
though this fact has not been known,
even in inside express circles. The Pa
cific Express ~company's contract with
the Oregon Railway and Navigation
company expires next month. IL VIII
continue to operate over the southern
half of the system, leaving the north
ern half to the Great Northern Express
Umatilla being the dividins
line. AT Umatilla the Oregon Railway
and Navigation company's trains d.
verge, one going to Portland and the
other to Huntington. From Umatilla
to Portland the two express companies
will operate conformity.
The Pacific Express company oper-
ates over the Union Pacific. Missouri
Pacific, Wabash and other Gould lines,
and also several lines in the South.
The Great Northern Express company
operates over the entire Great Northern
system and also the Sioux CITY a
Northern and Duluth. Mississippi &
Northern, besides a water route on Pu-
get sound from Victoria to Seattle and
other points. 1t reaches Tacoma and
Olympia by steamer. Its total mileage
is now 1910. Soon it will be operating
over the Fosston extension and the Du-
luth, Superior & Western. now part 81
the Eastern Minnesota. BY the end oi
next month its mileage will be $500.
Gross earnings of the Chicago q
Northwestern railroad for the fsca
veal ending June 80 show an Increase
as compared with the previous 1.
months Of 1851 .S45. The final hgur,
was completed yesterday when the fs'
cal report for the month of June wa!
issued.
Up TO the LIST day of June the gros!
earnings of this road had reached TIT
comfortable figure OF $13,9 1895. I'll. Fol
the first IL months of the previous fs
cal year the gross earnings had aggre
gated s11. 422. 2S2. During the month D
June, according to yesterdays state
ment, gross earnings were 81, 1888, "a
with 81 14, 527 for the CORE
spending period of the previous year
Gross earnings for the fiscal year
therefore. were SIG, 1874, 654, as compares
with S14.336, 500 for the previous fisca
wear. This shows an Increase in favo
of the year Just ended of 1851 ,S45.
Ii is probable that the Great North
ern Express company will this week Is
sue a notice to the public that 1t vii
nav for internal revenue stamps oil
receipts. This will be done not becaus
the company has changed its idea o
the intent of the law. but simply I
meet the action of the Northern Pa
cifc Express company. The Grea
Northern Express company finds tina
since it's competitor announced that
would stand the expense of war stamp
its business has been appreciably af
fected.
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