The Anaconda standard., 1899-04-16
THE WATER is RECED|NG
The Northern Pacific Has Re-
paired All Breaks.
OPEN FROM END TO END
Trains Will Soon Be Running on Sche-
dule Time-Great Northern Is Nearly
in Shape - Oregon Short Line
improvements Abandoned.

The local office Of the Northern Pa
cific received telegram from General
Passenger Agent C. S. Fee at st. Paul
yesterday afternoon, stating that the
water in the Missouri river was reced-
ing and that all breaks in the track had
been repaired and were crossed by yes
terday's trains. The entire line is again
open from st. Paul to Portland and it
is expected that within "a hours all
trains will be running on schedule time
again. No. 1, from the east. which was
due in Butte Friday night, got in last
evening. The two trains from the west
were practically on time.
The Burlington, which has been closed
for nearly week by washout near
Sheridan, Wyo., is open again and a
large number of delayed passengers got
into Butte yesterday and another lot
will come in to-day.
The Great Northern is also about over
it's troubles occasioned by washed out
bridges on the Milk river and other
| damage along its line in Montana.
The announcement is made THAT the
Oregon Short Line has abandoned some
of the extensive improvements that had
been planned for the coming summer
The plan of cutting down the grade at
Apex hill, near Dillon, which was among
the largest pieces of i'm
provement contemplated, has been
given up. 1t has also been
decided not to build any of the big
compound engines like those now in use
On the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific and
which were tested by the Short Line
on the grades in the southern part of
the state. Instead OF the big COM
pound engines, which it had once prac-
tically been decided to use if they
should prove satisfactory, heavy freight
engines will be employed. The i'm
| provements that will be made will be
| confined to ballasting the road-bed and
laying some new steel rails. General
Manager Bancroft is quoted as saying
| that the proposed st. Anthony branch
line in Idaho would not be built this
| year.
Union Pacific. Chicago & Northwest
ern, Rio Grande Western and South
| ern Pacific passenger agents have been
holding a conference in Salt Lake for
| several days over summer excursion
| rates, and particularly the teachers
rates to the ma tional association meet
| ing at Los Angeles in July. 1t is claim
ed that the Southern Pacific has been
| demanding 60 per cent of the rate in
| handling the N. e. A. business and has
been backed by the Santa Fe. The
Union Pacific, Northwestern and Rio
Grande have been holding out against
the division demanded and the Salt
Lake conference was called for the pur-
pose of arriving at some understand
ing. O.
| President Mellen of the Northern Pa
cific, who has just completed a trip
| over the road to the coast, is quoted
as saying that the absence of restrict
| i've legislation directed against railroads
by recent legislatures has encouraged
| capital invested in the Northern Pacific
to more liberal expenditures in the
states through which it's lines runs.
Three prominent stockholders of the
| Great Northern passed through the
state yesterday, en- route for the East,
after having made an inspection Of the
road through to the coast. They were
William Jones and Arthur Jones of
London and Henry A. Jones of New
| York.