Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
First G. N. Through Train Will
Arrive Tonight
AFTER A WEEKS BLOCKADE
Why Shippers Should Take Advantage
of Present Railr DAD COndi-
tiOnS--NOteS.

The Great Northern's trouble at Willis
ton, North Dakota, is at an end, accord
ing to advices received by Major j. E.
Dawson, the general agent of the COM
pany, and the first through train from the
east to pass over the line for a week, Will
arrive in the city this evening. No. "A,
east bound, left the city last night and will
go through to st. Paul without difficulty.
The line is open from st. Paul to the
coast, but for the next few days travel
will necessarily be slow.
The Inter Mountains article of y~ester-
day with reference TO the wisdom of mer-
chants taking advantage of the present
good condition Of the railroads, and max
ing their shipments before the anticlpat-
ed spring floods, met with general APP
| prevail in local railroad circles. The last
big t:e-up, from which this section Suf-
| fered, came in the spring Of 1889, just
ten years ago, when for ten days or more,
on account of high water, Butte was
without a train, and was as completely
| cut off from the outside world as though
no railroads existed. The Garrison
| and Deer Lodge bridges, and four smaller
| bridges between those two points We're
/ washed away and the water stood three
feet deep in the Garrison yards and for
five days two Northern Pacific passenger
/ trains, heavily loaded were compelled to
remain at Garrison. 1t happened that the
| two dining cars were we'll supplied with
| food and, while during the last day or
| two of the blockade the passengers were
| IN, short ~rations, no one went hungry
The winter of 1883 the snow fell in the
mountains to an extraordinary depth, but
was nothing when compared to the phe-
rOmenal fail of the winter that is so lOln
to give up the snug seat it is now erjoy-
ing or the lap of the spring of '99, and
railroad men are agreed that the floods
that will come etwee now and the first
Of June will outclass anything of the kind
| that has ever visited Montana, and rail-
roads will suffer accordingly.
Mr.. j Francis, general passenger agent
of Tbs Burlington departed for the east
last night, after a 24-hour %sojourn in the
greatest mining camp on earth.
Harry Gushing, travelling passenger
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande. and
J. j.. DevereuX, travelling agent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad,
arrived in the city from Salt Lake, their
headquarters, this morning. They will
remain in the city several days.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Denver, received by the Inter Mountain
this afternoon, states that it is reliably
learned that a deal has been closed in
New York whereby he Midland Ter
minal Railway company, the Florence
and Cripple Creek railway and the Flor
ence Reduction Works at Florence have
been sold to a London syndicate for
IS, 900, 900. The deal has been negotiating
for the last six months and was consum-
mated in New York by Messrs. d. Moffat
and Eben Smith. Details of the deal are
meager, but it is intimated that the syn
dictate will build the long contemplated
air line to Denver, connecting with the
Midland terminal near Divide.