The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-10

they need a railroad to give them easy
access to the market. Many of them
found that it costs more to haul their
crops to Market Lake than it does TO
raise them, and so. when the railroad
company asked for a free right of way
through their lands, the request was
quickly granted even though it almost
destroyed some fine farms. According
to the printed contracts for right of
way, the road must be built within IS
months they are null and void. 1t is
hardly reasonable to suppose the rail
road company will let such a valuabla
acquisition as n right of way through
a fine farming country slip through
their fingers by failing to build the
read within the specified time.
Yellowstone park is just now the
scene of a traffic war between the stage
line and che railroads. 1t is the out
growth of a strife between the stage
line and the hotel company at the park.
Under past arrangements the stage
people have made all the money, it is
alleged, and the hotel people have lost
money The hotel company have offer
ed to buy out the stage line or to sell
its hotel property, but the stage COM
pany refused to do either. The result
is another stage line, with new equip
ment. which will operate from Monida,
| Idaho, on the oregon Short line, to Gin
nahar the southern terminus of the
Northern Pacitics branch. traffic
agreement has been made whereby
passenger leaving the Oregon Short line
at Monida may make a tour through
the park, coming out at Cinnabar, and
continue his journey on the Northern
Pacific. or vice versa. 1t will avoid
doubling back as has been the GUS
tom.
Sixty-five carloads of 75-pound steel
rails which had been gathered up along
the Wyoming division passed through
Cheyenne the other day, en- route to
Hershey, Neb., where hundreds of car
loads of rails and ties are being UNI
loaded every few days. This would in
dictate that the recent trip overland in
wagons made by President Burt, Cen
eral Manager Dickinson and Chief En-
gineer Berry of the Union Pacific, who
Travelled up the North Platte river to
Hartvile, then on west through the
Laramie mountains to Rock creek, was
for q purpose, says a Cheyenne spe-
cial 1t has been stated quite often
of late that the Union Pacific would
build a line of road from the main line,
somewhere in the neighborhood Of
Sydney, up the Platte river to the line
of the Cheyenne Il Northern near
Hartville.
A Union Pacific surveyor stated that
the company intends to build road
from Hershey up the Platte river, but
that he did not know when the actual
work of grading and track-laying
would commence.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe will
expend S1,500,000 in improvements this
coming season. About S1,000,0 900 of this
! will go into tracks and $500,000 in grad
ing, masonry and bridge work. 1t is
announced from the company's head
quarters at Topeka, Kan, that 80
| miles of new steel track will be laid on
| the main lines and 67 miles of new
| track built. BY the end of the year
the entire main line from Chicago to
| Albuquerque, n. M will be practically
| of new steel The estimated cost of
| relaying rails is $4,000 per mile, and of
putting down new tracks about double
| that amount.
| A bill to compel railways to issue
| passes to all members Of the Canadian
| parliament has been rejected in the
| house of commons, and the Montreal
| Gazette makes the following comment:
| "The members evidently think there is