The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04


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Tourist sleeper rates will remain I'M
changed. The Great Northern owns it's
sleepers and can change its rates with
out consulting any one else. 1t is diff
ferent on other roads on which the
sleeping cars are owned and controlled
| by the Pullman company. Northern
Pacific officials, however are quoted as
saying that that road would meet the
| reductions, or rather that the Pullman
company would meet them, and it is
expected that other roads will be COM
PEELED to follow suit.
| When sleeping cars We're first placed
in service to the Pacific coast between
Omaha and San Francisco, the rate for
double berth was fixed at $3.50, the
price of first-class ticket being then
500. The schedule time of trains be-
tween these points was four and five
days. In 1898 the Great Northern push
ed its line through to the North Pacific
coast, making approximately the same
| time and same rates. Since that time
many changes and many improvements
have taken place. The time from ST.
Paul and Minneapolis to the Pacific
| coast has been reduced to 60 hours,
| which makes two nights instead of
| three and four on the cars. First class
| tickets now cost but $50, one-half Of
their former price. Sleeping car rates
have, however, remained al the old fig
| ure. The Great Northern has for some
| time had in mind the equaizing of the
charge for sleepers to correspond with
| that of transportation and time. The
time seems now opportune for such
concession. and the reduced schedule
was therefore prepared and will be in
effect on and after the 18th inst. -
The lower rates for sleeping car fares
viii apply to all Missouri river points
north of New Orleans, for the passenger
| rates to the coast are the same.
The Northern Pacific has put into eff
feet another change in it's local train
service. 1t has been found impractical
to run the swing. train from Logan to
Garrison to connect at both places with
through trains Nos. and 4 going via
Helena owing to longer time required to
run via Butte. which necesstated hold
ing the Helena through trains at Logan
and Garrison about IS minutes to await
the arrival of the swing from Butte
Beginning yesterday a change Went into
effect by which stub now runs from
Logan to Anaconda and another from
Butte to Garrison in addition to the
through trains Nos. and 2, which run
via Butte.
Stub No. 10, which meets No. through
train at Logan, bringing passengers
from the East. will arrive in Butte at
1890 a. M, proceeding on to Anaconda.
Stub No. IA, with passengers for the
East, will start from Anaconda, leaving
Butte at / p. m. to connect with No. 4
through train at Logan.
Stub No. 113. westbound. will leave
Butte at $3.50 a. m. and connect with
No. at Garrison.
Stub No. ia, connecting with No. at
Garrison, will reach Butte at :35 p. M,
with passengers from the West.
1t will be observed that none of the
stubs connect at Butte, one departing
about 35 minutes before the arrival of
the other.
During its eight years of existence the
lntercontinental Railway commission
has spent 1922, 452, according to it's own
showing, of which 1892. 1874 was spent in
making the surveys, $65,910 was con-
sumed in office expenses and $33, sos was
the cost of printing the present report
Of this sum the United States contrib
uted about $4,000 in cash and the
printing expenses Brazil contributed
100000 in cash. and six other Central
and South American countries the bal
ance. Argentine, Mexico and Uruguay
have lent an encouraging countenance
to the work, but, it is refreshing to note.
have kept close grasp on their purse
strings. It's surveys are about the only
work of the commission which has serv-
ed some useful purpose. says Engineer
ing News. They We're, in general, fairly
good "Reminiscences of the territory
adjacent to the proposed railway line
and give good deal of interesting in
formation regarding the physical ge-
ography, natural resources, people and
railways and other means of commune
cation of the countries visited
AS far as an International railway line
is concerned, the surveys also show that
to complete an all-rail route connecting
the United States with the Latin-Amer-
lean republics as proposed there must
be built some 5400 miles Of railway, the
cost of which, for grading and masonry
alone, is estimated by the commission at
$l75,00O,000. All equipment and practc-
ally all structural material including
tools, cement and even timber in many |
instances, must be shipped into the
country from the United States. 1t is |
probably a conservative figure, there |
fore, to add from % to SO per cent to |
this sum for track buildings and struc-
lures. rolling stock and the general line |
and station equipment necessary to put |
the new railway in shape to begin oper-
alton. This does not include some 10 |
per cent. for interest on bonds, taxes. |
office expenses and salaries up to the |
time of opening the line for business, |
which would have to be added to the |
expenditures of private company
building railway in the United States,
but most of which, it is reasonable to |
presume. government enterp Use would |
escape. The 5.400 miles of new line when
built would form series of links con-
Meeting isolated narrow gauge RAILWAYS.
which in Central and South America
would aggregate about 500 miles, all of
which would have to be made capable
of carrying standard gauge rolling
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