The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-19

the city. yes, We are gong 10 give you
something nice"
That is what President James J. Hill
of the Great Northern said last night.
Professor Biles is making this trip to
the Pacific coast to investigate and
make plans for a line of ships that will
ply between the Great Northern Pacific
terminal and the Orient. The Great
Northern people have some new plans
of great magnitude and this Is one OF
them.
rs it true, Mr.. Hill, that the Great
Northern may build a smelter at Spo-
| kane?"
No; we are not in the sme1ter bust
| ness. We are not miners and have no
| interest in mines except to haul ore and
| coke. If the Spokane people would look
| at this matter seriously they would see
| that the Great Northern could NOT
| build a smelter. In the first place. 1t
would be marked from the beginning.
| No other road would haul ore to it at
reasonable rate, and smelter must
| not have only one kind of ore. 1t re-
| quires all kinds to carry 1t on success
! fully.
Spokane ought to have a smelter.
| There is no place in the whole country
that needs one SO badly. This ore is
now going to Omaha, to Great Falls, to
Helena, and perhaps to Butte. It's too
far to haul the rock that is with the
metal in the ore. Now if the mining
people of Spokane will get together and
put up smelter, even on small scale,
it will pay from the beginning. I will
promise that the Great Northern will
do all in its power to cooperate and
foster it. We can help it in many
ways. We will make the best possible
rates in hauling ore and in getting coke
to Spokane. Ore would come in from
all the points of the compass and Spo-
kane would grow. You see it would not
help Spokane any if hundred cars of
ore a day passed through the city, but
when they stop here, it's a. different
proposition.
The st. Paul and Minneapolis papers
are joshing the misfortunes that have
accompanied the Great Northern's flyer
the greater part of the time since 1t
was first put on. Along this line the
Minneapolis Times has the following:
Perhaps the most amusing topic of
| discussion among St. Paul railroad Of
| ficials and which refuses to grow
| threadbare, Is the so-called coast Aver
| of the Great Northern. They speak of
| it as a flyer which does not fly And
| in support of their humorous sallies.
| point to the recorded time of the flyer
as told by its time of arrival. The
| Times has secured the record of the
flyer for the month of August.
"On the trip from the Twin cities
| to the coast, the flyer is said by the
| ply annihilate time and distance. Just
how successful it is may be seen from
the subjoined statement. The arrival
| at ST. Paul for the month is:
Aug. 8, six hours late; Aug. ii, 20
minutes; Aug, Is, 10 minutes; Aug. 16,
80 minutes; Aug. II, indefinite; Aug:
10, one hour; Aug. p, 101a; Aug. %, 40
minutes; Aug. 2S, 40 minutes; Aug.
go 20 minutes; Aug. 81, five and one
half hours.
Its trips west during the past month
are even more notable. Its time of ar
val at Seattle is as follows: Aug. s,
five minutes: Aug. 8, 10 minutes; Aug.
| II and IL, hours and So minutes; Aug.
Is. 2 hours and 20 minutes; Aug. 16
and II, five minutes each; Aug. Is, two
hours; Aug. 20, / hour and 40 minutes;
Aug. %, one hour and five minutes
Aug. 20, two hours 10 minutes; Aug.
| o. four hours and five minutes; Aug.
| g. so minutes; Aug. 20, seven hours;
| Aug. 81, six hours; Sept. 2, 2 hours and
| so minutes; Sept. 3, As minutes; Sept.
| 6, hour and As minutes"
The members of the Western Mileage
| bureau held a meeting al Chicago on
the 9th to consider the advisability of
| an alteration in the form of the inter-
| changeable mileage ticket now in use,
| says the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The
| bureau has been asked to authorize
| the transfer of these tickets of the
| same firm, and it Is expected that the
members will pass upon this request
at this meeting. At present they are
individually considering a proposition
to increase the number of miles that
must be travelled before allowing a re-
bate.
The 32d number of Poor's Manual of
Railroads, which is now in press, will
show the railroad mileage of the Unit
ed States at the end of the year 1898
as 1876, $40 miles. The total mileage, in
Guiding second, third and fourth tracks
and sidings, is 245,329 miles. OF this
mileage 220,S04 miles are laid with
steel There are So $40 locomotives, 25,-
S44 passenger cars, 8,049 mail and bag
gage cars and 1,2S4,SO7 freight cars.
According to the manual the South
western states added 912 miles of road
to the total during the year 1898, Ar
kansas leading with 224 miles, and be-
ing followed by Texas with 159 miles,
Missouri 1872 miles, Oklahoma 120 miles
and New Mexico 1870 miles.
The Western Passenger association
| will meet in Chicago Sept. 25, and
great number of matters are to be con-
| sidered. The question will be discus
sed as to whether the association agree
| ment should specifically prohibit the
checking of baggage for ticket brok-
ers on tickets that are to be used by
their customers. An application will
be taken up from the lower Missouri
river points to North Pacific coast
points via st. Paul of rates made on
what is known as Des Moines basis.
The manipulation of railroad tickets
by brokers will also be discussed. This
is one of the hardest nuts that the
roads have to crack. The work of the
INSCRIPTIONS element of the scalpers is
generally so cleverly done that it es-
capes detection altogether. But even if
the plugging" etc, is detected and
the name of the broker known. it is
almost impossible to convict him of
the alteration, as he can swear that
the ticket was sold him in that condi-
| ton and that he knew nothing of it's
not being good.
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