The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
AMONG RAILROAD men
Construction on the Yellowstone
Park Railway.
AN OFFICIAL SLAUGHTER
But 1t Gould Not Kill the Story That
the Central Would Control the
Notwithstanding Gen.
erous Act.

1t Is fact, not generally known, that
| Spokane men are building a railroad in
| Montana, says the Spokane Spokesman
Review. 1t is the Yellowstone Park rail-
! way, and Colonel w. w. D. Turner is
president of the company, F. A. Hall of
Bozeman is vice president and general
manager. and United States Senator
George Turner is the third trustee.
Il am daily expecting a telegram re-
porting the driving of the last spike on
the first section of the road, said Colonel
| Turner.
This section starts from Chestnut, a
station on the main line of the Northern
| Pacific. 10 miles beyond Bozeman, and
runs to the Trail Creek coal mines For
the present we have an arrangement with
| the Northern Pacific by which we are to
! run over the Northern Pacific tracks
| from Bozeman to Chestnut, but eventually
we shall parallel the Northern Pacific and
run our trains directly from Bozeman.
I'VE have been delayed in construction
by the intensely cold weather and a lack
| OF rails. We had the rails bought, but
could not get them delivered promptly.
That trouble has been overcome. and the
| line is practically completed out to the
coal mines. These mines produce an ex-
cellent quality of coal and have been
producing for 10 years, the coal being
hauled over wagon road. About 100 men
are working in the mines.
Next spring we shall begin the work
of extending our line from Bozeman up
the Gallatin valley. about so miles to the
western boundary of the National park.
We have an arrangement with the North
ern Pacific which will permit tourists
to go into the park over the
Northern Pacitic's Cinnabar branch from
Livingston, cross the park and come out
over our line, or vice versa We hope
to complete the line to the park next
summer
| About week ago an unknown item
wandered into Wall street. says the Jour
! nal. 1t seemed to have some promising
| features and we accordingly caught it
and labeled it Negotiations for control
| by New York Central of Northwest and
Union Pacific" The next day almost ev
| erybody controlling a printing press de-
voted some effort to the work of killing
this harmless little item. 1t, however,
| withstood assault and derived considerable
nourishment from theiaopen declaration
limits favor by Theodore Cox. The item
seemed to grow rapidly in speculative es-
TEEN and Senator Elect Depew was de-
puted to kill it. He assaulted it with lit
| erarysvigor and skill and it looked to ev-
erybody as though 1t must be stone dead
heEceforth. Instead OF being dead. how
ever, 1t began to travel. 1t visited Lon
Ednn~and generally exhibited great activity
for an item which was dead. Thereupon
Vice President Sykes of Northwest, one of
the fairest of men, denounced this item
and caused its proportions to shrink con-
siderably. 1t, however. gained new
sources of strength. and finally it seemed
to have been thought necessary for Will
liam X. Vanderbilt himself to depart
from his usual course and endeavor to
personally kill this insignificant, specula-
tive waif. Judging by, the market the
wait still refuses to die. 1t is certainly
remarkable that an item which we are
told had no existence in the first place
and which has been officially Slaughtered
by SO many distinguished people should
not be willing to recognize the fact that
it ought to be dead.
Reports from Wall street yesterday
morning indicated that the element in
Northern Pacific that favored increased
dividends was in control and stocks
started out very strong, being, in fact,
the opening feature, says Tuesdays Pho
neer-Press. Theodore Cox has been
quoted saying that he believed i'm
pUIldul ueNelopIueHlS were peHuHlS III
Northern Pacific and that about Feb 10
a positive announcement of policy will be
made. effecting the placing of common
on the list of per cent. payers; that be-
fore the year is ended the common will be
paying per cent.
1t is stated on rather good authority
that Great Northern stockholders will
have a chance to, subscribe for new stock
on favorable terms in connection with the
eli nf tln S-,ply 4, North nr,
and other properties.
While corporations may be soulless,
their managers are not always thus de-
fieient, says the Minneapolis Times.
There's James ]. HILL for instance. whose
Napoleonic methods the Times has op-
posed, but whose many excellent traits of
character have received full recognition
in the columns of this paper. Informed
that his old superintendent, Judson B.
Rice, was. on his deathbed ana had eX-
pressed the fear that his family would
come to want. Mr.. Hill sent him word
that he need feel no anxiety on that ac
count. Upon Mr.. Rice's death Mr.. Hill
sent his widow his personal check for
$4,000. For some time before his death
Mr.. Rice, though incapacitated for active
work, had been kept on the pay roll by
Mr.. Hills order. 1t is such recognition
of faithful service that makes one feel
that corporations cannot be entirely soul
less where those in authority have hearts.
Chief Engineer McHenry of the North
ern Pacific railway has invented a water
tank which promises to do away with the
old-fashioned reservoirs now seen at ev-
cry station in the country. His invention
consists of small submerged tank in a
we'll or in a water pit the tank holding
just enough to fill a tender In this tank
is a piston-head on top of the water.
Steam is forced by pipe upon the top of
this piston-head. pressing upon the water
and forcing it up through a pipe to the
tender. This saves, not only the costly
superstructures now so common, but also
the necessity of employing a man to care
for the tank and the plumbing machienry.
Fourteen of the new tanks have recently
been put in on the Northern Pacific and
one is in use on the Duluth, Mesaba &
Northern road.
The Livingston Enterprise says that
Notwithstanding the largely increased