The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-20
ITS FIGURES ARE WRONG
Statistics in Across America"
Gould Bear Revision.
A DECREASED POPULATION
Publication Credits the City With Only
$4,000 Inhabitants = Clearwater
Trouble to b Renewed-Ad-
justing Misunderstanding


hensive publication entitled Across
America" which tells the story of the
country and it's resources and progress
along the line of the Great Northern
from Buffalo to the Puget sound. The
book contains 1888 pages of valuable de-
! scriptive matter, handsomely illus
trated. Sixteen pages are devoted to
the state of Montana, it's resources,
| products and it's cities Some of the
| statistical matter, however, is not very
| reliable, evidence the fact that the
| population of Butte is given at only
| j., 900, less than a fourth of the actual
| population. Concerning the city, the
publication says:
| Butte is known everywhere as the
| largest mining camp on earth. The
streets are damned with crowds made
up almost exclusively of men. They
call it camp, but it's buildings are
solid and imposing; court house
| worth $1,000 two opera houses, banks
and attractive residences meet the eye.
| In the midst of everything are the
busy mills, crushing and grinding the
| rocks that hosting machinery is every
where drawing up through the shafts.
| There is enough ore now in sight to
| keep the mills and smelterS working so
| years. No one should visit Butte with
out seeing a mine. There is no place
| where the mining industry can be OBJ
| served on such a grand and scientific
scale. An enthusiastic visitor calls
| Butte the busiest, heartiest, noisiest,
| SaucieSt, brightest, most hoSpitable city
on the continent; the Paris of mining
| towns, the metropolis of hustledom, the
capital of hullabaloo, the Athens of
Montana The book also says Ana
conda is one of the cleanest and hand
soonest cities on the continent.
| The book is tastefully gotten up and
is of some value, but it is hard to I'M
derstand how even the Great Northern
managed to get its figures SO badly
| mixed as to give Anaconda a popula-
ton of only $500 and Butte 1900, while
Helena is credited with 16,S30 and Great
| Falls again only with 5000.
According to the Tacoma Ledger the
| Northern Pacific and the Oregon Rail
way & Navigation are preparing to re-
new hostilities in the Clearwater coun-
| try after Feb. 5, on which date the
| truce entered into several months ago
| will expire. Both companies are in the
market for large supplies of railway
| ties. The Ledger prints a dispatch from
Idaho, saying that:
| ''The Northern Pacific has given it
| out that ties are wanted for conStruc-
| ton work down the Snake river. Con-
| tractors have contracts placing no
/ limit on the amount of ties to be fur
! nished, and many small parties have
| been told that all the ties they can get
| will be taken
"The Oregon Railway & Navigation
| is also placing large contracts for ties,
| and the feeling among the railroad men
and others well informed is that when
| the truce ends in February construction
work by the roads will commence, the
| Northern Pacific bridging the Snake at
| Lewiston and going down the river to
| meet it's connection below and also
building east over the Bitter Roots and
| through the Nez Perez pass into Mon
| tana and making the Missoula connec-
| ton with the main line.
| 1.-The Oregon Railway & Navigation
| will build from Riparia on through to
| Camas prairie and into the mining
| country adjacent. The Oregon Railway
& Navigation right Of way agent is
experiencing considerable difficulty with
the Indians in regard to rights of way
across their land. they having formed
a combine and set a price on their land
and doggedly refused to settle on any
other basis"
| No developments have occurred in the
conference now in progress in st. Paul
| between General Superintendent Ward
and the grievance committee of the con-
| ductors, says the Minneapolis Times.
| Members of the committee stated yes
terday that rapid progress was being
| made in the REIMBURSEMENT of the pres
ent Observation-Disclosures; that each is be-
ing considered separately and that
it is hoped to arrive al complete
settlement. The committee is anxious
to have the public understand that the
relations between them and the man
agement of the road are entirely
friendly.
Northern Pacific engineers are still
busy with plans for the Missoula cut
off. 1t is the prediction of prominent
railroad men that even if operations
on the construction work are begun
with the opening of spring, two years
will be necessary before the cutoff can
be placed in condition for operation
The engineers have not yet decided
upon a pass through the Bitter Root
mountains and it Is considered un-
likely that selection viii be made
this winter, since the heavy SHOWS will
prevent the operations of the engineer
ing crews. :. 's-s.
The Northern Pacific has been sue
cessful in securing the introduction OF
ordinances in the Seattle city council
granting the road the use of three
streets and widening another. in or.
der to accommodate improvements
planned for that point. The road is
1 | making d iiSHl W SSCuie toHceSSlOns
to it's full demands, with good prospects
of success.
Russell Harding, at one time genera
superintendent of the Great Northern
has been appointed general manager OF
the Missouri Pacific taking the place
of w. B. Doderidge, promoted to be vice
president.
NJ Children's knife, fork and spoor
ell nj eH Of LIN,
as silver $3.50 to 81.
We are all looking for snaps. Here is
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