The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-23
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES
Many of the N. P. Excursionists
Stop in Butte.
A THOUSAND IDLE MEN
More Men Will Be Looking for Work.
Oregon Short Line Affairs Are
in Good Shape--An I'M
portant Move.

portant Move.
Judging from the number of inquiries
made at the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern city offices yesterday as to the
time of arrival of the excursion trains
from the East many of the excursionists
will probably stop off in Butte. One
official estimated that at least several
hundred of them would land in Butte
to-day, and no less than a thousand
people would be added to the city's
population by reason of the cheap rates
from the East.
What Butte will gain from the ex-
cursions will be a thousand idle men
looking for employment which they will
not find" said a business man who had
heard the railroad mans estimate.
"There are two ways of looking at the
cheap rate question, and that is one of
them"
President W. D. Cornish of the Ore
gon Short Line completed his business
in this city yesterday and left for New
York last night accompanied by j. F.
Dunn, superintendent of motive power
and machinery, says the Salt Lake Her
aid. President Cornish returns to the
East mighty well satisfied with Oregon
Short Line affairs. The road is just
now enjoying a season of prosperity
such as it has probably never before eX-
perienced, and it's continual increase in
earnings, according to an official in
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portant move in the way of improve
ment entertained by the company and
it's management. President Cornish
was alive to this fact and the heads of
the several departments will get about
all they made requisition for.
The passenger department comes in
for goodly share of the Improvement,
all the orders contemplated and those
already placed having met with the APP
probation of the visiting official Some
time during May the following will
make the debut on this end of the
run between Chicago and Portland:
Three of the most elegant diners ever
seen in the West: five standard, up-to-
date full-end Vestibule sleepers; three
handsome buffet and library cars. con-
tanning barber shop, reading and smok-
ing compartments, etc: three full-end
vestibule coaches. Besides these, there
will be new baggage cars, and all will
be of high standard type, making the
train positively the finest ever put INTO
service between Chicago and Portland.
Some of the new equipment Will be de-
livered. it is believed, during April, but
the great train complete will not make
the first run until the month following.
The fact that Mr.. Dunn has gone to
New York with President Cornish may
be safely regarded as having whole
lot to do with the matter of equipment
in the way of motive power and ma
chinery. This much was admitted by
the officials, but Mr.. Dunn refused to
be interviewed on the subject at this
time. He expects to return in the course
of a month and will then probably state
what is in the wind 1t is believed the
business at hand is the purchase Of the
compound engines, so much talked OF.
for service on certain points OF the
Idaho division. The matter will likely
be laid before the directory of the road.
The grade on OpeX hill is to be mod
Grated, and other work on the ldaho
division is to be accomplished. Alto
gether, the Short Line will eXpend
mint of money this year in the way of
permanent improvement.
The stockholders meeting of the Rio
Grande Western Railway company is
to be held in Salt Lake on April IA. The
books for the transfer of stock will be
closed on March "a, and not reopened
until after the meeting. The meeting
will be a most important one, as the
financial arrangements are to be com
pletely changed owing to the require
ments for new equipment, improve
ments and extensions at Pleasant Val
ley. Provo and others that may be de-
cided upon later 1t is also desirable
to cancel the existing equipment trusts
and avoid future ones, and to unity
these liens so that eventually there shall
be only one mortgage covering the main
line and all branches and extensions.
To meet these requirements, the direc-
tors have decided, subject to the appro-
val of the stockholders, to authorize
mortgage securing S10,O00,000 CONSOLE
dated 4 per cent. 50-year gold bonds,
with the right of anticipation at prices
to be fixed by the directors, but at not
less than par and interest. The first
mortgage bonds of the branch compa-
MES, now held in the treasury. amount
ing to S2,S5O.000. will be deposited with
the trustees and exchanged at the rate
of $50 900 per mile for 100000 of the
proposed consolidated mortgage bonds,
to be similarly held. Provisions will be
made for the issue of these bonds for
future branches and extensions and for
exchange with underlying bonds and
posed to issue 81 100000 bonds, and the
meeting of the stockholders will be held
to ratfy the new mortgage.
The eight 10-wheelers ordered by the
| Oregon Short Line and soon to be deliv
cred will be numbered $50 to 1851 inclu-
sive. The principal dimensions will be
| cylinders 20 inches diameter and 2S-inch
stroke: driving wheels, 81 inches; rigid
| wheel base, 10 feet inches; total wheel
| base, 90 feet 91a inches: total wheel base
of engine and tender, So feet liz inches;
weight in working order. about 10000
pounds: weight on drivers. about 49,
900 pounds; weight of 5,000-gallon ten
der with fuel and water about 10000
pounds; CRATE surface, 30.4 square feet;
| heating surface in fire box, 203.3 square
feet; heating surface in tubes, $500
square feet; total heating surface
2599S square feet; working steam pres
| SIRE oO0 mounds Der square inch.