Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-25
OF The
RAILROADS
Another Change in Northern
Pacific Schedule.
The INFORMATION BUREAU
Doing a Rushing Busiuess--The Rate
War is Nearly Due--A u.
P. Circular.
The BUREAU

AQVlCeS received dl lle loCdI olleSo VA
the Northern Pacific railway this after
noon announce a change in the present
train service, to take effect at the terml-
nails, st. Paul and Portland, March 80.
The change will affect Butte as follows:
Trains Nos. 8 and 4, now running via
Butte, will run via Helena, while trains
Nos. l and 2 will run solid via Butte. In
addition to trains Nos. l and 2, Butte will
have a swing train which will run be-
tween Logan and Garrison, via Butte,
connecting at both points with Nos. 8 and
A. The change will be an Improvement
on the present schedule. as it will give
Butte a double train service in both di-
rections. The exact schedule time will
be announced later.
j. E. McCormick's railway information
bureau has been kept quite busy since
the Inauguration of the homeseekers' eX-
cursions. The local offices of the North
ern Pacific have been crowded with
seekers after the truth, recent arrivals
from the rural districts of Iowa, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin, and Mr.. Mccormick,
on account of his knowledge of alfalfa
and rutabagas and products of the farm
generally, has been delegated to supply
the homeseekers with the necessary in
formation. Half a dozen young men who
We're looking for lands open to location
in the public domain. leave for the Twin
Bridges country tomorrow.
A crowd of lumbermen from the piner-
les of Wisconsin came to the conclusion
that Butte was not the proper place for
them. and on the advice Of the director of
the bureau of information left for the
Bitter Root country today.
The policy of upbuilding the northwest
through the medium of low rates to
homeseekers is an effort that will be ap-
preciated by all who give the matter any
consideration. The rates established for
Minnesota. North Dakot
ana Montana has demonstrated that this
country may be settled much more rapid
ly than by the slow process of the natu-
raj advance in settlement. The enormous
travel of the past few days has not only
taxed the facilities of the railroads, COM
pelling them to add extra coaches to their
regular trains and sending out a great
many specials, but it has advertised the
northwest more ad~vantageously than for
years previous. 1t has brought new blood,
new energy and capital to add wealth
to states in which these people have To-
Gated.
General Agent c. Clifford of the local
offices of the Union Pacific has received
adVices from Omaha to the effect that
the feeding in transit privilege on live
stock which has been in effect for a num-
Der of years will be cancelled May 25th.
Under the feeding in transit privilege
shipments of western live stock were
stopped at interior points in Kansas and
Nebraska to be fattened, and the Mis-
souri, River rate was collected at the
feeding point. When the stock were
ready for market, they were billed out
from the feeding point to Omaha or Kan
sas City at $40 per car. In other words,
$40 above the Missouri River rate was
collected for the privilege of feeding at
interior points. the limit for feeding be-
ing six months. If the stock was de-
stined to Chicago, the difference between
the amount collected at the feeding point
and the through rate from original point
of shipment to Chicago, plus $40, was col
lected. Or and after May 25th any live
stock stopped off at interior points in
Kansas and Nebraska, the full Missouri
River rate will be collected at the feed
ing point, and when they are ready for
market, they will be billed from the feed
ing point to South Omaha or Kansas City
or any other eastern market at the full
local rate from the feeding point.
I'VE have learned from experience that
a passenger association without the
Union Pacific and other trans-Missouri
lines Is not worth maintaining,' said a
leading officer of one of the big western
lines in Chicago a few days ago. Il re-
gard our association as practically dis
organized. Some of the most important
roads in it hardly make a pretense now
Of observing the articles of agreement.
Within thirty days / think that there
will be general decentralization in passon-
ger rates. If ever a good, strong aSsocia-
ton was needed. 1t is right now. If our
mileage bureau is discontinued there will
be nothing to prevent ticket scalpers
from thriving as they did years ago. We
are not willing to continue to bear the
expense of maintaining the passenger as
ISOLATION longer, and l know other roads
feel the same way. The Union Pacific has
had all the benefits we had without pay
ing anything for them, and the other
lines Won't pay it's proportion of the eX-
| pcnses any longer. ] do not care to say
anything about the Generalization which
the Union Pacific has caused in regular
and immigrant traffic, but ! will say that
it will have n fight on it's hands from
his time on"
$40 sets of te> IN $40. DR.. Wix.