The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-14
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
President Hill Is on His Way
West.
WITH A PARTY OF FRIENDS
Railroad Travel Is Growing Heavy.
Pushing the New Wyoming e. South
ern Rapidly to Completion.
Transcontinental Line.

Iran6COntluontalL Line.
President Hill of the Great Northern
is on another western tour, which, it is
said, will take in Butte before it is
ended. Mr.. Hills special went west
last night over the main line. Major
Dawson was notified of Mr.. Hills mis-
sion, and stated last evening that the
president will surely pay Butte visit
on his return from the west Major
| Dawson stated that, as far as he knew,
President Hills trip had no particular
| significance beyond a trip of inspection.
Major Dawson could not state definitely
| the date of Mr.. Hills visit, but said he
would undoubtedly be here within a
| week or 10 days. President Hill has a
| party of friends with him who are trav-
| cling for pleasure and sightseeing.
Railroad travel, say all the local
| agents, is heavier just now than it has
been for a very long time. Just what
! to attribute the fact to, none of them
| appear to know but they all say they
have rarely if ever been kept as busy
| with passenger business as for the past
month. General Agent Wilson of the
|
| his connection with the road the pas
4 senger, business has never been as good
| as it has during the past month. Some
| of this business is due to the park trav-
ell, but Independent of the park business
| has been very heavy. People must
have money to spend and feel like trav-
4 cling, is the only explanation / can give
for the increased business said Mr..
Wilson.
| mi. L.
! statement from Secretary of State Fen
nimore Chatterton of Wyoming to the
effect that the new Wyoming South
| eTn is to be pushed to completion. The
| Commercial says:
The statement has been given out by
| Fennimore Chatterton, secretary OF
| state for Wyoming, after consultation
| in New York and Boston with general
| officers and directors of the Wyoming
| & Southern, of which he is secretary.
| that work upon the new railroad is TO
be continued, and the survey to the
| Colorado state line completed this year.
THE company's intention, Mr.. Chat
| terton says, is to penetrate Northern
Colorado in order to divert the large
cattle shipping trade of the North Park
| country and Nhe ore shipments of
| Hahn's Peak to Steamboat Springs, and
on through the North Park. The objec-
tive point has not been definitely de-
l
| surveys for both routes are completed.
| Under contract made with the
| Union Pacific, all the company's bust
| ness for five years is to be given to
that road at Fort Steele, SO that it Is
| probable no connection will be made
with any of the Colorado roads during
that period. The Upper Platte valley
and the Hahns Peak and North Park
| districts, it is believed, will furnish
| enough freight for the. new road to
make it a paying investment from the
| start -..- .-. 4. g ..
| The Savannah Mining News has the
| following in connection with the pro-
posed road from the Atlantic to the
Pacific:
The announcement was made in
| Wall street on Thursday that plans had
been completed by which a railway
from the Atlantic to the Pacific under
one management had been assured
The railway is, of course, made up of
a number of roads, all of them rich and
powerful corporations. They are the
New York Central, which. with it's con-
nections, runs from New York to Chi
cago; the Chicago & Northwestern and
the Chicago & Alton, which runs from
Chicago to the Missouri river, and the
Union Pacific, which runs from the
Missouri river to the Pacific coast. The
Vanderbilts are the dominating factors
Pacific, and they and the Goulds and
the Rockefellers own the roads from
Chicago to the Missouri river.
1T is said that the stock of the Union
Pacific has been increased to O,OO0,-
900 for the purpose of taking up stocks
and bonds OF some of it's connections
and for the purpose of purchasing other
connections. The great railway, span
ming the continent, will be owned by
three families and Will be under one
management.
The question which arises in connec-
ton with this immense property is this
What effect will this big and rich com
bination have on the fortunes of the
Nicaragua canal? 1t has always been
said that one of the reasons why there
is so many difficulties in the way of the
passage of the Nicaragua canal bill IS
that the influence of the transcontinen-
tai railways has always been against it.
| A canal would mean the loss of 4
great deal of business to them. They
now control the traffic crossing the con-
tlnent and make the rates. If canal
should be built a very large part of the
traffic between the Atlantic and the
Pacific would pass through the canal.
for the traffic.
IF it be true that the Pacific railways
have been able to prevent thus far the
passage of the Nicaragua canal bill
what chance will the bill have now that
this immense transcontinental railway
combination has been made? Will it
not exert far more influence on con-
gress than the Pacific railways have
ever been able to bring to bear on that
body?
Its capital will amount to many
hundred millions of dollars and it's en-
ployes will be numbered by the thous-
ands. 1t will have influential attorneys
| and agents in many states While II
may not NEEDLE in politics it will no
doubt see to it that men are nominated
to congress who can be depended upon
not to antagonize its interests. 1t will
be able to command the services of men
of great ability and influence to look
out for it's interests before congress,
and one of it's interests will be to see
that 70 h,lildinsr of q canal cnnnaGt=