The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-12
OPENS UP new COUNTRY
The Montana Railroad Completed
as Far as Martinsdale.
UNION PACIFIC TRAFFIC
Advantages OF the New Train-Heavy
Business Reported Generally-An
Advance OF Rates to Be
Made on November l.

| Former State Auditor A. B. Cook,
who has the contract for grading the
extension of the Montana railroad,
which has been under way between
Leadboro and Martinsdale, was in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Cook said that the
| extension will be completed to Martins
dale to-day. and that trains will be
run to that point at once. This will
complete the construction for this year,
but it is expected the. road will be
pushed on in the direction of Lewis
town next year. The extension opens
up the Musselshell country, which has
| long been in need of a railroad, apd
brings Lewistown 20 miles nearer to
railroad connection.
| John Graham, superintendent of
| bridges and buildings. and Engineer
Darling of the Montana division of the
| Northern Pacific arrived in Butte yes
terday in Superintendent Horns pri-
| waite car. The gentlemen are here to
look over the Northern Pacific's hill
lines as preliminary, it is understood,
to planning some improvements that
I! are contemplated.
Superintendent Larry Malloy of the
Montana division Of the oregon Short
Line is in the city.
The new limited train Of the Union
Pacific. from Chicago to San Francis
co, will be put on next Monday, and
| to meet the competition the Burling-
ton will put into effect a new sched-
ule at the same time between Denver
and Chicago. 1t is likely that the Rio
| Grande Western will also make some
changes. General Manager Bancroft of
the Short Line is quoted as saying that
1 his company contemplated no change
4 except In the departure of No. / from
| Salt Lake, which will leave at HAS
instead of a, m. North Of Ogden, he
said, there would be no change made
in the schedule worth speaking of, and
that he did not think that a second
| through train would be put on to Port
land. At present he stated that the
| business did not warrant the putting
on of another train, as the present Chi
! cagoiPortland express from Granger to
Portland can handle the business
However, he said that the o. r. & N.
| officials would be consulted about the
| matter.
1t is generally thought that the
Short Line will have to put on sec
| ond through train from Granger to
Portland il it wants to compete with
| the Shasta route. At present the Chi
| cago-Portland express is a very heavy
train, and has to do all of the local
| business, and it cannot make the time
| that is demanded by first-class travel,
SO that there is q great possibility that
| the second train may go on, after ALL
| The heavy business on the Union Pa
| cificf continues, and an~ofticial OF that
| road makes the statement that the
| 1,,,S; iS OF laac paDf
| than it was a year ago. At the present
! time there are 219 locomotives in SER
| vice between Cheyenne and Ogden, 275
engineers, 800 firemen and upwards of
| 1000 trainmen. This force is being in
creased as fast as good men can be
| procured.
| The Union Pacific will inaugurate
new plan for making firemen and eng-
| neers Hereafter firemen will be taken
from the shops and given positions on
| locomotives, instead OF employing
| green hands as in the past. 1t has
| been found that where men have been
taken from the railroad shops, where
| they have gained a knowledge of To-
| connective machinery, they make better
| firemen and are ready to run and take,
| care of their engine as soon as their
| seniority in the service of the company
| entities them to promotion.
| It is announced that the present line
of the Union Pacific between Laramie
and Rawlins, portions of which will be
| abandoned as soon as the new cut-offs
are completed, will be used as dou-
| Bile track for slow business and the
company will practically have dou-
BILE track from Laramie to Medicine
| Bow and from Allen Junction to Dana
station in Wyoming.
| Transcontinental lines are preparing
to advance rates on all of the princi.
/ pal commodities Nov. l. 1t looks as if
| traffic men were coming to the conclu-
sion, in The rush of good business, that
''the way to advance rates is to adj
Evancs rates. as has been said time
I and time again.
The Great Northern reports the
| following earnings:
Month September So 1912 $2,S65,30
From July 1 &C.,. 7,677,l7 6,72l 1876
! Edwin w. Winter, formerly president
| of the Northern Pacific road, has been
elected president of the Chicago Trans
| fer and Clearing company.
California Cafe is the best place to
| eat in Butte.
Tassell's is the place to buy your rub
| 1>n,, NoHxr nd u r+rr al