Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-30

this scheme in hand foresee possibly eff
forts on the part of the authorities to
make trouble and to charge them with
violating the antitrust law on the ground
of running a pool. They will be prepared
for this in more ways than one. In the
hrst place they will hold that no traffic
association exists among the trunk lines
and they will defy the authorities to find
one. The steps which have just been
AIKEN to destroy signs of pooling are sig
nificant.
The committee of the Joint Traffic as
ISOLATION, which has in and the duty
of winding up the affairs of the assoc
citation after 1t was declared to be illegal
by the United States supreme court. has
Just taken the last steps to extinguish
the remains of that organization. No
tices were sent out two days ago that
all OF the furniture in the rooms of the
Joint Traffic association would be. sold
and the lease of the rooms, which runs
until May l. will be disposed of. After
December l all employees of the associa-
ton Will have been dismissed. There
have been reports that this agreement,
had been really in operation for several
weeks and that the changes to be made
on January l are simply a perfecting of
the big scheme. 1t was intimated that
the percentages between the railroads
would be settled on a money basis. where
one road gets more than it's share and
lioI III Tie dUSoIlco OIL an ASSOCIATION
his wOuld be done by the agreers with
out detection by the government officials
The new arrangement applies chiefly to
WestbOund business. EaStbOund traffic
cannot be controlled so easily. since the
initial liners are in the west and they.
seem to make concessions to shippers.
1t is said, however. that the scheme con-
templates the bringing of all kinds of
business. both eastbound and WestbOund,
passenger as well as freight. under the
same strict control.
San Francisco. Nov. 3O.-The Southern
Pacific is said to be making active prep
arations to engage in some extensive and
costly construction work in the state of
Sonora, Mexico. Recently the Southern
Pacific acquired by purchase some eX-
tensive undeveloped coal fields in Sonora,
lying about 20 miles south of Ortiz. a sta
ton on the Sonora railroad, which latter
road is now a Southern Pacific property.
1t is understood to be the company's in
tention to develop the Goa fields as soon
as tracks can be built from Ortiz and
snip the products to the coast, where a
coaling station will be established.
President Burt of the Union Pacific, in
an interview published recently in the
Oman Bee, announces his road will
begin 70 double-track its line next year.
The interview is as follows:
THE Union Pacific will be the first
railroad to have a double-track line from
the Missouri river west. Traffic of all
kinds has been so heavy for the last
year that the carrying capacity of the
road has been Overtaxed and the pro-
posed Improvement has been made al
most imperative.
For a long time it has been evident
that the west has OutgrOwn single track
trunk lines n was ready for such road
beds as are the rule in the east, at any
rate. Press of business has made the
Union Pacific feel that it needed some
thing more for it's traffic than the single
track lines it now operates. Business
conditions have not been favorable for
building. so the project of putting in a
second track alongside that now in use
has lain But with the rise of
business activity the scheme has re-
gained life, and it is probable that among
the important improvements which we
shall make next year will be the double
racking of one of the Union Pacific lines
out of Omaha. 1 am inclined to think
that it will be the line between Omaha
and Denver, but we have the choice of
several branches that heed double track,
How much of this work it is intended
to do l do not know yet. but probably
a. large force of men will be put at work
on n of the Omaha lines, either to
Denver or Cheyenne. We shall go on
with the Improvement which we began
his year. Attention will be paid to the
Julesburg branch and ballasting with
disintegrated granite will continue until
the whole roadbed has been so improved.
In Wyoming the building cut-offs will
continue. A large force of men will be
at work all winter at the Piedmont cut
on driving the tunnel, which is the most
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