Daily inter mountain., 1899-03-07
Hill May Not Come to Butte
After All.
SMALLPOX DELAYED HIM
Inc Terminal Association Will Meet
in Semi-Annual Session
Thursday.

President James j. Hill of the Great
Northern may not come to Butte after ALL
IN which event those who have been hop
ing that his visit here meant the con-
struction of union depot may be com
PEELED to wait a few years for the ma
terialization of their expectations. Archi-
bald Grey received telegraphic advice this
morning to the effect that Mr.. Hills
party had left Spokane and We're en- route
east. Mr.. Hill has been waiting in Spokane
to see whether he would have to go to the
pest house, on account. of his exposure to
smallpox, or proceed with his railroad
manipulations, and has evidently decided
that railroad president is disease proof
Mr.. Hill is said to be in a hurry to go
east, as it is about time for him to go to
Europe. If Mr.. Hills haste is such that
he cannot come to Butte, the party will
split at Havre and MT Ward, the general
superintendent of the Great Northern,
will come to Butte. The special should
arrive in Havre tonight, in which event
Mr.. Ward, and possibly Mr.. Hill, will be
in Butte tomorrow,
The Union Pacific has just issued one
of the most interesting and artistic pub
lications in the way Of a railroad COM
pendium of information ever placed be-
fore the public. 1t is IN the shape of
folder, and is an elaborate treatise on
the Hawaiian islands,. G.. Clifford, the
local general agent Of the company, ex-
poets to receive a limited number Of the
issue soon for distribution.
The Butte Terminal association will
meet in this city Thursday in semi-an-
nual session. This association comprises
the general superintendents of the vari-
1.-Two, ,fov D,,+& 4
the object of the organization is dispatch
in unloading equipment. Among those
who have signified their intention Of at
tending are Mr.. Calvin, the general sup
erintendent of the Oregon Short Line,
whose headquarters are in Salt Lake
city; F. E. Ward, of st. Paul, general
superintendent of the Great Northern,
and w. G. Pearce, assistant general man.
ager of the Northern Pacific, and whose
headquarters are in Tacoma. No partic-
ular questions are programmed, but
something interesting may develop dur
ing the meeting. ..t. ..
Few people realize the great amount
of immigration that is coming into this
eastern Washington country" said F. W.
Gilbert, superintendent of the Idaho di-
vision of the Northern Pacific railway
to a Spokesman-RevieW reporter recently
"The population Of this region is being
increased in a steady but rapid manner
The immigration is coming in all the time
Occasionally there is a whole car load of
colonists, but chiefly the increase comes
in a few arrivals day by day. 1t is spread
ing over the country, settling it up and
establishing new communities. This i'm
migration is like the formation of a bad
habit: it is on you before you know it.
Or it is like a steady rain; you are soaked
before you realize it's raining.
THE class of people that is forming this
new population is of the most desirable.
1t is not that which comes in response to
a boom or land-selling literature. Those
who come are not the poverty stricken
class, but each one has little money and
invests it in property, They find the coun-