Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-19
A BIG EQUIPMENT
Hundred Steel Ore Cars
For the Montana Central.
TRANSPORT B & N ORE
From Butte to Great FallS-Will Have
Daily Capacity of 5000
Tons.

Private advices received in the city to-
day, are to the effect that the Great
Northern railway, which has spent a
princely sum in improvements in Mon
ana during the past year. has let a con-
tract with an eastern firm for 400 50-ton,
d~rop-bottom steel cars, to be delivered
March 81. The cars are to be used on the
Montana Central, W Butte and
Great Falls, presumably, in transporting
the copper ores OF the Butte & Boston,
and other Amalgamated properties, to the
Great Falls smelter for treatment.
The capacity of the new ore hauling
equipment will be $1,000 tons. and as the
trip can ordinarily be made both ways in
two days, it would be possible to hau s.
600 tons of copper ore to Great Falls daily,
a tremendous shipment, and which is far
In excess of shipments in the past. and
would ndicat that the Boston & Mon
tana people propose to mine and smelt
copper next year on a scale of magnitude
hitherto uninterrupted.
The fact that the Boston & Montana
smelter at Great Falls is undergoing ex-
tensive improvements and is preparing
to treat from so to IS per cent more ore
In the future than 1t has in the past in a
measure substantiates the conjecture Of
the use to which Montana Central's new
equipment is to be put. The improve
ments, which are now under way, will
practically double the plant, and it is ex-
pected that the work will be completed
early next spring.
Archibald Gray. assistant general
freight agent of the Great Northern, left
for st. Pau last night for his regular
G112rfPrIV rOnfn rp nna with hDo1r,, ~ SO, 80
f1cials OF his road.
Il. II. Young, who has for some time
represented the Great Northern as tray- |
cling freight and passenger agent, has ,
been designated to succeed r. j. Pheeney
as general freight and passenger agent
at Great Falls. Mr.. Young's headouar-
ters have heretofore been in the Seattle
o11ces OF the company. Mr.. Pheeney has
been transferred to the freight depart
nent.
P. NJ. Seymour of the Chicago & Great
departed last night for a visit
With relatives in Canton, Ohio.
The Big Timber Leader says: "On
Tuesday of this week the Northern Pa
,lhc ran a test rain Over this section of
is line which was 500 tons heavier than
maximum load. The object of this
q ! ascertain the actual hauling
capacity of the large klondike locomo-
lives now coming into general USE"
Albert Stubblefield. one of the first and
oldest residents of Big Timber died of
pneumonia at his home in that place last
Friday.
Great Falls, the Electric City" was
electric power for several hours
last Friday. There were no electric
lights and no street cars running. The
trouble was occasiOned, in the first place.,
an ice-jam at the dam, where the ice
eight or ten fet thick, cutting the
off from the wheels at the electric
power house. After consid-
hare work the water was gotten
through, under the ice, but in a short
time it was found that the current was
carrying into the pen-stocks a great
quantity Of rubbish from the bed of the
river. This rendered it necessary to keep
all the machinery running constantly.
Cheyenne, WyO., Dec. 19.-Bids have !
been accepted and contracts have been
signed, or will be signed within a week,
for nearly 3 1000 900 worth of improve
ments on Sherman hill. about 30 miles
west of Cheyenne, on the main line of
Union Pacific railroad. The i'm
.provements consist of a tunnel between
one and two miles long through solid
and a long n deep cut. also
in granite, and an arch or causeway
across Dale creek, which is now spanned
nv q wrOnpht iron hriloa % foot hioh