Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-10
Splendid Equipment For the
Oregon Short Line.
GREAT NORTHERN TROUBLE:
Snow Bound at Wickes T%unnel--A
New Superintendent Winters
Talks of His Contract,

This week the Oregon Short Line
breaks the record for large passenger
equipment orders. A contract has been
awarded the Pullman car works for
.1orty-four passenger ears and another
order has been placed with the Barney
d smith company for five more passen-
ger cars. These. with 300 steel cars re-
Gently ordered, make a total Of $40 so far
for of the large number for
which the company has been figuring for
so Ions according to the Salt Lake Tri-
bune.
These f~orty-nine passenger cars will
be OF the very latest and finest design.
They will include dining and chair cars
and first-class coaches. They will be
made with full wide vestibules and
have smoking rooms and other COM
partments in the chair cars and
coaches; Pintsch light, beautiful in
teriors and all the modern appliances
inside and out for safety. Artistic effect,
comfort and, in fact, for up-to-date rail-
reading.
The cars will be placed in service on
the Granger-Huntington run and Salt
Lake-Butte rum. The Pullman Sleeping
Car company has assigned to these runs
the very latest SleeperS and when the
Short Lin gets cars of it's own from
the same car works, the trains will be
made up of continuous wide vestibuled
coaches, chair cars, diners and sleepers,
which will place in service the hand
soonest trains ever run out of Salt
Lake.
The order is the largest one made in
many years by a western road, and
proves how we'll the Short Line is do
ing, and that the promises of E. H.
Hartman, as to improvements, are be-
ing fulfilled.
Another thing this order, and the one
for engines made last week, shows, is
that the Union Pacific and the Short Line
are going to make the Portland train a
famous one. The order will represent
! about $3.50, 600.
General Agent Clifford of the Union
Pacific received Geographic advice today
to the effect that the entire Union Pacific
and Short Line systems We're Open, and
trains, despite the heavy snow, We're rum
ming on within a few minutes of schedule
| time.
The Great Northern is in trouble. The
flyer, due in Butte from the east last
night has not yet arrived, and will not
Dc IlSIt u tolIiS lil'N i"tN Niiio y
noon. The delay is caused by the heavy
fall of snow between Boulder and the
WickeS tunnel, where the snow is SIX
feet deem on the main track, while the
side tracks are simply impossible. In
order to get the eastern passenger TO
Butte, which is not yet accomplished II
was necessary to send the rotary snow
pillow out from Great Falls last night,
The big machine has been ut work all
. dow work train. CARVING II snow
| shovelers, also left Butte for the scene
of the trouble this morning. Between the
Wickes tunnel and Boulder is probably
the most exposed piece of roadbed IN the
| state. And while Butte has shared the
general storm this is the MY serious
railroad delay, for which the storm Is
responsible, that the people OF MS city
have experienced this winter.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
! railway, including proprietary com
panies, for the fourth week OF January,
1899. were $54S,417, an increase of 3S,254,
or 7 per cent, over same period or last
year.
Earnings for the month Of January
were ST Gil, S94, an increase OF SSo,34, or
Sc per cent. .,
For the period of July ! to January 81
earnings were $17 ,o5l ,175, an increase Oh
81 Ass, O53, or 9.4 per cent.
A dispatch from kendrlck, ldaho, says
! The cold weather has served as a chech
| on railroad building, few laboflhS men
going out now. Work on the Clearwater
branch is being pushed along lhe ilFei
as far uu as Big canyon.
Between Butte and Woodvilie II was
aoesar. +n nut on three engines on No.
. IaaoI Cor Great Falls, this morning.
| Major DaWso is OF the OPINION 'hat
the tract will be clear today.
Larry Maloy, formerly genera sopeTlh-
tendent of the Montana DIVISION Oh the
| Union Pacific system, with h~eadquartefS
at Cheyenne, has accepted the genera su-
perintendency of the Montana dlNisloh
of the Oregon Short Line. Mr.. Maioys
headquarters will be IN Pocatello' hut ne
will be in Butte quite frequently. lie Is
| spoken Of as being a railroad man OF SUI
perior ability, and local railroad men are
| very much pleased over his appointment.
II n wilson. general agent of the Ore
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