The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-14
Al ONG RAIL ROAD LINES
Fresh Facts and Gossip Pertain
ing to transportation.
HEARD HERE AND THERE
The Oregon Short Line Track Has Been
Inundated by the Bursting of a Dam.
Butte and Anaconda Marksmen
Leave for Spokane.

Word was received in Butte yesterday
that the Oregon Short Line park was
completely inundated by the bursting of
the new dam which was constructed there
this season. The break was caused by
the rapid and heavy rise of the Big Hole
river, which is reported to be higher than
it has been known for many years. The
damage done is not great, but it will make
necessary the postponement of the park
opening, which has been advertised for
next Sunday. The knights of Pythias
had engaged the park for their annual
picnic on that day, but the damage done
by the flood cannot be repaired by that
time and the picnic and the park opening
will both be postponed untu week from
Sunday. The damage to the park is
about $500. A force of men will be sent
down to-day to repair it.
A number of Butte and Anaconda
sportsmen left last night over the North
err Pacific for Spokane to attend the
shoot of the Northwest Sportsmen asso-
ciation which will open ere tomorrow
and continue for three days. Among the
| party from Butte were DR., Shultz, Dan
| Jaeger Andy Walker. c. III. Smith and
| W. ]. Miller. and from Anaconda were D.
| D. Twohy, C. A. futile and H. H. Nell.
The last weekly crop report of the
| Northern Pacific shows that the continu-
| GUS rains have retarded crops generally.
In the Gallatin valley the tunfavorable
| weather continues. Cold rains and snow
| have fallen and there were heavy frosts
| two nights. Grain is coming up#in aver
| age shape and farmers do not seem to
| be alarmed as to the outcome, although
the middle of June will determine Che gen
! eIal outlook. Fall wheat, however. will
| not be a full crop. The cold weather still
| keeps up in the Bitter Root valley, and
| there has been considerable rain. Wheat
| is doing well, but oats require warmer
| weather. Cold rains, snow and frost are
reported in other parts of the state, which
| damaged vegetables and fruit to some ex-
tent
Chairman CaldwelIs retirement from
the Western Passenger association, leav-
| ing the organiza ton without the strong
| guiding hand which has controlled it for
so long. seems to have had the effect of
| bringing the roads to realization of the
fact that they must work in harmony as
| far as possible or the entire fabric will
| be broken down. At any rate, they agreed
at their meeting in Chicago on Monday
that beginning Monday morning and con-
| tinuing until June q at least every one of
them Is to strictly maintain rates and do
| nothing that will have a tendency to
bring on Generalization. On June 10 the
| executive committee is to have another
meeting, and it is hoped that develop
| ments will have come by that time that
will make permanent agreement a pos
| sbility.
| The general agreement Is practically in
| the same condition before this last
meeting. 1t has been considered time and
in, afl1f haa 1irf,ir1 tod
all matter that caused division of opin-
ion except such referred to the immi-
grant clearing house in New York and
one or two others of minor Importance.
L has not been adopted and the prospects
are that 1t will not be for some time. That
a, temporary agreement to maintain rates
has been secured is considered very for
tunate. 1t now seems to be the feeling
too, that greater conservatism than ever
| is necessary for the reason that the West
| ern Passenger association has no head
There is no one to bring the warning fac
tions together if trouble ensues, and the
passenger men feel, therefore, that it is
necessary for them to see that serious
| troubles do not arise. An era of better
conditions may be expected for that very
reason. Some day the new agreement viii
| be taken UP again for consideration and
: the prospects are that it will then be
> adopted with some minor changes.
St Louis Importance as a growing gate
way to the East and South is emphasized
| by the action of the Burlington railroad
which. on June l. established a new fast
| train in each direction between that city
and Denver. Nearly 1000 miles of add.
tional train service daily is neCesstate
but Burlington officials claim that trave
between the mountains and the big city
at the confluence of the Missouri and tht
Mississippi is large enough to warrant
them in going to considerable expense ir
order to obtain their share of it.
Two remarkable locomotives have JUS
been delivered to the Burlington road BY
the Baldwin Locomotive works of Phila.
delphia. They weigh 127 tons each, anG
their driving wheels are more than sever
feet high They are the 4.eavest engines
ever built for passenger service and it Is
believed that in time they will prove tt
be the fastest.
The Baldwin company demonstrated its
faith in these monster machines by guar
anteeing their ability to maintain an av-
erage speed of Y miles an hour.
The Burlington system is the latest con.
vert to the advantages of Pullman col
orr for the exterior of passenger cars
The four handsome trains pust built fol
its use between Denver and Chicago ara
finished not in the light yellow which is
SO familiar to Western Travellers hut in
a rich shade of olive green. All the cars
being of the same color, the new trains
present an exceedingly attractive appear
aHce.