The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-05

a movement that will prove popular
among other railroads. During the past
ten days the representative freight
agents, local and general, have made a
journey over all the main lines of the
system. In this way they have OBJ
tanned personal view of territory
and an idea Of tne the e'AI facilities
of the road at all it's import
ant centers, while the agents from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the
South and the North, have all met on
the line of the system for which they
labor, and have formed an intimate and
close personal acquaintance with one
another and with many of the people
with whom they do business. on the
different divisions the operating repre-
sentatlves have accompanied them,
thus extending still further the adVan-
tases Whlch come from personal &C
quaintance. The party has averaged
about SO in number for the entire 10
days consumed by the trip.
Starting from Chicago May q at p.
m. IN a special train of two Pullman
sleepers, observation car, dining car
and tourist car, the first run was made
to Burlington, Iowa, 206 miles. Fast
mail engine No. 1891 handled the train,
and very few stops were made. 10
show what could be done, trial was
made from Aurora. to Mendoza, As miles.
in 80 minutes, from a dead start to
full stop. The next run was to Omaha,
where terminals We're inspected and
the exposition grounds visited; thence
runs We're made to Lincoln, Neb.;
Deadwood, Spear Fish canyon, S. D.;
Billings. Denver, Nebraska City, St.
Joseph, Kansas City. st. Louis and
back to Chicago
The Great Northern has just received
ten 10-wheel passenger locomotives.
The engines have Is by Sc inch cylin-
ders and have total weight of 10000
pounds, of which 1O2, 900 pounds are car
ried by the drivers. The boiler is of
the Belpaire type SO 5-16 inches in d.
ameter and adapted to a working pres
sure of 30 pounds The firebox is 10S
inches long by 1874 inches wide, and af-
fords heating surface of 1862 square
feet. The tubes are of iron, two inches
in diameter and 243 in number, and af-
ford heating surface of 1,S13 square
feet, making a total of 1975 square feet
of heating surface. The driving wheels
have cast-steel centers and are 10
inches in diameter The truck wheels
wrought-iron plate centers and steel
tires.
The recent change of time on the
Northern Pacific does not meet win
little approval on the part of the Bur-
lington, says the Billings Gazette. On
account of it, the Butte sleeper from
the Burlington, which arrives here at
1902 p. M, does not leave until l As q
M, and does not reach Butte until ate
in the afternoon of the day after its ar
rival in Billings. Before the change the
sleeper reached Butte early in the
morning. Unless the Northern Pacific
changes so as to remedy this evil, the
amicable relations existing between the
two roads may discontinue and cause
the Burlington to work with more zeal
for its extension to Butte and on to the
coast
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota
called on President Hill of the Great
Northern with railroad project in
which he desires to interest Mr. Hill.
1t is understood that if the Great
Northern president will take the road
and operate it the senator will under
take to construct a line from Madison
S. D., to Sioux Falls, connecting there
with the Great Northern. The senator
usually spends his summer vacations,
just prior to elections, in building rail-
roads in his state, but with one excep-
ton they have usually been built on pa
per, says the Ste Paul Pioneer-Press.