The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-11
BUTTE News.
n RAILROAD CIRCLES
Union Pacific One of the Few
!. Lines Not Tied Up.
I NEW BLIZZARD RAGING
a Large Order for Passenger Equipment
: Made by the Oregon Short Line.
Cutting Down Time TO
the West Indies.

The Great Northern was tied up tight
all day yesterday on account of great
snow blockade between Boulder and
Wickes and wrecked freight train be-
tween Boulder and Basin. The wreck
was caused by several cars flying the
track, but no great damage was done.
The flyer from the East due in Butte
at II o'clock Thursday night ran into
a snow bank near Wickes and re-
manned there for "a hours. A rotary
snow pillow was sent to it's rescue from
Great Falls and trainload of shovel
ers was sent out from Butte.
The report late last night was that
the train would get into Butte some
time between IL and l o'clock, when
the other delayed trains were expected
to move again. The other flyer due last
night was reported four hours late and
will probably get into Butte some time
this morning.
:. While trains generally are having a
hard time of it and a new blizzard
struck the state yesterday and reports
from Colorado were that the roads in
that state were tied up closer than ever,
General Agent Charles Clifford of the
Union Pacific received telegram from
General Car Superintendent Bucking-
ham at Omaha that the Union Pacific
was wide open and all trains were run
ming on time Freight got into Butte
over that road from the East yesterday
Din regular time. Mr. buckingham al
SO states that the weather at Omaha is
undertaking.
About the only other road in the West
that has not been blockaded by snow
is the Oregon Short Line.
I'VE haven't been tied up for min
,ute" said General Agent Wilson yester-
day. r.
I This week the Oregon Short Line
breaks the record for large passen-
ger equipment orders, says the Salt
Lake Tribune. A contract has been
awarded the Pullman car works for
"A passenger cars and another order has
been placed with the Barney & Smith
company for five more passenger cars.
These, with 300 steel cars recently or
deRed, make a total of 349 SO far arrang-
ed"for of the large number for which
the company has been figuring for so
long.
These 40 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 compartments in the
chair cars and coaches; Pintsch light,
appliances inside and out for safety,
artistic effect. comfort and, in fact, for
up-to-date railroading.
The cars will be placed in service on
the Granger Huntington run and Salt
Lake-Butte run. AS has been told al
ready, the Pullman Sleeping Car COM
pany has assigned to these runs the
very latest sleepers and when the Short
Line gets cars of its own from the same
car works, the trains will be made up
of continuous wide vestbuled coaches,
chair cars. diners and sleepers, which
will place in service the handsomest
trains ever run out of Salt Lake.
The order is the largest one made in
many years by a Western road, and
proves how well the Short Line is doing,
and that the promises of E. H. Harri-
man. as to Improvements, are being full
filled.
Another thing this order, and the one
for engineers made last week, shows,
is that the Union Pacific and the Short
Line are going to make the Portland
train famous one. The order will rep
resent about $250,000.
The Herald of Salt Lake says: APP
proximately one-third of the mammoth
order for equipment placed few days
ago by the Union Pacific is intended for
the use of the Oregon Short Line on
the Utah, Idaho and Montana divisions.
This fact shows more conclusively than
ever the complete consolidation of the
two roads and the source from whence
he can do so by way of New York, a
condition which has existed only during
the last few weeks. The number of
the Short Line derives the means for
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