Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-26
Burlington Surveyors Are at
Work Near Sheridan.
MAY MEAN A LINE TO BUTTE
All Northern Pacific Employees Must
be Vaccinated-- Railroad
Notes.

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sition is that it has stopped either at
Sheridan or some point near there, says
the Billings Gazette. From the stopping
place the party will work toward the Big
Horn country surveying a new line.
Whether it is the intention to build a new
line of road in that section this season is
not known, but it is believed by many
that work in that territory will follow
Immediately after construction of the
line out of Alliance. Considerable Sc
crecy is maintained in sending out sur
veying parties, and even the destination
is not always known to a certainty. Gen.
eral Superintendent Calvert and General
Manager Holdredge ave both been up
on this line recently and several days
were spent near Sheridan, which tends
to show that this road is figuring on
something. 1t is the general belief that
the Burlington will take this route to
reach Butte, going through the Big Horn
country and touching the Yellowstone
park, and thence into Butte. The Bur-
]ingtOn no doubt has it's eyes on the Pa
cific coast, and slowly but surely it is
reaching for it's objective point.
II. B. Lynch, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Great Northern, will
leave for his headquarters in st. Paul
tonight, after several days sojourn IN
Butte and Helena. This is Mr.. Lynchs
first visit to Montana, and he is very
much impressed with it's prosperity and
it's promising future.
The Northern Pacific Railway company
has issued an order that all trainmen in
it's employ must be vaccinated at once
to guard against smallpox. 1t will be
remembered that a few weeks ago a por-
ter was taken down with the disease M
was detained at Missoula. 1t is claimed
the Northern Pacific railway has six
cases of smallpox at Spokane, which is
sufficient grounds for the order recently
issued compelling the men who handle
the trains to be v~accinated.
James McGill, who has succeeded the
late Frank Bruce as master mechanic Of
the Montana Central railway, arrived
from Great Falls today.
Following is a record of the opening and
closing of navigation at Duluth for the
past twenty-siX years:
Year 1872, opening May "A; closing No
vember %.
Year 1873, opening May II; closing No
vember 80.
Year 1874, opening May 2; closing De-
cember 9.
Year 1875, opening May Is; closing De-
cember 1.
Year 1876, opening May 8; closing NO
vember 20.
Year 1877, opening April 90; closing De-
cember l..
Year 1878, opening April 4; closing De-
cember 1.
Year 1879, opening April 90; closing No
vember %.
Year 1880. opening May l.; closing No
vember Is.
Year 1881, opening May 8; closing No
vember &c.
Year 1882, opening April Is; closing No
vember q.
Year 1888. harbor clear March II.
Year 1884, opening May s; closing No
vcmber 30.
Year 1885, opening April q; closing No
venmber 20.
Year 1856, opening May Z; closing De-
cember IA.
Year 1887, opening May 4; closing De-
cember %.
Year 1883, opening May II; closing De-
cember 81.
Year 1889, opening April II: closing De-
cember 4.
Year 1890, opening April 16; closing De-
cember s.
Year 1891, opening April 80; closing De-
cember 6.
Year 1892, opening April 16; closing De-
cember 30.
Year 1894, opening April 10; closing De-
cember X.
Year 1895 opening April IS: closing Feb.
II, 1896.
Year 1896, opening April IL: closing De-
cember IS.
Year 1897, opening April II: closing De-
cember Is.
Year 1898, opening March 10: closing De-
cember %.
Year 1899, opening May /.
Fl. e. Bynum. general superintendent
of the Montana Central. and whose head
quarters are in Great Falls. is i'm the CITY.
Charles Clifford general agent of the
Union Pacific and Fl. O.. Wilson general
agent Of the Short Line. have returned
from Chinook where they attended the
meeting of the stockmen.
General Agent Winters of the Wiscon-
m Central is in the city.
James Sloan. commissioners of the Butte
Terminal Association will, on the first Of
May. establish the HEADQUARTERS of tha
association in rooms rs and III. Harnesg2
building.
DR.. R%inehart. dentist, Hennesey block
RISE IN COPPER STOPS WORK.
Birmingham. Eng, April 2s.-The enor-
nous rise in the price Of copper is plav-
ing havoc with leading industries in Mid
lands. At Kynochs patches of hundreds
of men have been discharged since the
rise in the price of the metal began ard
now instead of 1000 men only 1000 are at
work there. The government has decided
not to give any more orders for cartridge