The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20
Hundreds of Butte People Take
Advantage of Cheap Rates.
HOTELS OVERCROWDED
Pilgrims May Have to Do the Sleep Walk
Act-Traveler Couldn't Stand for the
Round Trip Ticket-Burlington's
Hartville Extension-Gossip.

sloH rate TO salt Lake yesterday, ana
| the extra coaches added to both trains
were crowded. The excursion was
made on account of the salt palace
| opening, and the excursionists will have
| good time if they will not mind such
a little Inconvenience, when they ar
| rive in Salt Lake, as sleeping in the
| parks or passing the nights in doing
| a sleep-walking act Fridays Salt
Lake papers report that all the hotels
| in the city except the Knutsford We're
crowded to their full capacities Thurs
| day night, while the rush to the city
| had hardly begun Hundreds of extra
| beds had been provided by each hotel
and had all been engaged, while each
house had hundreds of requests for &C
| commodations from people who expect
| ed to arrive Friday, Saturday and Sun
i day. The attraction at Salt Lake for
| Utahns. in addition to the salt palace,
| is the arrival at home of the Utah vol
unteers from Manila.
What is the fare to Salt Lake to-
day." asked a young man at the Short
Line office yesterday.
Fifteen dollars for the round trip"
was the information given
| Il don't want to come back said
the young man. What is the fare one
way?"
Twenty dollars and five cents
Il don't want to pay that said the
| innocence abroad.
| Then buy round trip ticket"
| But l don't want to come back
| The ticket agent tried to explain to
| him that he would not be required to
come back to Butte or use his return
ticket; that he could do as he pleased
| about that. IN
The young man seemed to have a
suspicion that the ticket man was try
ing to work him on some sure-thins
| game. He thought about it a little
while and then walked out of the office,
saying he would think about it. A
few hours later he returned and bought
straight one-way ticket. .-.....
| A correspondent at Wheatland Wyo.,
| writes to the Salt Lake Herald as fol-
| lows: ~ NH
| Your correspondent recently visited
| one of the Burlington grading camps
| on the Alliance Hartville line, and OBJ
tanned information which throws some
| light on the ultimate intended destina-
ton of the Burlington's Hartville road
| This Hartville extension y is nothing
more or less than part of line which
| will be pushed through Wyoming and
! Utah to the Pacific coast during the
next two years In the survey of this
| line, which has penetrated far into the
central portion of Wyoming, seeming
! ly no considera ton has been paid to
| the cost of making the roadbed the
| chief purpose being to secure an easy
| grade, with light curves. In the work
| of selecting the roadbed the engineers
| have run through hills and over ra-
| vines as though it were no trouble to
| move dirt, and as though but one pur-
| pose was in VieW-that of reaching a
| given point over the straightest posi-
BILE route, and with the least possible
| grades.
At Fairbanks, Wyo.. the Hartville
spur, which is now being constructed
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
| pany from a point on the Cheyenne &
Northern. three miles south of Badger
| station, will not cross the Burlington
| tracks, but will run under the latter,
thus saving the loss of time in oper-
ating trains which track crossings ne
| cesstate.
ION to the coast seems to be the
| watchword of the Burlington. and
| while they are making no noise about
| the matter, the work goes steadily on,
and with surprising speed"
| The Northern Pacific latest crop re-
port has the following on the situation
| in Montana:
| Several local showers in the Gala
| tin valley during the past week have
| freshened vegetation and prompted the
growth of some products, particularly
potatoes, but the rainfall was a detri-
| ment to hay. Barley and oats are still
looking well and the harvest should
| be satisfactory if there are no early
| frosts. Fall wheat is being cut and
cutting of barley will be inaugurated
this week In the Bitter Root valley
great deal of rain fell during the past
| week. which interfered with having,
| h,,t Of 70 he IN,
on unirrigated lands, and the general
outlook for crops is now considered ia
| vorable. The agents at De Smet and
| Plains report that frequent rains have
| interfered with the work of harvesting
and dry weather is badly needed"
A shipment Of two and one-half tons
of bar silver, piled on a baggage car.
was one of the sights at the St. Paul
union depot yesterday, says the Min
| neapolis Times. The shipment was
| from the Anaconda, Mont. Mining
| company's smelters and was consigned
| to the United States mint at Philadel-
| phia to be coined into silver dollars.
| The weight of the shipment was 63,S60
| ounces and 1t was worth at the pres
ent market price of s.6O25. the sum of
| S3S, sos. Each of the ingots weighed
go pounds approximately and in tran
| sit it was stacked up in the end of the
| express car like SO much cordwood
The Oregon Short Lines new steel
coal cars which were built to carry
100 600 pounds of coal have a capacity
| of 70 900 pounds above that figure, and
are carrying regularly "a and Sc tons
between the coal mines of Kemmerer
| and the Butte copper mines. The cars
are hopper bottom and self-dump, so
that the expensive labor of unloading
| is dispensed with.
The coming report of the Northern
| Pacific for the past year is expected to
| show many surprises in the growth of
| business and in the decrease in Oper-
| ating expenses. The latter expense is
| expected to be about 45 per cent. of
| its earnings, which is regarded as eX-
| ceptionally good. The Northern PaCi-
| fic directory will meet in New York
| this week when the actual figures will