The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21
AMONG RAILROAD men
Division Superintendent Pass
Through Butte.
SOME NEW TOWN SITES
Will Be Opened Up in the Clearwater
District by the Extension OF the
Northern Pacific - Cutting
Down Grades.

! A special Northern Pacific train car
| rying General Superintendent M. c.
| Kimberley of St. Paul and nine division
superintendent passed through Butte
yesterday going east. The party Of SUI
perintendents was made up as follows:
M. c. Kimberley, st. Paul, general SUI
| perintendent; w. G. Pearce, Tacoma,
assistant general superintendent, and
| the following division superintendent:
F. w. Gilbert, Idaho division; E. J.
Pearson, Pacific division; Charles Rus
sell, Rocky mountain division; H. j.
Horn, Montana division; Newman
son, Dakota division; z. G. Blanchard,
Lake Superior division; G. w. Wander
slice, Manitoba division; A. e. Law,
Minnesota division.
A trip is being made over the entire
line Of the Northern Pacific in the in
terest Of the division superintendent
The latter were gathered up by Mr.
Kimberley on his way to the coas. so
that all might be together to confer
about improvements that might be sug-
gested. The trip is being made entire
~ by daylight.
The new lines Of the Northern Pacific
in the Clearwater district will open
several new townsites. The company
has gone. out of the town lot" specu--
towns. the officials state, the public
will be on the same footing regarding
townsite speculation. They will be
chiefly small stations for farmers to
ship to and from. Several towns will
be settled along the % miles between
Palmer and Auburn, but the location
of all has not yet been decided upon.
Work on the Clearwater branch to-
ward Stuart is being pushed, but some
time will yet be consumed in complat-
ing the grading and track laying be-
tween Orc Elmo and Stuart, 80 miles
This is part of the construction not af-
fected by the o. r. & NJ truce. This
extension is opening up new towns,
some of which will be important. Lew
iston is regarded as one of the best in
that part of the country, being the
starting point for the Northern Pacific
construction work in the Clearwater
country, as well as being backed by a
good agricultural and mining country,
Orc Elmo is reported to be booming.
Between $500 and 1000 railroad en-
ployes are making that town their
! headquarters, and it is impossible to Sc
cure houses.
The work of cutting down the grades
on the Chicago division of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad will be begun at
once and most of the heavy work will
have been completed by spring. The
general plan of Baltimore & Ohio grade
improvements contemplate an 1S-foot
maximum grade from Chicago to Bal
timore, except over the mountains,
| where helping engines have to be used.
The Chicago division work includes
reductions between Tiffin, Ohio. and
Attica, where a 2S-foot grade will be re-
duced to IS feet, for a distance of 16
miles, the heaviest cut being at Repub-
lie. About $4,000 cubic yards will be
excavated. Loss & Co. of Chicago
have the contract.
At Teegarden, Ind, there are 175,OO0
cubic yards to be removed to reduce
the grade from % to is feet. Loss &
Co. also have this contract. Between
Garrett and Ripley, Ind. there will be
relocation of the lire for seven miles,
reducing a 26-foot grade to 16 feet,
both east and westbound
These reductions will cost about $780,
900, but will allow an increase of nearly
30 per cent. in train loading when they
are completed.
Work is being pushed rapidly on the
| construction Of the Seven Devils road
! night shifts are now employed in the
| Weiser canyon, and with the prospect
| of a clear grade for a long distance,
| ties, rails and other construction ma
| terials are being rushed to the front
| with all possible speed. Coughlan's ia
nous tracRlaylng Japs, VINO are capa-
| BILE of putting down two miles of track
| day, are getting into trim to begin
| work at a moments notice.-Salt Lake
| Herald.
Both General Passenger Agent Whit
| ney of the Great Northern and General
| Passenger Agent Fee of the Northern
Pacific denounce the stories from the
Pacific coast that either of these lines
nave made any reduction in the east
bound business. They said that no pas
| sengers had been or were being carried
| over their roads at less than the tariff
| rates.
The Short Line shops at Pocatello
now employ close to 400 men. The pay
roll FOR October amounted to between
| $4,000 and $4,000, an increase of about
| $40Oo over the October roll of 1898, ana
| ~ ,5oo over the corresponding month in
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