The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-01

received by interested officials in Mon
tana, making division superintendent
directly responsible for all work in the
mechanical departments Hereafter
master mechanics, roundhouse firemen
and car foremen will report to their
respective division superintendents.
The excellent and rapid freight SER
vice given by the Burlington route and
the great need of competition of the
Southern Pacific is aptly told in the
following story from the San Francisco
Call:
"One of the best illustrations Of the
! necessity for genuine competing con-
tinental railroad was shown by the
handling of the train load of tea that
arrived in this port on the new Jap
enese steamship Nippon Maru. The
shipment was destined for eastern
| markets, and owing to the hot compe
tition with the Canadian line it was de-
sired to make such time as would show
the advantage of transporting tea car
goes through this port.
THE eastern railroad companies be-
ing up to date and recognizing the i'm
portance of this movement, determined
to convince shippers that there is no
need to look further for the best and
fastest service from San Francisco to
the cities beyond the Rockies.
THE lot consisted of seven carloads,
and from Denver eastward was handled
by the Burlington company, who fur
nished special freight train service and
rushed the goods through to Chicago,
a distance of 1025 miles, in So hours and
Al minutes. This time was only three
hours longer than the regular limited
vestibule train service of that company.
In other words, they did everything in
their power to encourage the shipment
of goods from the Orient via San Fran
cisco.
What the Southern Pacific did in
this direction is another story. The
tea left this city on the morning of
the 18th inst, composing a part of one
of the regular 'tri- weekly passenger
| trains of that enterprising corporation,
and finally got to Ogden before the
goods spoiled. By the economy of axle
grease, coal, wear and tear on the road
bed and rolling stock, not mentioning
the nervous system of the employees,
Uncle Coils turned the cars over to
the Denver & Rio Grande company on
the 21st inst, or about three days after
their shipment from here. The distance
to Ogden is a little less than 500 miles
| The Denver & Rio Grande transport
ed the cars to Denver an equal dis
lance, and turned them over to the
Burlington on the afternoon of the 23d
inst.
ITO make the Illustration plain and
comprehensive it is only necessary to
state that through the remarkable en-
terprise of the Southern Pacific COM
pany the tea arrived at Denver, cover
ing distance of about 1000 miles, in
five and a half days, and after being
taken in charge by the Burlington was
transported 1925 miles in less than
36 hours.
T. .,il rra r frG
where the tea would now be if the
Southern Pacific service had extended
to the Windy City, and how long it
would be under such circumstances be-
fore another cargo of tea would come
this way.
The new dining car service to be in
augurated by the Denver & Rio Grande
in connection with the Rio Grande
Western will go into effect on March /.
The company has now placed its order
for three of the cars with the Ohio
Falls Car Manufacturing company. In
addition to this, the road has ordered
500 box cars of 10000 pounds capacity
(Chicago grain doors), $50 coal cars of
$4,000 pounds capacity and $50 stock
cars of 10000 pounds capacity. E. T.
Jeffrey, president and general manager
of the Denver, & Rio Grande, writes to
the Railway Age as follows in regard
to the work on the La Veta Pass mar
row gauge line:
I'VE will standard gauge our line
from La Veta to Alamosa, a distance
of 60 miles, which is now narrow
gauge, and in doing this we build
26A miles of new road in a new loca-
ton, and widen the gauge of nearly "a
miles. The contracts for the work
are let, the principal contractors being
Messrs. Clough and Anderson of Col
orado Springs. The maximum grades
over the summit will be 8 per cent.
westbound and 21a per cent. eastbound;
the greatest length of 3 per cent grade
IS miles. There will be three tunnels.
aggregating about 1,500 feet, all to be
cut through solid rock. The maximum
curvature will be u degrees. No new
securities will be issued, but the ex-
penditure will be met out of assets in
the treasury"
w. V. Powell. chief of the Order of
Railroad Telegraphers. has thrown a
wet blanket on the political congress of
railroad employees that is to be held in
Chicago next month by declining to at
tend the conference or have anything
to do with it in an official capacity,
says the Chicago Chronicle. The chief
of operators does not go into details
in turning down the congress-" but
it is limited that there is altogether too
much politics, or, rather. one-sided pol
tendance as the representative of the
telegraph operators of the country.
The Tacoma Ledger says that the
Northern Pacific has not agreed to
build down Snake river Jointly with the
o. r. & N. but has sent out engineers
of its own to survey for an additional
line along the river between Ainsworth
and Lewiston. The o. r. & N. has an
army of men at work ON it's Snake
river line. The Northern Pacific is
sending men from Tacoma to the extern
sion front.
Three or four surveying crews of the
Northern Pacific are reported to have
been called to report at Lewiston, and
they are expecting to be transferred to
other fields.
1t is now said that there are good
prospects that the Union Pacific will
agree to the adoption of a new agree
ment for the Western Passenger asso-
citation and that it will become MEM