The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-07
Rumors of Consolidation of the u.
p, S. L. and o. R. & N.
WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED
IL Is Only Matter of Time MANAGE
ment to Be Kept Separate-Nu-
merous improvements Along
the Great Northern.

i quarters of the Union Pacific would in
| dictate that there must be some founda-
| ton for it, and Notwithstanding the re-
! peated denials by Short Line officials
the rumor is giving them much concern
| and some uneasiness.
We are little uneasy" one of them
! admitted the other day, land would not
be surprised at any turn affairs might
take. The Union Pacific owns the Short
Line and if they want to consolidate
| they certainly can do it,"
! 1T is only a matter of time" said a
| Union Pacific official land a consolida-
ton will come just as certain as the
existence of the roads
| The Salt Lake Herald views the situa-
| ton as follows:
| 1T is said that the Vanderbilt inter-
| ests want the Union Pacific operated as
| at present, but that it is desired that
| the Oregon Short Line shall become a
| part of the Union Pacific, and continue
| to be operated from Salt Lake City.
| Gradually it is proposed that the Short
| Line shall take possession of the Ore
| gon Railway & Navigation line and
| operate TINS system also from this city.
| The great distance from Omaha to Port
| land, Ore, is given as one of the reasons
| why 1t is proposed that the Oregon Rail
way & Navigation system shall be ope-
| rated from Salt Lake City"
| J. F. Stevens, chief engineer of the
| Great Northern, has given out the fol-
| lowing information relative to the i'm
proVements now in progress on his line:
| At Minot and Williston N. D., and
| Glasgow, Mont, new yards are being
| built to give 5000 feet of room. New
| 2O-stall round houses are going up at all
| of the three places, each to cost s25, 900,
| and new brick freight and passenger
| depot is being built at Glasgow that will
| cost $4,000. The entire Montana dvis-
| ion of the line, extending from Minot
| to Blackfoot, is being rebalasted. which
| gives employment to 500 men, six steam
| shovels and 30 engines and work trains.
! On this line 80 new steel bridges are be-
| ing built and 200 others are being filled
and fitted with stone culverts. The
work this year alone has resulted in the
reballasting of $50 or 400 miles of the
track, besides the general widening of
the grade and cutting out says, etc. On
the line from Blackfoot to Havre, $50
| miles long, 30 miles of new roadbed is
being built to tighten the grade
In that vicinity the contract has been
let for the construction of two of the
largest railroad bridges in America One
of them is 125 feet high and 1900 feet
long, and the other which will be the
highest wooden bridge on the continent
and probably in the world Will be PA
feet high, and has total length of 1000
feet. This latter is to be at Two Medi-
cine. These bridges will require $500
tons of steel and will cost from $780, 700
to 5000, 900. Along this same road two
short stretches of eight or nine miles
are being made to cut out the curves.
The line from Havre to Great Falls is
being entirely rebuilt for a distance of
"a miles, following the Missouri river,
to tighten the grade. This will include
L. ~
to 800 men are now being employed in
this work. The company is also spend
ing from $4,000 to 100000 in improve
ments on the Minneapolis depot, en-
larging the general rooms, erecting new
baggage rooms, erecting elevators, etc.
In Washington 100000 is being spent
in improvements at the Columbia river
bluffs in order to dispense with a num-
Der of bridges and to eliminate several
curves. The road from Monroe to Low
ELL in Snohomish county, has been i'm
proved to the extent of $500, 900 in work
during the last few months and in rip
rapping down the west side of the
switchback $4,000 has been expended
during the last year or year and a half,
all for the purpose of avoiding damage
by high water.
The Cascade tunnel is finished a dis
lance of 1000 feet, out of $4,000 feet re-
CURED before the work is complete, and
and night. This tunnel should be COM
pleted in October, 1900. Its total length ,
will be two and one-half miles, which |
will save an elevation of 1000 feet. The
contractors will commence lining the |
tunnel by Sept. l.
The following notice has been sent out |
from headquarters of the Western Pas |
senger association to ticket agents:
There being many rumors afloat that |
inc 1sa,.1 H. Il
commencing Sept. l, on second-class or |
tourist tickets to California, and realiz-
ing the great losses that follow to roads |
III there is payment of anything other |
than the normal rate of commission on |
all business to the West, you are hereby |
advised that the undersigned roads I'M
der no circumstances will increase the |
commission, directly or indirectly, and |
all notices, printed or otherwise, prom
Using or intimating increased commits
sions or indefinite reward for business
in tourist cars, or any other business,
are hereby Withdrawn. This is intended
to cancel and withdraw all implied
promises to the contrary in a certain
red circular issued by the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway company,
which has been interpreted as promis-
ing something special or extra on tour !
list car business, and it also cancels and
withdraws promise of increased COM
mission said to have been issued by the
Burlington road, and all other printed
written or verbal promises or intima-
lions of every kind and character, from
any of the undersigned, other than the
joint schedule of normal commissions
effective July l, 1899"
The circular is signed by the Santa
Fe, the Burlington, the Alton, the
Northwestern, the Great Western. the
Missouri Pacific the Union Pacific, the
Rock Island, the Illinois Central, the
st. Paul and the Wabash, these lines
being the initial roads at Chicago and
st. Louis of regularly established routes
to California.
A complete description and plan of
the locomotive recently designed for The
New York Central railway by Cornelius
Vanderbilt, jr., and now being tested
in freight pulling on the Mohawk dIVis-
ion of the road. is printed in the Sep
TENDER number of Locomotive EnSi-
neering. The fire box, corrugated tube
inches in diameter and IL feet pa