The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-31

line, which begins at point II miles
| east of Lewiston, and will run through
Inc heart OF the Camas prairie district
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
would either have to parallel us long
way or else build 100 miles before the
conditions would justify trouble. As
they stand now it would be as sensible
for us to complain if Mr.. Hill should
extend the Spokane Falls & Northern
across the Canadian boundary, as we
are as near ROssland as the Oregon
Railway & Navigation is to us. Our
traffic department has been given au
thorty to make arrangements with the
burlington for through sleeping-car
service to the coast via Billings and
Anaconda"
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany reports for February: Gross earn
inss S1.512,919, decrease S4.414. operat
ing expenses sS12565, increase s95. O97;
net earnings $70O,S53, decrease S99.514;
taxes, rentals and improvements $780,
1873, decrease S94 ,260; net operating in
come $520223, decrease $5,253; miseella-
neous income, not including land sales
$685.. increase $5.272: net income, main
system S526,619, increase SIS: proprie-
tary lines $20,224, increase S2,776 Total
$546,S4 increase 81, I54.
From July to Feb. %: Gross earnings
$1I,S7222S increase $1539. 1872: operating
expenses SIS66,525. increase $3.50
net earnings $40, 005, 1903 increase $1.005,-
165: taxes. rentals and improvements
$l,19. IA. increase $685.. 1SS; net operat-
ing income $500. 961. increase S242. 976
miscellaneous income, not including
land sales, $3.50 1856. increase $56.4S1: net
income. main system sS,4S215I. increase
1899. ass: proprietary lines $3O6.12 in
crease S1OS,353. Total sS.7SS, $780, increase
$685.
That the tourist sleeper has "come to
stay is clearly evidenced by the ract
that there are at present no less than 20
different tourist car lines in operation
over Western railroads. And the list is
constantly frightening. Only week
of two ago the Burlington and Northern
Pacific railroads established tourist car
service, twice a week, between Seattle
and Kansas City, a distance of 400
miles.
The tourist car serves it's purpose ad-
mirably. II provides accommodation
which, while not as luxurious as those
of palace sleeper, are yet good enough
to satisfy travellers who care little for
style but a great deal of comfort.
Persons who visited the worlds fair
at Chicago. and more recently the
Trans Mississippi exposition at Omaha
will remember the handsome train eX
hihitCd by the Pullman company. More
than $150,000 is invested in it. After
having been used solely for show our-
poses for several years it has been
placed in service on an excursion from
Philadelphia to California. The eXcur-
sion was notable one, covering 50
days. while the distance travelled is
$500 miles. The party went out by
southern route and returned over the
Rio Grande, Burlington and Pennsyl-
vania railroads.
1.-The Canadian Pacific railway will
not be drawn into any rate war, and the
present trouble among the other West
ern lines will not last more than six
weeks is the prediction of Mr. Nc
NichOl, general passenger manager Of
the Canadian Pacific railroad, who has
just returned from conferences of
Western railway managers in Chicago
and St. Paul" says a Montreal dis
patch.
AT our St. Paul conference" Mr.
McNichol added, the Great Northern
took us into it's confidence and ac-
quainted US with its reason for its re-
cent cut in transcOntinental rates. The
reason, | may say, was satisfactory to
all the railway representatives attend
ing the meeting"
The railroads have made a rate of