Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-03
Short Lines New Engines Ar9
Fine Machines.
ARE BIG AND BEAUTIFUL
low to Get Into the Buffalo Hump
District by a Water
Route,

Four Of the eight new 700 class en-
gines ordered by the Oregon Short Line
las November have been received and
are now in commission on the Montana
division, running between Pocatello
and Butte. They are the 720, 721, 722
and 1913, and are by far the largest ten
wheel engines ever seen in Idaho and
Montana. Alongside of the newcomers
the Oregon Short Lines 600 engines,
which were the old 1400s of the Union
Pacific, look like baby engines says the
Salt Lake Tribune. The zoos were built
by the Cooke Locomotive works of Pat
erson, N. j., and on their trip across the
continent they were accompanied by MI.
M. j. Mcdonald, whose special office Is to
accompany new locomotives to their des-
t~ination and see to their setting up and
breaking in, and in the latter ne Is stlf
engaged at POcatellO.
AS stated, the engines are of the ten
wheel type with 5S-inch drivers, cylin-
ders 28x3O inches and 6S-inch boiler shell,
the total weight being eighty tons. The
tender holds 1000 gallons of water and
can carry eleven ions of COAL. A feature
is the steel cab in place of the old style
WOOu CdOo, lax PAAIASS Tag W
cases of accident was so dangerous to en-
gineers and firemen, and within these the
enginemen are about as safe as an officer
of a battleship in a coming over.
The relative size Of the new engines was
best shown when 721 first pulled up to the
coal chute in Pocatello for coal for her
maiden trip. The day previous the 316
which was once the Utah Central No. 8,
had been brought in ron the sidetrack
at Shoshone to be scraped and occupied
some space on a spur track in front of the
coal chute, and while there the 71 came
up. No stronger contrast could be mag
ined than was here shown between the
earliest power the system possessed and
it's latest acquisition. The new machine
with proportions like the mastodons Of
past ages, towering up and snorting be-
side the dead but once speedy and active
locomotive of a past day. The latter look
ed as If a tall man could s~traighten HIM
self and look down on her running-board
while the stranger lowered above like a
church spire. So high does she stand that
big Bill Peterson, general manager at
Pocatello, and one of the tallest men in
Idaho, rested his arm on her siderod and
still daylight could be seen Under her
boiler over his head.
So far the performance of these new
locomotives has been all that has been
anticipated, and their capacity for haul
ing heavy freight trains over steep grad
tents and at a high rate of speed has been
favorably commented upon. -Four more
of the same class will arrive on the Mon
lana division about the middle OF May.
Speaking of old equipment recalls the
fact that the Oregon Short Line has in
active service eight engines thirty-two
years old. They are Nos. 202 to 2O7 inclu-
sive, and Nos. 213 and PA, all Of which
We're built in the spring and summer of
1867. The very oldest engines on the
road are 203, 2O4 and 213, new in April,
1867. The weight of engines and loaded
tender average 140, 600 pounds of seventy
tons.
A letter a been received at Salmon
City, Ida, from the party which left that
place on April 4th, for the Buffalo Hump
country in a f1atbOat, says the Salt Lake
tribune. They report a very successful
trip, having shot all the rapids without
any difficulty and landed at Malleck
mining camp, twelve miles south Of the
hours, running time.
1t appears that the run from Shoup
down is not near SO difficult to navigate
as was anticipated, and for parties who
are desirious of arriving early at the new
bonanza camp this route affords the earl
lest and cheapest route of access. The
river IS carrying a good stage of water
for boating and the run ought to be made
easily in three days, for the next six
weeks. when thewater will be high and
swift for two or three weeks, then after
that 1t will be in fine condition for the
balance of the season.
The party consisted Of four men. They
stopped three days on the way down 10
hunt and fish and report plenty of game.
and passing through a fine mineral coun.
try. They confirm the newspaper reports
of the large vein Of free gold ore at NAL
leck, and state that the ground is bare of
snow for two or three miles back from the
river on the south exposure, giving ample
chance to prospect on the southeast
strike of the Buffalo Hump belt. Harry
Gulicke, the chief of the party, is now on
his way back, and is expected to arrive
at Salmon in a few days, when he will
at once build a large boat and ruin down !
a load of merchandise, miners supplies
and passengers, and expects to repeat the
trip at regular intervals.
Salmon City is reached By stage from
Red Rock, Mont, a station on the Oregon
Short Line.
The contractors on the Union Pacific |
cut-offs west of Laramie have been hav-
ing some strike troubles with their men: !
but the difficulty being foreseen. new men |
We're run out to the work from Omaha |!
ana Lincoln, and the trouble was not of
long standing. Low wages and n,iStr.ot