Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-05
President Mellen of the N. p.
a Butte Visitor.
LEFT FOR THE EAST TODAY
He Has Been in the West to Note
the Growth and Prosperity
of Empire.

Charles Sanger Mellen, president VI tuc
Northern Pacific Railroad company, and
a railroad man of very superior ability,
visited Butte today. He came in his prl-
vate car early this morning n did not
come up town. General Agent Merrlman
and other railroad officials visited hlm,
and shortly after II o'clock Mr.. Mellen's
special went eastward on its way to st.
Paul.
Mr.. Mellen has been on a tour OF inspec-
tior of the western portion of his road,
and while on the coast is said to have
carefully investigated matters pertain
ing to Oriental trade, in which his line, a
trans-continental one, and one owning
an Oriental steamship system, is very
materially interested.
The Salt Lake Tribune has the follow
ing concerning President Mellen's visit
to that city:
Mr.. Mellen called upon Vice President
| Bancroft of the Short Line, and during
the afternoon a consultation was helo,
General Superintendent CALVIN, General
Traffic Manager Eccles and General At
torney Williams being present. The
| presence of the Northern Pacific official
in Room 40 with the Short Line officials
gave rise to a rumor that a sensation was
to be given the public by an
ment that the Silver Bow gateway WOuld
be opened, but investigation proved the
rumor to be entirely without founda-
ton.
The Oregon Short Line operates it's
trains from Silver Bow to Butte over the
line of the Northern Pacific, and trackage
rights and traffic arrangements We're the
only subjects considered, a new agree
ment being made to properly cover the
ma tter.
Mr.. Mellen passed some time in visit
ing old friends, including some officers at
Fort Douglas.
President Mellen is an enthusiastic be-
lever in the future of the Pacific north
west, as is attested by the great activity
the Northern Pacific is showing this year
in building new branches. He has al
ready been over the ground covered by
proposed extensions in Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, and before returning to st.
Paul he will inspect work now being done
by an army of railroad constructors on
the line of the Northern Pacific.
The Clearwater Short Line Railroad
company, the Northern Pacific'S branch
! corporation now building up the Clear
water, has filed supplementary articles of
Incorporation in the county auditors Of
flee at Lewiston, Idaho, announcing the
intention of tn roa to construct the fol-
lowing lines:
First-A line from a point I'm the state
of Idaho at or near the junction of the
Clearwater river with the Snake river,
and thence on the most eligible route
along the valleys of the Clearwater river
and of the south and middle forks there
of to a point on the boundary line be-
tween Idaho and Montana at or neal
LOlo pass, with a branch leaving said line
from some suitable point in the valley of
the Clearwater river on the south fork
thereof, and Xetending through Camas
prairie on some eligible route to the town
of Mt. Idaho in the state of Idaho.
line from a point in the state
of Oregon at or near the mouth of the
Grande Ronde river, and thence along the
valley of the Grande Ronde river to the
mouth of the Wallowa river.
Third-A line from a point at or neal
the town of Baker City in the stateo
Oregon, thence in a general easterly di-
rection to Powder river. and thence along
said Powder river to the junction thereof
with the Snake river.
Fourth-A line from a point in the state
of Oregon on the Snake river at or neal
the mouth of Pine creek, thence up Pine
creek and across the divide to a point or
Powder river.
Fifth-A line from some suitable poin,
on the Snake liver in the state of Ore.
gon thence by some feasible route to 2
l'ihe "a iAAN 10 hAAoNl II a. lIle ocS III LEV
lis mining region In the state of Idaho.
SiXth-A line from a point on the Snake
river at or near the mouth of Salmon riv-
err in the state of Idaho, thence up Sal
NOR river to the head Of said Salmon riv.
Ell.
Seventh-A line from a point at or neal
the town of Moscow in the state of IDAHO
thence in a southeasterly direction tc
some suitable point on the Clearwater
river.
Eighth--A line from a connection with
the railroad of this company at or mean
the mouth of the Clearwater river in the
state of Idaho, thence down the northerly
bank of the Snake river to some suitable
point, to be selected by the board of di-
%rectOrs of the company, for crossing sale
Snake river with a bridge, hence across
said river to the south bank thereof, and
thence up said Snake river on some eli
gible route to the town of Huntington in
the state of Oregon, crossing said Snake