Daily inter mountain., 1899-02-13
More About the New Equipment
of the Short Line.
BUTTE MADE IT NECESSARY
Bouquets For the Burlington and
Engines For the Short Line--
Blockade at an End.

H. o. Wilson, general agent of the
Short Line railroad, which makes the
greatest mining camp on earth and the
greatest railroad center in the north
west it's terminal point, is very much
elated over the splendid equipment which
will shortly be in operation on his road.
He stated to an Inter Mountain reporter
recently that he has advice from head
quarters to the effect that the new equip
ment, or a portion of it at least, will be
in operation on the road in the very near
future. Eight ten-wheel engines are
about ready to leave the shops, and these
will be followed in less than six weeks
by six twelve wheel monsters and ten
ten-W Wheelers. By the first of April the
company will have in operation in all
twentyseven heavy and fast freight en-
gines for work between Butte and Salt
Lake City. AS Butte is the principal Gus
toner of the road, the new equipment
is ordered largely on account Of the enor-
NOUS amount of business which the Short
Line receives from this end of the road.
With reference to the new equipment
of the Short Line, the Salt Lake Tribune
! of yesterday says the contract for 250
| box cars was let to the Missouri Car and
Foundry company and 800 coal ears to
the SchOen Pressed Steel company. The
box cars are 10000 pounds capacity and
| the coal cars $4,000 pounds capacity.
| These $50 cars are also to be delivered in
| April.
The first order for passenger equipment
will be delivered in May, and from the
style of the cars and announcements pre-
viOusly made by Short Line officials, they
will be for the through Granger Hunting
| ton run, or the Short Lines quota of cars
for the Chicago-Portland limited which
is to be put on. These cars comprise two
| diners, three chair and three composite
| buffet. The diners and composites are
new to the Short Line, but, desert bed
! in the Tribune recently they will be of
the handsomest kind, and the Oregon
Short Line, with its new sleepers and
these cars, will shoot through Idaho one
of the prettiest trains in the west The
composites have smokers, library, a
buffet and a barber shop. Surely the
management deserves credit for such an
advance in railroading which will give
to Idaho the same conveniences Utah al
ready enjoys with it's through trains
| The above does not cover all the ad-
ditions to the freight and passenger
equipment, for there are other matters of
Importance under consideration.
| what does it cost to operate the dining
cars of the Burlington route? Well, per-
haps you may gain some idea from these
two incidentals. The flowers that orna-
ment the dining tables cost over S. ,0G0 a
year, and the menu cards mean an cX-
pense of 81, 900 more" This is what l.. U.
Hopkins, commiSsary of the burlington
route, recently told a reporter who in
Quired the expense of his department
of the railroad. Few people ina gine that
the little things are so we'll looked after
or that they involve such an expense So
great has the floral department of the
burlington become that the company has
decided to build a green house at Aurora
H., for the purpose Of growing it's own
flowers to decorate its dning-car tables
The Burlington people have decided tc
institute big cut in transcontinentaI
time, the new schedule to go into effect
next Friday. Only one night on the train
between Chicago and Denver is the cut
1t is arranged that the train now leaving
Chicago for Denver at 10 a. m. should
not leave until p. M, and a running
schedule was arranged so that the trair
will arrive in Denver at 7:15 the next
evening. This allows 26 hours and K
minutes as the running time of the train
1t was also arranged that the train now
leaving Chicago t 80 p. m. and arriving
in Omaha next morning at sos, should
not leave until p. m.
1t will nevertheless arrive in Omaha al
s a. m. Thus the run to Omaha will ac-
tually be made in hours and Is minutes
less time than ii is now.