The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-25

| The company could furnish tonnage for
| twice as many steamers as it has. Port
land during the past six months ex-
| ported 80 per cent. of the total Pacific
| coast wheat. IT.
A large party of Burlington surveyors
| left the line of the Union Pacific near
| Rock Creek station and are now run
| nlhs lines of survey through Hallock
| CANYON in the Laramie mountains, says
| a cheyenne dispatch. This canyon Of
| fers the only feasible route for a line
| or railroad through the Laramie noun
talns, and it is said through this gorge
| the B. & NJ. will build it's line. Ac-
| cording to the plans. the road which is
| now being built from Alliance south
| to Hartville, in the northern part of
| this county, will be extended on west
| at an early date and will enter the Lar
annie plains country about 40 or so miles
| north of Laramie. Crossing the plains
the line will meet the main line of the
Union Pacific somewhere between Rock
Creek and Medicine Bow stations. From
this point the Medicine Bow river will
be followed as far as Elk mountain,
near which place one of the richest
coal fields, owned by the Burlington, is
located.
by following the Laramie and Medi-
cine Bow rivers the road will have a
water grade almost half of the distance
across the state. From Elk mountain
west the Burlington will extend its line
so as to tap the rich Cattle Lake and
Grand Encampment copper camps, the
popuous valley of the Platte near Sar-
atoga, and going in northwesterly di-
rectlon will enter the state of Utah
somewhere in the vicinity of Ogden.
There is great activity among the
burlington and Union Pacific engineer
ing corps, as the former desire to get
their line located before the latter
catch on, and the Union Pacific is leav-
ing no stones unturned to select for
itself the most feasible route across the
state.
The Baltimore & Ohio directory is a
strong one, as can be seen by the fol-
lowing short business history of each
director
William Solomon Of New York has
been connected with the banking house
OF Speyer & Co. for many years, and
is regarded as one of the foremost
hnanciers in the country and has had
charge Of the reorganization for the
managers.
Jacob H. Schiff is a well-known men,
Der of the firm of Kuhn. Loeb & Co. of
New York, bankers and financiers a
director of the Union Pacific railroad,
OF the National City bank of New York
and Of other large financial institutions.
James j. Hill is well known as presi-
dent of the Great Northern railroad
and is regarded as one of the most sue
cessful railroad operators and finan-
ciers in the country.
Edward r, Bacon is president of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail-
way and was the chairman of the sub
committee on reorganization which pro-
posed and carried out the plan of re-
organization of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. He is director of the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust company of New
York. and for a long time has been
identified with the Baltimore G. Ohio
railroad as one of those interested in
the property.
Louis Fitzgerald of New York is pres
ident of the Mercantile Trust company
and has long been interested in the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, and is chair
man of the reorganization committee
Norman B. Ream of Chicago repre-
sents his own and the interests of
Marshall Field, P. D. Armour and their
associates, who have large interests in
the property, and is also identified with
many of the largest financial and com.
mercial institutions in the Northwest
James Stillman is president of the
City National bank of New York, is
closely identified with the Standard Oil
littl SSlS, Is ii director IN the CQlcdS0 a.
Northwestern and the Missouri Kan
sas &, Texas railroad. also director
in many of the largest financial insti-
buttons in New York.
Edward H. Hartman of New York Is
the new president of the Chicago & AL
ton railroad and chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Union Pacific
railroad and chairman of the Illinois
Central.
L, Il &c -
New York banking firm of j. Kennedy
Tod & Co., and is a director in the
Great Northern railroad and is con-
nected with many large financial insti-
tutions.
Charles Steele is a member of the
New York law firm of Seward, Guthrie
& Steele, which has acted as the coun-
sci of the reorganization syndicate.
Alexander Brown is the head of the
firm of Alexander Brown &, Co. of Bal
timore and connected with Brown Bros
& Co. of New York and London, and is
a financier of distinguished ability.
H. Clay Pierce of ST. Louis is asso-
ciated with the Standard Oil interests
and is a leading business man in his
city and is associated with large tinan-
cial institutions
H. Crawford Black and John V, L.
Findlay are well-known Marylanders,
being appointed to the board by the
governor, representing the states in
terest in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The following authoritative statement
appears in the Wall Street Journal:
persistent and varied reports of a
prospective sale of the st. Paul & Du-
luth to some large system in the North
west is merely smoke. Of course there
is some fire, but not much.
1T is becoming more apparent that
the tonnage from the Northwest will
continue to seek the head of the lakes
instead of the longer rail haul to Lake
Michigan ports. 1t is a full apprecia-
ton of this tendency that has caused
active movements recently on the part
of leading lines of the Northwest
There is a large financial situation pre-
scented by the Milwaukee and St. Paul
&; Duluth.
1.-The object of the Milwaukee is very
transparent says a St. Paul & Du-
luth authority. If they should under
take to build a line they would be very