The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-04
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES
Traffic Association Will Meet in
Salt Lake City.
HAS AN EYE ON THE COAST
A Rumor That the Burlington Is Figur-
ing on a Road to Salt Lake-A
New National Park Folder
Issued.

| extended an invitation to the members
| of the association, which includes all
| the general agents and travelling
| freight agents in Montana, to visit
| Salt Lake, and the invitation has been
accepted. The Short Line will pro-
vide the boys with special car, which
will be attached to the regular train
| leaving Butte at 4:45 p. m. next FRI
| day afternoon. An invitation has also
been received by the railroad men from
| the traffic association of Salt Lake,
and the latter are prepared to give the
| Montana men the best time they have
| ever had. Local trips to various points
of interest have been arranged for,
but the chief reason why the Snort
| Line invites the representatives of it's
| Montana competitors is to take them
to the lake and give them bath with
the hope that in future they will be
cleaner in their treatment of the Short
Line as their competitor.
"That the burlington is figuring on
a road into Salt Lake and possibly on
| to the coast is no longer doubted by
| local railroad men," says the Salt Lake
| Herald. ut was stated yesterday on
good authority that a deal is now pend
| ing between the officers of the Utah
| & wyoming railway and the Burlng-
! ton looking toward the securing for
| the latter company of the survey and
| right of way held by the Utah & wy
oming since 1891.
| Correspondence has passed be-
| tween officers of the Burlington. in
| Guiding the general manager, and the
officials of the Utah & Wyoming con-
corning this matter during the last
| month, and B. G. Raybould, the presi-
| dent of the latter road, has called
| stockholders meeting to be held in
this city some time this week for a
consideration of the matter
THE Utah & Wyoming railway has
already done $4,000 worth of work
| They started in 1891 and the prelimin-
airy work was done, the right of way
| was secured from the government, and
| the organization has been kept up and
| taxes paid ever since.
The line commences at a point near
| Garfield Beach and runs east past the
| southern limit of Salt Lake, on over
| the Fort Douglas reservation and
! through Emigration canyon, down Sill
yer creek to Coalville. then up Chalk
| creek to the Wyoming line and about
40 miles into Wyoming. At a point
| just below Aspen, Wyo., this survey
| connects with the proposed line of the
| Burlington from Alliance through the
state of Wyoming toward the Grand
| Encampment, where extensive depot
| grounds have recently been purchas-
1 ed for the latter company
IF the Burlington concludes to buy
| that survey it will have a feasible
route into Salt Lake The distance
| through the Emigration canyon from
Coalville to Salt Lake is AZ miles, and
a grade of 2.S per cent. can be obtain
| ed; but if a better grade is desired,
per cent. can be secured by coming
| in at point below Ogden. The latter,
however, would make the road ~ miles
| longer.
IF the deal is pushed through sue
| cessfully and the Utah & Wyoming
| right of way becomes the property
| of the Burlington, the latter road
| would also, If 1t desired have a route
| into this city which would be 200
miles shorter than any other. The Off
GERS and directors of the Utah &
Wyoming are: w. G. Raybould, presi-
| dent; William Pickard, vice president;
Major Wilkes, secretary and chief en-
| gineer; Emery Ward, treasurer: A.
| Thompson, William Martin and J. c.
c. Glanfield, directors
General Passenger Agent Burley of the
| Oregon Short Line has just issued one
| of the handsomest folders of the Vel
| lowstone National park ever seen. The
| folder is entitled Where Gush the
| Geysers,'' and is beautifully illustrat-
| ed with colored pictures of park
scenes, including the Great Falls of
the Yellowstone, Castle and Bee Hive
geysers, Pulpit terrace at Mammoth
Hot springs, crater of the Oblong
| Gardiner canyon, Grand Canyon,
Castle well and Castle geyser, Excel
sior geyser. the eastern entrance to
Golden Gate, Minerva terrace, Upper
Falls of the Yellowstone, cone of the
Grotto geyser, a view of the Madi-
son river, the Punch Bowl, Eagle Nest
rock near Cinnabar and the Teton
range. The publication gives an at
tractive itinerary of the Monida route
to the park, which is described as an
ideal intermountain trip. The trip
visiting all the principal points of
interest, takes eight days Round
trip tickets from any point are sold
over the new route. People from
Butte will go to Monida and from there
through the park on one of the great
Concord stage coaches, returning by
way of Cinnabar and the Northern Pa
cific.
The passenger department of the
| Union Pacific has just issued two
| elegant booklets. One is very unique
| and handsome little souvenir, shaped
like the well known Union Pacific
shield. 1t contains some beautiful col
| ored cuts of views along the line and
| a complete time table of the Worlds
Pictorial Line" Cuts of the cover
land Limited" are given, along with
some useful information for travellers
1t is a neat and handy little work for
the business mans desk or the tour
lists pocket.
The other booklet contains a descrp-
ton of the fossil fields of Wyoming,
and is illustrated with cuts of fossils.
In connection with this it is inter-
esting to note that the Union Pacific
has issued invitations to 300 prominent
biologists and paleontologists through
out the country to join in a free ex-
cursion of 60 days to study the fossil
fields of Wyoming. These scientists
will assemble at Laramie on July 10
and will explore the state under the
direction of Professor Knight of the
Wyoming university.
The other day a prominent western
miller, whose railroad travelling has
made him an expert. rode over the