The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-02
BUTTE NEWS.
ITS SHOPS At POCATELL0
The Oregon Short Line Decides in
Favor of That Town.
BUILDING TO BE BEGUN
The NJ P's Offer to the U. r. of Half
Interest in Its sPortland-Tacoma
Line - This Years Yellow
stone Park Business.

The Oregon Short Line has decided
to locate its permanent car shops at
Pocatello, announcement to that effect
being made by the Salt Lake Herald on
high official authority Construction
is to begin this year. The Herald
says:
The point of location has been set
tied upon definitely, and its selection
is due to the fact that it is the CEN
trail point, geographically, of the sys-
TEN, and the point where the Salt
Lake-B Butte line and the Granger
Huntington line cross.
1T is a singular fact that though
Pocatello has the main shops on the
road there is but one permanent
structure there This is the new round
house, built two or three years ago,
and it is of brick, with iron roof, etc.
All the other buildings are frame and
have many thousands of dollars of ma
chinery within them. 1t is said that
the decision to build permanent stone
or brick buildings has been forced upon
the management because of the high
rate on the insurance necessary to pro-
tect this machinery in case of fire while
1t Is under intiammablp roofs, and it is
asserted that the difference in the in
surance with permanent fire proof
structures will more than amount to
the cost of buildings in 10 years. WISH
tors from POcatellO state that the new
shops are an assured fact, and that as
a first result there are numerous real
estate transactions going on, and that
prices of dirt have advanced according
ly, both business and residence property
being in strong demand.
"A feature of this departure, it is
said, is the proba bility that the old Sho-
shone shops, that were built by the
great Charles Francis Adams when he
was serving his railroad apprentice
ship on the Union Pacific, will be torn
down and that the brick and stone of
which they are constructed will be
used, as far as possible, in the con-
struction of the Pocatello shops. The
Shoshone shops have not been used
since the Pocatello shops were estab
lished. and it was long ago decided by
the management that their location
was altogether wrong, in addition TO
which fact the oregon Short Lire is
yearly paying taxes on them that are
eXOrbitant and amount to many thou
sand dollars. This Is another rea-
son why it has been decided to raze
them to the ground and use the
material in permanent shops in Poca-
tello
The following distances from Poca-
tello show how centrally it is located
relatively to other points on the Oregon
Short Line:
Granger, 214.4 miles: Huntington.
1868 miles; Silver Bow, 255.5 miles; Salt
Lake, 1907 miles"
The Northern Pacific's offer to the
Union Pacific of a half interest in it's
PortlandTacomal line and Tacoma ter
minals is as important to the Great
Northern as to either of the other lines.
AS long as the Oregon Navigation was
controlled by the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern the latter was assured
of favorable traffic arrangements into
Portland, but now that the voting tIust
has been dissolved and the Union Pa
cfic come into control it is possible for
the Great Northern to be shut out en-
tirely. President HILL foreseeing this