The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-15
BUTTE News.
A SPECIAL RATE MADE
For Those Who Want to Go to
Frisco
TO WELCOME VOLUNTEERS
Business of the Rio Grands Is Steadily
Increasing Making Improve
ments - Great Northern
Extensions.
TO WELCOME VOLUNTEERS

City Ticket Agent Mccormick of the
Northern Pacific and General Agent
Wilson of the oregon Short Line an
nounced yesterday that their respect
i've lines had decided to make special
rate for the benefit of those who desire
to go to San Francisco to take part in
welcoming the Montana volunteers
upon their arrival from Manila. The
rate published by both roads is one
fare for the round trip, or s4S.55. The
, tickets will be good over both lines for
80 days. If a sufficient number of peo-
pie go to warrant it there is lkeil-
hood the lines will in addition to the
special rate provide a special through
sleeper for the Montana people
The steadily increasing business OF
the Rio Grande Western has made
necessary some extensive improvements
to enable the road to enlarge on its
service OF these improvements the
Salt Lake Herald says:
..The Rio Grande Western has made
a great and decided improvement in its
shops at this city by the erection OF
its brass foundry. The plant, which
was started about a month ago, has
Just been completed and is just west
of the general blacksmith shops. 1t
was erected for the purpose OF making
engine and car brasses. General Su-
perintendent Welby said yesterday that
the foundry had been built because the
company thought that it could do TINS
class of work to a better advantage IN
its own shops. Under present condl-
tions it has the choice of its own ma
terial, and employs its own artisans.
This is only one of the many i'm
provements that the Rio Grande West
ern is making, which goes to show that
the road is always endeavorng to in
crease it's facilities and to better its
service in many ways. Specifications
have been sent for number of heavy
consolidated freight engines of the very
latest type. Just how many of these
will be purchased Superintendent Wei
by cannot at present say. The en-
gines have been made necessary be-
cause the traTic of the road has grown
so that the present facilities are mad
equate.
1.-THE large shop of the Rio Grande,
which at present connects the black
smith and machine shops, is being built
for the purpose of giving more space
for shop work under cover. The win
ter season has showed that this is re-
quired. This shop at present is about
completed, except for the roof. This
z is to be of steel, and the contract for
putting it on has been let to the Her
Gillette Steel company of Mime
apolis. 1t will be of the very latest
pattern, and when completed will add
greatly to the facilities of the shops
now located here. These are only few
of the improvements that are being
made by Superintendent Welby, who is
using all of his energies for the i'm
provement of his department"
Allen C. Mason, a well-known pro-
motor of Tacoma, Wash, was inter-
viewed by the Pioneer Press of ST.
Paul, Mimi, a few days ago. He said
that the most important information
he brought back with him from the
East was that which he learned from
an authority on Great Northern move
ments, who declared that the Great
Northern has had German and Ameri-
can mining experts in the mines along
its road all summer, investigating eth
er side of its road between Wenatchee
on the east side and Index on the west
side of the Cascade mountains. These
experts have pronounced this district
more highly mineralized than the best
portions of the great mining districts
of Montana. 1t is believed that these
reports will assure the extension of
branches of the Great Northern into the
mining country and the development
of the mines, large number of which
have become the property of the road.
One of the most prominent officials
in the railroad world of the Northwest.
recently returned from New York, says
the Minneapolis Times, has stated pri-
vately that he was informed while in
the metropolis that the Omaha would
be absorbed by the Northwestern at