The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-07
BUTTE News.
AMONG RAIL ROAD MEN
The Great Northern Flyer Is in
Bad Luck.
IT WAS SIX HOURS LATE
An Attempt to Shorten the Distance
to the Coast by Four Hundred
Miles-The Utah 81 Pacific
Enterprise.
II WAS SIX HOURS LATE

The Great Northern ''Flyer" has
started its career in bad luck. 1t was
over six hours late again yesterday,
its second trip. General Passenger
Agent Whitney has issued folder con-
tanning complete information about tie
new fast mail and other trains which,
were put in service on the Great North
ern on Tuesday. In the course of his
introduction to the train schedules, Mr..
whitney says:
Among other Weighty questions
which confronted the United States at
the opening Of the year 1899. the m
portance of a more rapid transit of the
mail service between the Atlantic and
Pacific growing out of our new pos
sessions in the far east, became at once
apparent to the postal authorities. The
question to be determined was the route
switch would insure the prompt, safe and
accurate delivery of the mail. The de-
mands of the government for this serv-
ice cannot always be met satisfactorily.
1t requires a solvent, Well-built, we'll
equipped wall-managed railway. The
fast time required makes necessary a
perfect road bed, the heaviest steel
rails, locomotives of advanced and pow
erful type. well-trained and experience
ed employees, intelligent, modern man
agement.
THE Great Northern Flyer shortens
the time between the Atlantic and Pa
Cific oceans by about 10 hours-equal to
four hundred miles, estimating an
hours run at 40 miles. It marks an
important epoch in the history of the
Northwest, and is calculated to be of
immense and permanent advantage to
the many am bitiouS towns and growing
states of the great northern empire.
THE important improvement in mail
and passenger service made by eastern
railways will be extended to all the
territory between the great lakes and
ern railway.
Passengers from Chicago to Mon
tana will have but two nights and Pa
cific coast passengers but three nights
on the road. Close connections will be
made at st. Paul and Minneapolis with
arriving morning trains over all roads
from the east and south; at Grand
Forks with daily trains for Portland
and the KoOtenai country; at Everett
with trains for Vancouver and Brit
fish Columbia points; at Seattle with
railroad and steamship lines for Taco
ma and California points.
The Great Northern railway has 81
so arranged for a daily evening train
out of the Twin Cities to be known as
the Montana-Pacific Express which
will run through to HaVre Mont, MAX
ing local stops, and connecting at Hav-
re for southern Montana points, Spo-
kane and the Kootenai country. Port
land, Seattle and the Pacific coast"
The statement has been repeatedly
made that the Union Pacific is behind
the Utah & Pacific enterprise in Utah.
Farley L. Williams, general attorney
for the Oregon Short Line, has made
"a statement on the subject. He says:
The relations between the Short
Line and the Utah & Pacific said Mr..
Williams, ARE covered by a contract,
with which l am familiar Under the
terms of this contract the Short Line
agrees to sell to the Utah & Pacific a
certain amount of good secondhand,
52-pound steel rails, at specified price.
laid down at Milford and a certain
amount of rolling stock, including four
locomotives, the rolling stock to be Of
an amount not less than $4,000 in value
nor more than $4,000. The Short Line
also agrees to haul the ties to be used
by the new road from a point in Ore
gon to Milford at a specified rate, the
usual rate extended by one road to an
other for construction material, when
the road under construction is con-
meeting line. All of this material and
service is to be paid for in first mort
gage bonds of the Utah & Pacific.
THE contract also covers a traffic
arrangement between the two roads,
drawn in the usual terms of such
agreements between connecting lines,
providing merely for the division of
rates on business passing over both
roads
There are no relations between the