Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-20
Changes viii GO Into Effect
Next Sunday.
THE MERlNo EXTENSION
Tracklaying on Montana Railroad Prem
MartinSdale COmmenceS.-WM
Be fastened.

A new time card Will &C into eHect on
the Oregon Short Line next Sunday, as
follows:
No. 8 leaves Butte usual time) 4:45 p.
M; arrives at Pocatello. 2:45 a. m, con-
Meeting with new train for Portland n
intermediate points. Arrives at Ogden
500 a. M; Salt Lake, 9:25 q. M; connects
at Ogden with morning ain east n
west-bound on Union Pacific, Denver &
Rio Grande and Southern Pacific.
No. 10 caves Butte 12:45 q. M, instead
of 3:45 a. M, arrives Pocatello 11:O0 a. M,
connecting with second train for Port
land. Arrives at Ogden $3.50 p. M; Salt
with night trains for the east Inc west.
Trains from the east and west arrive
in Butte as at present: No. z, 1885 a. m;
No. 9, 12:45 p. m. Passengers leaving
Butte on No. 10, may occupy sleeping
cars at the depot any time after 900 p.
M; or arriving at Butte on No. Z Q:55 q.
N.Y., may remain in the sleeper until 1880
a. m.
This is the most satisfactory service
the short line ever had in and out of
Butte, for reason that passengers arriv-
ing via either the Great Northern or
| Northern Pacific morning and night
trains, make direct connection with the
Short Line south bound double train SER
vice.
a "a AN -" $3.50 ~
two trains daily to Portland
The new time card of the Great North
ern, announced as effective Sunday, will
not go into effect until Tuesday.
Tracklaying will be commenced this
week on the extension of the Montana
railroad from Martinsdale to Merino, a
distance of twenty-four miles says the
Helena Independent The grade has
been practically completed, and a crew
of men will begin laying steel in two or
three days. The track will be completed
within thirty days, hen through rates to
Merino will be made, Robert RantOul,
general manage Of the Montana road,
give the road much the larger part of the
business of the Judith basin.
When we run to Merino," he said yes
| terday, 1--WE will be much the nearest
rail point from Lewistown and Utica. 1t
is about SO miles from Merino to Lewis
town and 46 to Utica, while Great Falls
is 12O miles from Lewistown and 100 miles
| from Fort Benton to Lewistown. AL
ready LewistOwn merchants are begin
ming to appreciate the advantage of a
shorter rail route, for the Montana road
is getting it's share Of business through
MartinSdale. Helena merchants are i'm
proving their opportunities in that field
| also, and while their business is by no
mean what it should be or what it even
tually will be, 1t has been growing ever
since we mad rates to M~artinsdale."
Manager Rantoul said that the COM
pany expected to complete it's line to
MerinO in time to take care of the wool
clip Of Fergus county and the Musselshell
country.
The Northern Pacific proposes to in
crease the Importance of Billings as a
WOO market. n the Montana road will
lend it's assistance toward that end. Prac-
tically all wool shipped over the Montana
road this season will be first sem to Bill
lings under a through rate agreement,
and after being w~arehoused there and
sold will be sent east.
Mr.. Rantoul said yesterday that there
was every indication of a larger wool
clip this season h the state has ever
| had.
There is every reason to expect that
the total clip will be heavier this year
| than last said Mr.. RantOul. There are
more sheep in the state than last year,
and l think hat the average of fleeces
will be heavier. The wool was unusually
light last season. Fergus county is the
heaviest wool producing county in the
state, and u road expects to handle a
large part of the clip this season.
II think that Billings will be the big
; gest wool market in the state this year.
The Northern Pacific will concentrate
| all the wool from the territory it reaches
In thiss state at that point. and there will
| be the usual additions from Wyoming
and from the territory reached by the
4 Montana railroad. The Northern Pacific
warehouses at Townsend, Columbus and
{ Merrill will not receive wool as former
ly. but all clips going to those points will
! be loaded OF cars and shipped to Billings.
I where the company has built an enor-
nous warehouse capable of taking care
of all that will be received. 1t is ex-
pected that the amount of wool that
will 60 through Billings this year will
| exceed 5000, 900 pounds. and may equal
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