Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-23
DONALD ROSE
ON CONFIDENCE
ILLINOIS CENTRAL MAN SAYS
COMING ELECTION HAS NO
DEPRESSING EFFECT.
HE HAS BEEN MAKING
A TOUR OF MONTANA.
Short Line Improvements Described
by Salt Lake Tribune-Rail-
road Notes.

Donald Rose, of the Illinois Central is
in Butte today, after having made a tour
OF Montana. During his travels all over
the western country, he la been espec-
tally struck with the fact that the COM
ing presidential election is having prac-
tlcally no effect on business. and espec-
tally with railroad traffic. Usually, a
presidential election has a most depressing
effect upon BUSINESS until it is all over,
but II the present campaign is having any
effect at all in the west, 1t is to increase
confidence and stimulate business.
MI. Rose was at Dillon this week, and
figures up that 1000, 900 pounds of wool
was marketed from that point during this
season, nearly all of it going east via the
Central on consignment.
Speaking of the Short Line improve
ments, he says that their magnitude can
only be appreciated by a trip over the
whole system, which, when they are com
pleted, will make a vast difference in the
road, and with the new equipment now
being added, will be placed in the front
rank of western roads.
Mr.. Rose leaves tomorrow for Salt
Lake.
The improvements being made on the
Short Line are attracting much attention
in railway circles. The Salt Lake Tri-
bune gives the following summary of the
SiicSSSo SoIlpIClCu LII UCl1S llduC.
"The seventh and eighth districts,
Montana division, Oregon Short Line,
present a good field for studying mod
ern railway and track improvements.
This division, part of the old Utah
Northern, was in great need Of repairs
when the Oregon Short Line took the
property three years ago. Realizing it's
great Importance the company began
a systematic work of betterment and
the result already is quite remarkable.
When completed the line will be in
splendid condition to handle heavier
freight and faster passenger trains
i Much of the work of ballasting with Lime
gravel was completed last year, notably
from Dubois to Dillon, but this work is
being pushed vigorously under the direc-
ton of superintendent Larry Malloy and
no stop viii be made until the whole di-
vision is ballasted.
Just at present there is much work
go ng on Of even 'reater importance, but
preparatory to ballast. This is the recti-
flying of the line. Near Dubois the line is
being raised, and at mile post 238 it is be-
| ing lowered. At Hawgood a cut Is being
-. made, to get down to grade, and at less
important places Says are being filled in,
little grades reduced and curves reduced.
Zone of the most important pieces of
work on the whole line is the rock cut
being made this side of Maiden Rock
spur, or at Burley station, as it has
recently been named. At this point the
track rounds the immense rocks near the
Big Hole river on a II per cent curve, and
with the curve this side makes a reverse
curve of most annoying features. All the
rains have to slow down in rounding the
! point, and this adds to the trouble.
Under the plan for the new line now
in course of construction a deep cut will
be made through the mountain slope and
the curve reduced to 6 per cent. With an
extension of the grade the reverse curve
will be entirely oblterated. making q
great improvement in the line and a