Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

crossings. The estimated cost of this
work is $6,55s,0O. When the entire
work mentioned Is completed there will
have been elevated 1882 miles OF rail-
way tracks at a cost of $23, 613, 000
Two ordinances are pending before the
council, one to elevate the railroad tracks
on Kinzie street from Ada street west
ward to connection with the elevation
of the railroads having ,.leir tracks on
kinze street; the other to elevate the
Lake Shore and Michigan Central and
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railway tracks to the Van Buren, street
depot
There are ready to submit to the coun-
Gil Feb. 1. 1901, ordinances for the ele-
walton of the tracks of the following rail-
way companies: Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy and others near Western
and Ogden avenues; the Belt railway of
Chicago, from Ogden avenue to Adams
street and from Kinzie street to North
avenue: the Chicago and Northwestern,
from Knzie street to Milwaukee avenue
ON Forty-sixth avenue; the Chicago Mil
waukee and st. Paul, from North For
tieth avenue to Nondh Fifty-siNth aven-
ne: the Union Stock Yards and Transit
company, from Halsted street eastward
to connection with the Illinois Central;
the Chicago and Grand Trunk and the
tion Stock Yards and Transit company
from Halsted street to South Western
avenue.
I'VE are beginning to believe that the
COMMUNICATIVE chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic never was in favor of
holding the next annual encam,1nent in
Denver yesterday said i prominent
member of the Western PASSENGER asso-
citation.
He insists that unless the general
passenger agent of every Western rail-
ROAD gives his pledge to make rate of
cent mile. she emcampment will not be
held IN Denver. but in some eastern
city. General Rasseur is a shrewd law.
yer, and knows well that if any western
road makes a rate of ! cent a mile all
the roads will do so. But he also knows
mat several Of the roads do not want to
established precGl0nt of so low a rate,
ana Will prevent it if possible. They will
never voluntarily make it.
The Burlington, Rock Island, and st.
Paul roads have agreed to make the l.
cent rate, and this would force all west
ern lines 30 meet that rate. Knowing
General Rassieur IS acquainted with all
these facts, we believe that his der,1a ND
Tor pledges from all the western roads
Is made. knowing they will not be
made voluntarily, and, therefore. he can
accomplish his object of having the en-
canpment in Cleveland and then Law
the blame on the western railroads for
NOT holding it in Denver, as The members
ol the Grand Army voted it should he
IL the enoampment is transferred from
Denver to Cleveland, or some other east
ern city, what rate VIII the western roads
make for old soldiers?''
1hey VIII not make even half-rates.
much less cent a mile. I think the rate
pfCoaoly VIII be one and one-third times
lne regular ole-Way rate for the round
trip, or ? cents a mile each way. The To-
catloh or the encampment probably will
be decided at the meeting in St. Louis.
next week, of the executive committee
OF the G. A. r. 1t should remember that
Illinois and Kansas are the greatest G.
A. r. states in the Union" III
There is reason to believe that the Me
arasua canal project may he opposed by
a powerful lobby representing the trans.
continental lines CT the country. The
statement of prominent traffic official
OF one OF the northwestern roads is in
tereating in this connection. He SAYS:
An lsthmian waterway would at once
knock out existing freight rates from
the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific
ocean. d
From New York to San Francisco the
present water rate by way of Cane Horn
is between 81 and IS per ton" said he.
ITO meet that competition the railroads
n 70
per ton. They have to give % per cent.
of that to the lines east of Chicago, and
then the lines from Chicago to the Mis-
souri, river have to be taken care of.
This leaves less than one-half a cent per
ton per mile for the coast roads. You
can easily see the profits which the lat
ter get. But one hope I can see in the
canal project is the building of big dis
tributing points on the Pacific coast"
new district to be known as The Col,
orado division has been established on
the Santa Fe. It vii! extend from Pueh
10 to DanVer, and r. J. Parker has been
appointed superintendent, with offices in
Pueblo.
Hydro-carbon gas is being experiment.
ed with as car illuminant by the Him
OILS Central road. The gas is generated
in box hung below the car body. So
far the experiments have been entire1v.
in the suburban cars
:
1t is reported that the Wabasf road
has asked for bids for fifty new engines
Z
General Passenger Agent Turk Of the
Southern railway has been appointed as
sistant passenger traffic manager of the
same company.
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1t IS said that the roads east of Bus-
falo are holding box cars in a way to EN-
barrass the officers of lines Of that CITY.
Grain shippers in Chicago are protesting,