Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-06
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The RAILROADS.


business that has been done to Hawaii
ana the Philippines since the war prac-
tcally ended. Immediately after the close
Of hostilities between this country and
spain the officers of the western roads
| mad grsat hopes of an immense exodus
| to Uncle Sans new possessions in the
orient. They had similar ideas on the
movement to Hawaii. Agents were sent
throughout the country and those sta
ton in the various big cities were sup
| pied with tons of literature bearing on
the far eastern country, it's prospects and
| Dement'S to all classes. and preparations
J were made for heavy travel
| But the expected business has not af-
ter two years. materialized and the rail-
ROAD men nave given up all hope of
starting immigration. Agents of the
| onlcn Pacific. the company which proha-
ply mas made greater efforts to boom the
orient than any other. say that few per-
sons have gone to the Philippines except
those employed by the government. this
despite the glowing accounts that appear
from time to time of the prospects there
for professional business men and me-
chanics.
The expected rush to the Philippines
mas failed to materialize." said a passen-
ger agent of one of the western lines
we had great ambitions on the new
eastern possessions and we made extra
efforts to lay the advantages Of the coun-
try before the people. but it appears that
our citizens prefer the United States to
an uncertainty"
The high rate charged is said to be one
of the reasons why so few persons have
gone to the orient. The rate from Chi
cago is something like $500. The rail-
roads would reduce their part of this
charge. but the Pacific steamship COM
panies will not cut their percentage of it
one cent.
The indications are that there will be
great activity in railroad building in
British Columbia this spring says the
Grand Forks correspondent to the
Spok esman- Review. Seven applications
for railway charters over routes termin-
atng In Or passing through Grand Forks
are now being made, and more may fol-
low. Three are fo> charters to build from
the coast at Vancouver or New Westmin-
ster up the Fraser river, across the Hope
pass, through the Similkameen valley and
along the international boundary to
Grand Forks. One application is made
by Mackenzie & Mann, the noted railroad
contractors, who have acquired the inter-
ISIS of the Vancouver, Victoria & East
ern company.
Another application is by the Cana dian
Pacific company. which is DESTROYS of ex-
tending its Columbia & Western railway
west from Midway to the coast. Two APP
pllcatlons are in for charters to build
from the International boundary line al
cascade up the valley of the Kettle river, !
through Grand Forks and terminating at
the boundary line at Carson. Macarthur
& McCrea Of Rossland are applicants for |
one of these charters, and the other is !
being applied for by local parties, the
same who have the Grand Forks e. Ket- |
tie river railway project in hand This !
latter application is also for permission |
to build to Midway, 20 miles west of this
city. and a branch so miles up the north
fork of Kettle river Another local COM
pany also desires to build over the route
of the latter branch road.
Two railway projects have Republic.
Wash, for their objective point, and will
be on the American side, with ONLY four
miles on the Canadian side to connect
them with this city. McCuaig, Rykert
4 Co.. of Montreal, Of the Republic mine. |
are at the head of one project and have |
secured permission from the secretary of
the interior at Washington to cross the
Indian farms on the course of their sur
vey. The other project is fathered by the
Grand Forks & Kettle River Railway
company, which has ample capital to
build the road, but is awaiting the decis. |
ion of the secretary of the interior as to
permission to cross the Indian lands be-
fore commencing operations,
The Mail and Express says: The |
Southern Pacific deal presented an outlay
of $4,000, 900, all of which was paid in
cash. The operation, however, extended
over several weeks. The Huntington
stock was taken up and paid for early in
January.
While the purchase of the Southern Pa |
cifc is the greatest deal that has SO far |
been announced, there is another great |
alliance Matching, which will carry the |
community of interests" one step far
ther
1t can be stated on authority that the
Atchison is to be brought into close har-
mony with the Southern and Union Pa
cific in precisely the same way as the |
New York Central and Pennsylvania
have Joined hands, thereby ending for all
time the chances Of rate disputes between
the two copmanies. Furthermore, a grea,
southwestern combination is being quiet
ly formed which will take in some or all
Of these systems: Atchison, st. Louis &
San Francisco, Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as, Missouri Pacific and Texas Pacific.
The Atchison is to be the main stem of
the second big system and it will have an
entrance into both Chicago and San
Francisco.
Wall street has it that the greater
Union Pacific system will have a leaning
toward Vanderbilt connections and that
William X. Vanderbilt is understood to
be the chief factor behind E. H. Har-
riman. If SO, the deal marks the consum-
nation of great Vanderbilt system from