The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
SEASON JUST ENDED AT BILL
INGS MOST SUCCESSFUL
FOR YEARS
Railroad and Warehouse People Find
Increased Accommodations Nee
essary to Handle the Product
Great Improvement to be
Made Before Another
Year.
Especial to Inter Mountain.)

Billings, Aug. 19.-The wool season,
the largest and most successful in the
history of Billings.
More wool was marketed here than in
all the other cities of the state, the re-
ceipts being close to 100000 pounds.
Last year the Northern Pacific thought
that it's facilities for handling such a
large amount of wool We're adequate but
1t was found that increased facilities are
needed, and a movement to this END is
now being made.
Superintendent Horn was frequent
visitor to the city during the progress Of
the wool sales and his attention was
called to the needed Improvements, which
he readily noticed must come.
The sampling room was enlarged this
year one-half over than last year, but
1t was not nearly large enough to care
for the sampling work that was neces-
sary this year, and it will therefore be
enlarged to twice its present size and
more upper light provided by enlarsiug
the skyligh..
The wool presses this year proved al
together too few in number to care for
the wool, as it did the year previous.
These presses, two in number are run
by gasoline engine and have capacity
Of 275,000 pounds per day, but it was
nothing unusual for three times this
amount Of wool to be sold each day
for several days at time, and this was
the means of putting the presses behind
In the work.
Two new presses will be added next
year. Not the least Of the improvements.
by any means, will be the charging Of
the wool warehouse, which the company
now contemplates. At no distant date
the company will ask the city to close
Twenty-siXth street south across its
right of way, and If permission is granted
the woolhouse will be enlarged about loo
feet
During last winter the Burlington rail-
road company contemplated improve
ments to it's woolhouse and petitioned the
city council to close Twenty-eighth street
north so that it might enlarge it's pres
ent quarters, but this the city refused to
DO.
Now a question arises as to the Bur-
ington's probable attitude regarding the
handling Of the Wyoming wool. which
will be its next season, instead Of the
Northern Pacif1c's, as it has been for the
past several seasons.
Since the city refused to grant the
company's request it is said to be the
railroads intention Of building ware
house at Cody, Wyo., and handling the
Wyoming wool from that point. If such
proves to be the case it will mean the
loss of between 100000 and 100000
pounds to this shipping point.
It is. we'll known fact that the Bur-
lington let the contract last spring for
the erection of a large woolhouse at
Cody, but before it had been started the
contract was postponed.
This was believed to be due to the ef-
forts Of H. B. Segur Of this city. general
agent of the Burlington. Now. it is rea-
sonablly certain that the Burlington will
20 ahead with the building at Cody.
The lumber is on the ground and it
would take but short time to finish the
building and besides the railroad would
not have to compete with the Northern
Pacific as to rates and would be able to
handle the whole lot to the east.