The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-06-11
BIG IMPROVEMENTS.
Northern Pacific Enlarging stockyards
Other Railroad News.

Northern Pacific Enlar9InQ SIockyarQS
Other Railroad News.
A special train of 13 cars, composed
of one baggage, a diner and IL Pull
mans, carrying a party of surgeons
and woman suffragists, who have been
attending the national conventions OF
those organizations in st. Paul and
Minneapolis, passed through the city
this morning at about 1880 o'clock,
en- route to the Yellowstone park.
| They expect to spend a week in view
ing the wonders of the park.
Miss Haskell, of Minneapolis, has
arrived in the city and accepted a po-
sition as st~enograpner In the North
ern Pacific freight depot.
Conductor A. E. Anderson has re-
sumed his passenger run on the North
ern Pacific between Glendive and
Billings. He has been enjoying a
vacation of several weeks, taking In
the conductors convention at st. Paul
and visiting in the east.
v. E. Squires, of Toledo, o., is a
new employee of the Northern Pacific
in this city, as car clerk at the freight
depot. s.
Over a half million pounds Of wool
are now stored in the Northern Pacific
warehouse, one-half of which is from
Wyoming. The wet weather of the
past two weeks has delayed the ship
ment of clips.
The Burlington received another
trainload of cattle yesterday for Pierre
Wibaux, OF Wibaux. Three trains for
the same party will arrive today and
this will complete Mr.. Wibaux' ship
ments, All these cattle were brand
ed at Alliance, Neb. They are being
driven to Mr.. Wibaux' range in Daw-
son county
Three trainloads of southern cattle
we're unloaded at. Peritsa, 81 miles
east of Billings on the Burlington yes
terday for the Custer Cattle company.
One of the new compound engines
recently bought by the Burlington and
placed on this line, came into Billings
Friday. The engineer encountered
several obstacles on the way up from
Sheridan, but they amounted to small
affairs when struck by the engine. 1t
seems that the new engine is wider
than those which have been in use
so long, and at some stations it could
not clear the platform. At Clear
mont in particular, the platform was
too close to the track, the result being
that the platform was knocked
through the depot. The company
will be compelled to set it's platforms
closer to the depots in several in.
) stances if it wishes to have smooth
sailing for it's new engines.
! The two railroads anticipate a big
! and rushing business IN the matter
! of wool receipts just as soon as the
weather settles, SO the growers car
!, bring in their clips.
The Northern Pacific is making
some extensive improvements at its
5 s%tockyards, east OF the city about 9
: mile. The yards are being enlarged
4 and the facilities greatly improved
5 and a new water pipe laid from the
I city. The pipe that mas done duty
: in years past was a small affair, bu'
! the new one will be a six-inch mai1
u running along the company's right-of
way from Twenty-seventh street, ne
: : cessitating the laying Oh 5000 feet o.
! pipe. The improvements will cos
close to $4,000.
9 J. w. Kendrick, second vice-presi
:: dent of the Northern Pacific, has beer
i elected third vice-president of tn
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Thi'
! position places the great operating
department of the Santa Fe system
= in Mr.. Hendricks hands, says tn
= Minneapolis Journal.
Il Mr.. Kendrick was selected at
Il meeting of the Santa Fe's board o
u directors held in New York late yes
terday afternoon, He said last nigh
7 that he had accepted the position an
~ would leave to assume his new dutie
in asday or two. The position he ha
filled with the Northern Pacific VII
j remain vacant for a while.
u w. G. Pearce, assistant to Presiden
= Mellen at Tacoma, will assume tn
!, duties of chief of the operating de
: partment.
J. w. Kendrick is one of the bes
y known railroad men in the west. iii
u exceptional ability and admirable Sc
= cial qualities have endeared him t
le all who have enjoyed the pleasure c
his acquaintance.
From 1880 to 1883 he was in charg
of the construction of the Missoul
and Yellowstone divisions, and unit
at 1883, chief engineer Of the st. Pal
& Northern Pacific, consisting OF tn
line and terminals between st. Pal
al and Brainerd. From 1888 to 1893 d
a was chief engineer of the Mortimer
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