Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-29
The RAILROADS. ;
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: II. o. Wilson, general agent of the
Oregon Short Line, received word today
that j. F. Alger. general agent of the
tninn Pacific, died at st. Louis yester-
day.
Mr.. Wilson has also received word of
the death of j. S. Tibbets at Chicago
yesterday. Mr. Tibbets was well known
in railroad circles throughout the coun-
try as he was one time general manager
OF the Rock Springs Coal company and
also general freight agent for the Union
Pacific at Omaha.
F. l. Whitney, of St. Paul. general
Northern, is expected in Butte tomorrow
Hnsa trip of inspection.
w. II. Bancroft, vice president and
general manager Of the Oregon Short
Line. and S. w. Eccles, general traffic
manager of the same line, We're in Butte
last night for a few hours. They left
for Salt Lake this morning.
G. O. Appehagen of Portland, Ore.
travelling agent for the Empire Line, is
In the city.
While this is the dull season of the
year in freight business, traffic continues
unusually heavy, but the passenger bust
ness of the transcontinental railways is
almost at a standstll. 1t is expected,
however, that the passenger business
will resume with rush on the Inaugural
ticn of the homeseekers' excursions.
February IL is the date set for the
first settlers rates by the Great North
eln. Each succeeding week, for two or
three months. Tuesday will be set apart
for the rates to be in effect. The North
Arn Pacific will also have settlers rates
on the same date. For both roads the
rates will be made to North and South
Dakota, Montana. Idaho. Washington.
Oregon and other northwestern states.
The special rates have not been pub
lished as yet, but will be shortly.
1nmigratio agents now spread out
over the moving territory" and pros
pective settlers are now being rounded
up in Iowa. Illinois, Ohio Nebraska.
Pennsylvania, Michigan and other states.
Last year almost 10000 settlers We're
brought into the northwest and it is ex-
pected that 1901 will break all records.
says the st. Paul Globe. The record
established in 1900 was commented about
all over the country and farmers are
now beginning to realize what the north
west is.
The largest claim for rebate ever
made by user of the interchangeable
mileage credentials of western roads was
presented last week at the mileage
bureau Of the Western Railway Passen-
ger association in Chicago. On January
/, 1900, a commercial traveller at Des
Moines, Iowa, secured certificate en-
titling him to rebate OF l cent on each
mile travelled by him during the year,
provided the total was not less than
8 900 miles. Up. to December q he traN-
eed 1855 miles, paying $549.6S in fare
and he was entitled to a rebate of
S1S2.62. The shortest trip by rail made
by him cost him ID cents and the longest
$4.91. A typewriter column of the num-
Der of miles travelled on each trip was
16 feet 4 inches long. and to add up the
column took an expert with an adding
machine fifty-tve minutes
Another effort to stop the sale of COM
mutation tickets which can be used by
any body will be made by passenger
officials of some Of the western railroads.
~ general lllti east III ldltS iOI SIlitdSp
suburbanites is also to he advocated if
the effort to abolish twenty-five ride
tickets good for bearer" is successful.
Protests made by out -of-town mer-
chants that the low Communication rates
divert business from them to Chicago
merchants are partly responsible for the
movement to curtai the transportation
facilities of suburbanites. Some passen
ger officials declare that their object is
to stop the "scalping' of tickets which
they claim is done to a large extent at
almost every station within thirty miles
Of Chicago. and which prevents the rail-
road companies from getting full local
rates, about cents a mile, from persons
who make only occasional trips to Chi
Cago.
Few people realize how much COM
punity of ownership among the rail-
roads means, says Wall street special
to the Spokesman Review The practi-
cal application will produce much the
same result as consolidation among the
industrial organizations.
First of all, it means that the travel
ing passenger and freight agents will
become superfuOus and go the way of
the thousands of commercial drummers
who lost their jobs and who are now
seeking other employment. 1t means
also the gradual abolition of fast freight
lines Independent car lines of various
kinds. fee passes. scalpers and all the
other accessories Of a highly developed
system of competition.
| The most important result, however.
will be the maintenance Of rates by re-
moving the incentive to cut them. Thus
| in time will become extinct that peculiar
type of bulldozer so familiar to all rail-
road sOlicitors-the agents of big firms
who are paid big salaries to get inside
rate and special favors from the rail-
roads.
| II is stated with authority that the
Northern Pacific has ordered 4,250 rail-
| road cars from the American Car Foun-
| dry company for delivery within the
next few months. involving an eXpendi-
| ,xyar e nlAn ntn Tho nr1a, ron