Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-11
THE RAILROADS

Archibald Gray, assistant general
freight agent for the Great Northern re-
turned from his trip to St. Paul last
nlght after an absence of aboutSbne week.
lie returned on the first section Of the
Great Northern homeseekers excursion
Which left that city last Tuesday and
says that he saw much of interest on 1t.
At Devils Lake, N. D., about twenty
persons tried to board the train but as
1t was crowded the conductors told then.
they would have to take the second Sec
ton. The conductor almost had TO fight
with the men to keep them off the train
One amusing incident created little di-
version. A woman with five small child
rem missed the smallest-four years Of
age. She almost had Mysteries and IL,
ten minutes had the whole train in an
uproar. Every passenger on the train
was hunting for the lost child and the
conductor had made arrangements to
telegraph back from the next station,
The search continued for half an hour
and Mr.. Gray got SO interested in the case
that he took part in it. At the expira-
ton Of the time named the child was
found underneath one of the seats sound
~ asleep. The mother was overioyed
and Rugged and kissed her recovered
treasure for several moments. She then
happened to think that the child had
caused her much worry and turning IL
on her lap in the most approved position
gave it sound spanking. Mr.. Gray
says that it was one of the most arts
tic spanklngs he ever witnessed and re-
minded him Of his childhood days Every
child in the car yelled in sympathy with
the spanked one and Mr.. Gray got 4
headache from the noise
Mr.. Gray says that his trip to ST. Paul
was in the interest of the tariffs. Navi-
cation on the great lakes opens on the
18th and the rates have been slightly in
creased. The general feeling is that the
tariff rates will be maintained as there Is
tonnage in sight for all carrying capacity
! of the lakes and there will be no incen-
tive to cut the rates. The railroads feel
that they are entitled to participate in
the general prosperity of the country.
Mr.. Gray states that while he was in St.
Paul he heard that the Great Northern
had placed orders for 1900 additional cars
including steel cars, fiat cars. box cars
and refrigerator cars. All this goes to
show that the road expects to do a large
business during the next year.
The meeting of the Northern Montana
Roundup association which was to have
been held at Fort Benton on April % has
been set ahead to Friday, April 10 There
will be meetings at Miles City on April
IS, 16 and II and the people who go there
will attend the Fort Benton meeting. The
advance is for the purpose of doing away
7 with the long interval
+ 1t is reported that the Northern Pa
cifc railroad will in the near future
commence the construction of a road to
be known as the Gaylord & Ruby valley
road from Twin Bridges TO Virginia City
Ii is said that there is a great demand
for fuel by the dredging companies OPP
Grating on Alder Gulch and the railroad
has come to the conclusion that
! branch into that district will pay. tn,
distance between Twin Bridges and Vir
ginia City is about 80 miles and as
Corps of engineers have been workin,
in the valley for some time it is expect
cG that the road will be commenced a
soon as weather permits. The road vii
be built by way of Sheridan and will
give that mining region a big boom.
The phenomenal movement of home
seekers to the northwestern states
which has been steadily increasing sine
February IL. when the first low rate