Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-25

lands in the Crows Nest pass in the.
Rocky Mountains. and it is believed that
MI HilIs railway will also build a line
thence 10 Hope, p. e., reaching the pa
| cilc coast that way.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says that il has been learned on what is
considered excellent authority that
! about 10000 shares Of Missouri Pacific
stock have just been transferred on the
! books of The company to the names of
the itockefellers. This is significant. as
, showing in the first place tie ''.cine.Ss
intimacy which has developed between
thu Rockefellers and the Gould inter-
est'. and in the second place this is the
reflection Of the transactions respon-
sille for the advance in the price Of
storlts. which touched 9Ga4. certainly a
high price of it's non-divdend policy is
to he continued.
smother report current was that
plan is receiving serious consideration
for an exchange of one share of Missouri
Pacific for four shares OF Texas Pacific.
A consderab BILE part of the Texas Pacific
stock is already held by Missouri Pa
Cliff interests. and such an exchange
would amount virtually to the complete
absorption Of the Texas road.
Whatever may be the basis of these
valipus stock market rumors there seems
no room for reasonable doubt but that
the Rockefeller interests are becoming
a power in the southwestern territory
an that the Could interests must now.
in the community Of interest" plan, be
placed in the same class. or group. as
the other Morgan Rookie feller- Hill roads.
The gross earnings Of the Missouri Pa
cliff for the second week i'll January
Were S11S. 000. an increase of $9J 900 over
the same period in 1900
Some of the most formidable obstacles
to railroad construction We're overcome
in the building of the Morenci Southern
RAILROAD. a corkscreW route. which has
just been completed in southeastern Ari-
IONA.
The road is only few miles in length.
but represents a marvellous piece of rail-
road engineering work 1t is owned by
the Detroit Copper Mining company.
limited. Phelps. Dodge & Co. of New
York concern, and lies between that
conpany's big copper mines at Morenci
and Guthrie, point on the Arizona &
New Mexico railroad. which joins the
Southern Pacific at Lordsburg. n. NJ.
\ railroad over the San Francisco
mountains and several great canyons
ana sgorges in a section of a very for
midahle contour was necessary to fur
tho development of the mines. but sew
eral we'll known civil engineers declared
the scheme inpracticable.
They found that they had an elevation
of $50 feet to overcome in a direct line
OF l'ss than seven miles. Several of the
grades would be steep. even for a noun
tain wagon. but the Detroit Copper COM
pany ventured into the bold enterprise
and after vast outlay OF capital the en-
ginccrs solved the difficult problem Of
running a narrow gauge road over n
winding roadhel. a great portion of
which is over trestles crossing between
rims Of canyons towering 800 or 800 feet
above the bottoms.
Thousands and thousands of yards Of
masonry We're made to hold the roaGbed
in the canyons and on the steep noun
tain sides and much of the construction
was through solid rock Of volcanic con-
glomcrates and ina!apais.
This year the Burlington will spend
more than 81 600 600 in continuing the
work Of line shortening and double
tracking in Iowa. The plans for the i'm
proVrment. now being prepared. will call
for, the elimination of many curves and
tn. reduction Of numerous grades. The
present route in that state will be short
enca considerably.
/ The Great Northern has announced
that in the future it will not bulletin
los, tickets. This is along the line of
action recently taken by number OF
roaas.
/ The annual report of the Iowa railway
\ commission has just been prepared. 1t
h shows an increase of S4,4s7101 in the
Z proys revenues of the Iowa lines i'm 1900.
K In the course Of 1900. S03.S3 miles of road
w.re built in the state. bringing the total
! mileage up to S,1SS.03 The wages paid
aggregated SIS, 4O6. $685. the number OF en-
ploves being g., 1856. exclusive Of officers
| ". T.. Morrison has been appointed as
sistant to the president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railway. vice
| r g. LennoX. deceased. For more than
| twenty years Mr.. Morrison has been in
the Presidents Office. OF late years he
| has been in special charge Of the Unite I