Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-03
BIG MOVE TO SOUTH DAKOTA
Northwestern Prepares to Haul $4,000
Persons to Trip County.
HALF WILL PASS THROUGH OMAHA
Business of the Railroads Contin-
ues to Improve and Operating
OmciaIs Expect to he
Taxed.

THE Northwestern road is preparing to
move $1,000 people to Dallas and Gregory,
S. D., for the opening OF the government
lands in Trip county, and at least so per
cent Of these will pass through Omaha
said Frank Walters, general manager Of
the road. who has returned
from Chicago. Trip county contains $685.
600 acres, of which approximately $1,000
acres will be allotted to the Indians and
10000 acres will be allotted to the public, a
total of 5000 quarter sections. The condi-
lions are somewhat changed from former
openings and as the land is most attractive
we expect to have all the people we can
assemble cars to handle during the dates
for the filing Of applications and for regis
tration.
Gregory and Dallas are the most Access
sible towns to Trip county, as they are
on the edge of the county and both on the
Bonesteel extension of the Northwestern
road. Both are new and up-to-date towns
with hotels and sidewalks and other i'm
provements and will be better prepared
for handling crowds than many towns
have been at former government openings.
No fee is charged for filing applications
and the cost of this land will be IS an acre
for all lands entered before June !, 1909,
and $3.50 an acre for all lands entered after
June /. Trip county contains some farm
ing land as good as any to be found any
where and these prizes are surely worth
going after"
Applications for registration may be
made at O'Neill and Valentine in Ne
braska, and at Dallas. Gregory, Chamber
lain and Presho, South Dakota. The regis
terlng points are at Dallas and Gregory
only, which are on the Northwestern at the
edge OF Trip county. Applications made
at other points than Dallas and Gregory
must be sent by mail or otherwise to Judge
X. w. whitten of the Department Of the
Interior. who has been appointed superin-
tendent of the opening, by 4 o'clock p. m,
October II.
The date of the drawing is October 10,
at Dallas. The allotment will he made at
Dallas sometime after March 1, 1909. The
government has made more liberal provi.
sions than heretofore for old soldiers and
sailors and this fact, coupled with the high
character of the land will make the draw
ing one OF the most popular ever held by
Uncle Sam.
All Business Improves.
Business on the western railroads con
tinues to improve and the operating Of
ficials expect to soon be taxed to their
capacity to handle the enormous business
which will be given them to haul. A yea
ago the overland roads were doing tn,
largest business in their history and tn,
tracks were crowded until ii was almos
an impossibility to get trains through. II
fact. the railroad men thought they haC
, reached the limit of tonnage for singl,
track roads. To relieve the situation tn,
Union Pacific was rushing double tract
work that the pressure might be relieved
Then came the financial furry, with order
to stop all new work. The double tract
builders were laid off and all new worl
, stopped. Business fell off and the railroad
were soon able to care for all business
easily. A month ago Mr.. Hartman wen
t west through Omaha and the sight OF tn,
unfinished condition Of the double tracking
E was too much for him. He gave order
that double tracking be resumed in Ne
braska and Wyoming. That this track 1
needed, and needed as soon as possible, 1
shown by the reports Of Increased business
| Although the business a year ago wa
enormous, Wednesday of last week was tn
banner day for all time to that date 70
& freight business on the Union Pacific fl
Utah. Eleven great trains Of freight o
461 loaded cars were sent rolling eastwar,
from Ogden and ten trains arrived fror
. the east with 422 cars. Although this sur
passed the Of last fall, the i'm
proved conditions of the road made 1t pos
sible to get these trains over the roa
without the delays OF last fall when tn
line was congested.
Union Pacific Double Track, y
Double track work on the Union Pacifi
in both Nebraska and Wyoming is Pre-
crossing most rapidly and will be cor
tinued until cold weather. puts a stop t
outside work. When this double trac
work is completed It will make Harrima
the possessor OF a double track road nearl
across the continent. and when the doubI
track on the Southern Pacific is complet
II will make the highest ambition of NJ
Hartman complete. He expects to hay
the Southern Pacific double tracked in
few years, although this will be a mo,
difficGlt undertaking. A single track roa
J across the Sierra Nevada mountains wa
an enormous task and to double track
. will be nearly as hard a task as the builC
ing of the original road.
New Steel Observation Cars.
The Burlington has placed in service b,
- tween Omaha and Chicago. on trains No
3 and IL two new steel observation car
the first cars of this kind that have bee
used on any line in the west. They al
/ eighty-four feet in length and are of Il
newest Pullman construction-wider tina
the old steel cars-and the toilet roms al
much larger than in the old type. The
are ten-section cars and the rear is Il
observation compartment equipped wit
current magazines and periodicals. and a
N ford a comfortable desk for writing. III
rear platform is twelve fet long, equipps
q with side windows of four feet and vii
canvas curtains, shielding passengers fro
= cinders and dust. II Is a very comfortab
y oman air Mace. The cars are eouiDped vi