STORYOFTHE BURLINGTON
Interesting Alliance Pictures and Articles Regarding; the
Wyoming Division, from the February Number of Bur
lington Employes' Magazine.
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Many New York. M believe that
God made everything east of the
Hudson and thai tae rest of the
Vnited States is inhabited by Indi
ans, rubes and buffalo. Nor are the
Oothamiles ale ne in this opinion, for
other down east Inhabitants Incline to
a similar belief. Some who think
they know about the west, would
tell you about Its wild and wooly lac
of civilization
ShOttM you happen to mention Al
liance, the average easterner who
knew the least thing about the west
vculd immediately imagine three In
diam tepees, five saloons and a doz
en humans divided equally as to
racial characteristics.
However, Alliance Is far from that,
as Superintendent Weidenhamer's in
terest in; storv shows. It. Is the
headquarters of one of the llvest
railroad organizations in the Burling-
tlng along reasonably well In his de
partment. On the Deadwood line we have
Conduct r Jack Knowles, of the
Spearflsb run. who is conductor,
tralnmat ti r, roadmaster and super
rhtOf ol hriiin's and buildings. itnl
he takes care of the Job. On the
Hot Springs line Conductor J. II.
Cantlln holds a similar position.
Lead and Dead wood yards are handl
ed by A. I). Snow and Ki t d Skalin
der, and about till they have to do
is to switch, walk, swear and get
, blocked in whenever they can.
On the main line locals between
Kdgemont and Alliance we have Mill
Johnson and Hill Beach; between Al
liance and Seneca we have Frank
O'Connor and Charles Klder; on tin
eas! end between Seneca and Rav
enna we have Lou Ferrl-er and Ixir
um Theodore Halverstadt. There is
over the Black Hills territory ga
down then1 to gather ttiein, as he
make the finest Jelly and Jam a per
son ever tasted. You also find wild :
strawberries and wild red raspberries i
along the 1st of August.
II. M. riiompkins. -uperiMenilen i
D( I4m Lake Shore, locate! .1 Muffa
lo, N. Y., who was fonnerly a Bur
lington man, spent his vacation in
; I i Mlack Hills the past summer and
said it was one- of the best vacations
he had ever had.
The Homestnke Mining Company,
tae largest gold mine in the world,
is located at Lead. S. I)., on the Bur
lington. They have just .recently In
stalled an electric plant near Spear
fish which furnishes all Hie power to
run their machinery in the different
mines. The cost of this plant, was
somi hing around $1,600,000.00. They
handle about 4,000 tons of ore a day
Dondwoofl and Lead lo handle the
freight business between the above
mentioned point and the Junction at
Knglewood
llet Springs, one of the greatest
health resorts In the I'nlted States,
Is located In the Southern Kills and
Is reached by a branch from the
Headword line. 1.1 miles In lenxth.
tlx- inn. t .i n being nt Mlnnekahtn.
The government National Sanitarium
for disabled soldiers and sailors la
! located at this point.
The following office are maintain-
I ed at Dead wood: Assistant miperin
tendon! e office: C. C. Moltorf, as
sistant superintendent: II. II. Oltes.
I had wood Is looted in the very "Ml,Hn 'n,wf dispatcher; John L,
heart of the Mlack Hills the "ftetb J ttt"TnMWMI and C. M. Mackey, trick
.st 100 square miles in the world " dlsmtohers. Commercial agent's or
Deadwood, the county seat of laW!6' J. L Mentley. better known as
fence county, is the business center ' ""in" Mentley, commercial agent;
of the Black Hilfa and, surrounded " v ' Yeager, chief clerk.
OLD DEPOT AT ALLIANCE
as she is with nature's wonders, is
imbed a beautiful place Headwood
lias a population of nearly ft, 000 peo
ple and everything can be found
here that is to be found in the larg
er cities.
The city has a fine theater, pub-
'lie library, federal building, county ! wOOd handl
court house, two clubs The Dead
wood Business Club and Klka Club
and M has Just completed an auditor
lum building that Us the very best to
be found In the slate.
We wre only three miles from Ijeud
City, the second largest city In the
state, at which the Homestake Min
ing company mines and mills are lo
cal. !. The Homestake Mining com
pany is the largest low grade min
im; company In the world. Any one
visiting Lead should not fail to visit
it.
The local freight office Is in
(barge of K. A. Chambers, agent,
and II. F. Wertenberger. cashier.
Ticket office Is in charge of , T.
Itoliertson. ticket agent, and K. I'.
I. owe, assistant ticket agent.
The dispatcher's office at Dead-
the dispatching of
trains on the main line between
I i.-ad wood and Hdgemont and also on
branch and narrow gauge lines.
J. T. OH more, roadmaster, is lo
a ed at Hill City and has charge of
the line from Kdgemont to Kngle
wood and Keystone, I lamia and Ho'
Springs branches.
Any of the boys who contemplate
taking a vacation will do well to con
si.', r the Mlack HllWc. and we feel
sure that they will not be dtsap
pointed with the attractions to be
found in this country. The boys
BIT ISLINGTON DEPOT
Photo by Alliance Art Studio
ton system and that means in the mot much to do on the above runs,
world. Hire is Mr. Weidenhamer's ' except to keep track of the pay-car
article:
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(My Supt Weidt nhanieri
The Alliance division is noe of the
and the over-time.
(By F. A. Hivelyi
llowev.r, Alliance division is not
unit., mm K.ifl tt uniiljl Ku t,,ila, . st '
i. ble minded divisions and of course
is ;i very poor paying proposition. We d' ' ., .. .... maM
... ,., u i Jut't !! miks ironi Chicago, Jt5 i
have Superintendent eidenhnmur, I
. .. - uii'Ies from Lincoln and 2!i miles;
jwIio came up from the ranks of the I
. . trom Denver I' -s n ndqiiarli rs of
trainmen. oniiseiuelit I y never had ' ...
, . ,1 this (Mvlrti n, in a town of about n.000
very much experience in railroad mat ... J
. ; popui tutu nil Supermteiidi-nt
tfrt outside of that , -
I K. K. oung ot the W vommg district
Mr. Raycrok. our master median- n,g headquartei, here, aru, l)l8.
io. was enly a machinist In the shop, ( ;ri(., KnK,ncer G K Hamilton also'
i, usiMiuently he never had very much , .)s M o(fu ( A1.ul(.e
experience outside of that depart ) A1iau.e (livl8io1 haH ., U)tn, !
ment. Our power is very poor and ,,. af 58, 7,. whioh includes '
will only develop about 110 per cent .,b(u , (,jlps of narrow K.(Ui,(1 jn
c-:!i, iency. Trainmaster Nelson was ( ,.( (, j(, t .( fhe B,ack Hm
only a In ikeman and conductor. Mr. ,n ,1,., ,,,,. Hfl bet we, n DeMlwood I
Moltorf, en assistant suptrlntendeM. Le.,d w,tr OV(. ., ,
used to w.rW in the store department , A
fur Mr. Wi :erman, but. we do not
know whether he received a dating
nail or n-t. He then wen; through
the track department as for. man and
roadmaster.
Our chief dispatelier. Mr. Gavin.
-a inc. up from an operator aud track
dispatcher. Mr. Hively, chief clerk
to the general superintendent, start
imI in life M a bell hop, then took a
course in business college and final
ly landetl in the store department un
dr Mr. Waterman, where he re
ceived trea ment and a dating nail.
Our road foremen, Messrs. Morrison
and Davenport, started their rail
road tareers as firemen and went
through the Mb ol firemen and lo
ccinc:ive engineers.
On this division we pad OUT ,n
uage and over-time repairs mid cov
er up all engine failures: and by
Jockeying around we manage to keep
on the pay-rolls, but wha-t could you
expect of a bunch of this kind w ho
associate with such characters as
I lead wood Dick," Calamity Jane"
end "Tim Coleman?' However, the
. in - any of us have been to these
cbgntctorv is thiir graves.
Oui ma n line passenger traius .ne
maua;ed by General Managers John
109, Coia'it. Reoi MiDonald, I'onath.
Andrews, Armour. Ikmutt, Gaddis,
Zollinger. Stewart and Metebennei .
ai I Assistant Gcn ral Managers Mil
liken. Kennau. All. n. Fit.pa'rick. Til
lett, M F. Nolan. P. J Nclan and
(l.orge Ueid. Mc ade aud Kiddle
We have for roadmhsiers Wilburn,
Johntton, Hoenshell and Oilmen.
These men have been brought up in
the- track department, aud have only
had about '5 Of M years experience
The Mlack Hills lines are the pr.t
tiest mm the Bmlington system. A
graai many peo.hlu have been luard
to remrk thai the line from boatt
fto d to IpaaiHili taora than etiuais ,
the Hoy ill Gorge of Colorado. As 1
.iu leave Trojan hill, the highest)
po!nt in the Mlack Hills, being 6150 1
feet, leading Into Spearfish canyon.
and average about $4.00 a ton.
The Alliance division lias the only
railway num. I in the slate of Ne
braska, loiat.d tit Melmont, where
the line OfOMOl Pine Ridge.
Wl have one very peculiar feature
cn this division. Met ween Alliance
and Seneca, a distance of 110 mil-s,
we do not have a railroad bridge. It
i veTy seldom you find such a long
irt tch of track wheret here is not
some kind of a railroad bridge.
Almost everyone knows about Hot
Spiings, S. D. It Is about :t0 miles
ircm Kdgemom and 13 miles from
Minnekahta, on the Black Hills line.
Jt Is located in a canyon, and to get
to the (own of Hot Springs you go
down about a 2 per cent grade. It
lias two of the fine-st plunge baths
in the world, the water being natur
ally warm. All the realroad boys on
tin Alliance division generally go
there on the Fourth of July to take
their annual bath. The Cnited SiiKes
Soldiers' home is also at this point.
Abcut 1 miles from Hot Springs
is located Wind Cave. This e-ave has
been explored at different times for
a. BJOOd many years and the end ha.s
net yet been found.
There Is another very pretty place
The Burlington reaches Dead wood there will be very glad to do all pos
With a line of railroad 105 mile tn si'ble to make their stay a pleasant
length, running north from Kdgemont one.
through the very center of the Black j Alliance Is one of the best cities
Hills. This Is one of the most plctur. of Its size in the west Tta sitores
esinie routes In the wcrld and is only j and shops are up-to-date In every re
ex. K'ded In natural beauty by the i spec! and the volume or Burlington
Spearfish line, which is 40 miles In (patronage 1b large, as a result of the
lonatbi running from laadwood to merchants' effort to please.
SpearHsh through Spearrish canyon. Among the business houses In the
A visitor to Deadwood should not i city which cater especially to Burl
fail to make the Spearfish trip. Con- Ington patronage are The Famous
doctor look Knowles, who has been Clothing Store, A. D.' Rodgers, Nor
running on this line for a number of ton's, the Mallery Grocery Co., O.
years, is always willing to explain tho Darling, F. B. Holsten, The A in
different points of interest to the an. e Herald, the First National Mank
traveler. Some of the finest trout i ttd H. F. Thill.
fishing In the country is to be found Annmim ennrnts of these lnstitu-
In the Spearfish river, a mountain (ios will be found tn another part of
stream running through the canyon. Hiis Issue or Burlington Kmploye's
Deadwood and Lead are connected Magazine That they are making a
by a trolley line owned and operated troog error! to cater to Murling'.or.
by the company. The trolley car men is evidenceel by their advertise
make-s the trip between Deadwood
and Load every forty minutes.
The trolley run is handled by two
erows, coadstinay of a conductor "to
take in the money," and a motorman
"to turn 00 the Juice." The present
crews arc Bri Skalinder. conductor;
mi nts in the magazine and the edit
ors of this publication are pleased to
!: able to say a good word for them
In tois manner.
Alliance Division of the Hurllngton
Is thoroughly wide-awake In every
r.spcci, and Its men are among the
thought that aa Investigation win
In- necessary as It was eleven below
io at the time of the wreck aa
the rails too rrosty for suretv down
the incline from the viaduct.
boiit every man. woman and child
in town was on hnnd at some time
In the day to superintend the remor
al or the debris, the cold or the
snow underfoot and the damp did aot
discourage the sightseers. It doe
not happen every day. a wreck Inside
the city limits, devoid or morbid In
cidents, therefore perfectly enjoys
ble to everybody, unless, perchance,
the company had some regrets. -Bid
ney Telegraph.
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OFF TO THE BIG SHOW
A. D. Rodgers left on 4-' Tuesday
morning lor Omahn. where he went
to attend the big "Made In Nebras
ka Show", which has been announced
through these columns, and also to
attend the annual meeting or tb
Federation or Nebraska Retailers,
being a iber of the executive
. oinmlttee of the last named organ
ization. He wHI probably remain la
Omaha until the close of the above
nameel show, which will be February
15th.
it air mill MiwHah iff
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infi '
ROUNDHOUSE AND SHOPS. FROM EAST
S. W. Mundell, motorman; and Bert. best to be found anywhere along the
Scene of engine boiler explosion,
was thrown from where man is s
Saturday, February 15th. Boiler
andmg to where it lies in picture
you drop a 5 per cent grade, and
locking down in the canyou you ran
see how the line curves around to
get into the canyon.
Fliait pari of the line from Klmore
to Speartish follows Spearfish creek.
vsliiih is abundant with Rainbow and
Conequcnily they are beginniug to , Spe kled trout and summer coltag.-.-
uuderstand track matt era pretty well. are thick along this line. Along Ifl
K W Bail, Oaw master carpenter. the months of July an' August choke
baa only had about JO or 40 years I cherries, pin cherries and sarvas
asparieBCO, coaaagoagtl lie is get berries are ripe and people from all
out ficni Custer, S. D., on the Black
Hills line, called Sylvan lake, aud
i Ills is a great place for people af
Hided whh hay rever. There is a
beautiful lake, botafl and siuiiin. i cot
ages, but tlie scenery surrounding
.1 is probably the most attractive
The Deadwood Lin
(By N. A. Ryan;
1'i a. il. ally shut out from the bal
ance or the world by mountains.
tat railroad systun thai spans thfl
U rtile middle west.
BURLINGTON HAS A WRECK
Two Engines Ditched and Several
Cam Smashed up in Yards
At '. lo Saturday morning a
wreilc COttrr d in tin- Burlingion
yard about one liundr. d Teet east of
the house track switch. A south
bound ore train, a double-lit ader,
became unccntiolabk Cte.j: of
rresly rails and ran into a south
bound extra freight. The latter e-ould
hre made it to safety upon hearing
the warning whistle but for the un
fortunste c'.fcumstane c of the train
dividing The engine and some or
the cars of the pursued train escap
ed while the detached cars occasion
id the wrick.
The caboose and two cars of the
head train were totally wrecked, one
engine was laid in the ditch and dam
aged to the extent of SOo while the
other engine was derailed aud dam
aged about $600. The damage to en
gtaaa, ars and track is estimated at
about $.1,200.
Fortunately no one was hurt, both
trews Jumping when they saw the
crash was inevitable
At I: JO a wrecker froui Alliance
was iu action and at 4: JO the Den
ver train was able to get through
impossible for us to operate our but it was IL' .IO Tuesday bedore the
large Mallei engines into De-adnood aKi 0r the wreckage was cleaned up
and 1e-ael o it account or the physical The dead engines were conveyed on
chara. (eristics or the line. It Is nec- their own wheels to die Alliance
essury fen- our switch engines al shops and can be repaired. It is not
Mutton, conductor; Chas. Bartou, mo-
tcrman. Both Mr. Skalinder and Mr.
Button have been on this run ror a
number or years and we hardly know
!r,v the can could be operated with
out them.
We have a narrow gauge ore train
that makes regular trips between
the cyanide treating plants ol the
mining companies at Deadwood and
the mines in the Bald mountain dis
trict. This ore train leaves Dead
wcod in the morning and makes the
trip up the mountain, picking up curs
of ore at the difrerent mines in the
Bald mountain district, and returns
In the evening.
The Burlington owns and operates
the Old Black Hills & Fort Pierre
railroad, now known as the Nemo
line. The chie-r revenue or this line
is obtained by haiidlign timbers ami
lumber ror the Homestake Mining
company, which owns, extensive lum
ber camps in the Nemo district. The
Homestead people have leased troiii
us a narrow gauge engine and haul
their timber fi.ui the various camps
in that vicinity to their saw mill at
Nemo, where the timber is sawed
into lumber.
Day switch etuinew are maintained
in the Deadwood and i .. ...i yards F.
I. Skalinder tt tu charge as yardmas
ter at Deadwood aud A. D. Snow at
-ciul Owing to the rati that it Is
A BATTLE FOR CARS
lowy & Henry, western Nebraa
kn agents ror the Ford and Btude
baker automobiles, started tn bus!
aaag September 1st or last year, sue
i ..ding J. C. McCorklc. whose bus!
ness they purchased. They have an
Immense sales room and a completer
ly eejulpved garage, the repair de
partment handling work all over thelt
territory. A carload of 8tudbakr
autos will arrive next Wednesday,
having been shipped from the factory
at Detroit on Monday of this week.
The following clipping from Tho
Studebaker News shows the difn
culty they have been having In lot
ting enough or these popular cars to
supply the demand:
"For three months the Production
l N pa rt tin nt of The Studebaker Auto
mobile Division has been under a
hot fire. No sooner did the prelim
inary announcement appear In the
Saturday Kvening Post, than malls
and wires leading to Detroit were
filled with calls for the new cars.
Had It been possible to produce and
hold rendy 20,000 of the new models,
awaiting the announcement, and bad
a Burricient supply .or rrelght cars,
been accumulated to ship them In,
the demands or the sales staff in the
Meld might have been satisfied. But
ihis Is not tin age of mlraclee. To
s. uie tltc material, to Install the
new machinery, to teach new tasks
to a manufacturing organization of
many thousands of men -all this had
to be done by the Production De
tartment, before the new Studebak
er "25", "36" and "Six" could be
turned out at the rate of a hundred
cf each, tax a day's work."
This firm bam sold many Ford
cirs and recently received several
trloads to handle, their spring bus
lness which Is coming with a rush. A
few farts about this popular low.
pi i d tar are of interest.
In IMJ the Ford Motor Company
was established. It was a fortunate
organization In that it combined rare
itrintivc and ''reatlve genius coupl-
e-d with siihstantial business ability
and Integrity Fundamental !.i this
organization was the fixed determin
ation to build a car that should be
-i slmpli . practical and - mi mical
. human tUCBOitjr ould ck-viso, to
.i.i nd that it m uht be n .'h:ng o"
IU and service lo the gr. '..est pos
ilti' numbi r of uteri and not a
Bltrc luxury. From lb; very begin
n' il i 1'iid rur cbtaincd a die
.'nelivc te i 'in it Ion. And aa the
n ir.V ctur'.ag faclMtlea, :he efficien
cy of thp ::r IE 1 th. volume ot Its
et;iul im, ..i.i!. the cost or Its
prcduyion automatically decreased
Uat4 today is value cannot be
ni asi r.d by any mere dollar-and-i
-it sli ndsrd.
To dale more than two hundred
;l laaxd Fcrd cars have been dellr
i I. Pra tic ally every third car up
o i Amerlc an highways Is a Ford
car.
.n :hi season Just ended the Ford
Mcto- Ct-mi-any mtuiufactured and
sild more than seventy-five thous
and new cars a n markable accom
plishment for twelve short months
a record that represents even mors
than one-third of America's entire
BUtt mt bile output.
J. B. DENTON
Mr. and Mrs J B Denton came
from Iowa iu I8s6, with nine of their
tiu children, and located on a
homestead nine miles west of where
Alliance now stands. They resided
on the larni until six years ago. When
hey sold It and purchased property
in this city. While ou the home
stead the) worked hard aud prosper
ed Mr Denton is well fixed with
this world's goods, having made hut
money by farmiug and stock raising
in this county. A year ago last
mouth he opened "Deutou's Leading
Variety Store" in his two-story brick
building at J1J Box Butte ateuue. He
carries a good stock or well selected
I'.oods and eiijoyb :. noenl trade.