. 1 I rk MILWAUKEE . CJt;lJII"'LI'III'~ I Published by the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, ST. PAUL &. PACIFIC RAILROAD BY GROUCHO MARX , HAT do you want to board romances. W save up a lot of So-all seriousness aside-you'd better keep on money for? You'll never saving, pal. need the stuff. Why. jUst think of all the wonderful, wonderful things you can do with­ . out money. Things like­ well, things like- On second thought, you'd better keep on saving, chum. Otherwise you're lick~d. Obviously the best way is by continuing to buy U. S. Savings Bonds-through the Payroll Plan. For instance; how are you ever going to bUild that Little Dream House, without a trunk full ofmoolah? They're safe and sound. Old Uncle Sampersonally You thinkr the carpenters are going to work free? Or the plumbers? Or the architects? Not those lads. They've been around. They're no dopes. And how are you going to send that kid of yours to college, without the folding stuff? Maybe you guarantees your investment. 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SAVINGS I • I Contributed by,this magazine in co-operation with the Magazine Publishers of America as a public service. 2 The Milwaukee Magazine NEWS HEAD L I'GH T 5 AFTER many months of intensive research and writing, nevertheless, and cal1s for the whole-hearted cooperation August Derleth, noted author of a number of historical of everyone on the railroad whose duties have to do in volumes, novels and short stories, has completed the first any way with car handling. Additional car department draft of "The Milwaukee Road-Its First 100 Years", forces are being employed where available in order that according to F. H. Johnson, public relations officer. The the maximum number of cars. may be kept in serviceable book is one of. a series of railroad histories which' wel1­ condition. known writers are preparing for Creative Age Press, of • New York. With anecdotes, personality sidelights and enlivened historical review, Mr. Derleth has traced the ·MILWAUKEE Road net income after fixed charges and development of the Road's 11,000-mile system from the other deductions amounted to $3,176,068 for the year time of the chartering of the Milwaukee and Waukesha 1946, a decrease of $10,901,843 or 77.4 per cent compared Rail Road Company on Feb. 11, 1847. The book is ex­ with 1945, according to the company's annual report to pected to be off the press some time in the fall. 'stockholders which was scheduled for release early in April. The volume of passenger traffic in the first five • months of 1946 was the greatest in the history of the Road, the report points out. In June, however, a sharp FOUR 2,000 h.p. Fairbanks-Morse Diesel passenger loco­ decline' occurred and continued throughout the remaining motives were ordered by the Road late in March. These mo,nths of the year. Passenger revenue decreased $8,793,­ units, which can be operated separately or combined to 704 or 23.7 per cent compared with 1945, and freight .provide heavier power, will probably he available in August revenue showed a decrease of $16,763,575 or 9.9 per cent. this year. Five 1,000 h.p. switch engines have also been Nearly 24,000 copies of the attractively illustrated re­ ordered to augment the growing fleet of Diesel power. port were printed this year, and each stockholder is to Three of these which are being manufactured by the Elec~ receive a copy. tro-Motive Company will probably be delivered in Sep­ tember; the other two are expected from the American .. Locomotive Company in June or July. TWO of the Road's five new 6,000 h.p. Die,sel-electric • locomotives recently received from the American Loco­ motive Company are now in passenger service between YELLOWSTONE Park, oldest of the national parks, wil1 Tacoma, Wash., and Avery, Idaho. A third was scheduled celebrate its 75th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary this year, to go to the west end of the railroad early in April and as it was on Mar. 1, 1872, that President U. S.Grant the other two will fol1ow soon. The fleet of five will handle signed the act creating Yellowstone as an area "set apart the Olympian between Minneapolis and Tacoma. as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." It will be open from June 20 • until September 11, and the Milwaukee Road's passenger traffic department reports that advance reservations for "FACTS for the Men and Women of the Milwaukee Road", park business have been heavy. It is expected that the a booklet telling a graphic story of the railroad's opera­ park will be visited this year by one of the largest crowds tion in 1946, will be distributed among employes about in its history; last year's throng of 815,000 set an all­ the middle of April. There is to be a copy for everyone time record. on the railroad, and anyone who fails to receive his should This year for the first time it will be possible for Mil­ ask his supervisor for one. This, the fourth annual issue waukee Road passengers from Chicago and Milwaukee, as of the informative booklet, will be attractively il1ustrated well as points east, to reach Yellowstone via the Black and will contain a wealth of well-worth-knowing facts Hills of South Dakota. A bus will take them through for anyone employed' by or interested in the Milwaukee scenic country between Rapid City, S. D., and Bowman, Road. N. D., at a nominal charge. They will board the train again • at Bowman and continue on to Three Forks, Mont., from which point they will be taken to the park. A similar THE fuel supply situation on the Milwauke~ Road, like route can be fol1owed eastbound. that on other railroads, took a critical turn late in March, The steamer Chilcotin, operating between Vancouver, according to D. C. Curtis, chief purchasing officer. Due B. C., and Ketchikan, Alaska, during the coming sum­ to the great demand for coal in the United States, plus mer months wil1 offer Milwaukee Road passengers an op­ heavy exports to foreigp. countries, it is difficult for the. portunity to visit that far north country in which the Road to maintain its supply at a level which will insure traveling public is showing a greatly increased interest. uninterrupted ,operation. At the time this was written, in The Canadian Steamship Co. will also offer its usual sail­ late March, it appeared likely that service might have to ings to Skagway, Alaska, during the summer. be curtailed at any time. The supply of Diesel fuel oil is also limited, and the • price advanced from 6 Y4 cents to 7 cents a gallon late in THE car shortage continues on the Milwaukee Road, as March. At present the Milwaukee Road uses 2,000,000 on all other railroads in the country. However, O. N. gallons of Dies'el fuel oil each month on Lines East alone. Harstad, operating vice president, pointed out in late Furthermore, the price of fuel oil (for oil burning en­ March that business is moving more freely now that the gines, not Diesels) has been increased 20 cents- a gallon on weather is improving and the traffic congestion which re­ the west coast. Since oil burning locomotives are less apt sulted from the late January blizzard and subsequent snows to set fires than coal burners are, most of the Road's oil has been cleared away. The situation is still very critic:J,l, burners are in service in the timbered areas of Lines West. April. 1947 The Bitter Root Range by Edwin Swergal This is the second, and final, instal..ln:.ent of Mr. SwergaI's article regarding the Bitter Root Mountains and the vast timber stands they embrace. In' the first installment, ap­ pearing in the March issue, he identified the range with relation to the topography of the continent and told of the Great Idaho Fire of 1910 which swept through much of the territory served by the Milwaukee Road in western Montana, Idaho and eastern Washington. THE extent of the destruction caused by the Great Idaho Fire of 1910, although tremendous, represented but a small part of the potential timber supply provided by nature in the Bitter Root Mountains and their lowland spurs and valleys. The logging, or lumber, industry has been one of the foremost in the United States during the past 100 years. The products of our forests generally have <;:ontributed greatly to the rapid growth of. the country. The two great classes of trees providing timber are the conifers and the dicotyledons, the former more commonly referred to as softwoods and the latter as hardwoods.