. The street railway review . sting electric railways of Butte—theButte City Street Ry. which was started as a horse and cable roadin 1887 and changed to electricity in 1889, and the MetropolitanRy., an electric line built in 1889. The company at present miles of single track, miles of double track, and .30 mileof sidings, making a total of miles, measured as single track. Butte is a city of population and is recognized as the The fare is 5 cents, except on the Columbia Gardens line whereit is 10 cents, and heretofore no transfer privileges have been ex-tended. It is
. The street railway review . sting electric railways of Butte—theButte City Street Ry. which was started as a horse and cable roadin 1887 and changed to electricity in 1889, and the MetropolitanRy., an electric line built in 1889. The company at present miles of single track, miles of double track, and .30 mileof sidings, making a total of miles, measured as single track. Butte is a city of population and is recognized as the The fare is 5 cents, except on the Columbia Gardens line whereit is 10 cents, and heretofore no transfer privileges have been ex-tended. It is the belief of the management that transfers wouldincrease traffic to such an extent as to make their use profitable,and it has been decided to offer universal transfers as soon as asatisfactory form of ticket is chosen, possibly by December ist. The passenger equipment of the company includes two closeddouble truck cars with 24 ft. bodies mounted on Taylor trucks,equipped with four Sprague motors; four open 16-bench double. VIEIW OF BUTTE FROM BIG BUTTR. T,OOKING SOUTHEAST—SPRING OK 1902. greatest mining town in the world; it is the only brick miningcamp and lies in the north half of a crater just west of the Con-tinental Divide. The central point of the city, Main and ParkSts., where all cars of the street railway pass is ft. above sealevel, and thence the town extends up hill to the north, downhill to the south, and both up and down hill to the east and electric railway lines are all comparatively short measuredfrom this central point, the longest haul being to Columbia Gar-dens, miles, to the east. The central portion of the city hascar tracks on three cast and west streets and on four north andsouth streets; two lines extend north to portions of the city knownas Centerville and Walkerville, respectively, the terminus in Wal-kervillc being 6,172 ft. atwve sea level, a rise of 472 ft. to be over-come in aljout three miles of track, and these routes ar
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