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Show IeORLIKTll ROUTE ILL RENEW LEASES - Conference Being Held in Butte for That Purpose, It Is Understood. 5 BUTTE, Mont.. January 4. A Miner special, from Billing, Mont., pays: A nartv of Burlington and Northern Pacific railway officials aro in tlio citj' for the purpose, it is understood, oc oonferrin" rogarilinf: arranpomonis for carrying on a .ioint business in Ibis city for another vcar or term of years. It 1 is slated that the lease by tho terms. ! of which the Burlington has operated its trains into Billings from Huntley, expired tho first of tho yenr and it is with a view of making arrangements for the renewal of this lease that tho officials arc hero today, it is said. Division Di-vision Superintendent C. L. Nichols, of the Northern Pacific, arrived this morning in his special oar from Livingston, Living-ston, while General Superintendent L. B. Allen, Division Superintendent E. E. Young, Tax Agent Wcstervelt, nnd sovcral other officials of tho Burlington light-of-wav department, arrived from the cast. Joining the day, the officials have boon busily engaged in inspecting tho terminals of tuo Burlington and talcing an inventory of all that com-paivy's com-paivy's property at "Billings. It is also understood that the question of the removal re-moval of the freight transfers of tho Northern Pacific to Laurel will be considered con-sidered at tho conference this afternoon. |