The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-01-27

RAILROAD NEWS.

Tho Scottish railroad strikers have re.
sumed work.
There are 1000 men at work on the Den
yer and Rio Grande Western.
The conductors ball, at Pueblo, on Mon
day evening was a grand affair.
The Union Pacific has thirty-two detec.
tives to watch the employees along the line
The Denver and Rio Grande is now COM
pleted to point 4s5 miles west of Denver
The snow Mt Alpine tunnel on the South
Park road is from five to six feet on the
level.
A very large force of men will soon be
set to work on the railroad grade from
Montrose to ouray.
The Nchraslzs supreme court rendered /.
decision, declaring the railway commission
law unconstitutional.
The Denver board of trade is strongly
advocating the passage of bill regulating
railroad tariffs in this state
1t now appears that Hugh Jewett, presi-
dent of the Erie road, owns seven-eighths
of the stock of the Denver Circle railroad
Chests of canned goods and other pro-
visions are carried on the South Park train.
as aprecaution against hunger, in case of Sc
we're storms.
The Fort Collins Express has rumor
that the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific is
about to push a branch into the North
park mining region.
The sixty miles of new track between
Grand Junction and Cottonwood will be
turned over TO the road in a few days, and
regular trains will soon run.
President Strong, of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, visited Dallas, Texas, this
week, and rumor says his company is anx.
ions to build its road into that state.
It is stated that as soon as the Utah ex-
tension of the Denver and Rio Grande is
finished the force will be put on a branch
from Silverton to Red Mountain City.
s. W. Eccles, late superintendent of the
Denver and New Orleans. has gone to Ore
gon, presumably to accept q position with
the Northern Pacific.
The railroad spike department of the
Bessemer works at Pueblo is running night
and day on orders from the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad, and making from six
to seven tons of spikes every twenty-fou
hours.
meeting of business men was held ut
Greeley to take action against railroad eI-
tortion and discrimination, to cooperate
with the Denver board of trade, and to
needed laws to prevent railway encroach-
ments.
The western railroads have entered into
IN agreement regarding baggage. BY it no
piece of sample baggage weighing more
than $50 pounds shall be carried in baggage
cars after March 81 of the present year.
Alas for baggage man n', .---;------, ''.'-
A. n. Townc, general manager of .he
Southern Pacific railroad, has issued cir
cular announcing that he has succeeded
J. +. Crosby as general manager of the
Texas and New Orleans and Louisiana
Western roads, and that hereafter all lines
from El Pasofto New Orleans will be under
the management of the Southern Pacific.
A number of changes in officers and new
appointments are also announced.
1t is rumored that the real purchaser OF
the Denver Circle railroad is the Chicago
and Northwestern company, and that
within the next two years that corpora
will build a line from Council Bluffs to
Denver. II is also claimed by those who
pretend to know, that the Chicago and
Northwestern viii in time convert the eS-
position grounds into shops and round
houses. OF course these rumors are not
substantiated. Conflicting statements are
to the effect that the building is in the
possession of Messrs. Nichols and Jewell,
wealthy eastern men. and leading men in
Denver, who intend carrying out the pur-
pose of the organization rs at first planned,
leaving nothing undone that can make
the coming exposition grand success.