The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-10
RAILROAD RACKET.
The World of Steam and Iron
pai1vav Law and Personal
Paragraphs.

,iDo ahipped from inc JUL
De psi mines at Pleasant valley
'U The run of passenger tram !, crews e"s
on t ne train crews ninety miles
per day. lid oo,o nanv con.
Nod ~ 375 miles OF new ROAD our
StruII ese' 264 miles being on TIE
IPs Short Line.
OIes .;no 1888 the Baldwin Leo
Dul1nS yorks turned out 557 loco
motive IF the improved style which
i y equal to 500 of tue oia pA..ein.
Is T &C. check system OF paying rail :
Tne U"rIoyees is almost generally
ROAD en5onteG. The Union Pacific
being S@ Yer 6 6 DE.;;1 9rande have
5 Satb ado }ted this plan:
O0 m,r ING 1888 the Utah Central
DaL bI to Salt Lake $685. ZOO
DaeIs Of Red Canyon coal, 25'7il,ss
poun Oonnds OF Rock Springs aud
GU - to5 zoo pounds Of Weber.
~, Francis Cope, of the Utah
os nj is placing coupon tickets on
saIe at Sandy, LEM, american
9a19 provo, Spanish Fork, Neph1,
OF Milford and Frisco stations
2o ua al noints reached by the Union
Pacific. at.ro of
time which is being talked OF ISr
adnnt,on in the near future, was
su"p and used in France and
A hu Ibree centuries ago, ana mas
To- To- in use in China for nobody
can tell how long.
Tic decrease in bullion shipments
for the past week was owing TO tue
IroosstoTstfon Of the old freight raees'
INT il is understood thai some un,
S Soosse tS has been reached, ana
Ubi9ments will probably be resumed
immediately.
TLo POSITION of railway ticket
AGENT at ths Palmer house IN Cn1.
csgo is worth from SIX TO elgnt
fhonsand dollars per year, WINE
otHer civ ticket Offices Of the same
Diaca net the agents as high as hf-
taen Thousand dollars year.
Daring the month of December
10 ~ailToad accidents are reported
N which thirty persons were Killed
and ia hurt. For the year 1.64e
accidents are reported, 473 klileo
and 1913 injured, which shows a
monthly average OF 1877 accloen's'
thirtv-nine killed and $50 hurt.
The superintendent of a Georgia
.il-ooI hoe GIVEN orders to the ef
feot that no conductor, engineer,
train man or other employee under
bis charge will be retained III tne
service who is addicted to the naCit
of drinking whether on duty or noe'
and dispatchers and subor9lnaIe OIL
Soere aTe directed to enforce the
rule.
MANY @, our merchants are be-
coming anxious for fear that their
freIpht shipped prior to the restora-
ton of the old rates will not come
through on the cut rates; put as
both companies in this city nave
been notified that all freight in tran
sit mo matter from what point on
or before tbs 2Sth OF January VIII De
billed atsthe cut rate, there is little
need Of snxiefy.
TIE Virginia State legislature has
dill before it now which prohioits
the running Of Sunday trains be
tween sunrise and sunset, except
Ing trains which may have started
on Saturday night previous, which
may run until 9 the next
morning. II is suggested if the iegls-
lature will prohibit the public from
demanding Sunday trains the rail-
Ways will gladly discontinue run
ming them.
In decision rendered by the So
preme court of Ohio, Dec. 3, 1888. in
the suit of the Pennsylvania Com
pRny rs. Morel, it was held that the
fat Of railway eros ing being par
italy INSTRUCTED from view renders
it more obligatory upon the traveller
on the highway to stop and listen
fer an approaching train, and makes
bis neglect TO DO so the greater.
This is referred 10 for the especial
benefit of our South Cottonwood
leaders.
Much credit is due Conductor
AcOmb and crew OF the Utah Cen
trail for the prompt and most va!ua'
Die services rendered at the Denver
h Rio Grande wreck near Ksysville
LAST Sunday morning. Mr.. Acomb
immediately upon discovering thu
accident stopped his train and all
hands that could be spared ran to
me rescue and ia order to get Mail
Agent Orr from under the wreck
found 1t necessary to cut the tim
0ers and other wise demolish the car.
The past week all the railroads in
this vicinity have experienced
Trouble from snow, the Central Pac-
Inc icing as much az twelve and
iltsesn hours late, and the Union
Pacific eight hours late. At Frisco,
on me Utah Central, the snow was
I'VE feet deep for several miles 10
distance, and the Frisco people did
not get water from Black Rock for
Two days. Snow from Jusb TO
Provo is from ten to eighteen inches
deeP.
THE ACCIDENT.
The accident OF the D. & r. G.
near Pleasant VolIar -, U:I