The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-06
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Notes and Miscellanies.
NOTES.

NOTES.
Tt il estimated that between
5000 and 5000 people have been
brought to conference by the rail-
roads and teams during the past
week.
The Denver s. RE Grande has
brought q great number Of Confer
ence passengers from Springville
and other stations along its line
during the past week.
An uncultivated Ogdenite, at
present residing in tn is city, refers
to the palatial Utah Central depot
as "the SWITCH" A vigilance COM
mittee is in order.
The Union Pacifc's earnings for
January are reported at 81 5Ss,90S,
as against S1,916,S54 in 1888, and
S2.1S6,O20 in 1882, while there are
III miles more in operation this
y ear than there was in 1882.
General passenger agent Cope,
and train dispatcher Rumel, Of the
Utah Central. have had their hands
full providing arrangements for
conference travellers being brought
in, and the circus will now be in
getting them back,
Weather permitting. Supt. Arnold
will soon commence finishing the
street car track raining from THE
HERALD block to the Utah & Ne
/ vada depot. The track is now COM
pleted a short distance west of the
Fourteenth Ward Assembly rooms.
| The next excursion to San Fran.
! cisco which 4eaves this city and
Ogden on the 10th inst. will prob
ably be the most successful turnout
yet taken west, as a great number
are masking arrangements 80 go, and
the season is 1ost favorable.
The national association of general
passenger and ticket agents COM
menced holding their convention
in Chicago on the 18th OF last
monta, sixty-nine Of the total mem-
bership (l5S3 being present. Much
business of Importance was TRANSACT
ted. and among other things was
the unanimous adoption of resolU-
tian endorsing the standard time
system, and extending apprecia>
tive acknowledgements to Mr.. ".
F. Allen, the protector. The next
| meeting Of the association is TO be
| held In Boston.
According to tue "Car Builder
there are now in the United States
about 1 IS 10 miles of railway track,
including sidings aud with an es-:
innate of $50 ties to a mile makes
3 total of 3s2, 100000 ties now in use.
The average life of q tie is Six years
which makes the number Of re-
newals each year about So SOC, 600 or
10 ties to each mile. Assuming the
average yield per acre to be 100 ties
per year, this would require 4 4 acre
gs1ile or for the ;l6G, 900 miles OF
trackl 63SS030 acres or an area not
q lutte as large as the State of Dell
aware.
The following dispatch was re-
eeiye at the Utah Central office last
evening.
OGDEN, April 5, 's4.
a. III 1Lt6ft0S,
The Utah s. Northern will run a
special train tomorrow Sunday
on arrival of special from Salt
LaAe. Send on your people
J.g. REEVE.
TIE special referred to on the
Utah Central will leave Salt Lake
att p. m. which IS in addition to
the regular north bound trains
which leave ct 3 aud ESQ p. NJ.
The O'Clock train south will 5e
heiG antil 4:it p. m.
ssThe Train Wire" is the name OF
a work on operating trains by tel
egraph and it is considered most
excellent compendium on the SUE
feet. The last question which it has
been discussing is the "Holding
order" a term most familiar to
railroad men and espe tally 30 with
those eonns cted with the running
department.. The matter is thor
oughly handled by che Grain Wire,"
showing the probability Of an order
being misunderstood and citing
numerous cases where accidents
from wrong Interpretation of
orders have occurred. To train dis
patchers and railroad operators this
work would be OF especial value.
PERSONAL.
The r iilway Review announces
Hon. Chas. Francis Adams, jun,
and Mr.. E. 2. Vining as being
among its contributors.
Mr.. Morse, general passenger
agent of the Onion Pacific, with a
party of Omaha people. en- route fer
the west, wills shortly visit Salt
Lake.
Augustus Schell, who died in New
Ycrk on the 9th ult,. was a Van
derbilt man in railroad matters. He
was a vics-president OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company, direc.
tor in the New York Central,
Chicsgo & Northwestern, Michigan
Central. Canada Southern, Lake
Shore. New York & New Haven,
and until lately in the Union Pa.
cific.
THE d. & R G. FIGHT.
The Denver & Rio Grande trouble
is still unsettled, aad up to last