The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-13
RAILROAD RACKET.
The Cut Healed and the Old
Rates Restored.
What is Doing in the World on
Wheels.
Some Interesting Figures and Facts.
THE CRUEL WAR Is OVER.

THE CRUEL WAR Is OVER.
Formal notification has been re
ceived in this city that the OLE
freight rates in effect prior to Thu
cut, which was made October 22d
1888, will be restored on Monday
and all passes and other induce
ments and advantages offered on &C
count of freight business will be dis.
continued and the old order OF
things will prevail. This remark
ably low rate has been open to all
nearly three months, and if any has
failed to take advantage of it there
is no one at fault but himself. The
railroad companies do not expect to
do any freight business of conse-
quence until midsummer or fall,
and we can now look for a very
dull season of several months.
From the best of information it
is learned that the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy Company is
responsible for the cutting and un-
settling of rates on Utah freight
since last October. Soon after the
opening of the Denver 81 Rio
Grande the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy commenced transferring all
of its unconsigned Utah freight to
the ID. s. r. g., and not being salts
fed with this went so far as to de-
liver freight that was marked and
billed s'care of the Union Pacific"
to which the latter strongly OBJ
jected, and brought the consignees
and consignors to bear ON the Bur-
lington, who learned that to create
a friction with their shippers would
work fgreatly to the injury of the
road, and as a last resort took to the
cutting process, the result of which
the public is only too familiar with.
The financial relations between the
G. B. & @. and d. & r. G.. account
for the interest taken by the former,
and 1t is but fair to suppose that the
compromise is by no means at loss
to the d. & r. G..
LOCAL POINTS.
The ball given by the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, in
the Opera House, on New Years
Eve, was only fairly attended, and
it is understood they lost money,
but not so with the Firemen's last
Friday evening, as the Theatre was
well filled, there being over one
hundred couples, and it was a most
complete success in every respect.
Superintendent w. G. Sharp, of
the Utah Central coal mines, is
working on the old Pugsley OPEN
ing and expects to resume coal ship
ments this week. Coal taken from
this vein is considered superior to
any yet found in Pleasant Valley,
and were it not for the difficulty in
getting at it, it would have been on
the market when the Utah Central
commenced working the mines. AS
it is, the coal will be brought down
from the mountains to the railroad
in sleds, as long as snow remains.
The annual meeting of the Utah
Central Employees Aid society will
probably be held next Saturday
evening. The society is i'll very
sound condition, and it is expected
a dividend of forty per cent. or
81, 900, will be declared.
Passenger travel is exceedingly
dull on the Utah Central and Dem
yer s. Rio Grande, and clergymen
and students travelling en- half fares
are at premium.
Commencing next Tuesday, the
Denver & Rio Grande trains will
be scheduled at one hour and ten
minutes between Ogden and Salt
Lake, and their time card will be
changed so as to shorten the time
between Ogden and Green River
fifty minutes. Utah Central pass
enger trains are scheduled at one
hour and twenty, one twenty-five
and one thirty between Ogden and
Salt Lake.
The Horn Silver Co. is now ship
ping fifteen cars, or $4,000 pounds,
of ore per day from Frisco to the
SHELTERS.
On Thursday morning last the
Central Pacific east : bound train
at Ogden brought in seven
four remaining at Og-
len, two going through on the Union
Pacific, and the seventh coming to
Salt Lake on the Utah Central. He
was at premium, IL ever a passen'
ger was.
EARNINGS.
The earnings of the Union Pacific
Turing the mouth of November
we're S2,S16,OOO; of the Denver s.
Rio Grande, S659,600; and of the
Central Pacific, S2,100 900; showing
| decrease in the Union Pacific OF
5000 as compared with 1882. an IN
,rease by the Denver & Rio Grande
IT S146, 7O0, and by the Central Pa
.ific of S39,259.
PERILS OF THE RAIL.
The total number of railroad acct
Tents reported for the month of
last is 122, in which
hi1ty -four persons were killed and
35 injured, showing a decrease, as
ompared with November. 1882. OF
hree in accidents and two deaths,
nd an increase of 106 injured. The
leven months ending October show