The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17
RAILROAD RACKET.
ALI About the World on
Wheels.
Local Roads and Miscellane-
GUS Notes.

The D. s. R. G. brought fifteen
cars of coal into Provo yesterday
from the Utah Central mines.
The Pullman Car Company have
IS, 900 blankets. If you don't be.
lieve this, give the porter soc. on a
cold night, and he will show you
one.
Arrangements have been per.
fected for running either Pullman
or Wagner sleepers between San
Francisco and Chicago, without
change.
The Union Pacific Company has re.
duced its floating debt s., 100000 from
the collateral trust1osn, and after all
fixed charges are paid, and 7 per
cent. dividends, it will have q sur
plus of 100000. This is an eX
ceedingly good showing.
Sidney Dillon, president of the
Union Pacific and Utah Central,
passed through Ogden, going east,
Friday morning. He was met at
Ogden by Superintendent Sharp, of
the U. c., who accompanied him
as far as Evanston, returning home
on the evening train.
The special train carrying the
Wyoming Legislature to Cheyenne
pulled out of the Utah Central de-
pot at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
and expects to make the fastest trip
yet made between here and Chey-
enne, but owing to the weather we
are inclined to doubt its success.
The Halliday Conductors Monthly
is the name OF new magazine just
gotten out under the auspices of the
"Order Of Railway Conductors" and
it is a very interesting, as well as .
handsome, publication, and reflects
much credit upon its editor, Mr.. G.
S. Wheaton, G. G. G.
On Friday last the Union Pacific
established a second-class passen-
ger rate from Salt Lake to Butte,
Deer Lodge and Garrison, Of 500. 25.
and to Helena, $33 As. The first
class fare to Gunnison is $35. 10, and
to Helena, 5000. This reduction
will be of great benefit to miners
decamping for Ceur d'Alene.
The Central Pacific Railroad com.
pany has in its employ S,9S6 people,
including 438 clerks, 225 agents, 221
conductors, TAO station IabOrers, TAO
brakemen and f1agmen, 1882 labor
287 steamer hands, 3O4 engineers.
38S firemen, IL draughtsmen, $40
mechanics and so watchmen, draw
ing wages of from $40 to $3.50 per
month.
The telegraph Informs US that
Mr. ". I'll. Burns, local agent Of the
Union Pacific at Council bluff, has
been appointed general agent there
of all the lines in the Western
Trunk Line Association. Agents
of the other lines, members of the
association, have been instructed to
report to MIR. Burns as their supe.
rior officer.
Daniel Harbaugh, while coupling
cars at the ID. s. r. u. depot in this
city, last Thursday night, got badly
pinched and bruised about the
groin, caused through the draw
heads Of one of the cars breaking.
He il at the Holy Cross Hospital,
under treatment of Drs. Benedict
and Pike, and will probably be able
to get around again soon.
Mr.. F. N. Shelton, from the freight
auditors Office at Omaha, has been
appointed assistant general agent Of
the freight department of the Union
Pacific in this city, and MIR. George
J. Needham will hereafter act as
soliciting agent as successor to the
muchly departed Wolfe. Mr.. f.
r. Mcconnell, general agent, has
gone to Omaha in response to q
summons from Assistant Manager
Kimb ball.
The car shops Of the Utah s.
Northern division of the Union
Pacific road at Eagle Rock, Idaho,
are full Of work. They are at pre-
sent engaged on fifty new box cars
that are to have carrying capacity
Of 10000 pounds. A new baggage
car, AZ feet by 8 feet 2 inches, has
just been completed. The road is
putting Miller platforms on all its
passenger cars and double brakes on
It's freight cars.
The passenger train from south
on the Utah Central Saturday after.
noon was about two hours late, baing
delayed by a north bound freight
train which became snow bound at
the Point of the Mountain. Trains
between Milford and Frieco have
also been considerably delayed by
snow. The Utah and Northern has
experienced more trouble from
snow this winter than at any time
before. The passenger train dEe in
Ogden last Monday night d d not
arrive until Thursday, and at one
time freight train was com pietely
lost. Snow in Beaver canyon Is res
ported from five to seven feet deep
for distance of Thousand feet.
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