The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-18
Change in the Union Pacific
Pay Department.
THE U. P. COAL MINES AT ALMY.
Horrible Accident on the d. & r. g
The Golden Gate Special Too
Slow-General.


THE Union Pacific road is receiving
ten new freight cars daily, SO that the
car famine is in measure letting up.
Ten new excursionist sleepers are also
being delivered to the road.
A RAILWAY official is quoted as saying
that it now required mechanic as we'll
as reliable man 10 be brakeman on q
passenger train, on account of the many
improvements in the way of couplers,
air-brakes and the heating otcoaches by
steam from the locomotive, which have
been introduced of late years.
JOHN CASEY was caught on a trestle
near Glenwood Springs by D. q r. e..
t ain few days ago. He was horribly
mangled. The back of his skull was
knocked off, his left leg was broken in
several places, and his right arm and
several ribs were broken. He was about
so years of age and had been a resident
of Glenwood several years.
The Union Pacific system of payment
has been abandoned and a new method
will be adopted. During the last three
or four years it has been the custom for
the division superintendent to distribute
the pay checks each month, but this
plan having proved too heavy task for
these officials, and it is now proposed to
constitute each station agent a pay
master and remit all checks to them
from the general Office.
A CHEAP sleeping-car service is being
introduced on the Union Pacific for the
benefit of purchasers of tourist or
second-class tickets. Seventeen cars of
this description have been placed in
operation between Omaha and Ogden,
and it is proposed to place line be-
tween Denver and Kansas City. The
berths are furnished with clean linen,
good blankets and mattresses. A porter
Is in attendance, and the entire cost is
so cents per night. The enterprise is
conducted by an Omaha firm.
AT Rock SPRINGS, about 6 o'clo *
Saturday afternoon, Margaret Brown,
child about IA years of age,
was instantly killed. She was in the
act of crossing the Union Pacific track,
| crawling under q box car, when the
train suddenly started up. She en-
deavored to run back, but was struck
by car and knocked down. The wheel
passed over her neck, severing her head
from her body. No blame is attached
to the train men, who did not know
the girl was under the car.
THE stakeholder directors OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
who were elected last month have re-
vesled their plans concerning the pres:-
dency. II was definitely made public
that they propose to elect Mr.. Charles
F. Mayer, to succeed President Samuel
Spencer when the board meets for
organization on the 19sh. 1t was also
stated that this change was contem.
plated as part of the programme when
the twelve stakeholder directors were
chosen. The opinion is that Mr..
Spencer's prestige as railroad mana
ger will not suffer by the failure to
secure reelection. Mr.. Spencer is
practical railroad man. Previous to
his election to the presidency of the
Baltimore & Ohio it is said that he was
rendered similar salary on a western
road of the New York Central.
THE contract for the construction of
the Lake City branch of the Denver &
Rio Grande was awarded yesterday,
says the Denver NeaUs of the 18th, but
the management of the road will not
say to whom it was given. Work will
be commenced in few days and pushed
to completion. The cost of grading and
laying the rails will be fully $500 900.
Already grading has been done on the
line which runs up Lake Fork stream.
In addition to this, the Rio Grande will
build line from GlenWood Springs to
Rife Creek, distance of thirteen miles.
1t will run along the valley of the Grand
River to New Castle, and penetrate the
| valuable coal lands which lie in this
section of the State. The Rio Grande
has been contemplating the construc-
Z Il L. ~ 10 f,,< 1A
way OF coal shipments which they will
obtain will in short time pay for the
building of it.
ADvICEs from Blmy say in regard to
the Union Pacific coal mines: Since the
closing down of No. 4 mine, there has
been an unusually large run on Nos. 5,
and Z; In fact never before since the
opening of these mines has there been
such a marked change and progress.
improvements have been made and are
still going on, which show enterprise
and encouragement in their company
owners. The amount of coal which is
being extracted from these mines show
that the yield is almost unlimited and
the demand is so great that even with
the enormous quantities which are be-
ing sent out each day, yet the orders
are plllHR up. AZ pIeSeuG JIG OuClOOk
for No. is rather doubtful, but all pos
sible interest and enthusiasm is shown
in it, and the opinions of those who are
prospecting is that vein of coal will be
reached about 100 feet below the old
vein.
WYOMING & EASTERN.
In regard to the Wyoming & Eastern
Railway, the Rswlins Journal has re-
liable information that the road across
this Territory will be completed inside
of two years. When completed and
united with its eastern and western
connections it will be designated the
6 Pa ic Slot Line, and be in reality
the shortest line to the coast west of
the Missouri river. 1t is intended as
nucleus or main line of an entirely new
railroad system, and will build feeders
north and south, as far reaching as
necessary in order to control and re-
tain its legitimate share of passenger
and freight traffic. The line will run
about fifty-five miles north of Rawlins
with probably branch line running
through this city and extending so1th
TO connection with the Colorado Mid